NetApp ONTAP 9 Storage Essentials

Explore NetApp's storage portfolio and the data fabric that enables data mobility across on-premises and public and private cloud environments, including OnTap, Cloud Volumes, NetApp Private Storage, and HCI.

Explore the NetApp ONTAP platforms, from hardware FAS and AFF to software-defined OnTap Select and cloud options, and see how they share features and support SAN and NAS workloads.

Provide an overview of NetApp's public cloud storage offerings—Cloud Volumes OnTap, NetApp Private Storage, and Cloud Volumes Service—and their use cases for disaster recovery, test/dev, and high-performance cloud workloads.

Discover NetApp SANtricity E and EF-series platforms, high-performance block storage running on the Centricity OS, with dual active controllers, hybrid and all-flash options, and use cases from databases to video surveillance.

Discover StorageGRID WebScale, NetApp's on-premises object storage for private and hybrid clouds, accessible via S3 and OpenStack Swift APIs, with ILM, versioning, worm deduplication, and encryption.

NetApp data fabric integrates ONTAP and cloud services to enable seamless data mobility, backup, disaster recovery, and tiering across platforms, using snapmirror, fabric pools, cloud backup, and cloud sync.

Explore the NetApp OnTap hardware architecture, including controllers and disk shelves, and see how clustered systems overcome seven-mode limitations. Learn how OnTap networking enables node-to-node and external network communication.

Explore the legacy ONTAP seven-mode architecture, its two-controller design, disk shelf daisy-chaining, and the active-standby redundancy, and see why cluster mode delivers scalability and full feature parity.

Discover how clustered OnTap fixes seven mode scalability limits with a cluster interconnect and multi-node controllers, enabling non-disruptive growth to 24 nas or 12 san nodes and unified storage virtualization.

Master the cluster network, management network, and data network roles in NetApp ONTAP 9, including node-to-node communication, administration, and client access with data protection and hybrid cloud considerations.

Explore NetApp OnTap hardware platforms, including Phys (fabric attached storage) and AFF (all flash) using SSDs, and review models, tech specs, disk shelves, and cabling.

Explore the latest rf all-flash fas platforms and compare aff and fas models to align capacity and performance with workloads, including nvme and external disk shelf options.

Explore the FAS platform overview and tech specs, comparing 2700, 2720, 2750, 8200, and 9000 models, including disk shelves, capacities, and SAN/NAS interfaces.

Explore how to locate and navigate NetApp documentation and the hardware universe, download consolidated OnTap documentation as a zip, and verify hardware compatibility from platforms, shelves, drives, and adapters.

Learn how to perform the initial setup of your system using either the command line cluster setup wizard or the gui guided setup.

Configure a NetApp ONTAP cluster with the command line cluster setup wizard, creating the cluster, assigning node and cluster management IPs, and outlining cluster, management, and data networks.

Explore system manager guided setup, a browser-based GUI that performs the initial cluster setup, configuring management addresses, licenses, DNS, NTP, service processor, and nas/san protocols.

Install OnCommand Cloud Manager and deploy Cloud Volumes ONTAP on AWS, including IAM policy creation, AWS prerequisites, and a VPC endpoint for S3 tiering.

Explore the NetApp ONTAP system architecture, including disks, aggregates (including aggregate zero) and volumes, vol zero, LUNs, admin components, the replicated database and admin svms, plus the node boot sequence.

Explore the OnTap nine system manager embedded in the cluster, access via https, bypass self-signed certificate warnings, and navigate the updated menus to manage volumes and licensing.

Discover OnTap 9.6 system manager enhancements, including a read-only preview and historical performance data, plus the REST API enabling automated tasks via API logs and reference docs.

Explore NetApp Ontap command line interface with a lab demo, connecting via console or management IP, and navigate storage, aggregates, and vservers using tab completion, history, and privilege levels.

