StorageGRID Software Troubleshooting

Course code

TROSGRID

Duration

3 Days, 24 Acad. Hours

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Course Overview

Objectives

Prerequisites

Course Outline

Course Overview

In this course, you learn troubleshooting skills to support the implementation and lifecycle management of NetApp® StorageGRID® software. Through theoretical explanations and hands-on exercises, you learn and control the architecture, options, services, and features of the StorageGRID system. You learn the security and authentication mechanisms, logging and monitoring resources, and Apache Cassandra implementation. You also learn the processes to
expand and upgrade the system. Finally, you learn about FabricPool technology and investigate Simple Storage Service (S3) issues.

Training Units: 36

Objectives

This course focuses on enabling you to do the following:

• Understand the networking architecture of a StorageGRID deployment
• Describe the load-balancing features of StorageGRID
• Review the StorageGRID services and ports
• Understand the impact of the StorageGRID options
• Understand the Cassandra implementation in StorageGRID
• Review the StorageGRID security and authentication mechanisms
• Define the StorageGRID logging and monitoring resources
• Review the expansion and upgrade processes
• Examine FabricPool technology with StorageGRID
• Investigate S3 issues with StorageGRID

Prerequisites

Audience
Professionals and engineers who use or implement StorageGRID solutions (from all audience types)

Job Role
Systems administrator, operator, engineer

Prerequisites
• 6 to 12 months of StorageGRID experience
• The NetApp StorageGRID Implementation Engineer accreditation
• Good knowledge of Simple Storage Service (S3)
• StorageGRID Troubleshooting Essentials
• DataStax DS101 and DS201 training courses

Course Outline

Module 1: StorageGRID networking

StorageGRID network topology

Exercises

Examining StorageGRID network architecture

Module 2: StorageGRID software concepts

• Grid node services
• Managing node services
• StorageGRID configuration options

Exercises

Exploring nodetool commands

Module 3: StorageGRID logging and monitoring

• StorageGRID service log files
• StorageGRID audit logging
• Log analysis
• Log forwarding

Exercises

Managing StorageGRID logs

Module 4: Troubleshooting Cassandra

• Cassandra fundamentals
• Cassandra startup
• Nodetool

Exercises

Examining Cassandra fundamentals

Module 5: Troubleshooting StorageGRID decommission, expansion, and upgrade

• StorageGRID decommissioning
• StorageGRID expansion process and issues
• StorageGRID major version upgrade

Exercises

Decommissioning and upgrading

Module 6: StorageGRID authentication and user management

• StorageGRID authorization and authentication
• StorageGRID multitenancy implementation

Exercises

Configuring StorageGRID authentication

Module 7: Troubleshooting StorageGRID security issues

• StorageGRID security
• StorageGRID system hardening
• Certificate-related Issues

Exercises

Troubleshooting StorageGRID authorization

Module 8: StorageGRID performance troubleshooting

• StorageGRID performance factors
• Identify performance bottlenecks

Exercises

Examining StorageGRID performance details

Module 9: ONTAP FabricPool with StorageGRID

• FabricPool object store
• Investigate object store unavailability
• Troubleshooting connection issues
• Object store access issues

Exercises

Troubleshooting ONTAP FabricPool technology

Module 10: Troubleshoot S3 client and application issues

• Troubleshoot S3 request failures
• S3 request logging

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StorageGRID Software Troubleshooting

Course code:

TROSGRID

Duration:

3 Days, 24 Acad. Hours

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