Course Description
Description
This is a 5-day bootcamp that expands upon what students learned in the D7ADM course in order to prepare for the NCDA 7-mode certification exam. This is an accelerated course with extended hours so come prepared work hard and become a knowledgeable user of Data ONTAP 7-mode.
Audience
- NetApp customers, partners, and employees
Prerequisites
- Three years of experience in a storage related function, such as storage administrator or field engineer
- Six months experience with NetApp storage solutions
- Data ONTAP 7-Mode Administration (D7ADM)
NOTE: It is strongly recommended that you have attended the instructor-led D7ADM course or have the equivalent practical experience with the NetApp ONTAP operating system before attending this advanced boot camp. The web-based version of Data ONTAP 7-Mode will not provide sufficient preparation for those seeking NCDA certification upon completion of this course.
At Course Completion
- Configure a Data ONTAP storage system in an NFS environment
- Configure and administer a storage system for CIFS functionality
- Discuss how to configure a storage system for a SAN FC environment
- Configure and administer a storage system in a SAN iSCSI environment
- Explain and implement the backup and recovery methods that are available in the Data ONTAP operating system
- Describe and implement the business continuance methods that are available in the Data ONTAP operating system
Additional Fast Lane-developed content – you will learn to:
- Perform administrative tasks on FC target ports
- Perform administrative tasks on LUNs
- Perform administrative tasks on initiator groups (igroups)
- Describe how and when a LUN consumes space from its containing volume
- Discuss backup guarantees through NetApp Snapshot reserve
- Discuss the overwrite guarantee for space--reserved LUNs
- Analyze the default LUN configuration and two thin--provisioning configurations
- Discuss Flash Pool Design and Implementation
- Easily implement SnapVault
- Utilize Provisioning and Protection manager workflows with OnCommand Unified Manager
Course Outline
Module 1: NCDA Overview
- Identify the skills and knowledge that NetApp Certified Data Management Administrator (NCDA) certification verifies
- Describe the benefits of certification
- Explain the key concepts of Data ONTAP operating in 7-mode
Module 2: NFS Overview
- Define NFS
- Differentiate between NFS protocol versions
- Recognize the differences between stateless and stateful protocols
- Describe how the storage system acts as an NFS file server
- List the requirements of NFS
Module 3: NFS Setup
- Configure NFS on a NetApp® storage system
- Configure a storage system to perform IP to host-name resolution
- Add Network Information Server (NIS) to manage users, groups, and name-to-IP resolution
- Configure a storage system to centrally manage users and groups
- Configure PC-NFS and WebNFS environments to extend the reach of NFS
Module 4: Exports and Mounts
- Identify exportable resources
- Export and unexport resources to clients, subnets, and netgroups
- Manage exports with the exportfs command
- Create mount points and mount exported resources on a client
- Monitor the usage of exported resources
- Explain how to monitor exports with access cache
Module 5: CIFS Overview
- Describe basic CIFS terminology and CIFS versions
- Describe the role of the Data ONTAP storage system within Windows environments:
- Microsoft® Windows® workgroup
- Non-Windows workgroup
- Windows domains
- Describe host name resolution
- Describe user authentication and authorization
Module 6: CIFS Workgroups
- License CIFS on a storage system
- Join a storage system to a Microsoft® Windows® workgroup environment using the CIFS setup command
- Review the results of CIFS setup
- Manage newly created configuration files for a CIFS workgroup environment
Module 7: CIFS Shares and Sessions
- Display the list of shared resources available on the storage system
- Configure a client machine to access a storage system share
- Identify users and hosts that are connected to the storage system in CIFS sessions
- Add, modify, and delete shares
Module 8: CIFS Access Control
- Create and manage local users for a storage system
- Create and manage local users for a storage system
- Create local group and local users for that group
- Use the CLI (command-line interface), NetApp® System Manager, and Microsoft® tools to add, delete, and modify access permissions for shares
- Use Microsoft tools to add, delete, and modify access permissions for files and folders
Module 9: CIFS Domains
