ONTAP 9.3 Cluster Administration and Data Protection (CDOTDP9)

ONTAP Cluster Administration

Module 1: ONTAP 9

• Data Fabric foundation
• ONTAP deployment options
• Software Defined storage
• Cluster components
• Storage Virtual Machine (SVM)

Module 2: Cluster Setup

• Supported FAS and all Flash FAS configurations
• Cluster setup
• Administration interfaces
• OnCommand System Manager

Module 3: Cluster Management

• Manage access control
• Configure cluster setting
• Manage cluster-level features
• Date and time
• Licenses
• Policies, jobs and schedules

Module 4: Network Management

• Network review
• Network ports
• IPspaces
• LIFs
• Nondisruptive LIF configuration
• Routing management

Module 5: Physical Storage Management

• Architecture concepts
• Storage resources
  • Disks
  • RAID groups
  • Aggregates
• Disk partitioning
• Flash pool and Flash cache
• FabricPool aggregates

Module 6: Logical Storage Management

• Flexible volumes
  • FlexVol
  • FlexGroup
• Provisioning storage resources
• Moving storage resources

Module 7: Managing Data

• Unified storage
• NAS protocols
  • NFS
  • SMB
• SAN protocols
  • iSCSI
• Managing Snapshot copies
• Snapshot policy
• Restoring data from Snapshot copy

Module 8: Storage Efficiency

• Thin provisioning
• Deduplication and compression
• Flash efficiency
• Inline data compaction
• FlexClone volumes

Module 9: Cluster Maintenance

• Active IQ
• Upgrading the cluster
• Events and alerts
• Performance best practices
• Technical support

Labs:

• Exploring ONTAP management UIs
• Managing ONTAP clusters and administrators
• Managing physical and logical network resources
• Managing virtual network resources
• Managing physical storage
• Exploring RAID-TEC and creating a flash pool
• Managing data volumes
• Configuring NAS protocols in an SVM
• Configuring iSCSI in an SVM
• Managing Snapshot copies
• Managing storage efficiency
• Managing FlexClone volumes
• Exploring the event log

ONTAP Data Protection

Module 1: ONTAP Integrated Data Protection

• Overview
• Data protection solutions
• Integrated data protection features
• Monitor and manage solutions

Module 2: NetApp Mirroring Fundamentals

• Mirror relationship components
• SnapMirror policy configuration
• intercluster network configurations
• SnapMirror and SnapVault cascade deployments
• Cluster and SVM peering

Module 3: Implementation of SanpMirror Relationships

• Creating and initializing the SnapMirror relationship
• Disaster recovery
• SnapMirror and ONTAP feature interaction

Module 4: Disaster Recovery for Storage Virtual Machines

• SVM disaster recovery requirements
• SVM for data protection
• Manual SVM update
• Scheduled SMV updates

Module 5: Disk-To-Disk Backup with SnapVault Software

• SnapVault relationship
• SnapVault and storage compression
• Restoring data using SnapVault

Module 6: SyncMirror and MetroCluster Software

• SyncMirror components
• SyncMirror operation
• MetroCluster overview
• MetroCluster switchover, healing and switchback

Module 7: NDMP and Tape Backup

• NDMP fundamentals
• Terms and concepts
• Backup models
• NDMP management

Labs:

• Preparing for mirror relationships
• Using SnapMirror software to mirror FlexVol volumes
• Performing SnapMirror disaster recovery
• Using FlexClone technology to clone a SnapMirror volume
• Configuring storage virtual machine disaster recovery
• Configuring the SnapVault relationship
• Using SnapVault to restore data