ONTAP MetroCluster Installation
WGAC-NTP-MCCIIW
Schedule
Description
Module 1: Overview of MetroCluster
- Introduction to MetroCluster software
- Supported configurations
- Implementation steps
- Configuration tools and documentation
Module 2: MetroCluster Cabling
- Disk requirements
- Cabling overview
- Controller cabling
- Switch cabling
Module 3: Bridge and Switch Configuration
- ATTO FibreBridge configuration
- Brocade FC switch configuration
- IOD and OOD delivery
Module 4: Cluster Configuration
- Disk assignment
- Cluster setup
Module 5: MetroCluster Configuration
- Setup
- Verification
- Monitoring
- SVM configuration
Module 6: Failure Scenarios
- Switchover
- Switchback
- Failure scenarios
- LIF placement
Module 7: TieBreaker Configuration
- Introduction to TieBreaker
- Installation
- Configuration
Appendix A: Advanced Administration
- Transitioning
- Reallocating free space
- Performance testing
- NDU in a MetroCluster environment
- Integrating with vSphere 6
- Comparing features
- Scaling out
- Controller upgrades
- NVRAM allocation
Appendix B: Basic MetroCluster Troubleshooting
Appendix C: Front-End FC Fabrics in a MetroCluster Environment
Appendix D: FlexPod in an AFF MetroCluster Envronment
- FlexPod solution
- MetroCluster FlexPod architecture
- vMSC Validation: failure scenarios and behavior
Appendix E: The ProLion ClusterLion Solution
- ClusterLion: alternative to TieBreaker
Appendix F: Brocade Network Advisor
Labs:
- MetroCluster cabling
- Bridge and switch verification and configuration
- Cluster configuration
- MetroCluster configuration and verification
- Failover scenarios
- TieBreaker configuration
- and OR
- Basic SAN knowledge
- Completion of ONTAP PS Professional Compliance Program or an equivalent program
By the end of this course, you should be able to:
- Describe the major architectural components of a MetroCluster environment
- Cable nodes, back-end FC switches and FibreBridge devices
- Set up bridges and back-end FC switches
- Configure the clusters at both sites in a MetroCluster environment
- Set up a MetroCluster configuration and serve data to clients
- Detect and recover from failures in a MetroCluster environment
- Install and configure Tiebreaker software
MetroCluster software is a unique high-availability and disaster-recovery solution. In this course, you learn how to cable and set up a MetroCluster environment. Using active, participatory exercises, you practice the configuration and verification steps. You also learn how to identify component failures and practice recovery steps
- and OR
- Basic SAN knowledge
- Completion of ONTAP PS Professional Compliance Program or an equivalent program