ONTAP Cluster Administration (ONTAP9ADM) – Outline

Detailed Course Outline

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