Description
Who should attend
NetApp customers, IT generalists, and academic alliance students
Prerequisites
A basic knowledge of storage networking
Course Objectives
- List the steps to create and configure a cluster
- Identify the methods to manage a cluster
- Describe IPspaces, broadcast domains, and subnets
- Describe SVM benefits, components, and features
- Describe FlexVol volumes and efficiency features
- Describe methods to access files in a cluster
Follow On Courses
ONTAP Cluster Administration (ONTAP9ADM)
Outline: Basic NetApp Configuration and Administration (BNCA)
Module 1: ONTAP Cluster Fundamentals: Clusters
- Cluster components
- ONTAP 9 software
- Cluster
- Nodes
- High-Availability pairs
- Networks
- Ports and logical interfaces
- ONTAP storage architecture
- Physical Storage
- Aggregates
- Logical storage
- SVM with FlexVol volumes
- Cluster configurations
- ONTAP 9 software deployments
- All Flash FAS and FAS
- FlexPod solution
- FlexArray virtualization
- ONTAP Select
- NetApp Provate Storage (NPS)
- ONTAP Cloud
- Supported cluster configuration
- Single node
- 2-note switchless
- Multimode switched
- MetroCluster
- Create a cluster
Module 2: ONTAP Cluster Fundamentals: Management
- Administrators
- Cluster administrators
- SVM administrators
- Accessing the cluster
- Command line interface (CLI)
- OnCommand System Manager
- Managing clusters
- Clustershell
- System manager dashboard
- OnCommand Management portfolio
- Configuring clusters
- Managing cluster access
- User accounts
- Access method
- User role
- Predefined SVM roles
- Monitoring clusters
- AutoSupport
- OnCommand portfolio
Module 3: ONTAP Cluster Fundamentals: Networking
- Management and data networks
- Ports and logical interfaces
- Physical ports
- Interface groups
- VLANs
- Network ports
- IPspaces
- Components
- Broadcast domains
- Subnets
- Network interfaces
- Data LIFs
Module 4: ONTAP Cluster Fundamentals: Storage Virtual Machines
- Data SVM
- Benefits
- Considerations
- SVM with FlexVol volumes
- FlexGroup volume
- Root volume
- Administration
- FlexVol volumes
- Snapshot technology
- Volume efficiency
- Deduplication
- Data compression
- Inline data compaction
- Moving volumes
- Cloning volumes
- SVM setup workflow
- Editing an SVM
- Configuring SVMs
Module 5: ONTAP NAS Fundamentals
- NAS
- Overview
- FlexVol volme
- Controlling file acess
- SVM namespace
- Root volume and junctions
- Namespace architecture
- Namespace protection
- NFS protocol
- Overview
- Configure NFS file access
- UNIX file permissions
- SMB protocol
- Overview
- Configure SMB file access
Module 6: ONTAP SAN Fundamentals
- SAN
- Overview
- Protocols: FC, iSCSI FCoE
- SCSI concepts
- LUN
- IP SAN nodes and ports
- Implementing a SAN
- Steps
- Interoperability matrix tool
- Host utilities
- IP SAN
- Architecture
- Configurations
- IP SAN target configuration
- IP SAN initiator configuration
- LUN access steps
- Preparation
- Thick provisioning
- Thin provisioning
- Configuration decision
- Create a LUN
- Initiator group
- Map a LUN
- Verification
- Window multipath driver overview
Labs:
- Navigating the NetApp OnCommand System Manager
- Updating NetApp Oncommand System Manager administration settings
- Synchronize the system time for Windows domain
- Assign an NTP server to the cluster
- Networking ports
- IPspaces
- Network interfaces
- Components and features
- FlexVol volumes
- Volume move
- Creating and managing SVMs
- Explore ONTAP NAS configuration
- Explore SMB client configuration
- Explore the NFS client configuration
- Explore ONTAP IP SAN configuration
- Explore the iSCSI client configuration
