Netapp™ Test Plan For Affinity: Ver. 20 Amit Biswas Netapp
Netapp™ Test Plan For Affinity: Ver. 20 Amit Biswas Netapp
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Index
1.1 Introduction
NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that help accelerate business breakthroughs
and deliver outstanding cost efficiency. Our dedication to principles of simplicity, innovation, and customer success
has made us one of the fastest-growing storage and data management providers today.
Customers around the world choose us for our go beyond approach and broad portfolio of solutions for business
applications, storage for virtual servers, disk-to-disk backup, and more. Our solutions provide nonstop availability of
critical business data and simplify business processes so you can deploy new capabilities with confidence and get
to revenue faster than ever before. You can rely on our industry-leading solutions to lower the cost of protecting
your data, business, and reputation.
We bring together the industrys best partners and technology to deliver services that help you maximize what you
are getting from your infrastructure. Our collaborative approach, working as one team with one goal, means that
you get a solution that is just right for youon time and on budget. To support your global business, we provide
highly-responsive support in local languages. From London to Austin, from Bangalore to Tokyo, well work with you
to solve your problems and help you reach your goals.
Discover our passion for helping companies around the world go further, faster at www.netapp.com.
Affinity(at Hinjewadi) has agreed to evaluate and test a NetApp solution applicable to the PLM Environment. The
details of the NetApp solution, the testing procedure agreed upon, and the timelines for the procedure form the
core of this document.
1.2 Objectives
Affinity associated business issue may be summarized thusly:
1.
2.
3.
4.
At a high level, the objectives of this evaluation and test are as follows:
Verify that the NetApp solution will meet or exceed Affinity requirements for a solution to the business
issue outlined above.
Demonstrate the advantages of the NetApp proposed solution with regards to disaster recovery, reliability,
and resilience to component failure.
Show that performance of the proposed solution meets or exceeds that required by Affinity.
Define and test relevant scalability and availability metrics for this evaluation.
NetApp
Signature
Measurement
Time Frame
Customer
Signature
1.4 Prerequisites
In order for Affinityto evaluate and test the NetApp solution, certain tasks must be completed prior to the beginning
of the tests. These may be divided as follows:
NetApp
Affinity
1.5 Contacts
The evaluation of the NetApp solution is assumed to be a joint process undertaken and supported by both NetApp
and representatives of Affinity. In particular, on-site and dedicated resources from both parties are vital to the
success of the endeavour. The Personnel below are assigned to the task(s) discussed above. Leads should be
involved in the scheduling and the tracking of all evaluation and test items, and should consistently steer the
accomplishment of all tests toward the Success Criteria mutually agreed upon above.
NetApp Contacts
Title
NetApp
Solution
Consultan
t
Name
Amit
Biswas
Address
Pune
Phone
Cell
9921119995
Email/pager
[email protected]
m
Signature
Signature
AffinityContacts
Title
Customer
Technical
Name
Address
Phone
Cell
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none
NFS, CIFS, iSCSI and FCP protocol licenses
Deduplication License
Cluster license
SnapRestore license
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2.1
The tests in this section are designed to show the resilience of the hardware platform to typical events. Unplanned
interruption of power can cause more downtime to users than a simple planned shutdown.
Task
#
Task
2.1.1
2.1.2
2.1.3
2.1.4
2.1.5
2.1.6
2.1.7
2.1.8
2.1.9
2.1.1
0
2.1.1
1
2.1.1
2
Date or
Time
Assignee
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2.1.14
Utilize Non-Disruptive
Upgrade (NDU)
procedures.
* Note: Cutting the power off at the wall plug/switch is an important test. Because some devices feature soft
power buttons which shut down the system in an orderly manner (de-staging cache, e.g.) and lastly signal the
power supply to cut power to the hardware, simply hitting a button on the front of the unit switches is not an
adequate simulation of power failure. Pull the plug or cut the AC current suddenly (for example, at a breaker)
instead.
2.2
These tests are intended to show the level of integration with a standard UNIX environment:
Task
#
2.3.1
2.3.2
2.3.3
2.3
Task
Date
or
Time
Assignee
Notes
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/ Fail
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Change /etc/exports on
the controller or use FilerView.
These tests are intended to show the level of integration with a standard Windows/CIFS environment. Please
consult the Windows File Services Best Practices with NetApp Storage Systems Technical Report found at
http://media.netapp.com/documents/tr-3771.pdf in order to configure and setup CIFS filesystems on your NetApp
FAS system.
Task
#
2.4.1
2.4.2
2.4.3
2.4.4
2.4.5
Task
Date or
Time
Assigne
e
Notes
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s/
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2.5.2
2.5.3
2.5.4
2.5.5
2.5.6
2.5.7
Task
Date or
Time
Assigne
e
Notes
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/ Fail
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2.6.2
2.6.3
2.6.4
Task
Date or
Time
Assigne
e
Notes
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2.8.2
2.8.3
2.8.4
2.8.5
2.8.6
2.8.7
2.8.8
2.8.9
Task
Create a Snapshot
schedule to automatically
create Snapshots at regular
periods during the day.
Create a Snapshot. Time
how long this takes and
how long before you are
able to recover a deleted
file.
Update file from the
Snapshot version
(copy/paste).
Open a file in a Snapshot
and take another Snapshot
while opened.
Recover large deleted file
from Snapshot Hourly.0.
Take a new Snapshot
during that file recovery.
Configure Snapshot share
to allow administrator file
restores when Snapshots
are not visible to users
Change Snapshot reserve
to make more space for
new Snapshots. Ensure
that this is dynamic and that
old Snapshots are retained.
Simulate recovering a
whole filesystem/volume:
Configure a large
filesystem (100GB+).
Copy in data until the
filesystem is approx.
80% full.
Take a Snapshot.
Over-write at least 10%
of the data.
Recover to the previous
filesystem state using
SnapRestore.
Restrict access to Snapshot
Date
or
Time
Assignee
Notes
Utilize the snap sched
command or the SnapShot
GUI in FilerView.
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/ Fail
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2.9.2
2.9.3
2.9.4
2.9.5
2.9.6
2.9.7
2.9.8
2.9.9
2.9.10
Task
Assure Data ONTAP
version compliance
(7.2.4P6 and later).
Assure nearstore and asis
licenses are installed on all
controllers.
Create FlexVol.
Enable deduplication on
FlexVol.
Populate the FlexVol with
data to be deduplicated.
(10-80% of the FlexVol size
to see results). Note the
size of the FlexVol (dfs
or equivalent).
Perform initial scan.
Monitor the status of the
deduplication while running.
When complete, check the
space savings and
compare with previous
values.
Schedule deduplication
runs.
Date
or
Time
Assignee
Notes
sisstart<volname>
sisstatus<volname>
sisconfigs
<volname>
or sishelpconfig
to set up individual schedules
Change FlexVol contents
between successive
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/ Fail
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2.9.12
Show reversal
(undeduplication) of a
previously-deduplicated
FlexVol.
When complete, check the
space inflation and
compare with previous
values.
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