ONTAP Cluster Fundamentals

NetApp Employees, Partners and Clients with the following job roles..

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• Administrator
• Architect
• Operator
• Engineer

• Outline the components of a cluster and its features
• Discuss how to manage cluster setup, storage provisioning, and data protection
• Identify the networks, ports, IPspaces, broadcast domains, and network interfaces that the clusters use
• Discuss storage VMs (storage virtual machines, also known as SVMs) and how FlexVol volumes provide flexibility in managing data
• Use tools and features that are used to identify and resolve cluster issues

No course pre-requisites

Module 1 - Overview

• Describe the enterprise storage essential concepts

• Explain the value NetApp brings to storage architectures with NetApp ONTAP

• Introduce NetApp BlueXP as the interface for ONTAP-powered evolved cloud

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Module 2 - Architecture

• Review key ONTAP terms

• Examine ONTAP architecture

• Explain the types of ONTAP cluster configuration

Exercises

- Exploring ONTAP Architecture using the command line interface

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Module 3 - Management

• Describe the Administrative roles

;• Review the Administrative interfaces

• Examine proactive monitoring and management interfaces

Exercises

- Exploring ONTAP UIs

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Module 4 - ONTAP Networks

• Describe the storage networks that supports an ONTAP cluster

• Explain the types of interfaces used in storage networks

• Examine how ONTAP support multitenancy in data networks

• Illustrate how logical interfaces provide data access

Exercises

- Managing Network Resources

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Module 5 - ;Storage Virtual Machines

• Describe a storage virtual machine

• Explain how volumes are used by SVMs to manage data

• Illustrate how storage efficiencies provide value to storage administrators

• Examine how to create and configure an SVM

• List data protection techniques available to protect an SVM's data

Exercises

Introducing Storage Virtual Machines

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Module 6 - Maintenance ;

• Describe the types of nondisruptive upgrades and maintaining current firmware

• Examine cluster performance concepts

• Explain techniques for proactively monitoring and management an ONTAP cluster

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