Explore how the service processor and baseboard management controller provide out-of-band remote management, monitor temperature, fan speeds, and voltages, and enable command line access and hardware assisted failover.

Active IQ is NetApp's online hub for monitoring OnTap systems, offering capacity forecasting, upgrade recommendations, health reports, and proactive support through an inventory and advisory dashboard.

discover post install tasks after initial cluster setup in netapp ontap 9 storage essentials, including licenses, ntp configuration, and auto support and ems notifications.

Understand how on tap licensing works, including standard node-locked, site, and evaluation licenses. Configure licenses via system manager or the command line, and recognize bundled features and separate licenses.

Configure the network time protocol (NTP) for ontap storage to synchronize time across all devices, ensuring Kerberos authentication and accurate logs.

Learn resources and caching in NetApp ONTAP 9 storage: disks, aggregates, RAID groups, and volumes, plus queue trees and LUNs; explore WAFFLE, reads and writes, and flash tiering with ADP.

Learn to configure disk shelf numbering in NetApp ONTAP 9, including shelf IDs, contiguous numbering, and multi-path high-availability connections. Understand the naming convention for disks as stackID.shelfID.bay.

Learn how disk ownership assigns disks to a single node in a two-node cluster, enabling failover, active standby, and access to aggregates and volumes via the cluster interconnect.

Explore how raid groups and aggregates balance capacity, redundancy, and performance, covering raid four, raid dp, raid tech, minimum disk counts, non-destructive conversions, and spare drives.

Learn to view and configure disks, aggregates, and raid groups with the system manager interface, including inventory details, editing names, and creating new aggregates in a lab demo.

Learn how to view and configure disks and aggregates from the command line, create and rename aggregates, and inspect capacity, disk types, and node ownership.

Discover how advanced disk partitioning in ontap 9 boosts usable capacity by partitioning disks into root and data partitions, improving efficiency on all-flash and entry-level systems.

Discover how flash cache extends the system memory as a virtual storage tier to boost read performance, while nvram and consistency points safeguard writes.

Create a new flash pool aggregate in system manager, using two 500 MB SSDs with raid four and HDDs with raid-dp, and note the GUI bug and offline deletion.

Delve into the logical resources of the ONTAP storage architecture, including SVMs (storage virtual machines) or vServers, flexible volumes, and Qtrees. Explore the new Flex Groups feature in ONTAP 9.

Learn how storage virtual machines (svms) partition a NetApp OnTap cluster into data, admin, and node svms, using disks, aggregates, volumes, queue trees, and LUNs to enable multi-tenant access.

Configure storage virtual machines (SVMs) with the system manager GUI, create department B, assign aggregates and licenses, and enable NFS, iSCSI, and Fibre Channel protocols.

Discover how flexible volumes break the 1-to-1 aggregate relationship, enable thin provisioning, and support non-destructive grow, move, and cloning with replication for SnapMirror and SnapVault within NetApp ONTAP 9.

Perform flexible volumes operations with commands like volume create, modify, rename, mount, unmount, and move; configure auto size thresholds and non-disruptive moves with snapshots, while managing SVMs and deletion steps.

Configure on tap flexible volumes via the command line in NetApp ONTAP 9 storage essentials, creating and mounting volumes in specific SVMs with junction paths, sizes, and aggregates.

Learn how Q trees manage quotas inside OnTap storage, placing quotas as subdirectories within volumes, and how they integrate with volumes, aggregates, disks, NAS and SAN, LUNs, and security settings.

Configure and manage qtrees from the command line and system manager, creating and modifying qtrees with inherited volume settings, op locks, and a security style.

Enable NetApp flex groups in OnTap 9 to deliver scalable nas volumes that span multiple aggregates and nodes, providing higher performance via distributed metadata and thin provisioning, deduplication, and compression.

Learn three CLI methods to create NetApp ONTAP flex groups on a two-node cluster and verify their constituent volumes with volume show.