Objectives

This course focuses on enabling you to do the following:

• Outline the components of a cluster and its features
• Articulate how to manage storage provisioning and data protection
• Identify the networks, ports, IPspaces, broadcast domains, and network interfaces that clusters use
• Explain storage VMs (storage virtual machines, also known as SVMs) and how FlexVol® volumes provide flexibility in managing data
• Use tools and features to identify and resolve cluster issues

Role

Administrator, engineer, architect, and operator

Prerequisites

None

Course Content

Module 0: Welcome

• Welcome
• Introduction
• Course agenda

Exercises

• Checking the exercise equipment

Module 1: Introduction

• Storage essentials
• Storage and data management solutions
• BlueXP

Module 2: NetApp storage system architecture

• Key ONTAP terms
• Cluster configurations
• ONTAP software architecture
• WAFL
• ONTAP in a hybrid cloud

Module 3: Management

• Administrative roles
• Administrative interfaces
• ONTAP System Manager
• Active IQ Unified Manager
• SnapCenter
• ONTAP RESTful APIs and toolkits
• BlueXP

Exercises

• Exploring ONTAP architecture using the CLI
• Exploring NetApp BlueXP

Module 4: ONTAP networks

• Storage networks
• Types of ports
• Multitenancy networks
• Logical interfaces

Exercises

• Managing network resources

Module 5: Storage VMs

• Storage VMs
• Volumes
• Efficiency features
• Create and configure
• Data protection techniques
• NAS client access

Exercises

• Introducing storage VMs