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(ONTAP9ADM) ONTAP 9 Cluster Administration Training

Course 1632

Duration: 3 days
Language: English
Level: Intermediate

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This course uses lecture and hands-on exercises to teach basic administration and configuration of a cluster. The hands-on labs allow you to practice working with ONTAP features and manage your storage and network resources using the cluster shell and OnCommand System Manager.

Completion of the following web based training modules:
- ONTAP Cluster Fundamentals (WBT)
- ONTAP NAS Fundamentals (WBT)
- ONTAP SAN Fundamentals (WBT)

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(ONTAP9ADM) ONTAP 9 Cluster Administration Training Delivery Methods

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Online

(ONTAP9ADM) ONTAP 9 Cluster Administration Training Course Benefits

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

ONTAP 9 Cluster Administration Training 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

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