A friendly NetApp person recently shared this document with me.\u00a0 It basically is a cheat sheet for common ONTAP commands and best practices.\u00a0 (Data ONTAP is NetApp’s operating system for their filers.)<\/p>\n
One of the things I particularly liked was the chart named “Disk right-size and max disk per aggregate matrix” on page 8.\u00a0 This is exactly what we have been struggling with on our new FAS3140’s<\/a>.\u00a0 It’s not clear to me (as a relative NetApp newbie) how many disks to properly build RAID groups and aggregates with.\u00a0 NetApp says that optimal RAID group size uses the least amount of parity drives, has the most data disks, and doesn’t not harm performance by creating short RAID groups.\u00a0 However, they usually don’t come right out and plainly tell you how many disks of what size should make up a RAID group and aggregate.\u00a0 This chart makes it a snap.\u00a0 (Click here or on the image below to go to the PDF…<\/a>)<\/p>\n A friendly NetApp person recently shared this document with me.\u00a0 It basically is a cheat sheet for common ONTAP commands and best practices.\u00a0 (Data ONTAP is NetApp’s operating system for their filers.) One of the things I particularly liked was… Continue Reading ![\"Data](\"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Data-ONTAP-7G-Cook-Book-v3_1_pg1-727x1024.jpg\" "\\"Data")
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