ONTAP Performance Analysis (PERFCDOT)

  • Duration: 3 days (24 hours)
  • Date: on request

ONTAP Performance Analysis (PERFCDOT)

This course will help:
  • Gain the knowledge and skills needed to analyze performance and performance issues of ONTAP storage systems and use performance monitoring tools and techniques to troubleshoot various storage components
  • Understand the operation of a storage system running ONTAP 9 features and learn how to identify storage system performance issues
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Course syllabus:

  • Basic Concepts of Performance
  • Performance Monitoring Methodology
  • Performance terminology
  • Using Active IQ Unified Manager
  • FAS and AFF Architecture
  • Data Flow
  • NVRAM Functionality
  • WAFL Functions
  • WAFL Readahead
  • Resolving WAFL issues
  • Identifying CPU Performance Bottlenecks
  • Resolving CPU Performance Bottlenecks
  • Identifying Memory Performance Bottlenecks
  • Resolving Memory Performance Bottlenecks
  • Disk Subsystem Hardware
  • Analyzing and Isolating Disk Subsystem Bottlenecks
  • Analyzing Disk Subsystem Bottlenecks with Statit
  • Resolving Disk Subsystem Bottlenecks
  • Cache Subsystem
  • Cache Subsystem Overview
  • Flash Cache Feature
  • Flash Pool Feature
  • Flash Cache Policies and Flash Pool Policies
  • Storage Pool
  • Cache Sizing
  • Storage Quality of Service
  • Managing System Performance with QoS
  • NAS Subsystem
  • NAS functions
  • Identifying NAS Bottlenecks
  • Resolving NAS Bottlenecks
  • SAN Subsystem
  • SAN Overview
  • SAN Multipathing
  • SAN load balancing
  • SAN I/O Misalignment
  • Queue depth

You will learn:

  • Describe how to use NetApp tools for performance measurement
  • Describe the layers within the ONTAP architecture
  • Diagram the flow of read and write requests through the network and data layers of ONTAP software
  • Discuss how storage quality of service (QoS) operates in an ONTAP cluster
  • Explain how to monitor and manage workload performance
  • Use the performance analysis tools to identify NAS and SAN performance obstacles

Pre-requisites:

Students should be familiar with the basics of operation and administration of the ONTAP cluster, and also have at least six months of experience working with ONTAP software.

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