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Managing clusters

You can use Storage Manager to manage clusters.

  • Understanding quorum and epsilon
    Quorum and epsilon are important measures of cluster health and function that together indicate how clusters address potential communications and connectivity challenges.
  • Dashboard window
    The Dashboard window contains multiple panels that provide cumulative at-a-glance information about your system and its performance.
  • Insights
    In ONTAP 9.11.1, one of the core new features is to support Insights.
  • Applications
    Currently, you can not provision applications in Storage Manager 9.7 but it will display existing applications that were provisioned previously. It will also display applications provisioned using the CLI.
  • Configuration update
    You can use Storage Manager to configure the administration details of storage virtual machines (SVMs).
  • Service Processors
    You can use a Services Processor to monitor and manage your storage system parameters such as temperature, voltage, current, and fan speeds through Storage Manager.
  • Cluster peers
    Peered clusters are required for data replication using SnapMirror technology and SnapVault technology, and for data replication using FlexCache volumes and SyncMirror technology in MetroCluster configurations. You can use Storage Manager to peer two clusters so that the peered clusters can coordinate and share resources between them.
  • Licenses
    You can use Storage Manager to view, manage, or delete any software licenses installed on a cluster or node.
  • Updating clusters
    You can use Storage Manager to update a cluster or the individual nodes in a high-availability (HA) pair. You can also update a cluster in a MetroCluster configuration.
  • SNMP
    You can use Storage Manager to configure SNMP to monitor SVMs in your cluster.
  • LDAP
    You can use Storage Manager to configure an LDAP server that centrally maintains user information.
  • Users and Roles
    You can use Storage Manager to add, edit, and manage a cluster user account, and specify a login user method to access the storage system.
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