By the end of this ONTAP 9 & MetroCluster course, you should be able to:

• Describe how ONTAP 9 fits into NetApp’s Cloud and Data Fabric strategy
• Identify supported ONTAP platforms
• Define ONTAP cluster components
• Create a cluster
• Manage ONTAP administrators
• Configure and manage storage resources
• Configure and manage networking resources
• Describe a Storage Virtual Machine’s (SVM’s) role in NetApp’s storage architecture
• Create and configure an SVM
• Create and manage FlexVols
• Implement storage efficiency features
• Create protocol servers within an SVM
• Upgrade and revert ONTAP patches and releases
• Describe the levels on which ONTAP protects data
• Describe the major architectural components of a MetroCluster environment in ONTAP 9
• Cable nodes, back-end FC switches and FibreBridge devices
• Set up bridges and back-end FC switches
• Configure the clusters at both sites in a MetroCluster environment
• Set up a MetroCluster configuration and serve data to clients
• Detect and recover from failures in a MetroCluster environment
• Install and configure Tiebreaker software

From the ONTAP 9 Administration course:

• Module 1: Introducing ONTAP 9
• Module 2: The Cluster: Concepts and Initial Set-Up
• Module 3: The Cluster: Management
• Module 4: ONTAP Storage Architecture
• Module 5: Networking
• Module 6: Data Protocols
• Module 7: Maintenance
• Module 8: Data Protection

From the MetroCluster Installation course:

Module 1: MetroCluster Overview

• MetroCluster Introduction
• Define MetroCluster
• Describe MetroCluster Architecture
• Configuration Replication Service (CRS)
• Limitations
• MetroCluster supported configuration
• Controllers
• Shelves
• Switches and ISL configuration
• FAS8020, FAS8040, FAS8060 and FAS8080EX
• FlexArray virtualization support
• MetroCluster implementation overview
• Setup
• MetroCluster configuration tools and documentation
• Hardware
• Materials
• Technical content

Module 2: MetroCluster Cabling

• Disk requirements
• Plex SyncMirror overview
• Shelf IDs
• Cabinet Layout
• LUN layout with FlexArray storage virtualization software
• ATTO FibreBridge
• Cabling Shelves to Bridges
• Cabling Bridges to FC switches
• Controller Cabling
• Cluster Interconnect
• FC-VI Interconnect
• Onboard ports or HBAs
• CRS
• Management and data LIFs
• FC switch cabling
• Switch alternatives
• Brocade 6505 and 6510
• Cisco 9148

Module 3: Bridge and Switch Configuration

• ATTO FibreBridge configuration
• Brocade FC switch configuration
• FC switches
• Configuration
• RCF domains
• RCF ports and zone settings
• Brocade ISL configuration
• Calculating and setting the distance
• Verifying
• OOD configuration – ONTAP 9 and later

Module 4: Cluster Configuration

• Controller configuration
• Setup
• Disk ownership
• FlexArray storage virtualization software
• Cluster setup

Module 5: MetroCluster Configuration

• MetroCluster setup
• Prerequisites
• Peer relationship
• Mirror aggregates
• Create mirrored data aggregates
• Enable configuration replication
• MetroCluster configure command
• MetroCluster verification
• Disk ownership fields
• Monitor FC switches
• Monitor FibreBridge devices
• Cluster status
• MetroCluster plug-in
• CLI health monitoring
• Node verification
• Components
• CRS component
• Interconnect mirror
• OnCommand unified manager
• Connectivity monitoring
• Replication monitoring
• Events and alerts
• SVM configuration in a MetroCluster environment
• Setup
• CLI
• Automatic creation

Module 6: Failure Scenarios

• Failures:
• Bridge
• Switch or switch port
• Single path
• Shelf
• CRS
• ISL
• Single HA node
• Double HA node
• Data Center site
• Switchover types
• Simulation
• Negotiated switchover
• Non-negotiated switchover
• Switchover operation
• Switchback
• Switchback process

Module 7:Tiebreaker Configuration

• Tiebreaker software
• Disaster Detection
• Normal operation
• Tiebreaker installation
• Service operations
• Configuration
• Commands
• Monitor creation
• AutoSupport
• SNMP

• Appendix A: Advanced Administration
• Appendix B: Basic Metrocluster Troubleshooting
• Appendix C: Front-End FC Fabrics in MetroCluster