Course Overview
This course extends the CIFS information that is found in the ONTAP Cluster Administration course. This course reviews SMB and explores in more detail SMB 3.x and the features of ONTAP 9 software that support the SMB protocol. The exercises are accomplished using ONTAP 9 software.
Who should attend
Professionals who implement SMB solutions who use NetApp storage systems
Prerequisites
- ONTAP Cluster Administration (ONTAP9ADM)
- Familiarity with Microsoft Windows Server 2012
- Familiarity with Microsoft Active Directory
Course Objectives
This course focuses on enabling you to do the following:
- 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
Outline: ONTAP SMB Administration (CIFSAD)
Module 1: CIFS Overview
- Define the CIFS and SMB protocol
- Discuss NTLM and Kerberos authentication
- Explain Active Directory and Workgroup environments
- Describe PowerShell
- Describe Data ONTAP PowerShell Toolkit
Module 2: SMB Setup
- Set up a storage system with ONTAP 9 for domain authentication
Module 3: Shares and Sessions
- List the default shares
- Display all shares that are available on the storage system
- Configure a client machine to access a share
- Identify the CIFS sessions
- Add, modify, and delete shares
Module 4: Access Control
- Module Objectives
- Configure share permissions
- Describe how to map UNIX users to Windows users
- Configure multiprotocol in ONTAP 9
- Describe authentication and authorization for CIFS
- Describe file blocking policies
Module 5: CIFS Advanced Topics
- Module Objectives
- Describe group policy objects in Data ONTAP 9
- Setup preferred Domain Controllers
- Discuss NetBIOS aliases
- Configure workgroup membership
- Explain CIFS oplocks
- Discuss BranchCache support in Data ONTAP