ONTAP 9.6 Cluster Administration

This training is provided in collaboration with Fast Lane.

This three-day, instructor-led course uses lecture and hands-on exercises to teach the basic administration tasks of an ONTAP 9.5 cluster. You use the cluster shell and OnCommand System Manager to manage storage and network resources. ONTAP Cluster Administration is an intermediate course in a comprehensive learning path for NetApp customers, partners, and employees.

Objectives

This course focuses on enabling you to do the following:

• Manage ONTAP administrators
• Configure and manage storage resources
• Configure and manage networking resources
• Create and configure a storage virtual machine (SVM)
• Create and manage FlexVol volumes
• Implement storage efficiency features
• Create protocol servers within an SVM
• Configure basic data protection features
• Perform administrative and preventive maintenance tasks

Prerequisites

• ONTAP Cluster Fundamentals (WBT)
• Introduction to Networking in Clustered Data ONTAP (WBT)
• ONTAP NAS Fundamentals (WBT)
• ONTAP SAN Fundamentals (WBT)

Target Audience

• Network Engineers
• Channel Partners
• System Engineers
• NetApp Customers

Certification

This course is part of the following Certifications:

• NetApp Certified Data Administrator, ONTAP (NCDA)

Course Content

Module 1: ONTAP 9

• Data Fabric foundation
• ONTAP deployment options
• Software Defined storage
• Cluster components
• Storage Virtual Machine (SVM)

Module 2: Cluster Setup

• Supported FAS and all Flash FAS configurations
• Cluster setup
• Administration interfaces
• OnCommand System Manager

Module 3: Cluster Management

• Manage access control
• Configure cluster setting
• Manage cluster-level features
• Date and time
• Licenses
• Policies, jobs and schedules

Module 4: Network Management

• Network review
• Network ports
• IPspaces
• LIFs
• Nondisruptive LIF configuration
• Routing management

Module 5: Physical Storage Management

• Architecture concepts
• Storage resources
• Disks
• RAID groups
• Aggregates
• Disk partitioning
• Flash pool and Flash cache
• FabricPool aggregates

Module 6: Logical Storage Management

• Flexible volumes
• FlexVol
• FlexGroup
• Provisioning storage resources
• Moving storage resources

Module 7: Managing Data

• Unified storage
• NAS protocols
• NFS
• SMB
• SAN protocols
• iSCSI
• Managing Snapshot copies
• Snapshot policy
• Restoring data from Snapshot copy

Module 8: Storage Efficiency

• Thin provisioning
• Deduplication and compression
• Flash efficiency
• Inline data compaction
• FlexClone volumes

Module 9: Cluster Maintenance

• Active IQ
• Upgrading the cluster
• Events and alerts
• Performance best practices
• Technical support

Labs:

• Exploring ONTAP management UIs
• Managing ONTAP clusters and administrators
• Managing physical and logical network resources
• Managing virtual network resources
• Managing physical storage
• Exploring RAID-TEC and creating a flash pool
• Managing data volumes
• Configuring NAS protocols in an SVM
• Configuring iSCSI in an SVM
• Managing Snapshot copies
• Managing storage efficiency
• Managing FlexClone volumes
• Exploring the event log