2012-09-17 07:47 AM - edited 2015-12-18 01:17 AM
Hello NetApp Community,
I've attached an illustration of the hierarchy of the NetApp "storage fragmentation" which I made for the intern usage in my company. Now I want to know three things of which I am not really sure about:
3. On which position in the illustration can I put a VServer and what is the VServer for? I've read the following about VServers:
I hope you can throw light on these topics for me.
Thank you in advance!
Greetings,
Christoph Ulrich
2012-09-17 08:09 AM
Hi Christoph and welcome to the Community!
Qtrees are basically folders/subdirectories within a NetApp volume - you can share a qtree, instead of a whole volume. You can also apply quotas to qtrees
You can also put a LUN inside a qtree, but it doesn't make much practical difference - unless you use SnapVault and/or Qtree SnapMirror replication.
VServer is specific to Cluster-Mode only (there is similar thing called vFiler in 7-Mide) & it is a sort of a virtual filer - you can do logical separation of your resources using it.
Regards,
Radek