Data ONTAP 7-Mode Administration (D7ADM)

Welcome to the NetApp©_ Data ONTAP©_ 7-Mode Administration course. Data ONTAP 8 is the next generation data storage operating system from NetApp. Data ONTAP 8.1 builds on the stability and reliability of the Data ONTAP 8 operating system and provides new functionality that sets it apart from all of the competition. This five-day instructor-led course enables you to perform basic support and administrative functions on a NetApp storage system running the Data ONTAP system operating in 7-Mode.

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Price: $4,500.00

Duration: 5 days

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Prerequisites:

Students who attend this course should have a background in system administration for UNIX©_ or Microsoft©_ Windows©_ operating systems and/or Data ONTAP 7-Mode Fundamentals (WBT)

Target Audience:

Customers, employees, and partners

Course Objectives:

Identify the various components of a NetApp storage environment
Install and perform the setup configuration of Data ONTAP
Perform basic administration on a storage system
Explain and configure physical and logical storage
Identify and configure client protocols
State virtualization techniques available in Data ONTAP
Describe Snapshot copies and space consumption in Data ONTAP
Discuss backup methods available in Data ONTAP

Course Outline:

Module 1: The NetApp Storage Environment

Identify the key features and functions of NetApp storage systems
Describe the advantages that a NetApp storage system provides
Distinguish between network-attached storage (NAS) and SAN topologies
Describe NetApp Unified Storage Architecture
Access the NetApp Support site to obtain software and hardware documentation

Module 2: WAFL Simplified

Describe how data is written to and read from WAFL (Write Anywhere File Layout) file system on a volume
Explain the WAFL file system concepts, including consistency points (CPs), RAID management, and storage levels
Describe how RAID is used to protect disk data
Explain how the WAFL file system processes write and read requests

Module 3: Basic Administration

Connect remotely to a FAS system by using the console and a remote host
Access NetApp System Manager to administrator a storage system
Execute commands by using the console, a remote host and NetApp System Manager
Use commands to analyze a FAS system
Configure and manage the NetApp AutoSupport tool for a FAS system

Module 4: Physical Storage

Describe 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 in the Data ONTAP operating system
Calculate usable disk space

Module 5: Logical Storage

Explain the concepts related to 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 NetApp System Manager access
Configure a client machine as an administration host to manage a storage system

Module 7: Networking

Identify the configuration of network settings and components in the Data ONTAP operating system
Explain and configure name resolution services
Configure routing tables in the Data ONTAP operating system
Define and create interface groups
Discuss the operation of virtual LANs (VLANs) and how to route them

Module 8: NFS

Explain NFS implementation in the Data ONTAP operating system
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 to participate in the CIFS environment
Share a resource on the storage system
Map a drive from a client to the shared resource on the storage system

Module 10: NAS Management

List some security methods for protecting data
Explain and configure a security style setting for a volume and a qtree
Describe methods of tracking and restricting storage usage
Explain, create, and manage quotas
Explain and configure the 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 and NetApp System Manager to create iSCSI-attached LUNs
Access and manage a LUN from a Windows host
Define SnapDrive data management software and its feature

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
Describe how Snapshot technology allocates disk space for volumes and aggregates
Schedule Snapshot copies
Configure and manage the Snapshot copy reserve

Module 13: Space Management

List the storage efficiency techniques that are available within the Data ONTAP operating system
Identify the factors that impact space consumption in the Data ONTAP operating system
Describe how and when a volume consumes space from the aggregate that contains it
Explain how to guarantee writes for a file
Explain how the Data ONTAP operating system can provide space to a full volume
Identify the deduplication and compression techniques that are available in the Data ONTAP operating system

Module 14: High-Availability

Describe high-availability (HA) solutions
Discuss how HA increases the reliability of storage
Define HA controller configuration
Describe the three modes of HA operation with an HA pair
Analyze how HA affects clients protocols during failover and giveback operations

Module 15: Virtualization Solutions

Describe how to virtualize a storage controller by using MultiStore software
Configure MultiStore software
Assign client protocols on MultiStore software

Module 16: Backup and Recovery Methods

List the 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 Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) on a storage system

Module 17: Data Collection Tools

Use the sysstat, stats, and statit commands
Describe the factors that affect RAID performance
Execute commands to collect data about write and read throughputs
Execute commands to verify the operation of hardware, software, and network components
Identify commands and options 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
Describe how to perform Data ONTAP software upgrades and reboots
Use the setup command to configure a storage system