topic Re: dNFS and NetApp cluster in ONTAP Discussions

dNFS and NetApp cluster

heightsnj — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 11:17:09 GMT

My understanding is, we should set up one LIF on one node, and bound all LIF's ( assume you have 8 nodes, then there would be 8 LIF's) into the group, to achieve the load balance.

Can all 8 LIF's write/read data from the same volume? If yes, only one LIF is direct access, or the other is indirect. Correct?

Re: dNFS and NetApp cluster

TMACMD — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 22:30:37 GMT

If you mean dNFS in the sense from Oracle, then, yes, create at least one LIF per node per SVM.

Let Oracle dNFS know about all the LIFS.

Oracle will distribute across all the LIFs as it sees fit.

Re: dNFS and NetApp cluster

NetApp_SR — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 09:58:18 GMT

The LIFs on nodes that do not hold the volume will be indirect access. Please review the below links. They will be helpful with the setup.

Best Practices to configure a dNFS client
https://kb.netapp.com/app/answers/answer_view/a_id/1001816

Oracle Databases on ONTAP
https://www.netapp.com/us/media/tr-3633.pdf

Re: dNFS and NetApp cluster

paul_stejskal — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 16:08:00 GMT

It sounds like this may be an initial setup question (even if an existing install). It may not hurt to talk to your account team about best practices as they can bring in some resources who are familiar with setting up Oracle so you get the best performance for your system.