Using Active Directory as a Central UNIX Identity Store for NFS with NetApp ONTAP and Linux
In traditional NFS environments, consistent UNIX user and group identities must be available across NFS servers and clients. While these…
Understanding NFSv4 Identity Mapping in NetApp ONTAP (AUTH_SYS and File Ownership Under the Hood)
NFSv4 introduced significant changes compared with NFSv3, including how file and directory ownership is represented between NFS servers and clients….
Understanding Windows-to-UNIX User Mapping with UNIX Security Style in NetApp ONTAP
When Windows users access data stored on a NetApp ONTAP volume using UNIX security style, ONTAP must translate the Windows…
Understanding NFS AUTH_SYS User Mapping with NTFS Security Style in NetApp ONTAP
When NFS clients access data on a NetApp ONTAP volume using NTFS security style, ONTAP cannot simply evaluate the UNIX…
Understanding Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) on Linux – Building an ONC RPC Client and Server and Analyzing the Network Traffic
In my previous article, we explored Microsoft’s implementation of Distributed Computing Environment / Remote Procedure Call (DCE/RPC) by building a…
Mastering Nested Junction Paths: Qtrees and Export Policies in NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP (CVO)
When managing complex enterprise workloads in Azure, a one-size-fits-all approach to storage permissions rarely cuts it. While volumes are the…
Step-by-Step Guide Part 6: How to build your own NetApp ONTAP 9 LAB – NFSv4 Pitfalls
When you switch from NFSv3 to NFSv4, things definitely change under the hood, and suddenly your permissions or ownership mappings…
Step-by-Step Guide Part 5: How to build your own NetApp ONTAP 9 LAB – Root Squashing
If you’ve ever tried as root to chown, chmod, or just create a file on an NFS-mounted share and were…
Step-by-Step Guide Part 4: How to build your own NetApp ONTAP 9 LAB – Day-to-Day Operations
In part 1 we saw how toWe can run the following command to show the currently existing CIFS shares on our SVM. get…
Step-by-Step Guide Part 3: How to build your own NetApp ONTAP 9 LAB – Using NetApp ONTAP as iSCSI Storage for vSphere
In part 1 we saw how to get the ONTAP Simulate appliance and how to deploy it in vSphere. Further we saw the initial…
