Course Overview

This three-days instructor-led course uses lecture and hands-on exercises to teach basic administration of an ONTAP cluster. You configure and maintain a cluster. You practice working with ONTAP cluster. You configure and maintain a cluster. You practice working with ONTAP features. You use the cluster shell and OnCammand System Manager to manage storage and network resources. ONTAP Cluster Administration is an intermediate course in a comprehensive learning path for customers, partners and NetApp employees.

Who Should Attend

• Customers

• Partners

• NetApp Employees

Course Certifications

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Prerequisites

• ONTAP Fundamentals: Clusters (WBT)
• ONTAP Fundamentals: Management (WBT)
• ONTAP Fundamentals: Networking (WBT)
• ONTAP Fundamentals: Storage Virtual Machines (WBT)
• ONTAP Fundamentals: Maintenance (WBT)
• ONTAP Fundamantals: NAS (WBT)
• ONTAPS Fundamentals: SAN (WBT)

Course Objectives

This course focuses on enabling you to do the following:

• Describe how ONTAP fits into the NetApp Cloud and Data Fabric strategy
• Identify supported ONTAP configurations
• Create a cluster
• Manage ONTAP administrators
• Configure and manage storage resources
• Configure and manage networking resources
• Create and configure a storage virtual machine (SVM)
• Create and manage FlexVol® volumes
• Implement storage efficiency features
• Create protocol servers within an SVM
• Upgrade and revert ONTAP patches and releases

Course Content

Module 1: ONTAP Overview

• Data Fabric
• ONTAP software
• Fabric layers
• The cluster
• Nodes
• High-availability pairs
• Networks
• Ports and logical interfaces
• ONTAP storage architecture
• Physical storage
• SVM
• Data LIFs
• Simply Anywhere
• ONTAP Select
• ONTAP cloud

Module 2: Cluster Setup

• Terminology review
• FAS configurations
• Supported cluster configurations
• Cluster setup steps
• Disk-shelf
• Power on
• Firmware
• Boot menu
• Connections
• Node installing and initialization
• Boot sequence
• Creating a cluster
• Cluster administrators
• Clustershell
• OnCommand system manager 9.0

Module 3: Management

• Managing clusters
• Administrators
• Access
• RBAC
• Active directory authentication
• Administrative security
• Date and time
• Licensing
• Policy-based storage services
• Policy-based management
• Jobs and schedules

Module 4: Network management

• Network types
• Physical ports
• Modifying network port attributes
• Ifgroups
• VLANS
• IPspace review
• Broadcast domains
• Subnets
• Network interfaces
• Logical interfaces
• Data LIFs
• Nondisruptive LIF features
• Failover groups vs. failover policies
• Routing management
• Host-name resolution

Module 5: Physical Storage

• Storage architecture
• Disks and aggregates
• Spare disks
• RAID groups
• ONTAP RAID technologies
• Virtual storage tier
• Flash cache 2 feature
• Flash pool aggregates
• SSD tier
• SSD partitioning
• Root-Data advanced drive partitioning

Module 6: Logical Storage

• Flexible volumes
• Files and LUNs
• Volumes in aggregates
• Properties
• SVM flexible volume
• Snapshot copy technology
• Copy design
• Snapshot policy
• Typical workflow
• Recovering data
• UNIX client
• Moving volumes

Module 7: Storage Efficiency

• Thick and Thin provisioning
• Deduplication
• Data compression
• Inline data compaction
• Storage consumption
• FlexClone volume clones
• Split a cloned volume

Module 8: NAS Protocols

• Unified storage
• Terminology
• NAS file system
• NFS implementation
• Junctions
• NAS namespace architecture
• NFS
• NFSv3 implementation steps
• Exporting
• Client specification
• Export policies and rules
• Mounts
• Block protocol
• SMB implementation steps
• Creating shares
• Share permissions
• Windows file permissions
• SMB authentication methods
• MMC support
• Network load balancing

Module 9: SAN Protocols

• SAN
• SCSI concepts
• Scalable SAN support
• iSCSI architecture
• iSCSI nodes
• implementation
• ONTAP portal groups
• Creating a LUN
• Creating an igroup
• Windows LUN implementation

Module 10: Cluster Maintenance

• Upgrade advisor
• Rolling upgrade
• OnCommand system manager
• Alerts
• Autosupport tool
• EMS
• Event-Log filtering
• OnCommand portfolio
• System manager dashboard
• OnCommand unified manager
• Performance considerations
• Analyzing I/O
• ONTAP 9 OnCommand performance manager
• QoS scaling
• Disk type performance
• Optimal operating point
• Maximize performance
• System logs

Module 11: Data Protection Features

• Data currency
• Data consistency
• Challenges
• HA solutions
• Disaster recovery solutions
• Compliance solutions
• Cloud solutions
• Managing and monitoring
• Partner management software
• Tools