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Welcome to Data ONTAP 8.2.1 New Features. In this course, you learn about the new features that Data ONTAP
8.2.1 provides for you and for all NetAppcustomers who use clustered Data ONTAP and Data ONTAP operating in 7-
Mode .
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The features that are introduced in Data ONTAP 8.2.1 enhance the benefits that are provided by clustered NetApp
solutions. These benefits include nondisruptive operations, proven efficiency, and seamless scalability. The 8.2.1
release also introduces features that enhance cluster security and manageability.
Among the exciting new features that are available in Data ONTAP 8.2.1 are nondisruptive shelf removal, offbox
antivirus scanning, the Automated Workload Analyzer tool, Clustered Data ONTAP Edge, and increased fan-in limits
for data replication.
Many of the features that are available in clustered Data ONTAP 8.2.1 are also available in Data ONTAP 8.2.1
operating in 7-Mode. And, exclusively for 7-Mode, new hardware options are available for MetroCluster.
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Throughout this course, look for these clustered Data ONTAP and Data ONTAP 7-Mode icons to represent which
operating modes benefit from each new 8.2.1 feature.
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This lesson focuses on the new Data ONTAP features and processes that enable and facilitate nondisruptive
operations (NDO).
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Storage Enclosure Services (SES) v2 is included within Data ONTAP 8.2.1. SES supports the hot removal of qualified
storage shelves from the top, middle, and bottom of the stack. The removal can occur as the node is serving data. The
shelf can be detached from the loop without disruption to the remaining storage. Multipath high availability (MPHA) or
dual-path cabling is required. SES provides continuous data access while youdynamically assign, promote, and retire
storage shelves.
To remove a shelf without disruption, you can use the volume move feature to vacate data from any aggregate that
uses the disks on the shelf that is to be removed. Data aggregates can then be taken offline and deleted. You can also
use the storage disk replace command to initiate a RAID copy of the disks on the shelf that is to be removed. Use the
disk replace command to move the root aggregate (aggr0) of the node to other shelves. Finally, remove ownership
from the disks and remove the shelf from the stack.
Nondisruptive shelf removal is supported in both clustered Data ONTAP 8.2.1 and Data ONTAP 8.2.1 operating in 7-
Mode.
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With clustered Data ONTAP 8.2, NetAppoffered support for continuously available SMB shares for Hyper-V. With
clustered Data ONTAP 8.2.1, support is extended to SQL Server 2012 implementations. Now, nondisruptive
operations (NDO) are provided for SQL Server systems and for user databases in a NAS environment, and storage
provisioning and management are simplified. SMB 3.0 features such as witness protocol, ODX copy offload, and
remote VSS are leveraged.
To enable continuously available shares, you enter advanced privilege mode in the cluster shell, enable the SMB3
protocol on the CIFS server of your storage virtual machine (SVM), and then enable the continuously-available
property on any share that will host SQL databases.
The term storage virtual machine is a replacement for the term virtual storage server, and the acronym SVM is a
replacement for the abbreviation Vserver. Throughout the rest of this course, the acronym SVM is used.
Clustered Data ONTAP does not natively support SQL Server database snapshots on an SMB share. To enable the
use of SQL Server snapshots, the snapshot file must reside on block storage. For more detail, see knowledgebase
article 2017128.
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The new offboxantivirus feature supports on-access virus scanning for clients that use the CIFS protocol to access
data on the cluster. The feature supports multiple parallel AV scanners for improved scalability, high availability, and
performance. In-memory caching of successfully scanned data avoids redundant scanning and thus improves
performance. Supported vendors include McAfee and TrendMicro. Support for Symantec antivirus is scheduled to be
available in the first quarter of calendar year 2014. For more information about this feature, see the Clustered
Data ONTAP Antivirus Configuration Guide.
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This lesson focuses on the new Data ONTAP features and processes that enhance the proven efficiency that NetApp
solutions provide.
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Automated Workload Analyzer (AWA) is a valuable tool that you can use to estimate the optimal size of your
workloads Flash Pool cache. AWA is enabled on an aggregate. It analyzes your workload in real time to
estimate the recommended size of the Flash Pool cache and to predict cache hit rates. It recognizes
workload characteristics and uses read/write offload and overwrite statistics to determine whether the workload
is cacheable.
AWA is available in both clustered Data ONTAP 8.2.1 and Data ONTAP 8.2.1 operating in 7-Mode. In 7-Mode,
AWA is invoked by using an advanced privilege level command. in clustered Data ONTAP, AWA is available
via the node shell. The AWA tool can be used on both Flash Pool aggregates and HDD-only aggregates. It
can also be used on any controller on which a Flash Cache module is installed.
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Many customers require a small-footprint storage solution to service their remote or back offices. The solution needs to
meet multiple requirements. It should leverage server-virtualization technology. It should integrate with the enterprise
storage solution that is available in the customers data center. It should provide superior storage efficiency and central
management for backup and disaster recovery. It should increase staff productivity by enabling remote office
employees to concentrate on critical business operations, rather than on managing and backing up local storage.
