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Data ONTAP 7.2
NetApp Internal 2006, Network Appliance, Inc. All rights reserved
Logistics
Introductions
Schedule (start time, breaks, lunch, close)
Telephones and messages
Food and drinks
Restrooms
Safety
Alarm signal
Evacuation route
Assembly area
Electrical safety
Course Prerequisites
Training and experience with Data ONTAP 7.1
Course Objective
At the completion of this training, you will be able to
recognize the affect on functionality for each of the
new features released with Data ONTAP 7.2
Course Agenda
Data ONTAP 7.2 Update Overview
FlexShare
Protocol Enhancements
Data Protection Enhancements
Storage Resource Management Enhancements
Windows-Related Improvements
Information Sources
Product information
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www.netapp.com/library
NOW site
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NetAppU
www.netapp.com/education
netappusupport.custhelp.com
email
General:
NetAppUniversity@NetApp.com
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Education.fr@ NetApp.com
Germany:
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United Kingdom:
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Typographic Conventions
Data ONTAP 7.2 Update:

Overview
Objectives
At the end of this module you will be able to:
Recognize the impact on functionality for each of the new
features released with Data ONTAP 7.2
Recall that the Data ONTAP 7.2 release supports the FAS6070
and FAS6030 platforms
Identify the new network interface cards supported
Describe FlexShare
Recognize the enhancements, new support, and settings
related to blocks protocols
Describe the IPsec certificate authentication
Describe the improved user controls for security,
asynchronous group replication, SnapMirror variable throttle,
and compliance migration
Objectives continued
At the end of this module, you will be able to:
Recognize that performance is improved for multiprocessor
systems and file system resiliency is enhanced
Recall that FlexVol volumes have increased to 500
Summarize improvements to CIFS performance
Describe the Group Policy Object
Describe LiveView
Recall that UNIX permissions in mixed security environments
have been improved
Describe improvements to FPolicies
Describe known management issues
New Hardware Supported

Data ONTAP 7.2 release supports
FAS6070
FAS6030
New NICs supported
1-Port 10 Gb Ethernet fiber optic PCI-X TOE adapter

4-Port Gb Ethernet copper PCI-X TOE adapter
2-Port Gb Ethernet copper PCI-E adapter
2-Port Gb Ethernet fiber optic PCI-E adapter
Data ONTAP 7.2RC1 supports network interface cards with
on-board TCP/IP Offload Engines (TOE), although TOE
functionality is not supported in this release
Practical Application
Ports numbered
from bottom
Manageability Enhancements
FlexShare
Blocks protocols enhancements
T10 Asymetric Logical Unit Access support

Read-only LUN enhancements
PCI-X iSCSI hardware target adapter support
FCP config command to configure adapter speed
Renaming igroups
Security Protocols
IPsec certificate authentication
FlexShare
Priorities are assigned to volumes to assign
relative priorities between
Different volumes
Client data accesses and system operations
Hints to affect the way cache buffers are

handled for a given volume
Limitations
10 Asymmetric Logical Unit Access (ALUA) support
Read-only LUN enhancements
PCI-X iSCSI hardware target adapter support
FCP config command to configure adapter speed
Renaming igroups
IPsec Certificate Authentication

Get signed certificate from certificate authority
Create self-signed certificate
Data Protection Enhancements

Centralized Administration
Consistency groups for synchronous
replication
SnapMirror Variable Throttle
Compliance migration
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Centralized Administration
Allows administrators to TELNET, rsh, SSH, and use
FilerView without having to create users on the filer
Alternative to DataFabric Manager
UNIX
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
Network Information Service (NIS)
Use entries in nsswitch.conf
Windows
Active Directory (AD)
Domain\username
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Consistency Groups for Synchronous

Replication
When this feature is deployed, consistency groups are
enabled with specific host-side applications (cross
volume; includes all replication)
This support guarantees consistency among data sets
in multiple LUNs, flexible volumes, and volumes
synchronously replicated via Synchronous SnapMirror
(SSM)
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SnapMirror Variable Throttle

SnapMirror Variable Throttle gives the user the
ability to set a maximum threshold for the
amount of net bandwidth utilized by a storage
system for SnapMirror transfers
This includes the ability to change the
threshold to take effect during the actual
SnapMirror transfer
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Compliance Migration
This feature is a secure and authenticated data
migration mechanism that is required when
files are locked with a long retention period
This assures that all files have been
completely and accurately migrated to another
platform with SnapLock protection
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Storage Resource Management

