Course Content
This 3-day, instructor-led course uses lecture and hands-on exercises to teach the basic administration tasks of a NetApp® ONTAP® 9.8 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.
Who should attend
- Network Engineers
- Channel Partners
- System Engineers
- NetApp Customers
Certifications
This course is part of the following Certifications:
Prerequisites
- ONTAP Cluster Fundamentals WBT (OCFWBT)
- !NA-ONFWBT
- !NA-OSFWBT
- Introduction to Networking in Clustered Data ONTAP (WBT)
Course Objectives
This course focuses on enabling you to do the following:
- 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
Follow On Courses
Outline: ONTAP Cluster Administration (ONTAP9ADM)
Module 1: NetApp ONTAP 9 Clusters
- ONTAP deployment options
- The Cluster
- Storage Virtual Machine's (SVMs)
Module 2: Cluster Setup
- Supported All Flash FAS and FAS configurations
- Setting up a Cluster
- Administration Interfaces
Module 3: Cluster Management
- Access control
- Date and Time
- Licenses
- Policies, Jobs and Schedules
Module 4: Network Management
- NetApp ONTAP Network Review
- Network Ports
- Network Traffic Segregation
- LIFs
- Nondisruptive LIF configuration
- Routing Management
Module 5: Physical Storage Management
- Drives, RAID and Aggregates
- Advanced Drive Partitioning
- Flash Cache and Flash Pool
- FabricPool Aggregates
Module 6: Logical Storage Management
- Flexible Volumes
- Provisioning Storage Resources
- Moving Storage Resources
Module 7: Data Access
- Using NAS Protocols to Access Data
- Use SAN Protocols to Access Data
Module 8: Data Protection
- Manage Snapshot Copies
- Restore Data from a Snapshot Copy
- Backup and Replicate Data
- Compliance
- Storage Encryption
Module 9: Storage Efficiency
- Thin Provisioning
- Deduplication and Compression
- Flash Efficiency
- FlexClone Volumes
Module 10: Cluster Maintenance
- Data collection, Monitoring and Automation Tools
- Backing up and Restore Cluster Configuration
- Upgrading your Cluster
- Performance Recommended Practices
- Technical Support
- Documentation
Module 11: Course Review
ONTAP9ADM 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
- Encrypting a volume
- Managing storage efficiency
- Managing FlexClone volumes
- Bonus Exercise: creating a FlexGroup volume
- Installing and configuring Config Advisor