ONTAP Cluster Administration

Module 1: NetApp ONTAP 9 Clusters

• ONTAP deployment options
• The ONTAP cluster
• Storage VMs
• Software-defined storage

Module 2: Cluster Setup

• Supported ONTAP cluster configurations
• Setting up a Cluster
• Administration Interfaces

Module 3: Cluster Management

• Access control
• ONTAP licensing
• Policies and Schedules

Module 4: Network Management

• NetApp ONTAP Network Review
• Network Ports
• Network Traffic Segregation
• LIFs
• Nondisruptive LIF configuration
• Network security
• Routing Management

Module 5: Physical Storage Management

• Drives, RAID and Aggregates
• Advanced Drive Partitioning
• Flash Cache and Flash Pool features
• FabricPool Aggregates

Module 6: Logical Storage Management

• Flexible Volumes
• FlexGroup volumes
• FlexCache volumes
• Moving Storage Resources

Module 7: Data Access

• Using NAS protocols to access data
• Use SAN protocols to access data
• Use object protocols to access data

Module 8: Data Protection

• Manage Snapshot Copies
• Restore data from a Snapshot copy
• Backup and replicate data
• Compliance
• Storage encryption
• Ransomware protection

Module 9: Storage Efficiency

• Thin provisioning
• Deduplication and compression
• Flash efficiency
• Logical space reporting
• Volume and file clones

Module 10: Cluster Maintenance

• Data collection, monitoring and automation tools
• Backing up and restoring your cluster configuration
• Upgrading your cluster
• Recommended practices for performance
• Technical support
• Documentation

Module 11: Course Review and post-class assessment

• ONTAP Cluster Fundamentals (web-based training [WBT])
• ONTAP NAS Fundamentals (WBT)
• ONTAP SAN Fundamentals (WBT)

This course focuses on enabling you to do the following:

• Define 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 storage resources
• Configure and manage networking 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

In this course, you learn the basic administration tasks of a NetApp® ONTAP® 9.11 cluster. You use the clustershell and NetApp ONTAP System Manager to manage cluster storage and network resources. The course explains the configuration of basic data protection and data efficiency functions and common cluster maintenance tasks.