In this section, we will learn how to manage the NetApp cluster. We will change the serial, disable and remove snapshots and others:

Now, in order to make some use of our Virtualised storage, we need to add some disks.

Before that however, we need to unlock the diag user. Diag user is a special type of user, used for administrative purposes and the most important thing is that it allows us to enter into the system shell:

Now that we are in the system shell we are ready to create the disks as follows:

• Change the Path
• Create the disks

To add SSD disks, use the same command, just instead of type 23, we will add disks with type: 35

After that, we can safetly reboot the machine. Once the machines boots, we have to fix a common problem with the simulator. The simulator often crashes because of the insufficient space in the root aggregate. So, we have to assign all disks this node and remove & disable the snapshots

In this section we will review general disk management for both: simulator and real environment:

After that we can reboot the server:

Once rebooted, we can assign disk to the root aggregate and increase the space in the volume:

Firstly, we have to add the disk to the volume:

Once we have that we can increase the storage of the volume. Firstly, I will give him bigger number (1G) so I will see with how much I can increase it (in my case 888MB)