By the end of this ONTAP 9 Cluster Administration 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

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
  • Components
  • Types
  • Benefits
  • Root volume
  • FlexVol volumes
• Data LIFs
• Simply Anywhere
• ONTAP Select
• ONTAP cloud

Module 2: Cluster Setup

• Terminology review
• FAS configurations
• Supported cluster configurations
  • Single-node
  • Two-node
  • Multimode
  • MetroCluster
• 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

Labs:

• Verify connectivity to an ONTAP cluster
• Verify that required license codes are installed
• Explore the clustershell CLI
• Navigate command directories
• Adjust preferences by using the SET command
• Practice tab completion
• Use the command history
• Navigate OnCommand system manager
• Create a login banner and MOTD
• Explore licensing
• Configure cluster time and assign an NTP server
• Create custom administrators and verify access levels
• Authenticate a cluster administrator by using active directory
• Create an interface group
• Create a VLAN
• Create a new IPspace, broadcast domain and subnet
• Create a subnet for the default IPspace
• Explore failover groups
• Create data LIFs
• Create an aggregate
• Expand an aggregate
• Verify the operability of a degraded RAID-TEC aggregate
• Convert an aggregate to a flash pool
• Create flexible volumes
• Manage snapshot copies
• Restore a file from a snapshot copy
• Expand a volume and perform a volume move
• Explore thin provisioning
• Enable storage efficiency
• Create and split a FlexClone volume
• Migrate and rehome a NAS data LIF
• Configure an SVM to host NFS and SMB protocols
• Verify and create SMB shares
• Access SMB shares from a windows client
• Access the NFS export from a Linux client
• Verify MPIO configuration
• Check the iSCSI software initiator name
• Use OnCommand system manager to configure an SVM for iSCSI
• Configure the iSCSI software initiator on the windows host
• Access the iSCSI-attached LUN from the windows host
• Explore the event log
• Collect statistics for the headroom feature
• Create a workload on an SVM by using iometer
• Configure storage QoS for an SVM
• Explore headroom statistics for CPU

• Network Engineers
• Channel Partners

Completion of the following web-based training modules:

• ONTAP Cluster Fundamentals (WBT)
• ONTAP NAS Fundamentals (WBT)
• ONTAP SAN Fundamentals (WBT)