About the course

The course provides theoretical knowledge and extensive hands-on exercises for working with NetApp storage systems based on the ONTAP operating system. You will learn cluster management, working with NAS and SAN, storage optimization (deduplication, compression, QoS), as well as disaster recovery and data protection mechanisms using SnapMirror, SnapVault, and MetroCluster.

Target audience

• IT architects
• IT managers

Advantages

The course is designed for system architects and technical specialists responsible for planning, selecting, configuring, and developing data center computing systems.

Day 1

Theory

• NetApp storage system families (NAS, SAN: trends, key differences (All-Flash, hybrid, cloud), use cases).
• Introduction to NetApp ONTAP: key features.
• ONTAP clustering basics
• Networking: Interconnect, Management, Data
• System architecture: physical and logical resources
• Storage Virtual Machine (SVM): purpose, types, resource isolation.
• Volume management, FlexVol, FlexGroup.
• Advanced Drive Partitioning

Practice

• Lab 1: Creating a cluster
• Lab 2: Exploring user interfaces: CLI & GUI
• Lab 3: Working with physical and logical resources
• Lab 4: Creating a Storage Virtual Machine (SVM)
Day 2

Theory

• SAN architecture: Fibre Channel and iSCSI, topologies, initiators, targets, zoning.
• NAS architecture: operational principles, protocols (NFS, SMB/CIFS), use cases.
• Disaster recovery:
  • Snapshot policies: creation, retention, deletion.
  • FlexClone Volumes
  • SnapVault: long-term archiving.
• Performance and optimization:
  • Thin and thick provisioning
  • Compression, deduplication, compaction
• Data protection:
  • SnapMirror: synchronous, asynchronous replication: relationship types (DP, XDP), schedule, RPO.
  • SnapVault
  • MetroCluster: architecture, disaster recovery scenarios, network requirements.

Practice

• Lab 5: Creating a Storage Virtual Machine: continued
• Lab 6: iSCSI configuration
• Lab 7: NAS configuration
• Lab 8: NAS configuration
• Lab 9: Configuring Snapshot policies
• Lab 10: Configuring volume clones
• Lab 11: Configuring Storage Efficiency
Day 3

Theory

• QoS (Quality of Service): priority management, limits.
• FabricPool
• System maintenance: upgrade, upgrade types
• Event and alert system.
• Monitoring tools: Active IQ
• Log analysis and troubleshooting.
• Overview of management systems: System Manager, OnCommand Unified Manager

Practice

• Lab 12: Configuring FlexClone Volumes
• Lab 13: Configuring asynchronous replication
• Lab 14: Configuring synchronous replication
• Lab 15: Handling disaster events