IBM N Series, Руководство по внедрению

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Preface
About this guide
This guide provides information about how to set up your storage array to work
with an IBM® N series gateway running NetApp® Data ONTAP® software,
including configuration guidelines and sample configurations. The information in
this guide pertains to all supported gateway platforms.
Note
Data ONTAP software runs on multiple hardware platforms. This documentation
might describe features that are not supported on your platform.
Attention
In this document, the term gateway describes IBM N series storage systems that
have been ordered with gateway functionality. Gateways support various types of
storage, and they are used with third-party disk storage systems—for example,
disk storage systems from IBM, HP®, Hitachi Data Systems®, and EMC®. In
this case, disk storage for customer data and the RAID controller functionality is
provided by the back-end disk storage system. A gateway might also be used
with disk storage expansion units specifically designed for the IBM N series
models.
The term filer describes IBM N series storage systems that either contain internal
disk storage or attach to disk storage expansion units specifically designed for the
IBM N series storage systems. Filer storage systems do not support using third-
party disk storage systems.
Audience This guide is for system administrators who are familiar with operating systems
such as UNIX® and Windows® that run on the storage system’s clients. This
guide does not discuss basic system or network administration topics, such as IP
addressing, routing, and network topology; it emphasizes the characteristics of
the gateway.
Relationship of this
guide to other
guides This guide is intended to be used in conjunction with other information in the
gateway and Data ONTAP libraries. The following table describes the
relationships between this guide and other documentation.