By the end of this course, you should be able to:

• Describe the ONTAP 9 data protection features
• Understand the various data mirroring relationships available with ONTAP 9
• Configure and operate SnapMirror and SnapVault data replication
• Demonstrate Storage Virtual Machine data protection
• Explain the components and configuration involved with SyncMirror and MetroCluster
• Describe NDMP protocol operation, configuration and management
• Pre/Post Assessment

ONTAP 9.0 Data Protection Administration

Module 1: ONTAP Integrated Data Protection

• Data protection overview
  • Currency
  • Types
  • Consistency
  • Challenges
• High availability
  • NVRAM
  • RAID DP or RAID-TEC technology
• Backup and archive
  • Snapshot copy
  • SnapRestore
  • SnapVault
  • Dump or SMTape
• Disaster recovery
  • SnapMirror
  • FlexClone
  • Load-sharing mirrors
  • SyncMirror
  • MetroCluster
• Compliance
  • NetApp Storage Encryption (NSE)
  • SnapLock
• Cloud
  • Private storage
  • Snap-to-Cloud
  • AltaVault
• OnCommand system manager
• Host-level software
• Application-level software
• Data Protection tools

Module 2: NetApp Mirroring Fundamentals

• SnapMirror technology
• Mirror relationships
• Relationship types
• Load sharing
• SnapMirror and SnapVault configuration
• SnapMirror policies and configuration
• Automatic transfers
• Intercluster network connectivity
• TCP connections
• Two cluster networking
• Cluster cascade networking
• Deployment configuration
• SnapMirror cascade deployments
• Cluster Fan-out or Fan-in
• Intercluster SnapMirror Throttle
• Network compression
• Peer relationships

Module 3: Implement SnapMirror Relationships

• FlexVol volumes mirror copy
• SnapMirror relationships configuratiom
• Licensing
• Language setting
• Job schedules
• Monitoring relationships
• Failover mode
• Disaster mode
• Version-independent SnapMirror technology
• FlexClone technology
• Tape backup
• NDMP
• Volume move

Module 4: Disaster Recovery for Storage Virtual Machines

• SVM disaster recovery
• Identity preserve option
• SVM disaster recovery requirements
• Selective protection
• Test and Dev
• Convert a volume

Module 5: Disk-to-Disk Backup with SnapVault Software

• SnapVault Soltuion components
• Snapshot copy policy
• SnapVault backups
• Managing SnapMirror and SnapVault updates
• SnapVault end-to-end storage efficiency
• Storage compression
• Space planning requirements
• Tiered backup
• Restoring data

Module 6: SyncMirror and MetroCluster Software

• Data mirroring
• Plexes and pools to an aggregate relationship
• Storage type considerations
• SyncMirror Plex failure
• MetroCluster overview
• Nondisruptive operations
• Local HA failover
• Protecting data
• Unmirrored aggregates
• Node-level QoS
• Active-active configuration
• Planned switchover
• Tiebreaker software

Module 7: NDMP and Tape Backup

• NDMP technology
• Terms and concepts
• Nodes, connections and variables
• Managing SVM-Scoped NDMP
• NDMP backup models
• User authentication
• SVM-aware NDMP
• Management commands

Labs:

• Ensure connectivity to your ONTAP cluster
• Synchronize system time for windows domains
• Assign a network time protocol (NTP) server for SVL-NAU and RTP-NAU
• Verify that required license codes are installed
• Create intercluster subnets and LIFs
• Prepare the storage environment on RTP-NAU as the secondary target
• Configure cluster peering
• Configure SVM peering
• Configure a SnapMirror relationship
• Verify data transfer
• Take the source volume offline
• Activate the destination volume
• Reactivate the original source volume
• Restore the original SnapMirror relationship
• Create an unscheduled Snapshot copy
• Configure storage virtual machine disaster recovery
• Check for space requirements
• Create the disaster-recovery SVM
• Create an SVM peer relationship
• Create the SVM SnapMirror relationship
• Failover to the disaster-recovery SVM
• Reverse the SnapMirror relationship
• Recover the primary SVM
• Create the SnapVault relationship
• Verify data transfer
• Simulate a disaster and recover data

• Network Engineers
• Channel Partners
• System Engineers