NET701 - Robin Le Couteur - 2018

Exercise 9 The goal of this exercise is to set up SAN storage using the iSCSI protocol. Task 1 In this task, I had to allow the iSCSI protocol to be used on svm1. I checked the iSCSI box and saved. Easy task. Task 2 Next I needed to create a LIF. This is also easy to do with the OnCommand interface here's a screenshot of the output of the create interface wizard. Task 3 This was a quick task where I had to enable the iSCSI service. It's literally just a matter of clicking a button labelled 'Start'. Task 4 For this task I created a SAN volume. here's the wizard input parameters. I then had to change the security style from UNIX to NTFS Task 5 Next was configuring SnapDrive so I could connect to the iSCSI drive. It seemed like a very straightforward process, but I ended up having the following error. A google suggested that it was to do with the version of SnapDrive, but I figured I would let it sit and come back to ...

Here's my continuation of the NetApp lab. Exercise 4 Before I could start this exercise, I noticed that my lab environment had been reset, and I couldn't connect to my lab cluster! Because the lab environment was broken, I submitted a support ticket to see if NetApp could fix my issue quickly. Meanwhile, I decided to start the Basic NetApp Configuration and Administration Part 2 Self-Paced Lab. After coming back a while later, the cluster was accessible and I could continue with the lab. The purpose of this exercise is to teach me how to manage aggregates using the different interfaces. Firstly, I learned the two methods of creating an aggregate. The first method was with the OnCommand GUI. I didn't have any difficulties. Here is the resulting aggregate 'aggr1': The other method was to use CLI. This method requires you to remember the commands, but if you know the commands it is much faster because you don't need to navigate any m...

In this blog, I'll be talking about how I progressed through the Basic NetApp Configuration and Administration Part 1 Self-Paced Lab. Exercise 1 and 2 To start off, I got the lab guide and VM window open so that I had a starting ground for the lab. The first exercises involved getting familiar with the CLI and OnCommand systems for managing the cluster. I had to check that the time settings were synchronized between the server and the cluster by using the 'timezone' command in putty to change the cluster timezone to be the same as the server. There was also a few commands to check the cluster status that I used like 'cluster show' and 'license show'. Additionally, I had to add DNS records for the cluster and a Linux machine and just go through how all the CLI commands work, and how the OnCommand interface is laid out. My thoughts on the CLI interface are that it reminds me of how the Vyos command line interface works. General command line features su...