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

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

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