(NASPAD) Managing NAS and Performance on Clustered Data ONTAP Training

Course 1635

  • Duration: 5 days
  • Language: English
  • Level: Intermediate

This course combines CIFS, NFS, and performance analysis topics into a single, in-depth one-week course. It provides the knowledge and skills that you need to administer CIFS version 1.x to 2.x and NFS versions 3, 4, and 4.1 in a clustered Data ONTAP® operating system. You also learn the skills you need to collect and analyze performance data from NetApp® storage systems.

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(NASPAD) Managing NAS and Performance on Clustered Data ONTAP Training Course Benefits

Describe CIFS and NFS protocolsDescribe configuration in the clustered Data ONTAP operating systemUse the Data ONTAP PowerShell Toolkit to write PowerShell scriptsUse Data ONTAP operating system to configure home directoriesReview performance management for CIFS and NFS environmentsExplain troubleshooting techniques for NetApp storage systems and for clients who use the CIFS and NFS protocolsDescribe how data flows through the network and protocol layers of clustered Data ONTAPDefine performance-related terms and describe basic methodologiesIdentify the methods that can be used to monitor and analyze storage system performanceExplain how methods and tools can be used to collect performance dataUse command output to analyze system performanceUse command output from case studies to identify performance bottlenecksImplement configuration for recommended practices for resiliency and performanceLocate resources and information that help you maximize system performance

