Ontapi API Configuration Options

When working with 7-mode, there are two configuration options, which affect how the connector communicates with the NetApp ONTAPI API:

  1. A single physical filer: there are no vFilers defined on NetApp, and there’s only one filer.
    In this configuration, communications are made directly with the filer.
  2. vFilers (Multiple logical filers): there is more than one logical filer defined on the NetApp storage, with the original named vFiler0 (vFiler Zero).
    With vFilers, ONTAPI communications pass through vFiler0, and targeted at the correct vFiler using its name.