Managing NAS and Performance on Clustered Data ONTAP (NASPAD)

Price
$5,055.00 USD

Duration
5 Days

 

Delivery Methods
Virtual Instructor Led
Private Group

Course Overview

This course is a combination of NFS, SMB (CIFS), and performance analysis courses into a single, in-depth one-week course. It provides the knowledge and skills that you need to administer SMB version 1.x to 3.x and NFS versions 3, 4, and 4.1 in a clustered Data ONTAP® operating system. You also learn the knowledge and skills that you need to collect and analyze system performance data from NetApp storage systems that are running ONTAP 9.

Course Objectives

  • Define and describe NFS protocol versions
  • Configure clustered ONTAP 9 for NFSv3,NFSv4,and NFSv4.1 with parallel NFS (pNFS)
  • Configure Kerberos in a Linux and NetApp ONTAP 9 environment using Windows Active Directory authentication
  • Discuss performance management and troubleshooting for NetApp storage systems and clients
  • Explain the CIFS and SMB protocol
  • Demonstrate the Windows PowerShell CLI
  • Configure SMB features using ONTAP 9 software
  • Create and manage SMB shares and sessions
  • Secure SMB sessions
  • Configure ONTAP for multiprotocol data access
  • Discuss SMB advanced topics, such as opportunistic locks (oplocks), BranchCache, auditing, group policy, automatic home shares, symbolic links (symlinks), and widelinks
  • Understand how a storage system running ONTAP 9 functions
  • Identify the commands and tools to use to collect and monitor storage system performance
  • Interpret performance data and identify hindrances to storage system performance
  • Use system commands and features to enhance storage system performance and efficiency
  • Who Should Attend?

    Professionals who manage NetApp storage systems and need a deeper understanding of protocols and performance in a clustered Data ONTAP environment.
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    Course Prerequisites

  • ONTAP Cluster Administration and Data Protection Bundle (CDOTDP9)
  • Familiarity with Microsoft Windows Server 2012
  • Familiarity with Microsoft Active Directory
  • Familiarity with UNIX and Linux operating systems
  • Agenda

    1 - NFS Overview

    • Data fabric layers
    • NFS
    • NFS protocol versions
    • NFSv2 and NFSv3
    • Ancillary protocols
    • NFSv4
    • ONTAP 9 NFS enhancements
    • ONTAP 9 configuration
    • SVM with Infinite Volume

    2 - NFS Version 3

    • Capabilities
    • Features
    • Client support
    • NFSv3 implementation
    • NFSv3 export policy
    • Export policies and volumes
    • Access cache
    • Mounts
    • User authentication
    • Accounts
    • Auxiliary GIDs
    • ANON setting
    • UNIX permissions

    3 - NFS Version 4

    • Features
    • NFSv4 connection
    • Mount process
    • Referrals
    • Delegation and usage
    • NFSv4 Implementation
    • Security
    • RPCSEC_GSS
    • Key distribution center
    • Kerberos authentication
    • Access control lists
    • ACE permissions
    • NFSv4 infrastructure
    • UID and GID
    • Snapshot directories

    4 - NFS Version 4.1

    • Connection
    • Reliable callbacks
    • Sessions
    • Layouts
    • pNFS
    • pNFS vs. referrals
    • ONTAP 9 support
    • NFSv4.1 implementation
    • pNFS status

    5 - Performance and Basic Troubleshooting

    • Performance management
    • Performance issues
    • Factors that affect NFS performance
    • RAID factors
    • NFS data collection
    • Performance and statistic collector (Perfstat)
    • Recommended statistics
    • The SIO utility
    • Multiprotocol
    • Security style interaction
    • UNIX user access
    • Storage system configuration
    • Linux client troubleshooting
    • NFS troubleshooting
    • Network troubleshooting
    • Check access command

    6 - SMB Overview

    • Data fabric
    • Data fabric layers
    • CIFS and SMB protocols
    • NT LAN manager
    • Kerberos authentication
    • Active Directory
    • Workgroup environments
    • NetApp PowerShell toolkit

    7 - SMB Setup

    • SMB implementation
    • Licensing CIFS
    • SVM for SMB access
    • FlexVol volumes
    • DNS entries for the SVM
    • SMB share access

    8 - SMB Shares and Sessions

    • SMB share
    • Creating a share
    • Client access
    • SMB automatic referrals
    • SMB sessions
    • Session administration
    • SMB encryption
    • Offline folders
    • Offloaded data transfer

    9 - Access Control

    • Share permission administration
    • Access-based enumeration
    • Dynamic access control
    • File blocking policies
    • Local users
    • Workgroup authentication
    • Multiprotocol access

    10 - Advanced Topics

    • Microsoft opportunistic Lock (oplock) features
    • Automatic home share
    • Group policy object (GPO)
    • Symlinks
    • Widelinks

    11 - BranchCache

    • Versions
    • BranchCache environment configurations
    • ONTAP 9 BranchCache
    • BranchCache installation on Windows Servers
    • BranchCache configuration on Windows clients

    12 - Auditing

    • Auditing concepts
    • Terminology
    • ONTAP 9 auditing process
    • Implement auditing
    • Output file format

    13 - How a NetApp Storage System Works

    • NetApp FAS system architecture
    • ONTAP architecture layers
    • Data access
    • NVRAM

    14 - Performance Analysis Tools

    • Performance terminology
    • Performance guidelines and methodologies
    • Analysis tools and commands
    • Output commands
    • Tools for performance measurement
    • AutoSupport tools
    • Perfstat
    • OnCommand Insight

    15 - OnCommand Performance Manager

    • Features
    • Dashboard
    • Performance troubleshooting
    • Events
    • User defined thresholds

    16 - CPU and Memory Performance

    • CPU performance bottlenecks
    • Resolving bottlenecks
    • Memory performance bottlenecks
    • Resolving bottlenecks

    17 - WAFL Performance

    • WAFL functions
    • Inodes
    • WAFL readahead
    • Resolving WAFL issues
    • Best practices

    18 - Disk I/O Performance

    • Disk subsystem hardware and software
    • Subsystem bottlenecks
    • Analyzing bottlenecks with Statit
    • Resolving bottlenecks
    • RAID-DP technology

    19 - Flash Cache and Flash Pool Performance

    • Virtual Storage tier
    • Flash pool
    • Flash cache
    • Automatic workload analyzer
    • Cache performance issues

    20 - Cluster Interconnect Performance

    • Cluster interconnect uses
    • Switchless and switched configurations
    • Cluster interconnect bottlenecks
    • Bottleneck resolutions

    21 - Storage QoS

    • Managing system performance with QoS
    • QoS policies
    • Reactive storage QoS
    • Proactive storage QoS
    • Monitoring commands

    22 - NAS Performance

    • NAS functions
    • Bottlenecks
    • NAS protocol traffic
    • Monitoring NFS usage commands
    • Monitoring SMB usage commands
    • Bottleneck resolutions

    23 - SAN Performance

    • SAN overview
    • Protocols
    • FCoE
    • iSCSI
    • SAN LIFs
    • SAN performance issues
    • SAN multipathing
    • SAN load balancing
    • I/O misalignment
    • Queue depth

    24 - Using What You Learned

    • Performance overview
    • Performance tools
    • Windows monitoring and analysis
    • Linux monitoring and analysis
    • VMware monitoring and analysis
    • Slow application performance
    • Using performance manager
    • Best practices
     

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