Enhancements
File system improvements
Performance on multiprocessor systems
Enhanced resiliency against hardware failures
Maximum FlexVols increased to 500
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Maximum FlexVols Increased to 500

Data ONTAP 7.2RC1 provides the ability to
increase the number of FlexVol volumes to
500
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Windows-Related Improvements
Enhanced CIFS performance
Enhanced Group Policy Object (GPO) support
LiveView
Enhanced Multiprotocol support
File screening enhancements
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Enhanced CIFS Performance

This release includes the following CIFS
performance enhancements:
Improvements in CIFS scalability on
multiprocessor-based storage systems
Improvements in CIFS performance for high
ChangeNotify environments
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Enhanced Group Policy Object (GPO)

Support
This release includes Group Policy Object
(GPO) support for Restricted Groups security
policy
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LiveView
The LiveView facility supports real-time
viewing of audit events using EventViewer
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Enhanced Multiprotocol Support

This release provides better support for UNIX
permissions in mixed security environments
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File Screening Enhancements

FPolicy functionality has been extended to
support the following:
File screening operations on specified volumes
Native File Blocking on vFiler units
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Management Issues
Synchronous SnapMirror and FlexVol volumes
SSH Secure Shell/SSH Tectia client does not
work properly unless forwarding is disabled
Maximum number of SSH sessions
FilerView does not support roles and
capabilities for all tasks
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Summary
In this module you have learned to
Recognize the impact on functionality for each of the new
features released with Data ONTAP 7.2
Recall that the Data ONTAP 7.2 release supports the FAS6070 and
FAS6030 platforms
Identify the new network interface cards supported
Describe FlexShare
Recognize the enhancements, new support, and settings related
to blocks protocols
Describe the IPsec certificate authentication
Describe the improved user controls for security, synchronous
group replication, SnapMirror variable throttle, and compliance
migration
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Summary continued
Recognize that performance is improved for multiprocessor
systems and file system resiliency is enhanced
Recall that FlexVol volumes have increased to 500
Summarize improvements to CIFS performance
Describe the Group Policy Object
Describe LiveView
Recall that UNIX permissions in mixed security environments
have been improved
Describe improvements to FPolicies
Describe known management issues
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FlexShare
Objectives
At the end of this learning object, you will be able to:
Describe FlexShares uses

Describe some FlexShare charactistics
Identify volume operations that affect FlexShare priorities
Describe the default queue
Describe Global I/O Concurrency
Describe procedures to modify FlexShare priorities
Describe procedures to set volume buffer cache policy
Configure FlexShare priorities
FlexShare
Facilitates increased storage resource control
Volume priorities
Hints of cache buffers
No license required
FlexShare Applications
Scenario 1: Different applications on the same storage
system
A mission-critical database on the same storage system as user
home directories
Use FlexShare to ensure that database accesses are assigned a
higher priority than accesses to home directories
Scenario 2: Reduce the impact of system operations

Use FlexShare to ensure that client accesses are assigned a higher
priority than system operations
Scenario 3: Volumes with different caching

requirements
A database log volume that does not need to be cached after writing
Use the cache buffer policy hint to help Data ONTAP determine
how to manage the cache buffers for those volumes
FlexShare Characteristics
No performance guarantees
Priority levels are relative
Both nodes in active configuration (cluster)
Volume Operations Affect FlexShare

Priorities
- Volume operation
- Effect on FlexShare settings
- Deletion
- FlexShare settings removed
- Rename
- FlexShare settings unchanged
- FlexClone volume creation
- Parent volume settings unchanged

FlexShare settings for new FlexClone
volume unset (as for a newly created
volume)
- Copy
- Source volume settings unchanged

FlexShare settings for destination
volume unset (as for a newly created
volume)
- Offline or online
- FlexShare settings preserved
Default Queue
A volume with unassigned priorities will be in
the default queue
All volumes in default queue share resources
Once priorities are set for some, they should
be set for all volumes to be controlled
Global I/O Concurrency Option

FlexShare limits concurrent I/O based on
Volume priority
Disk type
Default for most applications

Change for nonstandard disks or load
Assign Priorities to Volume Data Access

1. Ensure that FlexShare is enabled:
priority on
2. Specify the priority for the volume by entering

the following command:
priority set volume vol_name
3. Optionally verify the priority level:

priority show volume [-v] vol_name
Buffer Cache Policy

Settings
Keep
Reuse
Default
Setting Policy
Priority on
Priority set volume vol_name cache=policy
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Removing or Disabling FlexShare Policies

