Showing posts with label netapp. Show all posts
Showing posts with label netapp. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

ESXi Advanced Settings for NetApp NFS

Here are NetApp 
Net.TcpipHeapSize=30
Net.TcpipHeapMax=120
NFS.MaxVolumes=64
NFS.HeartbeatMaxFailures=10
NFS.HeartbeatFrequency=12
NFS.HeartbeatTimeout=5

Enabled SIOC or if you don't have Entrprise+ license set NFS.MaxQueueDepth=64, 32 or 16 based on storage workload and utilization

Friday, November 05, 2010

NetApp multitenancy

NetApp’s MultiStore functionality allows storage partitioning for multiple tenants.

It supporst up to 130 vFiler instances (128 vFilers plus 2 vFiler0 instances) but only for NFS, CIFS, iSCSI, HTTP, and NDMP. Fibre Channel is not supported. You can only use Fibre Channel with vFiler0.

More info:
http://blog.scottlowe.org/2009/04/08/3010-a-multistore-primer/