ONTAP SMB Administration (CIFSAD)

  • Duration: 1 day (8 hours)
  • Date: on request

ONTAP SMB Administration (CIFSAD)

This course will help:
  • Gain the knowledge and skills needed to configure an SMB client for NetApp ONTAP 9.9.1 software
  • Learn about ONTAP 9 advanced features that support SMB protocol
  • Learn to set up secure SMB sessions
  • Understand the CIFS and SMB protocols
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Course syllabus:

  • Interfaces for managing ONTAP based systems
  • SMB implementation
  • Addendum: Create a FlexGroup volume
  • SMB shares and sessions
  • Share configuration
  • Continuously available shares
  • Client share access
  • Session management
  • Permissions
  • Local authorization
  • Additional access-control features
  • Multiprotocol NAS in ONTAP software
  • Addendum: Dynamic Access Control
  • Home shares
  • Group Policy Objects
  • Symlinks and wide links
  • Addendum: Auditing
  • Addendum: Opportunistic locks
  • BranchCache
  • Addendum: FlexCache volumes

You will learn:

  • Explain the CIFS and SMB protocol
  • List the interfaces that you use to manage NetApp ONTAP software
  • Configure SMB features in ONTAP 9 software
  • Create and manage SMB shares and sessions
  • Configure ONTAP software for multiprotocol data access
  • Comprehend advanced SMB topics, such as Group Policy, automatic home shares, symbolic links (symlinks), and wide links

Pre-requisites:

This course requires students to have completed the ONTAP Cluster Administration (ONTAP9ADM) course or equivalent knowledge, as well as experience with Microsoft Windows Server 2012 and Microsoft Active Directory.