Temporarily disabling FlexShare priority
filer1> priority set volume [volname] service=off
Removing FlexShare priority

filer1> priority delete volume [volname]
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Default Volume Priority

To specify or modify the default volume
priority, use this command:
priority set default option=value [option=value]
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Set Vol Buffer Cache Policy

1. priority on
2. priority set volume vol_name cache=policy
3. priority show volume -v vol_name (to verify)
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Demonstration
The instructor will demonstrate the FlexShare
Feature.
The procedure is included in the student guide
for reference
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Summary
Describe FlexShares uses

Describe some FlexShare charactistics
Identify volume operations that affect FlexShare priorities
Describe the default queue
Describe Global I/O Concurrency
Describe procedures to modify FlexShare priorities
Describe procedures to set volume buffer cache policy
Configure FlexShare priorities
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Protocol Enhancements
Objectives
At the end of this module, you will be able to
Describe the T10 Asymmetric Logical Unit Access
(ALUA) Standard
Describe read-only LUN enhancements for
SnapMirror
Describe PCI-X iSCSI hardware target adapter
support
Describe IPsec certificate authentication
T10 Asymmetric Logical Unit Access

(ALUA ) standard for iSCSI
What is ALUA?
ALUA = Asymmetric Logical Unit Access (aka SCSI
Target Port Groups)
A standard set of SCSI commands for discovering
and managing multiple paths to LUNs on a SAN.
Benefit
Eliminates the need for host-specific plug-ins in a
SAN
Enabling and Using the ALUA Standard
ALUA: More Information

For more detail about the ALUA standard, refer
to:
NetApp Documentation
Data ONTAP 7.2 Block Access Management
Guide for iSCSI and FCP
The SCSI SPC-3 Specification
http://www.t10.org/drafts.htm#spc3
Read-Only LUN Management

for SnapMirror
New capabilities
Can manage LUNs on a SnapMirror destination while the SnapMirror

relationship is intact
Can manage LUN maps for LUNs on mirrored qtrees and volumes
Can create new igroups on the destination, map the destination LUN to those
igroups, or use existing igroups
After setting up LUN maps for a destination LUN, you can continue to use the
LUN regardless of the mirror relationship; if a mirror is broken, the LUN
transparently migrates to a read or write state (note: hosts might need to
remount)
Limitations
Online or offline status of a destination LUN is inherited from the source LUN
and cannot be changed on the destination
Operations allowed on read-only LUNs are: lun map, lun unmap, lun show, lun
stats, and changes to SCSI-2 reservations and SCSI-3 persistent reservations
Read-only LUNs and SnapMirror:

More Information
For more detail about read-only LUNs and
SnapMirror, refer to:
Data ONTAP 7.2 Block Access Management
Guide for iSCSI and FCP
Data Protection Online Backup and Recovery
Guide
PCI-X iSCSI Hardware Target Adapter

Support
The following Emulex PCI-X iSCSI hardware
target adapters are supported:
LP100i-D1 copper (X1029B-R5)
LP100i-F1 fiber optic (X1036B-R5)
VLANs and jumbo frames are supported with

these adapters as well
IPsec Security Authentication

What is IPsec?
A security protocol that protects data from unauthorized disclosure
during transmission between end-stations (storage systems and
clients).
IPsec enables you to:
Configure encryption and authentication algorithms between endstations.
Negotiate Security Associations (SAs) between end-stations.
IPsec can take two forms: Authentication Header (AH) or

Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)
IPsec Security in Data ONTAP 7.2

Security Associations (SAs) are Negotiated via Key Exchange
Protocols:
Kerberos (Windows clients)
Certificate authority (Windows clients, storage system <-> storage
system)
Preshared keys (Solaris clients, Windows clients, storage system <->
storage system)
Failover environment is not ideal for IPsec SAs

In a takeover, clients will continue to send packets to the failed client
for the lifetime of the SA
Best practice: on clients, set SA lifetimes to minimum values
IPsec can be enabled on a per-vFiler unit basis

rSuent IcPosmecmcaonndfiguration within vFiler unit, or with the
vfiler
IPsec configuration is preserved when a vFiler unit is moved, so long
as the IP address stays the same
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Setting Up IPsec Authentication

1. Before using IPsec, you must:
Select and configure a key exchange mechanism.
Kerberos
Certificate authority
Preshared keys
Enable IPsec functionality on the storage system with
options ip.ipsec.enable on | off.
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1. Before using IPsec, you must:

