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V-filer Administration

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Why V-filer?

MultiStore enables you to partition the storage andnetwork resources of a single storage system so thatit appears as multiple storage systems on thenetwork. MultiStore is optional software that isavailable by license with Data ONTAP.

Each storage system created as a result of thepartitioning is called a vFiler unit. A vFiler unit, usingthe resources assigned, delivers file services to itsclients 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 andnetwork resources used by the vFiler units exist onthe hosting storage system.

The storage resource assigned to a vFiler unit can beone or more qtrees or volumes. The network resourceassigned can be one or more base IP addresses or IPaliases associated with network interfaces. You can

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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 oftheir customers. You can reduce management costs while offeringindependent, domain-specific storage management.

Security

Security is one of the key concerns when storage is consolidated either withinan organization or by an application service provider. Using vFiler unitsenables you to have different security domains within the same storagesystem.

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 storagesystem.

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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

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Adding/Removing Resources to V-

Filer

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Running commands on v-filer

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Destroying the v-filer

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Vfiler can be managed from Filerview

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Reference Guide

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