Q. What is bsas disk?
BSAS stands for Bridged SAS. When you see that on a NetApp system it means you have SATA disks in a SAS enclosure. Based on current product offerings this would be a DS4243 disk shelf.
Q. What is NetApp disk?
Aggregates are containers for the disks managed by a node. You can use aggregates to isolate workloads with different performance demands, to tier data with different access patterns, or to segregate data for regulatory purposes.
Q. What is NL disk?
You see, NL-SAS is basically a merging of a SATA disk with a SAS connector. From Wikipedia: “NL-SAS drives are enterprise SATA drives with a SAS interface, head, media, and rotational speed of traditional enterprise-class SATA drives with the fully capable SAS interface typical for classic SAS drives.”
Q. What kind of disk is on an ONTAP disk?
Each Data ONTAP disk is mapped to a unique VM disk file. Type of the disk backing store. It can be a VMFS volume, a directory on network-attached storage, or a local file system path. Size of the disk backing store. Full path to the backing store for network-attached storage.
Q. How is a virtual disk named in NetApp?
Virtual disks are named in the form . , where prefix is the storage array’s prefix and number is a unique ascending number. Disks that are not attached to a switch are named in the form : . .
Q. What do I need to know about Data ONTAP?
Omitted if value is unknown. Displays information about Data ONTAP virtual disks, their mapped datastores and their specific backing device attributes, such as: disk or LUN, adapter and initiator details (if applicable). Disk name. Name of the node. Data ONTAP-supplied serial number of the system disk.
Q. What does storage aggregate show-spare-disks do?
Description The command storage aggregate show-spare-disksdisplays information about spare disks. The command output depends on the parameter or parameters specified with the command. If no parameters are specified, the command displays information about all spare disks in the cluster.
