Data ONTAP provides a full suite of system management commands that allows you to monitor storage system activities and performance.
You can use Data ONTAP to perform the following system management tasks:
- Manage network connections
- Manage adapters
- Manage protocols
- Configure pairs of storage systems into active/active pairs for failover
- Configure SharedStorage storage systems into a community
- Manage storage
- Dump data to tape and restore it to the storage system
- Mirror volumes (synchronously and asynchronously)
- Create vFiler units. For information about vFiler units, see the Data ONTAP MultiStore Management Guide
For information about all Data ONTAP commands, see the Data ONTAP Commands: Manual Page Reference, Volume 1 and the Data ONTAP Commands: Manual Page Reference, Volume 2.