ONTAP Cluster Administration (ONTAP9ADM)

This course will help:
  • Gain the knowledge and skills necessary to administer, maintain, and maintain an ONTAP 9.9 cluster.
  • Prepare for the NetApp Certified Storage Installation Engineer (NCSIE), ONTAP and NetApp Certified Data Administrator, ONTAP certifications
  • Understand how ONTAP fits into NetApp’s Cloud and Data Fabric strategy

Course syllabus:

  • NetApp ONTAP 9 Clusters
  • ONTAP deployment options
  • The ONTAP cluster
  • Storage VMs
  • Software-defined storage
  • Cluster Setup
  • Supported ONTAP cluster configurations
  • Setting up a Cluster
  • Administration Interfaces
  • ONTAP licensing
  • Policies and Schedules
  • Physical storage management
  • Drives, RAID, and aggregates
  • Advanced Disk Partitioning
  • Flash Cache and Flash Pool features
  • FabricPool aggregates
  • Logical Storage Management
  • Flexible Volumes
  • FlexGroup volumes
  • FlexCache volumes
  • Moving Storage Resources
  • Storage Efficiency
  • Thin provisioning
  • Deduplication and compression
  • Flash efficiency
  • Volume and file clones
  • Network Management
  • NetApp ONTAP Network Review
  • Network Ports
  • Network Traffic Segregation
  • Logical network interfaces
  • Nondisruptive LIF configuration
  • Network security
  • Routing Management
  • NAS Data Access
  • Using NAS protocols to access data
  • Use the NFS protocol to access data
  • Use the SMB protocol to access data
  • Use the S3 protocol to access data
  • SAN data access
  • Use SAN protocols to access data
  • Use the iSCSI protocol to access data
  • Use the FC protocol to access data
  • Use the NVMe protocol to access data
  • Data Protection
  • Manage Snapshot Copies
  • Restore data from a Snapshot copy
  • Backup and replicate data
  • Compliance
  •  ONTAP security
  • Access control
  • Storage encryption
  • Ransomware protection
  • Cluster Maintenance
  • Data collection, monitoring and automation tools
  • Upgrading your cluster
  • Technical support

You will learn:

  • Define NetApp ONTAP cluster components
  • Describe the role of a storage VM (storage virtual machine, also known as SVM) in the NetApp storage architecture
  • Configure an ONTAP cluster
  • Configure and manage both networking and storage resources
  • Create and configure a storage VM
  • Create, manage, and protect NetApp FlexVol volumes
  • Implement storage efficiency features
  • Manage ONTAP administrator access and user accounts
  • Maintain NetApp storage systems

Pre-requisites:

Students should be familiar with ONTAP cluster basics, ONTAP NAS basics, and ONTAP SAN basics.

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