ONTAP SAN Administration

Master ONTAP 9 SAN administration and elevate your IT skills with our comprehensive course designed for storage professionals seeking expertise in block-level protocols, storage provisioning, and data protection for enterprise environments.

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Essential Skills Gained

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Discuss SAN architecture and its components

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Implement iSCSI, FC, and FCoE configurations

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Understand ONTAP availability strategies for data protection

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Describe NVMe architecture and integration into ONTAP

Format

  • Instructor-led
  • 2 days with lectures and hands-on labs.

Audience

  • SAN Storage Administrators
  • IT Infrastructure Professionals
  • Network Storage Engineers
  • Data Center Managers

Description

In this course, you learn about configuring ONTAP 9 Data Management Software for a SAN environment. The course provides information about block-level protocols, including FC, FCoE, and iSCSI on Microsoft Windows Server, Linux, and VMware ESXi host operating systems. The course also discusses best practices for managing SAN storage provisioning, protocols, hosts, availability, and data protection. An introduction to NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) is provided. The course focuses on ONTAP 9.0 functionality and includes lecture and a hands-on exercise environment.

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Course Outline

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Module 1: ONTAP SAN Fundamentals

  1. SAN architecture

  2. Implementing iSCSI, FC and FCoE SAN in ONATP

  3. Interoperability matrix tool

  4. SAN scalability and maximums

Module 2: ONTAP SAN Resource Provisioning

  1. IP SAN configurations

  2. FC SAN configurations

  3. LUN provisioning

Module 3: SAN Host Integration

  1. Host utilities

  2. AIX

  3. ESX

  4. HPE UX

  5. Linux

  6. MS Windows

  7. Zoning considerations

  8. Cisco switches

  9. Brocade switches

Module 4: ONTAP iSCSI Administration

  1. iSCSI SVM creation workflow

  2. iSCSI, FC and FCoE recommended guidelines

  3. iSCSI features

Module 5: ONTAP FC and FCoE Administration

  1. FC and FCoE LUN creation overview

  2. FCoE overview

  3. FCoE configuration

Module 6: SAN Availability and Data Protection

  1. High Availability and Host Multipathing

  2. LUN and volume configuration options

  3. Data protection in SAN environments

  4. Fast failover

Module 7: Management of ONTAP SAN Environments

  1. LUN mobility

  2. Copy offloading

  3. SAN performance recommendations

  4. Quality of service (QoS)

  5. Balanced placement

  6. Performance capacity

Module 8: NVMe-oF for High Performance and Scalable Network Storage

  1. NVMe

  2. NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF)

  3. NVMe integration into ONTAP

  4. NVMe setup and configuration

Module 9: SAN Migration with Foreign LUN Import

  1. Foreign LUN import overview

  2. Import process

  3. Requirements

  4. Preparation

  5. Tools and utilities

Labs

  1. Configuring initial setting: subnet, aggregates and SVMs

  2. Creating LUNs

  3. Integrating hosts

  4. Connecting iSCSI LUNs

  5. Managing FC and FCoE configurations

  6. Reviewing multipathing information

  7. Moving LUNs and volumes

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