Friday 30 September 2011

Operating System (OS)

Operating System:

  • Operating system which controls the hardware and kernel.
  • DATA ONTAP is the operating system for NETAPP.
  • In ontap we have several version like 6.x, 7.x & 8.x
  • Version depends on the Fas model (filer)
  • WAFL is the file system for Ontap OS
  • Operating system is made up of modules. module means it restart the own services with out restart the machine.

Data ONTAP Features

  1. Deduplication and Compression
  2. FilerView® 
  3. Flash Pool 
  4. FlexShare®
  5. FlexVol® 
  6. RAID-DP®
  7. Snapshot™ 
  8. SnapValidator®