- Terminate the CIFS service to prepare for CIFS domain configuration
- Reconfigure the CIFS service for a Windows® domain
- Identify the resulting files
- Create domain users and add the domain users to a local storage system group
- Configure preferred domain controllers (DCs)
Module 10: NAS Multiprotocol
- Describe security styles and how they affect file permissions
- Determine and verify user mappings for CIFS users that access UNIX® volumes and qtrees and mixed volumes and qtrees
- Determine and verify user mappings for UNIX users that are access New Technology File System (NTFS) volumes and qtrees and mixed volumes and qtrees
- Describe the WAFL (Write Anywhere File Layout) Credential Cache
Module 11: NAS Troubleshooting
- Locate options and configuration files that might be misconfigured on the storage system
- Test for Domain Name System (DNS) resolution on both the storage system and the client
- Use client-side tools to test the client configuration
- Use storage system and client tools to isolate network system blockages
- Recognize typical error messages and list the commands to identify their sources
Module 12: SAN Overview
- Describe the differences between network-attached storage (NAS) and storage area network (SAN)
- List the protocols to implement a SAN environment
- Define a LUN, initiator, and target
- Describe ports, worldwide node names (WWNNs), and worldwide port names (WWPNs)
- Implement a SAN
Module 13: iSCSI Connectivity
- Describe multiple-path implementation with iSCSI connectivity
- Configure network ports on Windows® and NetApp® systems
- Identify the node name (WWNN) on Windows and NetApp systems
- Configure and verify multiple-path iSCSI connectivity between Windows and NetApp systems
Module 14: FC Connectivity
- Implement multiple paths with Fibre Channel (FC) connectivity
- Configure FC ports on Windows® and Data ONTAP systems
- Describe the commands and utilities to identify worldwide node names (WWNNs) and worldwide port names (WWPNs) on Windows® and Data ONTAP systems
Module 15: LUN Access
- Describe the steps that are required to enable a Windows® Server initiator to access a LUN on a storage system
Module 16: Availability Features
- Describe the features that you can use to ensure system availability
- Explain RAID-DP functionality
- Define SyncMirror
- Define the high-availability controller configuration
- Describe a stretch MetroCluster environment
- List the basic steps to implement a stretch MetroCluster
- Describe a fabric-attached MetroCluster environment
- List the basic steps to implement a fabric-attached MetroCluster
Module 17: Managing Snapshot Copies
- Describe the functions and benefits of Snapshot and SnapRestore technologies
- Use the storage system CLI and NetApp System Manager interfaces to manage Snapshot copies
- Manage and reclaim space used by Snapshot copies
- Use Snapshot copies to restore lost data
Module 18: SnapMirror Technology
- Explain the SnapMirror Async, Sync, and Semi-Sync modes of operation
- Describe how volume SnapMirror and qtree SnapMirror software replicate data
- Configure SnapMirror software
- Perform advanced SnapMirror operations
- Explain SnapMirror performance impact
Module 19: Managing SnapVault Technology
- Describe SnapVault® components and benefits
- Configure SnapVault software on primary and secondary systems
- Administer a SnapVault backup on primary and secondary systems
- Describe the application-consistent backup operations
- Restore data from secondary system to primary system
Module 20: Open Systems SnapVault
- Describe how Open Systems SnapVault® integrates with Data ONTAP® SnapVault
- Describe Open Systems SnapVault advanced features
- Configure and administer Open Systems SnapVault
- Perform Open Systems SnapVault backup and restore operations
- Troubleshoot and resolve Open Systems SnapVault transfer failures
Module 21: Storage Efficiency
- Utilize FlexClone technology to create efficient copies of volumes, files, and LUNs
- Use deduplication and compression to manage data growth
Module 22: Performance and Data Collections Tools
- Use Data ONTAP operating system commands and tools to capture performance data
- Describe Data ONTAP tools that can affect performance
- Use the reallocate command to maintain performance
- Use recommended techniques to optimize Data ONTAP configuration for SAN and NAS
Labs
- Log in to the exercise environment
- Perform a health check on the storage systems and the Linux server
- Install NetApp OnCommand System Manager
- Add storage systems to System Manager
- Use OnCommand System Manager to create aggregates
