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Summary of Contents for NetApp FAS 2050HA

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Page 2: ...sources 4 4 Physical Architecture 5 4 1 Network Architecture 5 4 2 Storage Architecture 9 4 3 NetApp Data ONTAP Configuration 10 4 4 Intelligent Read Caching 13 4 5 Deduplication Setup 13 4 6 VMware E...

Page 3: ...ops are in persistent access mode and 500 users are in non persistent access mode This guide can be easily scaled up for larger deployments by simply increasing the number of servers storage controlle...

Page 4: ...ware View A set of software products that provide services and management infrastructure for centralization of desktop operating environments using virtual machine technology Volume Logical storage co...

Page 5: ...a ONTAP 7 3 1 NFS License N A VMware ESX Servers 3 5 Update 3 VMware vCenter Server 2 5 Update 3 Windows Servers for vCenter Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition SP 2 32 Bit Desktops Virtu...

Page 6: ...tworking configuration consisted of ten 1Gb Ethernet Controllers or NICs Two were configured as NIC Teaming ports for NFS traffic and assigned to a pre defined VMkernel port used for NFS access with a...

Page 7: ...ic This configuration can either be done in the Data ONTAP GUI or from the Data ONTAP service Console Additionally the multi mode VIF configured for NFS traffic was also assigned an alias IP address t...

Page 8: ...k interfaces that will make up the NFS VIF 4 For Trunk Mode press the drop down arrow and select Multiple 5 For Load Balancing press the drop down arrow and select IP 6 Click Apply Figure 3 AS2050 NFS...

Page 9: ...This should be configured as a standard port channel not using any link aggregation protocols such as LACP To configure an ESX server for NFS connectivity follow the below steps Configuration Tab Net...

Page 10: ...ve Properties Physical Adapters Figure 5 VMware ESX server NIC configuration 4 2 STORAGE ARCHITECTURE The NetApp FAS2050HA was configured with one aggregate and six volumes per controller Each storage...

Page 11: ...nfigurations are as follows NOTE These configurations can be implemented using the Data ONTAP FilerView or service console commands The instructions for performing the steps below on the NetApp storag...

Page 12: ...tes as large as possible to benefit from the I O capacity of all the spindles in the aggregate After the creation of the new aggregate the snapshot reserve will need to be turned off by using the belo...

Page 13: ...een check inside the box Then click Next 5 Determine that the export path is correct for the NFS export 6 At the NFS Export Wizard Read Write Access click on the Add button and enter the IP address of...

Page 14: ...torage by removing redundant copies of blocks within a volume This process is transparent to the application and can be enabled and disabled on the fly In a VMware View environment using Linked Clones...

Page 15: ...of NFS Connect to the ESX host s system console using either SSH telnet or serial console and log in to the onsole Type each command below and hit Enter c esxcfg advcfg s 32 NFS MaxVolumes esxcfg adv...

Page 16: ...Figure 7 ESX Host NFS Network Configuration Figure 8 ESX Host NFS Load Balancing Network Configuration 15...

Page 17: ...twork cards on the server to achieve high levels of availability 5 VALIDATION RESULTS The storage configuration described in this document was validated by configuring the environment described above...

Page 18: ...ds Figure 9 Average application execution time in seconds 5 2 STORAGE SYSTEM IO SUMMARY The graphs below show the number of NFS operations for each controller during the duration of the validation The...

Page 19: ...requirements Most of this information can be found in the NetApp and VMware references below 7 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The following people contributed to the solution validation and creation of this document...

Page 20: ...19 VMware View Composer Deployment Guide VMware View Reference Architecture...

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