Select and configure a key exchange mechanism.
Kerberos
Certificate authority
Preshared keys
Enable IPsec functionality on the storage system with
options ip.ipsec.enable on | off.
2. Create security policies: ipsec policy add

3. View security associations
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IPsec: More Information

For more detail about the IPsec Authentication
standard, refer to:
Data ONTAP 7.2 Network Administration Guide
The Internet Engineering Task Force, Security Architecture for the
Internet Protocol Standard
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2401.txt
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Summary
Describe the T10 Asymmetric Logical Unit Access
(ALUA) Standard
Describe read-only LUN enhancements for
SnapMirror
Describe PCI-X iSCSI hardware target adapter
support
Describe IPsec certificate authentication
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Data Protection
Enhancements
Objectives
At the end of this module, you will be able to
Describe consistency groups for synchronous
replication
Describe SnapMirror Variable Throttle
Describe Compliance migration
Describe SnapVault for NetBackup 6.0
Describe SnapVault check and fixer for OSSV
Consistency Groups for Asynchronous

Replication
Support for applications that store data in multiple
data volumes, and that need crash or restore
consistent checkpoints across these volumes
Checkpoint cycle that is non-intrusive to the
application, and can be accomplished in 5-10 seconds
Support for preventing the "rolling-disaster" type
failure by assuring correct ordering of causally
dependent writes across failures
Enables outside agents (SnapDrive, SnapManager) to
manage this capability for applications
System-wide Throttling of
SnapMirror/SnapVault Transfers
System-wide throttling enabled using three
new options:
Set using the options command
Throttle Examples
Throttle Example 2
Disabling Throttling
SnapVault for NetBackup 6.0
SnapVault Check and Fixer for OSSV

New in OSSV 2.2
Checker
Diagnostic command in 7.2
snapvault start check -S source destination
Need to modify snapvault.cfg to enable verify checksum in order to run
checker/fixer
[QSM:GenerateVerifyChecksums]
value=TRUE
A restart of OSSV agent and update is needed before running checker.
Support directory, file data and metadata, ACL, NT streams
Does not support non-NetApp attributes including encrypted file, sparse
file or stream, UNIX acls
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Checker Session
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Fixer
Diagnostic command in 7.2

snapvault start check -F -S source destination
An immediate update is needed to complete fixer cycle.
Need to enable verify checksum in order to run fixer.
[QSM:GenerateVerifyChecksums]
value=TRUE
A restart of OSSV agent and update is needed before running fixer.
Support directory, file data and metadata, ACL, NT streams.
OSSV Fixer have two phase, fixer phase is a pseudo checker phase for OSSV.
Directory, file metadata and holey blocks are fixed in this phase and mismatched blocks are
requested from secondary, OSSV will mark these block as dirty for next update.
Second phase for OSSV fixer is the update. OSSV update will send the changed data and mismatched blocks
during this phase.
Doesnt support Non-NetApp attributes including encrypted file, sparse file.
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Summary
In this module you have learned to:
Describe and enable consistency groups for
synchronous replication
Describe SnapMirror Variable Throttle
Describe Compliance migration
Describe SnapVault for NetBackup 6.0
Describe SnapVault check and fixer for OSSV
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Storage Resource Mgmt
Enhancements
Objectives
At the end of this module, you will be able to:
Describe file system improvements

State that the maximum FlexVols is 500
100 aggregates
Describe issues and limitations related to Storage
Resource Management
File System Improvements

Performance on multiprocessor systems
Code changes to improve performance
Enhanced resiliency against HW failures
Enhanced Resiliency Against HW Failures

Common and recoverable panics identified from
autosupport data
On encountering panics
The affected data (block/file/volume) is made inaccessible

Deny access by returning an error to client
Delete bad snapshot
Keep inconsistent volume offline
Warnings are printed
A micro-core is dumped
An autosupport is triggered
If more than a few problems are seen, the volume is

taken offline
Panic Resiliency Requirements

No specific hardware or software
requirements
No license required
No specific installation/configuration/management
required
Does not affect upgrade/revert
No performance impacts
Maximum FlexVols Increased to 500

Data ONTAP 7.2RC1 provides the ability to
increase the number of FlexVol volumes to
500
Storage Resource Management Issues

