Course Overview
This 3-day, instructor-led course uses lecture and hands-on exercises to teach the basic administration tasks of a NetApp® ONTAP® 9.9 cluster. You use the clustershell and NetApp ONTAP 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. This course is generally taught with the 2-day ONTAP Data Protection course.
Course Objectives
Manage ONTAP administrators
Configure and manage storage resources
Configure and manage networking resources
Create and manage local and cloud storage tiers
Create and configure a storage VM (storage virtual machine, also known as SVM)
Create and manage NetApp FlexVol® volumes, FlexGroup volumes, and FlexCache® volumes
Implement storage efficiency features
Configure and manage NAS, SAN, and object-protocol servers within an SVM
Configure basic data protection features
Perform administrative and preventive maintenance tasks
Who Should Attend?
Network Engineers, Channel Partners, System Engineers, NetApp Customers
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Agenda
1 - NetApp ONTAP 9 Clusters
- ONTAP deployment options
- The Cluster
- Storage Virtual Machine's (SVMs)
2 - Cluster Setup
- Supported All Flash FAS and FAS configurations
- Setting up a Cluster
- Administration Interfaces
3 - Cluster Management
- Access control
- Date and Time
- Licenses
- Policies, Jobs and Schedules
4 - Network Management
- NetApp ONTAP Network Review
- Network Ports
- Network Traffic Segregation
- LIFs
- Nondisruptive LIF configuration
- Routing Management
5 - Physical Storage Management
- Drives, RAID and Aggregates
- Advanced Drive Partitioning
- Flash Cache and Flash Pool
- FabricPool Aggregates
6 - Logical Storage Management
- Flexible Volumes
- Provisioning Storage Resources
- Moving Storage Resources
7 - Data Access
- Using NAS Protocols to Access Data
- Use SAN Protocols to Access Data
8 - Data Protection
- Manage Snapshot Copies
- Restore Data from a Snapshot Copy
- Backup and Replicate Data
- Compliance
- Storage Encryption
9 - Storage Efficiency
- Thin Provisioning
- Deduplication and Compression
- Flash Efficiency
- FlexClone Volumes
10 - Cluster Maintenance
- Data collection, Monitoring and Automation Tools
- Backing up and Restore Cluster Configuration
- Upgrading your Cluster
- Performance Recommended Practices
- Technical Support
- Documentation
11 - Course Review