VNX/Celerra Multi path file system (mpfs) allocation.

Procedure might varies (VNX/Celerra)

If we are moving data from NetApp filer to VNX which is dedicated to NFS and CIFS and some of it is accessed by both cifs and nfs users. we may opt to choose mpfs setup on the clients and on VNX. create mpfs volumes share it using cifs and nfs and see the mpfs stats if the data is moving through mpfs. For that to be successful we need to install mpfs client software and need to have the usermappers setup on VNX and start testing from both the clients. Later on we can use emcopy or robocopy to copying data from NetApp to VNX

Step:1 Start MPFS service

server_setup server_2 -P mpfs -option start=32

Step:2 Create a new volume with a 256K stripe per EMC's recommendations

nas_volume -name mpfsvol -create -Stripe 262144 d54,d55,d56,d57,d58,d59,d60,d61

Step:3 Create a new metalvolume for the new volume:

nas_volume -name mpfsmtvol -create -Meta mpfsvol

Step:4 Create a new file system on this metavolume

nas_fs -name mpfs -create mpfsmtvol

Step:5 Create a new mountpoint

server_mountpoint server_2 -create /mpfs

Step:6 Mount file system

server_mount server_2 -option nolock,accesspolicy=NATIVE mpfs /mpfs

Step:7 Create new mountpoint for testing

server_mountpoint server_2 -create /mpfs/test

Step:8 Create CIFS share for this work

server_export server_2 -P cifs -n test$ -o netbios=server1 -comment 'MPFS CIFS Share for test' /mpfs/test

Step:9 Validate

server_mpfs server_2 -mountstatus | grep -i mpfs

server_df server_2 /mpfs

server_mpfs server_2

nas_volume -info mpfsmtvol

Step:10 Make sure system administrators are having MPFS client software installed!

Step:11  Verify stats if data is going through fiber channel interface or via CIFS

mpfsctl stats