NetApp

NetApp and Likewise

NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions. NetApp customers with mixed operating system environments of both Windows and Linux or Unix systems can use Likewise to enhance the security of their storage systems. With Likewise, administrators can require users who access files and directories on NetApp storage systems to use their domain credentials provisioned in Microsoft Active Directory.

To make a shared NetApp volume available to a user regardless of whether the user accesses it from a Windows or Unix machine, Likewise uses cells to map users’ Windows and Unix identities so that the file ownership and permissions settings are the same. Each user in the Likewise cell can then access the shared NetApp volume from either Windows or Unix with the same ownership and permission settings.

Active Directory uses Organizational Units to group related objects in a common container so that you can manage the objects in a uniform and consistent way. To map Active Directory users to Linux and Unix user identifiers (UIDs) and group identifiers (GIDs), you associate Likewise cells with Organizational Units. When you associate a cell with an Organizational Unit (OU), the cell becomes a custom mapping of Active Directory users to UIDs and GIDs.

Likewise is an Advantage member of the NetApp Alliance Program.

About NetApp

NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that accelerate business breakthroughs and achieve outstanding cost efficiency. Discover our passion for helping companies around the world go further, faster at www.netapp.com.