Clustered Data ONTAP Edge is a single-node Data ONTAP cluster that runs in a VMware hypervisor. It is not a
dedicated FAS or V-Series storage controller. It serves as a mirror and vault destination for a Data ONTAP cluster that
is located in the data center. It supports replication and efficiency features such as Snapshot, FlexClone, SnapVault,
SnapMirror, and deduplication. It also provides flexibility by running on a variety of leading serversfrom HP, IBM,
Dell, Cisco, and Fujitsu.
Clustered Data ONTAP Edge extends Data ONTAP from core to edge.
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When clustered Data ONTAP 8.1 installations are upgraded to clustered Data ONTAP 8.2, SnapMirror relationships
are not automatically upgraded, because the relationships within the two releases use different syntax. After the
upgrade, the relationships are operational but limited. They can take advantage of the enhancements and scalability
improvements that the 8.2 release provides only after they are manually broken and re-created.
With clustered Data ONTAP 8.2.1, a relationship that was created on an 8.1 cluster is automatically updated to the 8.2
format, provided that three conditions are met:
The source and destination SVMs are peered or are in the same SVM.
The node that owns the aggregate that contains the destination volume is running clustered Data ONTAP 8.2.1 or
later.
The node that owns the aggregate that contains the source volume is running clustered Data ONTAP 8.2 or later.
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OnCommandWorkflow Automation 2.2 and Data ONTAP 8.2.1 are scheduled to be released at approximately the
same time.
WorkflowAutomation2.2 includes several new features. The volume move command automates the steps that are
required to refresh hardware. The configurationof Infinite Volume storage classes is simplified and automated.
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System Setup is an easy-to-use graphical utility. Previously, it was available only on entry-level platforms. However,
System Setup 2.3 is now available on the storage FAS3200 series platforms. System Setup includes cluster
interconnect support and validation for switched and switchless two-node clusters and for single-node clusters.
Previous versions of System Setup install only the base cluster license. The customer was required to install additional
licenses after setup was complete. The new version allows installation of all licenses during the initial setup. System
Setup 2.3 also provides improved disk-provisioning rules to help customers follow best practices for performance and
reliability.
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This lesson focuses on the new Data ONTAP features and processes that enable Data ONTAP to scale seamlessly.
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Before clusteredData ONTAP 8.2.1, you could assign an export policy only at the volume level. An export policy that
was assigned to a parent volume applied to all of the qtrees in the volume. Now, you can export a qtree by applying an
export policy directly to the qtree. Direct assignment enhances scalability by extending the number of exports beyond
the volume limits per node or per cluster. Assignment of an export policy to a qtree is not required. If no export policy is
assigned, the export defaults to the policy that is associated with the parent volume. Currently, qtree exports are
supported only with NFS version 3.
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When you use the 1.2 release of the 7-Mode Transition Tool to migrate from Data ONTAP operating in 7-Mode to
clustered Data ONTAP, qtree exports are maintained across the migration. Because the exports are maintained, the
migration process is simplified.
Because advanced features such as replication, data mobility, and storage quality of service are available only at the
volume level, NetApprecommends that customers migrate the data that is stored within qtrees to individual volumes.
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In a fan-in configuration, source SVMs on multiple source clusters have SnapMirror or SnapVault relationships with
destination SVMs on one destination cluster. Source and destinationSVMs can be on the same cluster or on different
clusters.
The fan-in ratio is limited, because a cluster can have only so many cluster-peer relationships. In clustered Data
ONTAP 8.2, the fan-in limit is 7. In clustered Data ONTAP 8.2.1, the limit is 63. This dramatic change increases data-
protectionflexibility and scalability.
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Starting with clustered Data ONTAP 8.2.1 control of the speed of a SnapMirror transfer, called throttling,
includes relationships within a cluster. With previous releases, the control applied only to SnapMirror
relationships for intercluster peers. If the throttle option is specified whenthe relationship is created, all transfers for
that relationship will observe the specified throttle value.
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Before clustered Data ONTAP 8.2.1, an upgrade from 32-bit aggregates to 64-bit aggregates required the addition of
disks. The additional disks enabled the size of the aggregate to increase beyond the 32-bit limit. With clustered Data
ONTAP 8.2.1, you can use the st or age aggr egat e 64bi t - upgr ade st ar t cluster shell commandto induce
the conversion. After you convert to the 64-bit format, you can use the Data ONTAP features that require 64-
bit aggregates, such as compression, Flash Pool aggregates, and deduplication-aware and compression-
aware SnapVault backups.
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For the FAS3220 and FAS3250 platforms and for the FAS6200and the FAS8000series platforms, NetAppnow
supports 16-Gb FC-VI adapters on MetroCluster configurations.
