Detailed Course Outline
Module 1: NFS Fundamentals
- NFS overview
- NFS concepts in ONTAP software
- Interfaces for managing ONTAP based systems
Module 2: NFS setup
- NFS implementation
- Configure NFS access
- Create storage for NFS-enabled storage VM
- Export policy and rules
- Setting up for NFS access
- Addendum: NFS over RDMA
Module 3: Managing NFS v3 and NFS v4
- Managing NSFv3
- Managing NSF v4
Module 4: Multiprotocol configuration
- Multiprotocol configuration
- Name mapping
Module 5: Monitoring and Managing NFS
- Monitor NFS active clients
- Collecting NFS statistics and data
Module 6: SMB Overview
- Data fabric
- Data fabric layers
- CIFS and SMB protocols
- NT LAN manager
- Kerberos authentication
- Active Directory
- Workgroup environments
- NetApp PowerShell toolkit
Module 7: SMB Setup
- SMB implementation
- Licensing CIFS
- SVM for SMB access
- FlexVol volumes
- DNS entries for the SVM
- SMB share access
Module 8: SMB Shares and Sessions
- SMB share
- Creating a share
- Client access
- SMB automatic referrals
- SMB sessions
- Session administration
- SMB encryption
- Offline folders
- Offloaded data transfer
Module 9: Access Control
- Share permission administration
- Access-based enumeration
- Dynamic access control
- File blocking policies
- Local users
- Workgroup authentication
- Multiprotocol access
Module 10: Advanced Topics
- Microsoft opportunistic Lock (oplock) features
- Automatic home share
- Group policy object (GPO)
- Symlinks
- Widelinks
Module 11: BranchCache
- Versions
- BranchCache environment configurations
- ONTAP 9 BranchCache
- BranchCache installation on Windows Servers
- BranchCache configuration on Windows clients
Module 12: Auditing
- Auditing concepts
- Terminology
- ONTAP 9 auditing process
- Implement auditing
- Output file format
Module 13: How a NetApp Storage System Works
- NetApp FAS system architecture
- ONTAP architecture layers
- Data access
- NVRAM
Module 14: Performance Analysis Tools
- Performance terminology
- Performance guidelines and methodologies
- Analysis tools and commands
- Output commands
- Tools for performance measurement
- AutoSupport tools
- Perfstat
- OnCommand Insight
Module 15: OnCommand Performance Manager
- Features
- Dashboard
- Performance troubleshooting
- Events
- User defined thresholds
Module 16: CPU and Memory Performance
- CPU performance bottlenecks
- Resolving bottlenecks
- Memory performance bottlenecks
- Resolving bottlenecks
Module 17: WAFL Performance
- WAFL functions
- Inodes
- WAFL readahead
- Resolving WAFL issues
- Best practices
Module 18: Disk I/O Performance
- Disk subsystem hardware and software
- Subsystem bottlenecks
- Analyzing bottlenecks with Statit
- Resolving bottlenecks
- RAID-DP technology
Module 19: Flash Cache and Flash Pool Performance
- Virtual Storage tier
- Flash pool
- Flash cache
- Automatic workload analyzer
- Cache performance issues
Module 20: Cluster Interconnect Performance
- Cluster interconnect uses
- Switchless and switched configurations
- Cluster interconnect bottlenecks
- Bottleneck resolutions
Module 21: Storage QoS
- Managing system performance with QoS
- QoS policies
- Reactive storage QoS
- Proactive storage QoS
- Monitoring commands
Module 22: NAS Performance
- NAS functions
- Bottlenecks
- NAS protocol traffic
- Monitoring NFS usage commands
- Monitoring SMB usage commands
- Bottleneck resolutions
Module 23: SAN Performance
- SAN overview
- Protocols
- FCoE
- iSCSI
- SAN LIFs
- SAN performance issues
- SAN multipathing
- SAN load balancing
- I/O misalignment
- Queue depth
Module 24: Using What You Learned
- Performance overview
- Performance tools
- Windows monitoring and analysis
- Linux monitoring and analysis
- VMware monitoring and analysis
- Slow application performance
- Using performance manager
- Best practices
Labs
- Configuring NFS access
- Managing NFS v3
- Managing NFS v4
- Configuring a storage VM for multiprotocol access
- Managing NFS performance
- Configure clustered ONTAP for NFS active directory authentication
- Configuring Windows for NFS active directory authentication
- Configuring Linux for NFS active directory authentication
- Installing NetApp PowerShell Toolkit and configure for use
- Creating a Storage Virtual Machine (SVM) and configure it for SMB access
- Creating an SMB share, connect to the share from your Windows client, and manage SMB sessions
- Creating a domain user, restrict share-level permissions
- Creating a local user group and give share-level permissions
- Creating a multiprotocol configuration and enable a root Linux user to be mapped to the Windows domain administrator
- Configuring home directories and symbolic links on the SVM
- Identifying cluster components
- Analyzing performance statistics
- OnCommand performance manager thresholds, events and alerts
- Identifying and resolving storage controller performance issues
- WAFL performance monitoring and analysis
- Identifying and resolving disk I/O bottlenecks
- Exploring cache performance
- Cluster interconnect performance
- Workload management with storage QoS
- NAS performance
- SAN protocol performance