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Also see for N Series: Hardware guideImplementation guideInstallation and configuration instructionsSetup and configuration guideInstallation guide

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Contents
  1. front cover
  2. Table Of Contents
  3. Table Of Contents
  4. Table Of Contents
  5. Table Of Contents
  6. Table Of Contents
  7. Table Of Contents
  8. Table Of Contents
  9. Chapter 1. Introduction to IBM System Storage N series
  10. Overview
  11. IBM System Storage N series hardware
  12. Software licensing structure
  13. Entry-level
  14. Data ONTAP 8 supported systems
  15. Chapter 2. Entry-level systems
  16. N3220
  17. N3220 hardware
  18. N3240
  19. N32x0 common information
  20. N3400
  21. N3000 technical specifications at a glance
  22. Chapter 3. Mid-range systems
  23. Common features
  24. Hardware summary
  25. Hardware
  26. IBM N62x0 MetroCluster / gateway models
  27. IBM N62x0 series technical specifications
  28. N62x0 technical specifications at a glance
  29. Chapter 4. High-end systems
  30. Base components
  31. IBM N series N7950T slot configuration rules
  32. N7950T cooling architecture
  33. N7950T guidelines
  34. N7950T SFP+ modules
  35. Chapter 5. Expansion units
  36. Shelf technology overview
  37. Supported EXN3000 drives
  38. Intermix support
  39. Supported EXN3500 drives
  40. Supported EXN4000 drives
  41. Environmental and technical specification
  42. Effect of self-encryption on Data ONTAP features
  43. Chapter 6. Cabling expansions
  44. EXN3000 and EXN3500 disk shelves cabling
  45. SAS shelf interconnects
  46. Top connections
  47. Bottom connections
  48. Connecting the optional ACP cables
  49. EXN4000 disk shelves cabling
  50. Multipath Fibre Channel cabling
  51. Multipath High-Availability cabling
  52. Chapter 7. Highly Available controller pairs
  53. HA pair overview
  54. Characteristics of nodes in an HA pair
  55. Preferred practices for deploying an HA pair
  56. Comparison of HA pair types
  57. HA pair types and requirements
  58. Mirrored HA pairs
  59. Stretched MetroCluster
  60. Fabric-attached MetroCluster
  61. Configuring the HA pair
  62. Configuration variations for standard HA pair configurations
  63. Enabling licenses on the HA pair configuration
  64. Configuring Interface Groups (VIFs)
  65. Setting options and parameters
  66. Testing takeover and giveback
  67. Eliminating single points of failure with HA pair configurations
  68. Managing an HA pair configuration
  69. Halting a node without takeover
  70. Basic HA pair configuration management
  71. HA pair configuration failover basic operations
  72. Chapter 8. MetroCluster
  73. Overview of MetroCluster
  74. Business continuity solutions
  75. Planning Stretch MetroCluster configurations
  76. Cabling Stretch MetroClusters
  77. Fabric Attached MetroCluster
  78. Planning Fabric MetroCluster configurations
  79. Cabling Fabric MetroClusters
  80. Synchronous mirroring with SyncMirror
  81. SyncMirror without MetroCluster
  82. MetroCluster zoning and TI zones
  83. Failure scenarios
  84. MetroCluster host failure
  85. MetroCluster interconnect failure
  86. MetroCluster site failure
  87. MetroCluster site recovery
  88. Chapter 9. FibreBridge 6500N
  89. Description
  90. Administration and management
  91. Background
  92. Chapter 10. Data protection with RAID Double Parity
  93. Advantages of RAID-DP data protection
  94. RAID-DP overview
  95. RAID-DP and double parity
  96. RAID 4 horizontal row parity
  97. Adding RAID-DP double-parity stripes
  98. RAID-DP reconstruction
  99. Protection levels with RAID-DP
  100. Hot spare disks
  101. Chapter 11. Core technologies
  102. Write Anywhere File Layout (WALF)
  103. Disk structure
  104. NVRAM and system memory
  105. Intelligent caching of write requests
  106. NVRAM operation
  107. N series read caching techniques
  108. Introduction of read caching
  109. Chapter 12. Flash Cache
  110. About Flash Cache
  111. Data ONTAP disk read operation
  112. Saving useful data in Flash Cache
  113. Reading data from Flash Cache
  114. Chapter 13. Disk sanitization
  115. Data ONTAP disk sanitization
  116. Technology drivers
  117. Data ONTAP sanitization operation
  118. Disk Sanitization with encrypted disks
  119. Chapter 14. Designing an N series solution
  120. Primary issues that affect planning
  121. Capacity requirements
  122. Other effects of Snapshot
  123. Processor utilization
  124. Application considerations
  125. Backup servers
  126. Resiliency to failure
  127. Summary
  128. Chapter 15. Preparation and installation
  129. Installation prerequisites
  130. Configuration worksheet
  131. Initial hardware setup
  132. Troubleshooting if the system does not boot
  133. Chapter 16. Basic N series administration
  134. Administration methods
  135. N series System Manager
  136. Starting the IBM System Storage N series storage system
  137. Rebooting the system
  138. Chapter 17. Host Utilities Kits
  139. What Host Utilities Kits are
  140. Functions provided by Host Utilities
  141. Preparation
  142. Running the Host Utilities installation program
  143. Host configuration settings
  144. Overview of settings used by the Host Utilities
  145. Setting up LUNs
  146. About mapping LUNs for Windows clusters
  147. Chapter 18. Boot from SAN
  148. Configure SAN boot for IBM System x servers
  149. Preferred practices
  150. Basics of the boot process
  151. Configuring SAN booting before installing Windows or Linux systems
  152. Windows 2003 Enterprise SP2 installation
  153. Windows 2008 Enterprise installation
  154. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 installation
  155. red hat enterprise linux
  156. Boot from SAN and other protocols
  157. Chapter 19. Host multipathing
  158. Multipathing software options
  159. Native multipathing solution
  160. Part 4. Performing upgrades
  161. System NDU
  162. System NDU hardware requirements
  163. Prerequisites for a system NDU
  164. Steps for major version upgrades NDU in NAS and SAN environments
  165. System commands compatibility
  166. Upgrading the shelf firmware
  167. Upgrading the AT-FCX shelf firmware during system reboot
  168. Upgrading the disk firmware non-disruptively
  169. ACP firmware NDU
  170. RLM firmware NDU
  171. Chapter 21. Hardware and software upgrades
  172. Hardware upgrades
  173. Upgrading a storage controller head
  174. Upgrading to Data ONTAP 7.3
  175. Upgrading to Data ONTAP 8.1
  176. Part 5. Appendixes
  177. getting started
  178. Preinstallation planning
  179. Start with the hardware
  180. Power on N series
  181. Data ONTAP update
  182. Obtaining the Data ONTAP software from the IBM NAS website
  183. Installing Data ONTAP system files
  184. Downloading Data ONTAP to the storage system
  185. Setting up the network using console
  186. Changing the IP address
  187. Setting up the DNS
  188. operating environment
  189. N3000 entry-level systems
  190. Appendix B. Operating environment
  191. N6000 mid-range systems
  192. N6240
  193. N6270
  194. N7950T
  195. EXN3000
  196. EXN4000
  197. N series to NetApp model reference
  198. Related publications
  199. Other publications
  200. Index
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