NetAppsupports stretch MetroCluster up to a distance of 500 meters. This support is enabled by the use of multimode
cables for FC-VI interconnects. FC-VI adapters operate at their highest speed by default. However, because of
technical limitations with multimode cables, the default speed is often reduced to as low as 2 Gbper second. Thus, the
performance of the FC-VI interconnect link is significantly reduced. Single-mode cable support addresses the
performance drop by using a 16-Gbps FC-VI adapter.
On Brocade 6510 switches, Data ONTAP 8.2.1 supports encryption on the inter-switch link (ISL). In-flight encryption of
data across the ISL minimizes the risk of unauthorized access, whether the data is movingwithin the data center or
across long-distance links. The ISL uses switch-to-switch encryption, not data-at-rest or device encryption. Data is
encrypted at the source and decrypted at the destination.
For MetroCluster support, the Cisco MDS 9710 multilayer director replaces the Brocade 300 series. For best-in-
class availability, the multilayer director combines nondisruptive software upgrades, stateful process restart and
failover, and full redundancy of all major components.
Starting with Data ONTAP 8.2.1, you can use unidirectional port mirroring, which increases performance
throughput by more efficiently using the FC-VI links in a MetroCluster configuration.
To increase performance, MetroCluster supports aggregates that are composed of only solid-state disks.
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Scalable SAN support was introduced in clustered Data ONTAP 8.1. Data ONTAP 8.1 supports up to 8 SAN data LIFs
per Ethernet, HBA, or UTA port. Clustered Data ONTAP 8.2 supports up to 16 SAN data LIFs per port. Clustered Data
ONTAP 8.2.1 supports up to 32 SAN data LIFS per port. With each release, scalability has increased.
Customers with workloads that include a significant amount of indirect data access or intracluster mirroring or a
significant number of simultaneous volume moves might have a bandwidth problem. Their workloads might require
more bandwidth across the cluster interconnect than the default two cluster ports can provide. Clustered Data ONTAP
8.2.1 increases the limit for FAS6280 and FAS6290 controllers to four cluster ports per node.
To increase caching capacity on entry-level platforms, clustered Data ONTAP 8.2.1 increases the sizes of the SSD
caches for Flash Pool on FAS2220 and FAS2240 storage controllers. With earlier releases, the size limit per HA pair is
400 GB. With 8.2.1, the limit per pair is 800 GB.
Newly supported for the 8.2.1 release is a 2-port converged network adapter (CNA) that can be configured to support
either 10-Gb Ethernet for FCoE or 16-Gb Fiber Channel. Performance is improved, and backward compatibility for 8-
Gb Fiber Channel infrastructures is preserved.
iSCSI type-length-value (TLV) allows users to enable dedicated priority for iSCSI traffic using data center bridging
(DCB) infrastructure. Priority assignment and bandwidth allocation is configuredon a DCB capable switch. iSCSI TLV
is currently only supported on the QLogic 8300 CNA controller.
Data ONTAP 8.2.1 introduces support for SAS optical cables on FAS3200 and FAS6200 platforms with
SAS disk shelves using IOM6, and for clustered ONTAP 7-Mode stretch MetroCluster configurations.
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This lesson focuses on the new Data ONTAP features that secure Data ONTAP solutions.
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By default, LDAP communication between client and server applications is not encrypted. Therefore, useridand
password informationis not encrypted, whichcould compromise user credentials.
Clustered Data ONTAP 8.2.1 introduces Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption between the cluster and Active
Directory and OpenLDAP servers. NetApp used Transport Layer Security (TLS), an SSL-based protocol, to implement
the LDAP over SSL feature.
Three new cluster shell command options were introduced to support the feature:
The - use- st ar t - t l s command is used when LDAP services are created or modified to enable an SVM to use
SSL for name mapping.
The - use- st ar t - t l s- f or - ad- l dap command i s used when the CIFS security configuration of an SVM is
created or modified to enable the SVM to use SSL for CIFS server creation and to enable LDAP queries to obtain
information and IP addresses from a domain controller.
The - ser ver - ca command i s used t o i dent i f y a new cer t i f i cat e t ype, a self-signed root certificate
for server authentication.
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Clustered Data ONTAP 8.2 introduced support for Active Directory authentication for cluster and SVM administrators.
A dedicated, CIFS-licensed SVM serves as a communication tunnel to the administration server. With clustered Data
ONTAP 8.2.1, the functionality is fully supported, but a CIFS protocol license is no longer required. This enhancement
satisfies customers who want to use Active Directory to authenticate their storage and SVM administrators but do not
need CIFS data access.
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Active Directory domain structures are sometimes quite complex. To facilitate name mapping, Data ONTAP
8.2.1 supports name searches across multiple domains. To map the name of a UNIX user to the name of an
active directory user, the SVM searches every bidirectional trusted domain. The SVM continues searching, from
one trusted domain to another, until a match is found.
To specify the order in which the trusted domains are searched, you can configure a list of preferred trusted
domains.
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