Partition alignment problems cause an iSCSI LUN
performance problem
Linux LUN partitioning of certain drivers will not align to
4096bytes boundary
Follow procedures in Knowledge article 8190
CFO partner nodes SSL certificate may be used after

takeover and giveback
Restart SSH
Operations that can cause volumes of to temporarily
reserve more space (new in 7.2RC1)
Volume reallocation (new in 7.2RC1)
The ostype parameter is now required (new in 7.2RC1)
Storage Resource Management Issues

continued
High CPU use when using user or group
quotas on qtrees (new in 7.2RC1)
Change in sysstat -x command output (new in
7.2RC1)
Disk auto-assignment cannot be disabled
during boot (new in 7.2RC1)
If takeover is enabled for network interface
failure, automatic giveback should be disabled
(new in 7.2RC1)
Summary
Describe file system improvements

State that the maximum FlexVols is 500
Describe issues and limitations related to Storage
Resource Management

Windows-related
Improvements
Objectives
At the end of this module you will be able to:
Describe enhanced CIFS performance

Describe enhanced GPO support
Describe LiveView
Describe enhanced multiprotocol support
Describe file screening enhancements
Enhanced CIFS Performance

CIFS domain created separate from the
computer domain running WAFL
Allows CIFS operations in parallel to WAFL
activities
Load balancing in multiprocessor systems
Enhanced GPO Support

Three new policies
1. Restricted Group
Automatically provides security memberships for default
Windows 2000 groups
2. User Rights Assignment

Take ownership of files or other objects
3. GPO refresh time interval random offset

Adds to the refresh interval to prevent all clients from
requesting Group Policy at the same time
LiveView
Allows users to view real-time auditing
information on the filer
Gives users the ability of connecting to the
storage appliance to view real-time auditing
information
Enabled on the filer and then accessed from a
client
LiveView Syntax
options cifs.audit.liveview.enable[off|on]
Command Output:
ALF: CIFS EVT Live View facility has been started

This preserves the UNIX permissions when a
file is saved as UNIX or Mixed
cifs.preserve_unix_security [on|off]

UNIX style security qtrees now look like NTFS volumes
UNIX permissions are mapped to hard-coded SIDs (referred to as
Perm SIDs)
uid is represented by:
S-1-5-21-2038298172-1297133386-11111-uid
gid is represented by:
S-1-5-21-2038298172-1297133386-22222-gid
others is represented by:
S-1-5-21-2038298172-1297133386-33333
suid is represented by:
S-1-5-21-2038298172-1297133386-44444
sgid is represented by:
S-1-5-21-2038298172-1297133386-55555
svtx is represented by:
S-1-5-21-2038298172-1297133386-66666

Perm SIDs resolve to the following names:
uid: UNIXPermUid\username. If the username
cannot be resolved the numeric uid is displayed
gid: UNIXPermGid\groupname. If the groupname
cannot be resolved, the numeric gid is displayed
others: UNIXPerm\others
suid: UNIXPerm\suid
sgid: UNIXPerm\sgid
svtx: UNIXPerm\svtx

rwx permissions are set for uid, gid, and
others by setting the Read Data, Write Data,
and Execute File bits in the access mask of the
ACL
The suid, sgid and svtx bits are set by setting
the Read Data bit in the access mask of the
ACL
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Viewing UNIX permissions in Windows
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Setting UNIX permissions from Windows
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File Screening Enhancements

FPolicy functionality has been extended to
support the following:
File screening operations on specified volumes
Native File Blocking on vFiler units
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FPolicy Overview
FPolicy is similar to vscan
FPolicy was introduced in 6.4
NFS support added in 7.0
Bug cleanup in GB
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Step 1 Notification
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Step 2 Processing
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Step 3 Completion
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Available Notifications
FPolicy server tells the filer which ops should
trigger notification
FPolicy server can choose to be notified for
access by clients which are using NFS and/or
CIFS protocols
FPolicy can choose from a wide range of client
ops, including open, create, close, delete,
rename, read, write, mkdir, rmdir, getattr,
setattr, NFS-lookup, and create-symlink
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Uses
File blocking/file screening
Hierarchical storage management (HSM)
Quotas on directories
There can be multiple policies running at the

same time.
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Filer Tell Server

Filename (or directory name for mkdir, etc.)
Path for CIFS, inode for NFS
IP address and user info for the client (SID for
CIFS, uid/gid for NFS)
Which operation is being requested by the
user, which protocol is being used for access
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FPolicy CLI
Used to configure and control policies
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Hardware & Software Requirements

