ONTAP Hardware Troubleshooting (ONTAPHWTS) – Outline

Detailed Course Outline

Module 1: Storage controller

  • System categories
  • Storage controller components
  • System memory
  • Fans, PSUs, and LEDs
  • SP and BMC
  • Model-specific I/O expansion
  • Add-on cards
  • HA interconnect

Module 2: Storage

  • Storage shelves
  • Shelf components
  • Shelf cables
  • Disk drives and IOMs
  • Shelf cabling
  • Shelf protocols
  • Logs

Module 3: Disks

  • Disk types
  • Disk interfaces
  • Encryption
  • Disk ownership
  • Common disk issues and error recovery
  • Maintenance Center

Module 4: RAID

  • ONTAP RAID types
  • RAID reconstruction
  • Drive spares
  • ADP
  • RAID labels
  • RAID and media scrubbing
  • ASA r2

Module 5: High availability

  • NVRAM mirroring
  • Mailbox disks
  • Failover and giveback
  • Disk ownership
  • Nonmaskable Interrupts and hardware panics

Module 6: Cluster high availability

  • Quorum and replicated databases
  • Cluster high availability
  • Epsilon
  • Cluster switches and network connectivity
  • Switch vendor support

Module 7: Firmware

  • Automatic System Manager firmware updates
  • Disk firmware upgrades
  • IOM firmware upgrades
  • SP and BMC firmware
  • BIOS upgrades and issues
  • Add-on PCIe card firmware upgrades

Module 8: AutoSupport

  • AutoSupport
  • Automatically created cases

Module 9: Tools

  • Fix It
  • Dexter
  • Active IQ
  • Hardware Universe and IMT
  • Net2