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OnCommand System Manager

Simple, powerful setup and management for NetApp
storage systems
KEY BENEFITS
Simplied Management
Manage NetApp

systems
through an easy-to-use and
efcient browser-based system.
Fast, Simple Setup
Begin serving data minutes after
installation. Wizards and work-
ows simplify common tasks.
Powerful Administrative
Capabilities
Easily congure and provision
storage for le sharing and
application workloads.
Clustered Storage Support
Manage Data ONTAP

8.1 Cluster-
Mode storage environments.
The Challenge
IT organizations face a number of
pressures relating to the complexity of
deploying and managing data storage.
Data is growing faster than both the IT
budget and stafng. Storage systems
are siloed by application or networking
technology. And the systems them-
selves are becoming highly complicated,
requiring specialized expertise to main-
tain scripts, manage capacity, enable
data to be available and secure, and
even just to deploy new units.
For most companies, the new reality
is that IT expense must remain at,
despite these growing pressures. And
for many, there is no option of hiring or
even maintaining specialized expertise
just for one class of storage. Busy IT
generalists must be able to effectively
stand up and manage storage capacity
along with all their other responsibili-
ties, and effectively meet the needs of
the business.
The Solution
OnCommand

System Manager is the

simple yet powerful browser-based
management tool that enables adminis-
trators to easily congure and manage
individual NetApp storage systems.
System Manager comes with wizards
and workows, simplifying common
storage tasks such as creating volumes,
LUNS, qtrees, shares, and exports,
which saves time and prevents errors.
System Manager works across all
NetApp storage: 2000, 3000, and 6000
series as well as V-Series systems.
Fast, simple setup
With System Manager, you can rapidly
congure NetApp storage systems,
typically within minutes after installation.
Automated storage discovery further
simplies locating and conguring
existing systems.
The management utility is Web based,
can be installed on a laptop or server,
and runs on either a Windows

or a
Linux

environment.
Simplied management
System Manager provides simple-
to-use, workow-based wizards to
automate the most common device
management tasks. A dashboard uni-
es important system information, and
this one view allows management of
both SAN and NAS storage.
Real-time system performance is
displayed in a single multiframe display,
including CPU utilization, I/O through-
put, operations, and latency.
Powerful administrative capabilities
System Manager lets administrators
easily control the powerful capabili-
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ties of NetApp storage systems: disks,
pooled storage, shares/exports, Snap-
shot

copies, and network conguration.

Both SAN (iSCSI/FC/FCoE) and NAS
(CIFS/NFS) storage can be managed
through the same view, as well as stor-
age for virtualized environments.
Powerful space-efciency features
such as thin provisioning, compression,
deduplication, and FlexVol

can be man-
aged without the need for command-line
expertise.
Clustered scale-out storage
System Manager enables administration
of the NetApp Unied Storage Archi-
tecture at scale. The newest scale-out
features of Data ONTAP 8.1 can be
graphically managed, helping provide
successful and error-free administration.
Figure 1) OnCommand System Manager dashboard shows total capacity, alerts, and utilization by
aggregates and volumes within an efcient, unied view.
New Data ONTAP 8.1 Cluster-Mode
technology provides peace of mind
with nonstop operations, and improves
operational efciency.
Oncommand System Manager
Key Features
Easy wizard-driven setup
Intuitive browser-based GUI
CIFS, NFS, iSCSI, FC, FCoE
conguration
Active Directory

and LDAP support

Disk aggregate management
Storage provisioning
Snapshot management
SnapMirror

, SyncMirror

, and
SnapLock

support
vFiler

and Vserver management

VMware

ESX integration
Data ONTAP 7.2.3 and beyond
Data ONTAP 8.1 Cluster-Mode
support for up to 24 nodes
Secure access via password and RSH
Secure communications via SSH
and SSL
About NetApp
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