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Understanding Storage Manager

Storage Manager is a graphical management interface that enables you to manage storage systems and storage objects (such as disks, volumes, and aggregates) and perform common management tasks related to storage systems from a web browser. As a cluster administrator, you can use Storage Manager to administer the entire cluster and its resources.

Storage Manager enables you to perform many common tasks such as the following:

  • Create a cluster, configure a network, and set up support details for the cluster.

  • Configure and manage storage objects such as disks, aggregates, volumes, qtrees, and quotas.

  • Configure protocols such as CIFS and NFS, and provision file sharing.

  • Configure protocols such as FC, FCoE, NVMe, and iSCSI for block access.

  • Create and configure network components such as subnets, broadcast domains, data and management interfaces, and interface groups.

  • Set up and manage mirroring and vaulting relationships.

  • Perform cluster management, storage node management, and storage virtual machine (SVM) management operations.

  • Create and configure SVMs, manage storage objects associated with SVMs, and manage SVM services.

  • Monitor and manage HA configurations in a cluster.

  • Configure Service Processors to remotely log in, manage, monitor, and administer the node, regardless of the state of the node.

  • Create S3 Object Store bucket