ONTAP Design and Implementation: Documentation Headings

** This is intended to be continual work in-progress! **

I'm often writing NetApp ONTAP Design and Implementation / Low-Level-Design documentation. The following post lists out common documentation headings. The headings and sub-headings are partly based on NetAppDocs outputs (which are very useful post implementation to capture the "as-built" configuration.)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Overview
  • General Information
    • Hardware
    • Software
  • Rack Elevation / Configuration Diagrams
  • Networking Requirements
  • Cluster Base Build Information
    • Cluster & Node Naming
    • Cluster & Node IP Configuration
    • AutoSupport Configuration
  • Storage Layout
    • Aggregates
    • Aggregate Encryption (NAE)
    • Fabric Pool Configuration
  • Network Configuration (Physical/Cluster)
    • IFGRPs
    • VLANs
    • Network IPspaces
    • Network Port Broadcast Domains
    • Intercluster LIFs
  • SVM Configuration
    • Storage Virtual Machines (SVMs)
    • SVM Host-Name Resolution
    • SVM Name Services
    • Logical Interfaces (LIFs)
    • Network Routes
    • Protocol Configuration (NAS)
    • Protocol Configuration (SAN)
  • SVM Storage Configuration
    • Volumes (FlexVols)
    • FlexGroups
    • Qtrees
    • LUNs
  • Storage Efficiency And Space Management
    • Storage Efficiency
    • Space Management
  • Job Schedules and Policies
    • Job Schedules
    • Policies
  • Storage QoS
    • Policy Groups
    • Workloads
  • Data Protection
    • Cluster Peer Relationships
    • SVM Peer Relationships
    • SnapMirror
    • SVM Disaster Recovery
    • NDMP
  • Appendices
    • References
  • Document Control
    • Version Control
    • Contact Information
  • Copyright, Confidentiality and Disclaimer

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