Planning for NetApp device support
NetApp devices provide unified storage for organizations with network-attached storage or storage area network environments that have file and block-level services. Plan for how to use IBM Storage Insights to monitor your NetApp storage systems.
To view the versions of NetApp storage
systems that are supported in IBM Storage
Insights, go to the 
NetApp support page.
Benefits
- View detailed information about capacity, storage usage, and performance.
- Monitor health, status, and availability.
- Use alerts and alert policies to be notified of conditions and potential problems.
- Use advanced analytics to reclaim storage.
- Create and share reports about inventory, capacity, performance, and storage consumption.
Device configuration for NetApp storage systems running ONTAP 9
You can add a NetApp storage system running ONTAP 9 to IBM Storage Insights as either a block or file storage system to view all of the block and file data on the system. When you add a NetApp ONTAP 9 device, IBM Storage Insights collects data by connecting directly to the storage system.
Supported features
View a detailed list of the features in IBM Storage Insights that you can use to monitor NetApp ONTAP 9 storage systems:
| Resource Monitoring | Features | Supported |
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| Understanding the environment | Monitor storage inventory and configuration. Includes information about type, model, serial number, and firmware. |  |
| Understand storage relationships, from volume and share down to server and application. | |
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| Explore virtualization relationships. | ||
| Explore replication relationships. | |
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| View dashboards to get insights into key aspects of your storage at a glance and one-click access to web-based element managers. | |
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| Support for multiple protocols and storage types, such as FC, NVMe, CIFS, and NFS. | |
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| Monitoring capacity | Collect storage consumption and capacity metrics. | |
| View data reduction information. | |
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| View copy data information. | |
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| View internal storage tiers such as Easy Tier®. | |
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| Monitor the storage consumed by applications. | |
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| Monitoring performance | Collect performance metrics about the workload on resources. | |
| View calculated metrics to gain insights into performance conditions. | |
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| Export performance data to a compressed file. | |
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| Drill down performance workflows to troubleshoot bottlenecks. | |
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| Compare the performance of resources. | |
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| Monitoring health | Understand the health of resources. | |
| Receive notifications when the status of a resource changes. | |
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| View the status of elements that are not represented as resources. | |
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| Alerting | Alert on conditions within your storage environment. | |
| Define alerts to identify issues based on multiple conditions. | |
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| Define alert policies to be notified of changes across related resources. | |
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| Reporting | View predefined reports. | |
| View chargeback and consumer reports. | |
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| Create custom reports by using the REST API. | |
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| Create rollup reports to view information across multiple servers. | |
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| Analytics | Performance planning | |
| Capacity planning | |
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| Business impact analysis (applications, departments, and groups) | |
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| Optimize data placement with tiering | ||
| Optimize capacity with reclamation. | |
- In replication relationships, any snapshot volumes in either source or target storage systems that are not assigned to a host, are not stored in IBM Storage Insights. The volumes are listed in the Copy Data page but do not have hyperlinks.
- Although you can view the remote and FlashCopy® relationships for NetApp storage systems, the data is not correlated.
- NetApp doesn't provide performance data for any volumes that don't have host connections. Because of this, the number of volumes on the Volumes Performance page might not match the number of volumes on the Volumes page.
- NetApp doesn't provide performance data for any drives that don't have RAID arrays. Because of this, the number of drives on the Drives Performance page might not match the number of drives on the Drives page.
Metadata collection schedule
By default, asset, capacity, and configuration metadata is aggregated and collected daily. You can schedule daily capacity and inventory reports to gain insights about your NetApp storage systems.
For NetApp storage systems, the collection intervals for performance metadata are 5 minutes and 60 minutes. The default interval is 5 minutes.
What's next
Before you can monitor, alert, and report on your NetApp storage systems, you must add them to IBM Storage Insights.
For instructions on how to add storage systems for monitoring, see Adding storage systems.