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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
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Customers
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Partners
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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