Storage area networks sans are the most common storage networking architecture used by enterprises for business critical applications that need to deliver high throughput and low latency.
Netapp san storage configuration.
A rapidly growing portion of san deployments leverages all flash storage to gain its high performance consistent low latency and lower total cost when compared to spinning disk.
The storage system also supports port based vlan membership.
The netapp h300e h500e h700e h410c and h610c compute nodes support using two network cables for connectivity to all netapp hci networks.
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The network switches must be ieee 802 1q compliant or have a vendor specific implementation of vlans.
For best performance and to ensure successful failover it is important to correctly configure san hosts using ontap storage.
For iscsi and fc this documentation replaces the traditional linux unified host utilities guides.
All compute and storage nodes must use the same vlan id scheme.
We recommend that netapp certified implementation engineer san e series candidates have six to 12 months of experience in installing configuring and managing e series storage systems in various san environments to provide reliable high performance block storage solutions.
Netapp certified implementation engineer san e series.
Netapp san implementation luns let s start with some terminology.
End to end san assessment switches storage adapters and protocols.
San storage management with cloud volumes ontap cloud volumes ontap is netapp s data storage platform for the cloud available in both aws and azure and enables users to manage cloud storage resources such as amazon ebs and azure disk using the mature and comprehensive set of storage features developed by netapp.
To configure a netapp storage system for vlan membership the following conditions must be met.
For san protocols the storage system is referred to as the target and the client is known as the initiator.
These documents show how to quickly set up a best practice configuration.
It also discusses best practices for configuring installing validating deploying and monitoring tier 1 modern san storage environments.