NetApp EF Series - Table 6) EF570 Standard Features that Are Included with Santricity 11.50.X

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Introduction to NetApp EF570 All-Flash Arrays:
Feature Overview with SANtricity 11.50.2
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EF570 Reliability Features with SANtricity 11.50.x
before the drive fails. If the drive fails, rebuild resumes where the evacuator was disrupted, reducing the
rebuild time.
Automatic drive fault detection, failover, and rebuild by using global hot spare drives for standard RAID
and spare pool capacity in the case of DDP.
SSD wear-life tracking and reporting. This metric is found in the Hardware tab’s Drive Settings dialog box.
It indicates the wear life of SSDs and replaces two SSD wear-life metrics (average erase count and spare
blocks remaining) that were in previous versions of SANtricity. The metric is Percent Endurance Used; to
access it, select a drive from the hardware view and then select Settings.
Online drive firmware upgrade. This feature upgrades one drive at a time and tracks writes to the affected
drives during the upgrade window; it should be used only during low write I/O periods.
Note: Parallel drive firmware upgrades are supported offline to upgrade multiple drives more quickly during a
maintenance window.
Automatic load balancing. This feature provides automated I/O workload balancing and confirms that
incoming I/O traffic from hosts is dynamically managed and balanced across both controllers. The workload
of each controller is continually monitored and analyzed in the background. When I/O on one controller
significantly exceeds the I/O on the other controller for a prolonged and predictable period, SANtricity can
change LUN ownership from the busy controller to the less busy controller. The feature does not react to
short-term changes in I/O patterns. However, when a change of ownership is needed, SANtricity interacts
with the affected host multipath driver to initiate an implicit path failover. Most current server operating
systems and associated multipath drivers support implicit failover. For more information, search for “What is
automatic load balancing?” in the System Manager online help.
Embedded SNMP agent. For the EF570 controller, SNMP is supported natively. The embedded SNMP
agent complies with the SNMP V2C standard and RFC 1213 (MIB-II). For more information, search for
“manage SNMP alerts” in the System Manager online help.
Automatic alerts. This feature sends email alerts to notify data center support staff about events on the
storage array.
Event monitor and system log. The SANtricity event monitor automatically records events that occur on the
storage array. Syslog enables a second level of activity tracking that allows you to connect events with
associated changes recorded in the system log.
AutoSupport. E-Series products have supported AutoSupport for several releases.
Ability to enable or disable AutoSupport maintenance window. AutoSupport includes an option for
enabling or suppressing automatic ticket creation on error events. Under normal operation mode, the storage
array uses AutoSupport to open a support case if there is an issue. To enable or disable the AutoSupport
maintenance window, select Support > Access Management > AutoSupport.
SANtricity Data Management Features
E-Series EF570 systems ship with significant storage management features that can be activated from
SANtricity System Manager. Table 6 lists the EF570 features that are standard with SANtricity 11.50.x.
Table 6) EF570 standard features that are included with SANtricity 11.50.x.
EF570 Data Management Features with SANtricity 11.50.x
SANtricity System Manager (embedded single-array management). The browser-based, on-box
SANtricity System Manager is used to manage individual EF570/E5700 and EF280/E2800 storage arrays.
• Access all array setup, storage provisioning, and array monitoring features from one UI.