NetApp Element Software User Guide Version 11.0 November 2018 | 215-13623_A0 [email protected] Table of Contents | 3 Contents About this guide ............................................................................................ 8 SolidFire storage system .............................................................................. 9 Clusters ........................................................................................................................ 9 Nodes ........................................................................................................................... 9 Storage nodes .................................................................................................. 9 Fibre Channel nodes ...................................................................................... 10 Drives ............................................................................................................ 10 Networking ................................................................................................................ 11 Switch configuration for clusters running Element software ........................ 11 Network port requirements ............................................................................ 11 System setup ................................................................................................ 15 Installing a management node ................................................................................... 15 Setting up the connection.json file for Active IQ ...................................................... 16 Help options for the manage-collector.py utility ........................................... 17 Configuring a storage node ....................................................................................... 18 Configuring the node using the node UI ....................................................... 19 Configuring the node using the TUI .............................................................. 20 Configuring iDRAC on each new node ......................................................... 20 Configuring a Fibre Channel node ............................................................................ 20 Creating a new cluster ............................................................................................... 21 Adding drives to a cluster .......................................................................................... 22 Changing the Element software default SSL certificate ........................................... 23 Using the Element software web UI .......................................................... 24 Using filters ............................................................................................................... 24 Sorting lists ................................................................................................................ 25 Using the API log ...................................................................................................... 25 Element UI and cluster load .......................................................................... 26 Icons in the Element UI ............................................................................................. 26 Providing feedback .................................................................................................... 27 System management ................................................................................... 28 Managing cluster administrator users ....................................................................... 28 Storage cluster user types .............................................................................. 28 Cluster Admins details .................................................................................. 29 Creating a cluster administrator account ....................................................... 29 Editing cluster administrator permissions ..................................................... 30 Deleting a cluster administrator account ....................................................... 31 Changing passwords for cluster administrator accounts ............................... 31 Managing LDAP ........................................................................................... 31 Configuring cluster settings ...................................................................................... 33 Setting cluster full threshold ......................................................................... 33 Enabling and disabling support access .......................................................... 34 4 | NetApp Element Software User Guide Encryption at rest .......................................................................................... 34 Enabling and disabling encryption for a cluster ............................................ 34 Managing Terms of Use ................................................................................ 35 Network time protocol .................................................................................. 36 Enabling a broadcast client ........................................................................... 36 Managing SNMP ........................................................................................... 36 Managing drives ............................................................................................ 39 Managing nodes ............................................................................................ 40 Viewing Fibre Channel ports details ............................................................. 43 Fibre Channel ports details ............................................................................ 43 Managing virtual networks ............................................................................ 44 Upgrading storage nodes ........................................................................................... 47 Installing management node software ........................................................... 47 Using HealthTools for software upgrades ..................................................... 48 Upgrading Element software ......................................................................... 52 Upgrading Element software on dark sites ................................................... 55 Data management ....................................................................................... 57 Working with accounts .............................................................................................. 57 Creating an account ....................................................................................... 57 Account details .............................................................................................. 58 Viewing individual account details ............................................................... 58 Editing an account ......................................................................................... 58 Deleting an account ....................................................................................... 59 Working with volumes .............................................................................................. 59 Quality of Service .......................................................................................... 60 QoS policies .................................................................................................. 62 Creating a volume ......................................................................................... 64 Volume details ............................................................................................... 64 Viewing individual volume performance details ........................................... 65 Editing active volumes .................................................................................. 66 Deleting a volume ......................................................................................... 67 Restoring a deleted volume ........................................................................... 68 Purging a volume ........................................................................................... 68 Cloning a volume .......................................................................................... 68 Assigning LUNs to Fibre Channel volumes ................................................. 70 Applying a QoS policy to volumes ............................................................... 70 Removing the QoS policy association of a volume ....................................... 70 Working with virtual volumes ................................................................................... 71 Enabling virtual volumes .............................................................................. 71 Viewing virtual volume details ...................................................................... 73 Virtual volume details ................................................................................... 73 Individual virtual volume details ................................................................... 74 Deleting a virtual volume .............................................................................. 75 Storage containers ......................................................................................... 76 Protocol endpoints ......................................................................................... 78 Table of Contents | 5 Bindings .......................................................................................................