FPolicy needs a CIFS license because the FPolicy
server must authenticate to the filer using CIFS
The FPolicy application runs off-filer on another
machine, normally a PC
FPolicy is free to customers, no special license is
needed; of course, they must have CIFS and get a
partner product to enforce the policy, etc.
Typical partners include NuView, Symantec,
Kazeon, NTP, Overtone, CommVault, and NeoPath
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FPolicy Volume
fpolicy volume is a CLI command which restricts a policy to a
certain set of volumes
Command syntax: fpolicy help volume
fpolicy vol[ume] {inc[lude]|exc[lude]}
[add|remove|set|reset|show|eval] <PolicyName> [<vol_spec>
[,<vol_spec>]*]
vol_spec supports wild cards (* and ?)

you can have either an include-set or exclude-set
if you provide both, the include-set is ignored
FPolicy notification can be provided when clients access the filer

via NFS or CIFS
All filer platforms
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FPolicy Volume
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Native File Blocking

1. First create a policy.
2. Configure the policy to provide notification for
certain operations on files with targeted file
extensions.
3. Set the policy to deny requests unless a
server specifically allows them.
Since no server is provided, user requests
fitting the configured setup are denied.
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FPolicy Monitor
Normally the FPolicy server tells the filer
which operations it wishes to monitor
You would not want to change that because it
would be confusing for the server if it asked for
notifications for open file and the filer started
sending mkdir notifications
But for Native File Blocking, there is no server;

the sysadmin has to manually set the list of
monitored operations
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FPolicy Monitor
Command syntax: fpolicy help monitor
fpolicy mon[itor] [add|remove|set]

<PolicyName> [-p {nfs|cifs}] -f
op_spec[,op_spec,...,op_spec]
If protocol is not selected, then both CIFS and NFS will cease
notifications; the force flag (-f) stops the filer from issuing an
are you sure? prompt
The ops which may be chosen are (see man page): all, none,
close, create, create_dir, delete, delete_dir, getattr, link, lookup,
open, read, rename, rename_dir, setattr, symlink, write
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Create our MP3 blocker policy
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Installation, Configuration & Management

Policies can be created and configured through the
filer CLI (the fpolicy command).
You can set which file extensions trigger notifications,
which volumes are affected by the policy.
The FPolicy partner software must be installed (details
are specific to each partner and to the type of policy
that is being implemented).
One partner product uses Manage ONTAP APIs to
create and configure its own policy.
When the FPolicy server connects to the filer, it will
tell the filer which operations it is interested in and
which policy it wants to be the server for.
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Upgrade and Revert

If a filer is reverted, settings not supported in
the back release are lost.
If a filer is reverted far enough, support for
FPolicy goes away (support started in 6.4).
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Troubleshooting & Diagnostics

Error messages
A set of EMS events
Some console error messages for commands that fail
Autosupport messages
Output from fpolicy is in autosupport
Debugging/diagnostics related to new features

None
Known problems and public BURTS (subtype

fpolicy)
Common problems
Nothing special, but FPolicy is inherently complex due to having
interrupted client operations, plus network communications to an
off-filer server and a separate software application running on that
server
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Feature Limitations
CIFS and NFS protocols only
Only client requests trigger notifications, no
notification for internal ops; for example,
creating a qtree does not provide a mkdir
notification
An off-filer server and partner software is
needed
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Performance Information
No specific performance information, but FPolicy will
slow client requests down since an off-filer server is
notified; the clients request blocks till the server
completes its processing
There is an async mode in which the filer delivers
notifications but does not wait for a response from the
FPolicy server (the server has to request this when it
connects to the filer); this is fast and results in little
impact on filer performance
Read and write notifications are almost never a good
idea; use read and write notifications only for offline
files
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Summary
Describe enhanced CIFS performance

Describe enhanced GPO support
Describe LiveView
Describe enhanced multiprotocol support
Describe file screening enhancements
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Data ONTAP 7.2 Update:

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New Hardware Supported

New NICs supported

1-Port 10 Gb Ethernet fiber optic PCI-X TOE adapter

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T10 Asymetric Logical Unit Access support

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Hints to affect the way cache buffers are

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IPsec Certificate Authentication

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Data Protection Enhancements

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Consistency Groups for Synchronous

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SnapMirror Variable Throttle

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Storage Resource Management

Maximum FlexVols increased to 500

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Maximum FlexVols Increased to 500

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Enhanced CIFS Performance

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Enhanced Group Policy Object (GPO)

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Enhanced Multiprotocol Support

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File Screening Enhancements

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Data ONTAP 7.2 Update:

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Describe FlexShares uses

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Scenario 2: Reduce the impact of system operations

Scenario 3: Volumes with different caching

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Volume Operations Affect FlexShare

- Effect on FlexShare settings