NASPAD Training Outline

  • Describe the layers within the Data ONTAP architecture
  • List the advantages that are provided by the ability of WAFL to optimize writes
  • Explain the purpose of NVRAM
  • Diagram the flow of read and write requests through the network and protocol layers of Data ONTAP
  • Describe the benefits that RAID provides
  • Define performance-related terms, such as “baseline,” “bottleneck,” “Little’s law,” and “latency”
  • Describe baseline performance guidelines and methodologies as they relate to NetApp storage systems
  • Gather information about the workload of an existing storage system
  • Identify the storage system components that can affect performance—become bottlenecks
  • Describe the performance analysis tools and commands that are commonly used for cluster health checks
  • Identify the key performance commands and describe the command output that they produce
  • Explain how to use NetApp tools for performance measurement
  • Describe the benefits of using the AutoSupport support tool for performance analysis
  • List the three categories of performance tools
  • Explain the features and functions of Insight Perform
  • Explain the features and functions of OnCommand Balance
  • Use OnCommand management tools to view performance data
  • Discuss how the Storage Quality of Service (QoS) feature works in a clustered Data ONTAP environment
  • Identify the commands that are used to manage policy groups
  • Monitor workload performance
  • Define NFS
  • List use cases for NFS
  • Differentiate between NFS protocol versions
  • Discuss the two implementations of NetApp Data ONTAP
  • Discuss NFS version 3 (NFSv3) features
  • Describe Data ONTAP support for NFSv3
  • Explain use cases for NFSv3
  • Configure Data ONTAP operating in 7-Mode to use the NFSv3 protocol
  • Configure clustered Data ONTAP to use the NFSv3 protocol
  • Describe NFSv3 security
  • Discuss NFS version 4 (NFSv4) features
  • Describe Data ONTAP support for NFSv4
  • Explain use cases for NFSv4
  • Configure Data ONTAP operating in 7-Mode to use the NFSv4 protocol
  • Configure clustered Data ONTAP to use the NFSv4 protocol
  • Describe NFSv4 security2NetApp
  • Discuss NFS version 4.1 (NFSv4.1) and parallel NFS (pNFS) features
  • Describe Data ONTAP support for NFSv4.1 and pNFS
  • Explain use cases for NFSv4.1 and pNFS
  • Configure clustered Data ONTAP to use the NFSv4.1 protocol
  • Configure a Linux host to use the NFSv4.1 protocol
  • Discuss the factors that influence NFS performance
  • List the tools that are used to capture NFS performance statistics
  • Recognize areas in which issues might arise
  • Explain the interactions between CIFS and NFS name mapping
  • Describe basic NFS troubleshooting between storage systems, the Linux client, and the network
  • Discuss troubleshooting NFS locks and leases
  • Differentiate between CIFS protocol versions
  • List the CIFS supported environments
  • Explain how CIFS authenticates resources in a workgroup environment and a domain environment
  • Discuss the two implementations of Data ONTAP
  • Configure workgroup authentication for a storage system with Data ONTAP operating in 7-Mode
  • Set up a storage system with clustered Data ONTAP for Windows domain authentication
  • Configure Windows domain authentication for a storage system with Data ONTAP operating in 7-Mode
  • List the default shares
  • Display all shares that are available on the storage system
  • Configure a client machine to access any share
  • Define sparse files and set their attributes
  • Identify the CIFS sessions that are established by accessing a share on the storage system
  • Add, modify, and delete shares
  • Use the CLI, OnCommand System Manager, or Microsoft tools to add, delete, and modify the access permissions of shares
  • Use Microsoft tools to add, delete, and modify the access permissions of files and folders
  • Use access-based enumeration
  • Create local users
  • Create local groups
  • Determine and verify user mappings for CIFS users that access NTFS and UNIX volumes or qtrees
  • Configure file policies2NetApp
  • Discuss opportunistic locks (oplocks) implementation within the Data ONTAP operating system
  • Describe metacache support for Clustered Data ONTAP
  • Explain support for BranchCache
  • Configure auditing
  • Set up home directory shares
  • Describe group policy object implementation within the Data ONTAP operating system
  • Configure CIFS security settings
  • Implement symbolic links and widelinks
  • Describe Microsoft PowerShell
  • Configure a Microsoft Windows host to work with the Data ONTAP Software Development Kit (SDK)
  • Explain how the Data ONTAP SDK can be used to script storage features
  • List the methods of using PowerShell
  • Explain how to create simple scripts
  • Redirect output results to log files
  • Use PowerShell to make Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) calls
  • Discuss the factors that influence CIFS performance
  • List the tools that are used to capture CIFS performance statistics
  • Recognize areas in which issues might arise
  • Describe basic CIFS troubleshooting between storage systems, a Windows client, the authentication mechanism, and the network
  • Discuss troubleshooting SMB 3.0 locks
  • Lab 2-1 Identify the exercise environment
  • Lab 2-2 Log in to the exercise environment
  • Lab 2-3 Add a cluster to OnCommand System Manager
  • Lab 2-4 Configure SNMP public community name
  • Lab 2-5 Identify clustered Data ONTAP components
  • Lab 2-6 Set the clustered Data ONTAP command line system timeout value (optional)
  • Lab 3-1 Examine the statistics catalog commands
  • Lab 3-2 Examine the statistics start and statistics show commands
  • Lab 3-3 Defining workload characteristics
  • Lab 4-1 Perform initial health checks on the cluster
  • Lab 4-2 Baseline performance monitoring from the cluster shell
  • Lab 4-3 Performance monitoring from the cluster shell
  • Lab 4-4 Unlock diag userid
  • Lab 4-5 Using the performance and statistics collector (Perfstat)
  • Lab 6-1 Reactively limit thoughput to a workload by associating the workload with QoS policy group
  • Lab 6-2 Proactively monitor workload performance by associating a workload with a QoS policy group
  • Lab 6-3 Isolate a tenant workload by associating the workload with a QoS policy group
  • Lab 7-1 Identify the exercise environment
  • Lab 7-2 Log in to the exercise environment
  • Lab 7-3 Install OnCommand System Manager in the exercise environment
  • Lab 7-4 Add a cluster to OnCommand System Manager
  • Lab 7-5 Configure SNMP public community name
  • Lab 8-1 Create a data aggregate
  • Lab 8-2 Add the NFS license to a cluster
  • Lab 8-3 Create a Vserver
  • Lab 8-4 Create a UNIX group and user
  • Lab 8-5 Define a new export policy and rule
  • Lab 8-6 Allocate an aggregate as a resource for a Vserver
  • Lab 8-7 Create the Vserver's namespace
  • Lab 8-8 Mount the Vserver's namespace
  • Lab 8-9 Explore file permissions
  • Lab 9-1 Configure a Vserver with a new storage and LIF
  • Lab 9-2 Enable NFSv4 features on a Vserver and client
  • Lab 9-3 Explore an NFSv4 export on a client
  • Lab 9-4 Explore NFSv4 ACLs
  • Lab 10-1 Configure a Vserver for NFSv4.1
  • Lab 10-2 Explore an NFSv4.1 export on a client
  • Lab 10-3 Analyze the effects of a volume move operation on pNFS
  • Lab 12-1 Identify the exercise environment
  • Lab 12-2 Log in to the exercise environment
  • Lab 12-3 Install NetApp OnCommand System Manager in the exercise environment
  • Lab 12-4 Add a cluster to OnCommand System Manager
  • Lab 12-5 Configure SNMP public community name
  • Lab 13-1 Create an aggregate
  • Lab 13-2 Configure the prerequisites for the CIFS services
  • Lab 13-3 Add the CIFS license to a cluster
  • Lab 13-4 Create a Vserver for CIFS
  • Lab 13-5 Verify the CIFS server configuration
  • Lab 13-6 Configure DNS for a data LIF
  • Lab 14-1 Allocate an aggregate as a resource for a Vserver
  • Lab 14-2 Create the Vserver’s namespace
  • Lab 14-3 Create CIFS shares for the Vserver’s volumes
  • Lab 14-4 Mount the Vserver’s shares
  • Lab 14-5 Verify an SMB session using Computer Management
  • Lab 14-6 Verify an SMB session using Data ONTAP CLI and PowerShell
  • Lab 14-7 Explore the copy-offload feature
  • Lab 14-8 Investigate the auto location feature
  • Lab 15-1 Create a domain group
  • Lab 15-2 Create a domain user
  • Lab 15-3 Explore share-level permissions with domain user authenication
  • Lab 15-4 Configure local users authenication
  • Lab 15-5 Implement a native file blocking policy
  • Lab 15-6 Set up a multiprotocol configuration
  • Lab 15-7 Create an export policy rule
  • Lab 15-8 Configure a Vserver for NFS access
  • Lab 15-9 Use multiple protocols to access a volume
  • Lab 16-1 Configure BranchCache in Data ONTAP
  • Lab 16-2 Configure BranchCache in Windows
  • Lab 16-3 Configure home directories
  • Lab 16-4 Test the home directories with different users
  • Lab 16-5 Implement event auditing
  • Lab 16-6 Use symbolic links
  • Lab 16-7 Implement a widelink on the Vserver
  • Lab 17-8 Implement a widelink on a remote server
  • Lab 17-1 Set up the Data ONTAP PowerShell Toolkit
  • Lab 17-2 Explore the toolkit help
  • Lab 17-3 Use PowerShell to connect to the cluster
  • Lab 17-4 Use PowerShell to create a Vserver
  • Lab 17-5 Use PowerShell to configure a CIFS server
  • Lab 17-6 Use PowerShell to create a share
  • Lab 17-7 Work with PowerShell ISE

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