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

• Describe how data flows through the network and protocol layers of clustered Data ONTAP
• Define performance-related terms and describe basic methodologies
• Identify the methods that can be used to monitor and analyze storage system performance
• Explain how methods and tools can be used to collect performance data
• Use command output to analyze system performance
• Use command output from case studies to identify performance bottlenecks
• Implement configuration for recommended practices for resiliency and performance
• Locate resources and information that help you maximize system performance

Module 1: How a NetApp Storage System Works

• Storage system architecture
• Clustered Data ONTAP data access
• Write data access
• NVRAM and CPs
• RAID
  • Value
  • Storage resiliency features

Module 2: Performance Overview

• Basic terminology
• Workload characteristics
• Little’s law
• Storage system components
  • Controller
  • Disk shelf
  • Client
• Performance guidelines
• Monitoring methodology
• Troubleshooting pitfalls

Module 3: Clustered Storage System Workloads and Bottlenecks

• Counters
• Statistics
  • CatalogueStart
  • Show
  • Show-periodic
• Workload characteristics measurements
• Analyzing characteristics of data
• Bottlenecks

Module 4: Cluster Performance Monitoring and Analysis

• Health check commands
• Storage failover health
• Baseline monitoring commands
• Baseline performance monitoring
• Analyzing storage system bottlenecks
• Analyzing key storage controller resources
• Aggregate free space
• CPU and memory headroom
• Performance and statistics collector
• Perf stat download
• AutoSupport support tool
• Workload generators
• Simulated I/O tool

Module 5: OnCommand Management Tools

• Performance tools categories
• OnCommand Insight performs
  • Best practices
  • Metrics
  • Arrays
  • Analyzing tools
• OnCommand Balance
  • Features
  • Dashboard
  • Alerts

Module 6: Storage QoS

• Definition
• Workloads
• Storage objects
• Policy groups
• When to use
• Reactive workload throttling
• Tenant isolation
• Monitoring commands
• Design considerations

Module 7: Summary

Supplemental Modules

Supplemental Modules

Module 8: More command Line Monitoring

• CPU troubleshooting
  • CPU utilization
  • Processor domains
  • Bottleneck types
  • Measure utilization
• Using QoS to monitor cluster performance
  • QoS rules
  • Statistics commands
• Flash Pool Monitoring
• Flash Pool workload prioritization
  • CLI read and write policies
  • GUI read and write policies
• Flash cache monitoring
• Flash cache prioritization
• San queue depth
  • Calculating depth
  • Configuration – Microsoft SQL, Oracle, MS Exchange, VMware
  • Monitoring depth

Module 9: OnCommand System Manager, OnCommand Unified Manager, OnCommand Performance Manager, Harvest

• OnCommand System Manager
  • OCSM 9.1 cluster dashboard
  • SVM dashboard
  • OCSM 9.x predictable performance
    • Performance monitoring
• Unified Manager 7.1 integration with performance manager 7.1
  • Simplified operations management
  • Unified Manager 7.0 new features
  • Unified Manager 7.1 new features
• Performance Manager (OPM)
  • OPM 7.0 – Overview of features
  • Performance capacity metric
    • Latency vs. utilization
    • Capacity used and optimal point
    • Use cases
  • OPM 7.0 failover planning for ONTAP 9
  • Events and thresholds
  • OPM 7.1 features
    • FlexGroup in ONTAP 9.1
• NetApp harvest
  • Overview
  • Appliance configuration
  • Appliance dashboards

Module 10: Basic Monitoring and Preventative Maintenance

• Alert configuration
• Monitoring tasks
• Performance workflow
• Network testing
  • Latency
  • NFS read/write size
  • iSCSI TCP read/write size
  • CIFS multiplex settings
  • FC adapter port speed
• Disk response times
• Cluster object statistics

Module 11: ONTAP Cloud for AWS – Performance Factors

• ONTAP Cloud performance issues
• Compute and network factor
• Cloud Sizing exercise
• AWS EBS volumes
  • “Disk” factor

Labs

• Identify the exercise environment
• Log in to the exercise environment
• Add a cluster to OnCommand System Manager
• Configure SNMP public community name
• Identify clustered Data ONTAP components
• Set the clustered Data ONTAP command-line system timeout value (optional)
• Examine the statistics catalogue commands
• Examine the statistics start and statistics show commands
• Defining workload characteristics
• Perform initial health checks on the cluster
• Baseline performance monitoring from the cluster shell
• Performance monitoring from the cluster shell
• Unlock diag user ID
• Using the performance and statistics collector (Perfstat)
• Reactively limit throughput to a workload by associating the workload with QoS policy group
• Proactively monitor workload performance by associating a workload with a QoS policy group
• Isolate a tenant workload by associating the workload with a QoS policy group