- Use OnCommand System Manger to create an aggregate with a flash pool
- Use the CLI to create aggregates
- Use the CLI to create an aggregate with a flash pool
- Destroy an aggregate and initialize its disks
- Create a Flexvol volumes
- Resize Flexvol volumes
- Create Qtrees
- Use the CLI to investigate the status of the NFS protocol
- Investigate NIS and LDAP
- Investigate NFS protocols and configuration files
- Determine if the storage system is accessible from a unix or unix host
- Enable the NFS protocol
- Create a netgroup on the storage system
- Designate a unix host as an administrative host
- Designate a unix host as an administrative host
- Change the permissions for the root volume export
- Mount exported volumes on a unix administration host
- Use system manager to export a Qtree to a subnet
- Use a unix admin host to export a Qtree to a netgroup
- Investigate the status of the CIFS protocol on your storage systems
- Execute the CIFS setup script
- Determine the CIFS protocol status
- Map a drive to the root volume of the storage system
- View CIFS shares from the CLI, system manager, or computer management
- Use the CLI to create shares
- Use system manager to create shares
- Use Windows Computer Management to create shares
- View file and folder properties from the windows host
- Display CIFS session information from the storage system CLI
- Add a local user account on the storage system
- Add a local group to a storage system
- Grant share access to the new group
- Determine whether CIFS configuration prerequisites are met
- Set up the prerequisites for CIFS configuration
- Use system manager to terminate CIFS services
- Use the CIFS setup wizard to join a storage system to a Windows domain
- Use the storage system CLI to join a storage system to a Windows domain
- Create a domain user as a member of the built-in administrators group
- Use Windows Computer Management to manage storage system shares
- Display CIFS session
- Configure multiprotocol access
- Use the WCC to view the mapping of unix to Windows users
- Create, share, and export unix, NTFS, and mixed-style Qtrees
- Access a unix-style volume as a Window server
- Access NTFS security-style volumes as a unix user
- Troubleshoot multiprotocol access
- Send an autosupport message
- Locate storage system diagnostic log files
- Recall diagnostic commands to enter on the storage system
- Capture a packet trace
- Recall diagnostic commands to enter on a unix host
- Recall diagnostic commands to enter on a windows host
- Identify the components of your SAN exercise environment
- Configure iSCSI on a storage system
- Configure Windows for MPIO
- Install NetApp Host Utilities
- Configure iSCSI on Window
- Confirm an iSCSI session on a storage system
- Confirm a second iSCSI session on Windows
- Create a Flexvol volume to contain LUNs
- Create a LUN that is mapped to an igroup
- Initialize a LUN with disk management
- Provision a LUN with disk management
- Make the mounting of a LUN persistent
- Move a volume
- Manage Snapshot copies on the storage system CLI and System Manager
- Ensure that Snapshot directories are visible to CIFS and NFS users
- Restore a windows file from a Snapshot copy
- Create a data-loss test scenario
- Use SnapRestore technology to restore a volume
- Use SnapRestore technology to restore a file
- Identify the source and destination systems
- Set up SnapMirror on the source storage system
- Set up SnapMirror on the destination storage system
- Initiate a baseline transfer and schedule updates
- Update the SnapMirror relationship
- Break the SnapMirror relationship
- Resynchronize the relationship from the source storage system
- Reinstate the original SnapMirror relationship
- Configure synchronous SnapMirror mode
- Identify primary and secondary systems
- Configure SnapVault software on the primary system
- Configure SnapVault software on the secondary system
- Initialize the transfer
- Perform a restore
- Restart the backup relationship
- Install Open Systems SnapVault for Windows server
- Configure the SnapVault secondary system
- Configure Windows Server 2012 firewall settings
- Establish the Open Systems SnapVault baseline
- Perform a restore and resume SnapVault operations
- Enable, schedule, and run volume deduplication operations
- Create a FlexClone volume clone
- Create a FlexClone LUN clone and work with fractional reserve
- Locate statistics on flash pool performance
- Set processing priorities with the FlexShare tool
- Use the sysstat command to collect performance statistics
- Use the stats command to collect performance statistics
