Researches for Project 2305-II: Migrate to ONTAP+

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Project: Migrate data to ONTAP, move site, Commvault, Cloud Backup, S3

NetApp Cloud Backup aka BlueXP Backup and Recovery

APPENDIX

A1: Deployment Steps
  • Rack, stack, cable and power on kit.
  • ONTAP version.
  • Cluster setup (5 IPs required - cluster mgmt, 2 x node mgmt, 2 x SP)
  • Onboard key-manager configuration (OKM)
  • Aggregate configuration (including NAE)
  • Apply licenses (NLF in ONTAP 9.10.1 +)
  • Create an SVM
  • Create data LIFs
  • Create a CIFS server in a workgroup
  • Create a big FlexGroup
  • Enable storage efficiencies
  • Create CIFS shares and folders
  • Snapshot configuration as required
A2: Creating FlexGroup in ONTAP System Manager on 9.12.1

For testing in LoD, I used ONTAP System Manager to create a FlexGroup volume with this specification:
  • Size = 200 GiB
  • No QoS
  • SMB/CIFS share
  • Nothing else
This created a FlexGroup with 4 x 50GiB constituent volumes (2 per available data aggregate.)

SIMBOXs have the 'All-Flash Optimized = True' personality, so this test does not simulate what happens for a FAS (can we changed the personality in LoD!?) Note: To see this run> node show -instance

The volume efficiency settings for the FlexGroup show:
  • Efficiency Policy Name = auto
  • Compression = true
  • Inline compression = true
  • Storage efficiency mode = default
  • Inline dedupe = true
  • Data compaction = true
  • Cross volume inline deduplication = true
  • Cross volume background deduplication = true
And these are our volume efficiency modify options:

cluster1::> volume efficiency modify -volume FlexGroup01 -?
-vserver VSERVER
  -schedule SCHEDULE
  -policy EFF_POLICY_NAME
  -compression {true|false}
  -inline-compression {true|false}
  -storage-efficiency-mode {default|efficient}
-inline-dedupe {true|false}
-data-compaction {true|false}
-cross-volume-inline-dedupe {true|false}
-cross-volume-background-dedupe {true|false}

Default volume efficiency policies = auto, default, inline-only.

Enabling volume efficiencies:

Cluster::> volume efficiency on -volume VOLUME -vserver VSERVER
Cluster::> volume efficiency modify -volume VOLUME -vserver VSERVER -policy default -compression true -inline-compression true -inline-dedupe true -data-compaction true -cross-volume-inline-dedupe true -cross-volume-background-dedupe true

A3: How to create a new CIFS server configured for Workgroup mode?

Cluster::> vserver cifs create -vserver [vserver_name] -cifs-server [cifs_server_name] -workgroup [workgroup_name]

A4: Maximum files on a FAS8300 running ONTAP 9.12.1

2'000'000'000 files per volume
2'000 volumes per HA Pair (1'000 per node)
TOTAL = 4'000'000'000'000 (4 thousand billion)

Note: Each file requires 4KB space, so to achieve that you'd need > 14.5 PB

A5: Other things to consider

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