ONTAP Cluster Administration and Data Protection Bundle (CDOTDP9) – Outline

Detailed Course Outline

ONTAP9ADM:

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
  • 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
  • Performance Recommended Practices


ONTAP9ADM Labs:

  • Exploring ONTAP Management UIs
  • Managing ONTAP clusters and administrators
  • Managing physical and logical network resources
  • Managing virtual network resources
  • Managing physical storage
  • Exploring RAID-TEC and creating a flash pool aggregate
  • Creating a FabricPool aggregate
  • Managing data volumes
  • Configuring the NFS protocol in a storage VM
  • Conifguring the SMB protocol in a storage VM
  • Configuring iSCSI in an SVM
  • Configuring NVMe in a storage VM
  • Configuring the S3 protocol in a storage VM
  • Managing NAS storage VMs
  • Managing Snapshot copies
  • Encrypting a volume
  • Configuring anti-ransomware protection
  • Managing storage efficiency
  • Managing FlexClone volumes
  • Creating a FlexGroup volume
  • Installing and configuring Active IQ Config Advisor

ONTAP Data Protection

Module 1: Overview of ONTAP data protection

  • Data protection introduction
  • ONTAP Data Protection Solutions
  • ONTAP Management Solutions

Module 2: SnapMirror Fundamentals

  • SnapMirror Overview
  • Configuring SnapMirror Relationships
  • Guidelines for Intercluster Networking
  • Cluster and Storage VM Peering

Module 3: SnapMirror for disaster recovery and backup

  • SnapMirror for FlexVol volumes
  • SnapMirror configuration considerations
  • Using SnapMirror for volumes
  • Interaction between SnapMirror and other ONTAP features
  • S3 SnapMirror
  • FabricPool
  • Load-sharing mirrors
  • Addendum: SnapMirror and other data protection feature interaction

Module 4: SnapMirror Synchronous for disaster recovery

  • SnapMirror Synchronous
  • Configuring SnapMirror Synchronous
  • Additional SnapMirror Synchronous configuration

Module 5: Storage VM Disaster Recovery (SVM DR)

  • SVM DR Overview
  • SVM DR requirements and configuration
  • SVM data mmobility

Module 6: ONTAP backup and archive solutions

  • NDMP fundamentals
  • NDMP topologies
  • NDMP management
  • Addendum: NetApp SnapCenter

Module 7: Cloud-based data protection

  • Cloud Volumes ONTAP
  • SnapMirror Cloud
  • Cloud Backup Service
  • ONTAP data protection with cloud volumes

Module 8: ONTAP business continuity solutions

  • MetroCluster funamentals
  • Metrocluster operations
  • Consistency group management
  • SnapMirror Business Continuity introduction
  • SnapMirror Business Continuity configuration
  • Failover operations and failure scenarios
  • Addendum: SyncMirror feature


ONTAP Data Protection Labs:

  • Configuring cluster peering and Storage VM peering
  • Using SnapMirror software to mirror FlexVol volumes
  • Performing SnapMirror disaster recovery
  • Configuring SnapMirror for unified replication
  • Restoring data from a Snapshot copy
  • Configuring a load-sharing mirror relationship
  • Configuring cluster and storage VM peering for a cascade relationship
  • Configuring a cascade relationship
  • Configuring a SnapMirror synchronous relationship
  • Configuring SVM DR