Thursday, June 28, 2018

NetApp - FlexVol

Flex Volumes

  1. data volumes
  2. basic building block of data management
  3. snapshots are taken at volume level
  4. specific to a data SVM

CLI commands

mounting on client
  • mkdir /mnt/vol1
  • mount -t nfs <netappinterface>:/vol1 /mnt/vol1
Creating volume



  • volume create -vserver demo -volume vol10 -aggregate aggr4 -size 50MB
  • volume mount -vserver demo -volume vol10 -junction-path /vol4
  • volume modify -vserver demo -volume vol10 -policy default

  • volume create -vserver demo -volume vol50 -aggregate aggr20 -size 500MB -policy default -junction-path /vol50  --> all pieces in on command