ONTAP Administration: What’s New in ONTAP 9.0 (ADMIN90) – Outline

Detailed Course Outline

Module 1: ONTAP 9 Software

  • ONTAP 9 overview
  • Hardware platforms
  • Supported platforms
  • Software-defined ONTAP
  • ONTAP Select
    • Single node configuration
    • 4-node configuration
    • Features
    • ONTAP Edge to ONTAP Select evolution
    • High availability
    • Storage design
    • Network communication
    • Data path
  • ONTAP Cloud
    • Advantages
    • Licensing
    • AWS high availability
    • HA architecture

Module 2: Management Software Enhancements

  • OnCommand management portfolio
  • System manager enhancements
  • SnapCenter 2.0
    • Application agents
    • Clone management
    • Plug-ins

Module 3: Unified Storage Enhancements

  • CIFS workgroup support
  • SMB authentication methods
  • Unsupported features
  • CIFS server
  • Storage performance
  • OnCommand performance manager
  • Rehosting a volume

Module 4: All Flash FAS Enhancements

  • Overview
  • Write acknowledgment
  • Read performance
  • Efficiency features
  • Inline data compaction
  • Storage consumption
  • Drive partitioning
  • AFF efficiency calculator
  • SAN-optimized provisioning
  • NAS-optimized provisioning

Module 5: Data Availability and Protection Enhancements

  • SnapLock software
    • WORM volumes
    • Primary storage
    • Compliance clock
    • Enterprise volume
    • File types
    • Replication
    • SnapVault
  • RAID-TEC
    • Features
    • Resiliency
    • Triple-parity
    • Usage
    • Active-passive
    • High availability
  • Onboard key manager
  • Data protection enhancements
  • SnapMirror for SVMs
  • SVM DR enhancements

Labs:

  • Ensure connectivity to your ONTAP clusters
  • Synchronize system time for windows domains
  • Assign an NTP server to the clusters
  • Explore CLI management enhancements
  • Update the login banner
  • Modify the MOTD
  • Navigate OnCommand system manager
  • Update OnCommand system manager administration settings
  • Verify the CIFS server configuration and stop the server
  • Modify the CIFS server configuration from a domain to a workgroup
  • Verify and test a workgroup configuration
  • Create a data aggregate
  • Create a SVM for an SMB workgroup
  • Verify and test a workgroup configuration
  • Create aggregates that are compatible with SnapLock software
  • Create SnapLock volumes
  • Create SnapLock volume shares
  • Manage a SnapLock enterprise volume
  • Manage a SnapLock compliance volume
  • Create an SVM peer relationship
  • Create SnapLock for SnapVault relationship
  • Manage the source and destination volumes
  • Manage SnapLock for SnapVault relationship
  • Create a RAID-TEC aggregate
  • Convert a RAID-DP aggregate to a RAID-TEC aggregate
  • Verify the operability of a degraded RAID-TEC aggregate
  • Examine source SVM configuration
  • Prepare the clusters for a disaster recovery relationship
  • Create a disaster recovery SVM
  • Create an SVM Peer relationship
  • Create an SVM SnapMirror relationship
  • Fail over to the disasterrecovery SVM
  • Reverse the SnapMirror relationship
  • Recover the primary SVM