3 day Cluster Administration
Module 1: NetApp ONTAP 9 Clusters
• ONTAP deployment options
• The ONTAP cluster
• Storage VMs
• Software-defined storage
Module 2: Cluster Setup
• Supported ONTAP cluster configurations
• Setting up a cluster
• Administration interfaces
Exercises
Exploring ONTAP management UIs
Module 3: Cluster Management
• Access control
• ONTAP licensing
• Policies and schedules
Exercises
Managing ONTAP clusters
Managing ONTAP administrators
Configuring multi-admin verification
Module 4:Network management
• NetApp ONTAP network review
• Network ports
• Network traffic segregation
• LIFs
• Nondisruptive LIF configuration
• Network security
• Routing management
Exercises
Managing physical and logical network resources
Managing virtual network resources
Module 5:Physical Storage Management
• Drives, RAID, and aggregates
• Advanced Disk Partitioning
• Flash Cache and Flash Pool features
• FabricPool aggregates
Exercises
Managing physical storage
Exploring RAID-TEC
Creating a Flash Pool aggregate
Creating a FabricPool aggregate
Module 6: Logical Storage Management
• Managing physical storage
• Exploring RAID-TEC
• Creating a Flash Pool aggregate
• Creating a FabricPool aggregate
Exercises
Managing data volumes
Creating a FlexGroup volume
Module 7: Data Access
• Use NAS protocols to access data
• Use SAN protocols to access data
• Use object protocols to access data
Exercises
Configuring the NFS protocol in a storage VM
Configuring the SMB protocol in a storage VM
Configuring iSCSI in a storage VM
Configuring NVMe in a storage VM
Configuring the S3 protocol in a storage VM
Managing NAS storage VMs
Module 8: Data Protection
• Manage Snapshot copies
• Restore data from a Snapshot copy
• Back up and replicate data
• Compliance
• Storage encryption
• Ransomware protection
Exercises
Managing Snapshot copies
Encrypting a volume
Enabling anti-ransomware protection
Module 9: Storage Efficiency
• Thin provisioning
• Deduplication and compression
• Flash efficiency
• Logical space reporting
• Volume and file clones
Exercises
Managing storage efficiency
Managing FlexClone volumes
Module 10: Cluster Maintenance
• Data collection, monitoring, and automation tools
• Backing up and restoring your cluster configuration
• Upgrading your cluster
• Recommended practices for performance
• Technical support
Exercises
Installing and configuring Active IQ Config Advisor
2 day Data Protection
Module 0: Welcome and Getting Started
• Data protection introduction
• ONTAP data protection solutions
• ONTAP management solutions
Exercises
Checking the exercise equipment
Module 1: SnapMirror Fundamentals
• SnapMirror overview
• Configuring SnapMirror relationships
• Guidelines for intercluster networking
• Cluster and storage VM peering
Exercises
Configuring cluster peering and storage VM peering
Module 2: SnapMirror for Disaster Recovery and Backup
• SnapMirror for FlexVol volumes
• SnapMirror configuration considerations
• SnapMirror for disaster recovery
• SnapMirror for backup
• Interaction between SnapMirror and other ONTAP features
• S3 SnapMirror
• FabricPool
Exercises
• Using SnapMirror to mirror FlexVol volumes
• Performing SnapMirror disaster recovery
• Configuring SnapMirror for unified replication
• Restoring data from a Snapshot copy
• Configuring cluster and storage VM peering for a cascade relationship (optional)
• Configuring a cascade relationship(optional)
Module 3: SnapMirror Synchronous for Disaster Recovery
• SnapMirror Synchronous
• Configuring SnapMirror Synchronous for disaster recovery
• Additional SnapMirror Synchronous configuration
Exercises
Configuring a SnapMirror Synchronous relationship
Module 4: Storage VM Disaster Recovery (SVM DR)
• SVM DR introduction
• SVM DR requirements and configuration
• SVM data mobility
Exercises
Configuring storage VM data recovery
Module 5: ONTAP Backup and Archive Solutions
• NDMP fundamentals
• NDMP topologies
• NDMP management
Module 6: Cloud-based Data Protection
• SnapMirror Cloud
• Cloud Volumes ONTAP
• Data protection with NetApp BlueXP
Module 7: ONTAP Business Continuity Solutions
• MetroCluster fundamentals
• MetroCluster operations
• Consistency group management
• SnapMirror Business Continuity introduction
• SnapMirror Business Continuity configuration
• Failover operations and failure scenarios
