Starting from H-Sphere version 2.3, you can configure your system to work with NetApp Filers. They are not part of H-Sphere system, therefore if you want to use NetApp Filer with H-Sphere, you should first buy and install it directly from www.netapp.com.

NetApp Filers are the building blocks for open storage networks. They allow companies to simplify, share and scale their storage networking and content delivery infrastructures. The instructions given below are necessary for setting quota to a filer. The instruction about installing and configuring a filer itself can be found in the NetApp Documentation.

To configure NetApp Filer, you should do the following:

- on the H-Sphere CP server:

1. set up suidperl
   run rpm -ivh perl-suidperl-5.6.1-34.99.6.i386.rpm
2. set rights for the script fileserver-quota.pl
   run chmod +s fileserver-quota.pl
3. set SUPPORT_NET_APP property in the hsphere.properties file
   SUPPORT_NET_APP=1
4. mount /etc/ directory on the filer in the /hsphere/YOUR_FILERNAME_OR_IP/etc directory on CP server.
   $NA="YOUR_FILER_IP", (e.g: $NA="192.168.1.1")
   mkdir /hsphere/$NA/etc
   mount $NA:/etc/hsphere/$NA/etc
5. In logical web-server properties, set File Server and File Path, where:
   - File Server is a filer name or IP-address and also a qtree-name;
   - File Path is a path to the mounted filer directory.
For example:
file_server=YOUR_FILER_IP:/YOUR_QTREE (e.g: 192.168.1.1:/vol/vol0)
file_server_path=YOUR_FILESERVER_PATH (e.g: file_server_path=/web0.msp0/local)

- in the NetApp console:

• Allow rsh connection for cpanel users and root;
• Add cpanel users and root to the managing NetApp console.