V-filer Administration

- S Kannan

Why V-filer?
MultiStore enables you to partition the storage and

network resources of a single storage system so that it appears as multiple storage systems on the network. MultiStore is optional software that is available by license with Data ONTAP. Each storage system created as a result of the partitioning is called a vFiler unit. A vFiler unit, using the resources assigned, delivers file services to its clients the same way that a storage system does. The storage system on which you create vFiler units is called the hosting storage system. The storage and network resources used by the vFiler units exist on the hosting storage system. The storage resource assigned to a vFiler unit can be one or more qtrees or volumes. The network resource assigned can be one or more base IP addresses or IP aliases associated with network interfaces. You can

Benefits of v-filer
Virtualization MultiStore enables you to manage tasks such as storage administration, provisioning, and management. Consolidation and ease of management Application service providers can consolidate the storage requirements of their customers. You can reduce management costs while offering independent, domain-specific storage management. Security Security is one of the key concerns when storage is consolidated either within an organization or by an application service provider. Using vFiler units enables you to have different security domains within the same storage system. Delegation of management Administrators of vFiler unit can manage all vFiler units that they are authorized to access. However, vFiler unit administrators have access rights different from those of storage system administrators. Disaster recovery and data migration MultiStore enables you to migrate or back up data from one storage system to another without extensive reconfiguration on the destination storage system.

Creating V-filer
vfiler create senthil -i 192.168.1.160 /vol/vol50 - i assigining network (IP) resource to vfiler -/vol/vol50 assigining volume resource to the vfiler unit

Adding/Removing Resources to VFiler

Running commands on v-filer

Destroying the v-filer

Vfiler can be managed from Filerview

Reference Guide

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