Detailed Course Outline
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