Access FSx NetApp ONTAP Filesystem on Linux and Windows
What is FSx for NetApp ONTAP (FSxN)¶
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is a fully managed shared storage built on NetApp’s popular ONTAP filesystem.
How to configure FSxN for SOCA¶
By default, SOCA automatically creates two FSxN (/apps & /data) and will configure both Linux and Windows CIFS shares. Additionally, SOCA takes care of configuring NetApp name-mappings and all relevant ACLs.
If you want to change the default settings, edit installer/default_config.yml before installing your SOCA environment and review storage.apps and storage.data sections if you want to customize the storage engine used for both partitions.
Access your data from Windows and Linux¶
One key benefit of this filesystem is the ability for both Windows and Linux clients to access it. Data created on Linux are instantly and automatically visible on Windows, and vice-versa.
SOCA automatically enforces files/folder permissions via NetApp name-mappings. In other words, the UNIX ACL are preserved (e.g: you will not be able to access a file/folder you don't have permission to, whether you are trying to access it from Linux or Windows)
On-Premise NetApp ONTAP
You can mount an on-premise NetApp ONTAP filesystem (or an existing FSxN created outside of SOCA) using SOCA Shared Storage module
Linux¶
Your /apps & /data partitions are automatically mounted. Refer to SOCA Shared Storage module if you want to import and existing NetApp ONTAP filesystem.
No extra configuration is needed.
[socaadmin@ip-214-0-222-1 ~]$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /dev
tmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 3.9G 820K 3.9G 1% /run
tmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/nvme0n1p1 40G 4.7G 36G 12% /
svm-067579eabe6ea70d8.fs-037ed7163d14bed28.fsx.us-east-2.amazonaws.com:/data 973G 114G 860G 12% /data
svm-0a70a8292d30d38e7.fs-0a9ae55f26ab6c18b.fsx.us-east-2.amazonaws.com:/apps 973G 121G 852G 13% /apps
tmpfs 783M 72K 783M 1% /run/user/7796
Windows¶
Login to your Windows machine (ex: your SOCA Virtual Desktop), and open the type the following
Option1: Via the File Explorer bar¶
Open your Windows file explorer and enter the following path:
\\socaappssvmif you are planning to access the/appspartition\\socadatasvmif you are planning to access the/datapartition
This will automatically grant you access to the data stored on your filesystem
Option2: Map Network Drive¶
Clik This PC and Map Network Drive
Enter the following path:
\\socaappssvmif you are planning to access the/appspartition\\socadatasvmif you are planning to access the/datapartition
Then click Browse. Select the folder you want to map directly and click Finish
This will mount your FSxN partition on Z drive. You can change the drive letter if needed.
