Detailed Course Outline
Module 1: How a NetApp Storage System Works
- NetApp FAS system architecture
- ONTAP architecture layers
- Data access
- NVRAM
Module 2: Performance Analysis Tools
- Performance terminology
- Performance guidelines and methodologies
- Analysis tools and commands
- Output commands
- Tools for performance measurement
- AutoSupport tools
- Perfstat
- OnCommand Insight
Module 3: OnCommand Performance Manager
- Features
- Dashboard
- Performance troubleshooting
- Events
- User defined thresholds
Module 4: CPU and Memory Performance
- CPU performance bottlenecks
- Resolving bottlenecks
- Memory performance bottlenecks
- Resolving bottlenecks
Module 5: WAFL Performance
- WAFL functions
- Inodes
- WAFL readahead
- Resolving WAFL issues
- Best practices
Module 6: Disk I/O Performance
- Disk subsystem hardware and software
- Subsystem bottlenecks
- Analyzing bottlenecks with Statit
- Resolving bottlenecks
- RAID-DP technology
Module 7: Flash Cache and Flash Pool Performance
- Virtual Storage tier
- Flash pool
- Flash cache
- Automatic workload analyzer
- Cache performance issues
Module 8: Cluster Interconnect Performance
- Cluster interconnect uses
- Switchless and switched configurations
- Cluster interconnect bottlenecks
- Bottleneck resolutions
Module 9: Storage QoS
- Managing system performance with QoS
- QoS policies
- Reactive storage QoS
- Proactive storage QoS
- Monitoring commands
Module 10: NAS Performance
- NAS functions
- Bottlenecks
- NAS protocol traffic
- Monitoring NFS usage commands
- Monitoring SMB usage commands
- Bottleneck resolutions
Module 11: SAN Performance
- SAN overview
- Protocols
- FCoE
- iSCSI
- SAN LIFs
- SAN performance issues
- SAN multipathing
- SAN load balancing
- I/O misalignment
- Queue depth
Module 12: 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
Labs:
- Identifying cluster components
- Analyzing performance statistics
- OnCommand performance manager thresholds, events and alerts
- Identifying and resolving storage controller performance issues
- WAFL performance monitoring and analysis
- Identifying and resolving disk I/O bottlenecks
- Exploring cache performance
- Cluster interconnect performance
- Workload management with storage QoS
- NAS performance
- SAN protocol performance