ONTAP SAN Administration
Course code
SANADM
Duration
2 Days, 16 Acad. Hours
Course Overview
Objectives
Prerequisites
Course Outline
Course Overview
Explore block-level protocols, including FC, FCoE, iSCSI, NVMe over FCoE (NVMe/FC), and NVMe over TCP (NVMe/TCP), on Microsoft Windows Server, Linux, and VMware ESXi host operating systems. Examine how to administer, configure, and manage NetApp® ONTAP® data management software for a SAN environment. This course focuses on ONTAP 9 functionality and includes lectures and hands-on exercises.
Training units: 24
Objectives
This course focuses on enabling you to do the following:
- Illustrate SAN configuration and LUN provisioning
- Explain ONTAP block protocol features and recommendations
- Demonstrate volume and LUN space efficiency configurations in a SAN environment
- Discover ONTAP availability strategies and data protection for LUNs
- Outline SAN performance considerations
- Perform SAN-specific manageability configurations
- Describe Foreign LUN Import and explore use cases
Prerequisites
Role
Administrator, engineer, and architect
Prerequisites
- Working knowledge of ONTAP 9 software and SAN
- ONTAP Cluster Fundamentals
- ONTAP SAN Fundamentals
- ONTAP Cluster Administration
Course Outline
Module 1: NetApp ONTAP SAN fundamentals review
- Introduction to SAN
- SAN scalability and maximums
Exercises
- Configuring initial settings
Module 2: NetApp ONTAP SAN resource provisioning
- Volume and LUN provisioning
- Additional ONTAP CLI considerations
Module 3: NetApp ONTAP storage VM administration
- Storage VM creation workflow
- LUN creation
- NVMe namespaces and subsystems
- iSCSI, FC, NVMe/FC, and NVMe/TCP recommended guidelines
- iSCSI security and networking
Exercises
- Creating LUNs
- Managing iSCSI configurations
- Managing FC configurations
- Managing NVMe/TCP configurations
Module 4: SAN availability and data protection
- High availability and host multipathing
- Data protection in SAN environments
Exercises
- Examining multipathing
Module 5: Management of NetApp ONTAP SAN environments
- LUN mobility
- Volume and LUN reconfiguration
- SAN performance recommendations
Exercises
- Managing an ONTAP SAN environment
Appendix: SAN migration with Foreign LUN Import
