#SG Newbie Questions

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restive blaze
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Quick question. Is there still a need to use Tenant Manager URL these days for SG or can pretty much the creation of a tenant, ILM policy, bucket, etc all be created from within the SG management node in version 11.6 or 11.7?

Meaning, if you had a new customer and you needed soup to nuts, create a tenant, bucket and ILM policy and this all be done from SG Manager? As I'm typing I'm thing the creation of bucket maybe need s to be done from the Tenant Manager URL.

Does anyone know of at the moment any good free training that goes over the Administration, setup of SG? Reading a guide without hands-on doesn't do very well for me. Also, since there is no emulator out there like the NetApp NAS nodes it's hard to make things very concrete in my head.

dusty echo
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I believe you need to log into the tenant where you want to create the bucket. There is a "sign in" button for each tenant to quickly access the tenant page.

restive blaze
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Is this "sign in" somewhere on the Gird Manager page?

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Oh, I see the "sign on", nice!

dim horizon
# restive blaze Quick question. Is there still a need to use Tenant Manager URL these days for S...

You create the tenant within SG manager, then you need to login to the tenant to create the bucket. ILM rules are created and administered via SG manager including specific rules for tenants.
The administration documentation I found quite good. My first time installing I built it in a VMware lab, with small storage nodes and using thin provisioning. It allowed me to test single site up to multiple site with virtual routing. During this install I created a whole heap of notes that I could use in the future.
We are running 11.8 and it's awesome, especially the S3 web client.

restive blaze
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@dim horizon Wait, so can you install the VMware based images without a license? If so, I wasn't aware of that and maybe that's the answer to get some hands on for myself.

little cedar
restive blaze
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@little cedar well dang, now I know what will be doing the next few days. Now you still can’t connect them to the NetApp ONTAP emulator can you?

little cedar
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@restive blaze I assume you mean ONTAP Simulator? https://mysupport.netapp.com/site/tools/tool-eula/simulate-ontap/download

Yes, you can configure an Intercluster LIF and use it with FabricPool. Someone asked this on the communities a few years ago: https://community.netapp.com/t5/Simulator-Discussions/Is-netapp-simulator-support-tiering-feature-to-storage-grid/m-p/156165

You could also deploy an ONTAP Select Cluster in Evaluation mode and use that for testing. But bear in mind the ONTAP Select Evaluation License is valid for 90 days after which the cluster shuts down.

restive blaze
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@little cedar Man, great stuff I appreciate it, now I can really do some testing. Thanks!

restive blaze
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@little cedar Can you run multiple 2-node clusters on the same ESXI server or will you have an issue with the serial numbers you apply, since there are really only 2? I guess the other option is 2 single node clusters as well, if you want to test SVM/Cluster peering -OR- if you simply place them on different subnet will that bypass the serial number problem -OR just put the other 2-node cluster on a differnt host but the same subnet?

little cedar
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Yeah you can run multiple 2-node clusters, I've done that before in some of my labs. They work just fine. You can snapmirror between the clusters, I've never had issues with that. Whether they're on the same ESXi or separate hosts doesn't matter as the ONTAP Simulator isn't aware of which host it is running on.

restive blaze
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@little cedar Thanks