
ONTAP 9.3 Cluster Administration and Data Protection (CDOTDP9)
Detailed Course Outline
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