NetApp Storage
Module 1: The NetApp Storage Environment
- Key features and functions
- Advantages
- Distinguish between NAS and SAN topologies
- Describe NetApp Unified Storage Architecture
Module 2: WAFL Simplified
- WAFL (Write Anywhere File Layout) file system
- WAFL file system concepts
- including consistency points (CPs)
- RAID management, and storage levels
- RAID is used to protect disk data
- WAFL file system processes write and read requests
Module 3: Basic Administration
- Connect remotely to a FAS system
- Using the console and a remote host
- Access NetApp System Manager
- Execute commands
- Use commands to analyze a FAS system
- Configure and manage the NetApp AutoSupport tool
Module 4: Physical Storage
- Data ONTAP RAID technology
- Identify a disk in a disk shelf based on its ID
- Execute commands to determine a disk ID
- Identify a hot-spark disk in a FAS system
- Describe the effects of using multiple disk types
- Create a 32-bit aggregate and a 64-bit aggregate
- Execute aggregate commands
- Calculate usable disk space
Module 5: Logical Storage
- Volumes in the Data ONTAP operating system
- Define and create a flexible volume
- Execute vol commands
- Define and create qtrees
Module 6: Administration Security
- Restrict administrative access
- Restrict console and NSM access
- Configure a client machine
Module 7: Networking
- Identify the configuration of network settings
- Components in the Data ONTAP operating system
- Explain and configure name resolution services
- Configure routing tables in the Data ONTAP OS
- Define and create interface groups
- Discuss the operation of virtual LANs (VLANs)
Module 8: NFS
- NFS implementation in the Data ONTAP O/S
- License NFS on a storage system
- Explain the purpose and format of /etc/ exports
- List and define the export specification options
- Describe the use of the exportfs command
- Mount an export on a UNIX host
Module 9: CIFS
- Describe the CIFS environment
- Configure the storage system
- Share a resource on the storage system
- Map a drive from a client
Module 10: NAS Management
- Security methods for protecting data
- Security style setting for a volume and a qtree
- Tracking and restricting storage usage
- Explain, create, and manage quotas
- Data ONTAP FPolicy file-screening policy
Module 11: SAN
- Explain the purpose of a SAN
- Identify supported SAN configurations
- Distinguish between Fibre Channel (FC)
- Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and
- iSCSI protocols
- Define a LUN and explain LUN attributes
- Use the LUN setup command
- Create iSCSI-attached LUNs
- Access and manage a LUN from a Windows host
- Define SnapDrive data management software
Module 12: Snapshot Copies
- Describe the function of Snapshot copies
- Explain the benefits of Snapshot copies
- Identify and execute Snapshot commands
- Create and delete Snapshot copies
- Configure and modify Snapshot options
- Explain the importance of the .snapshot directory
- Schedule Snapshot copies
- Configure and manage the Snapshot copy reserve
Module 13: Space Management
- Storage efficiency techniques
- Factors that impact space consumption
- Explain how to guarantee writes for a file
- Deduplication and compression techniques
Module 14: High-Availability
- Describe high-availability (HA) solutions
- How HA increases the reliability of storage
- Define HA controller configuration
- Describe the three modes of HA operation
Module 15: Virtualization Solutions
- Virtualize a storage controller
- Configure MultiStore software
- Assign client protocols on MultiStore software
Module 16: Backup and Recovery Methods
- Methods available to back up and recover data
- Use ndmpcopy to process full and incremental data transfers
- Discuss dump and restore
- Describe, enable, and configure NDMP on a storage system
Module 17: Data Collection Tools
- Use the sysstat, stats, and statit commands
- Factors that affect RAID performance
- Commands to collect data about write and read throughputs
- Verify the operation of hardware, and network components
- Commands that are used to obtain configuration and status
Module 18: Data ONTAP Upgrades
- Access the NetApp Support site for the following documents
- Data ONTAP Upgrade Guide
- Data ONTAP Release Notes
- Use a configuration worksheet to collect data for installation
- How to perform Data ONTAP software upgrades and reboots
- Use the setup command to configure a storage system