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NCDA training Course Content
The NetApp Storage Environment
- Identifying key features & functions of NetApp storage systems
- Describe the advantages that a NetApp storage system provides
- Distinguish b/w network-attached storage (NAS) & SAN topologies
- Describe NetApp Unified Storage Architecture
- Access NetApp Support site to obtain software & hardware documentation
WAFL Simplified
- Describe how data is written to & read from WAFL (Write Anywhere File Layout) file system on a volume
- Explaining WAFL file system concepts, including consistency points (CPs), RAID management & storage levels
- Describe how RAID is used to protect disk data
- Explaining how the WAFL file system processes write & read requests
Basic Administration
- Connecting remotely to a FAS system by using the console & a remote host
- Access Net App System Manager to administrator a storage system
- Executing commands by using the console, a remote host & Net App System Manager
- Use commands to analyze a FAS system
- Configure & manage the Net App Auto Support tool for a FAS system
Physical Storage
- Describe Data ONTAP RAID technology
- Identifying 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
- Describing the effects of using multiple disk types
- Create a 32-bit aggregate & a 64-bit aggregate
- Executing aggregate commands in the Data ONTAP operating system
- Calculate usable disk space
Logical Storage
- Explaining the concepts related to volumes in the Data ONTAP operating system
- Define & create a flexible volume
- Execute vol commands
- Define & create qtrees
Administration Security
- Restrict administrative access
- Restrict console & NetApp System Manager access
- Configure a client machine as an administration host to manage a storage system
Networking
- Identify the configuration of network settings & components in the Data ONTAP operating system
- Explain & configure name resolution services
- Configure routing tables in the Data ONTAP operating system
- Define & create interface groups
- Discussing the operation of virtual LANs (VLANs) & how to route them
NFS
- Explain NFS implementation in the Data ONTAP operating system
- License NFS on a storage system
- Explain the purpose & format of /etc/ exports
- List & define the export specification options
- Describing the use of the exportfs command
- Mount an export on a UNIX host
CIFS
- Describe the CIFS environment
- Configure the storage system to participate in the CIFS environment
- Share a resource on the storage system
- Map a drive from a client to the shared resource on the storage system
NAS Management
- List some security methods for protecting data
- Explain and configure a security style setting for a volume & a qtree
- Describe methods of tracking & restricting storage usage
- Explain, create & manage quotas
- Explain & configure the Data ONTAP FPolicy file-screening policy
SAN
- Explain the purpose of a SAN
- Identify supported SAN configurations
- Distinguish b/w Fibre Channel (FC), Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) & iSCSI protocols
- Define a LUN and explain LUN attributes
- Use the LUN setup command & NetApp System Manager to create iSCSI-attached
LUNs
- Access & manage a LUN from a Windows host
- Define SnapDrive data management software & its feature
Snapshot Copies
- Describe the function of Snapshot copies
- Explain the benefits of Snapshot copies
- Identify & execute Snapshot commands
- Create & delete Snapshot copies
- Configure & modify Snapshot options
- Explaining the importance of the .snapshot directory
- Describe how Snapshot technology allocates disk space for volumes & aggregates
- Schedule Snapshot copies
- Configure & manage the Snapshot copy reserve
Space Management
- List the storage efficiency techniques that are available within the Data ONTAP operating system
- Identifying the factors that impact space consumption in the Data ONTAP operating system
- Describe how & when a volume consumes space from the aggregate that contains it
- Explaining how to guarantee writes for a file
- Explaining how the Data ONTAP operating system can provide space to a full volume
- Identify the deduplication & compression techniques that are available in the Data ONTAP operating system
High-Availability
- Describe high-availability (HA) solutions
- Discussing how HA increases the reliability of storage
- Define HA controller configuration
- Describe the three modes of HA operation with an HA pair
- Analyzing how HA affects clients protocols during failover & giveback operations
Virtualization Solutions
- Describing how to virtualize a storage controller by using MultiStore software
- Configure MultiStore software
- Assigning client protocols on MultiStore software
Backup & Recovery Methods
- List the methods available to back up & recover data
- Use ndmpcopy to process full & incremental data transfers
- Discuss dump & restore
- Describe, enable & configure Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) on a storage system
Data Collection Tools
- Use the sysstat, stats & statit commands
- Describe the factors that affect RAID performance
- Executing commands to collect data about write & read throughputs
- Executing commands to verify the operation of hardware, software & network components
- Identifying commands and options that are used to obtain configuration & status
Data ONTAP Upgrades
- Accessing the NetApp Support site for the following documents:
- Data ONTAP Upgrade Guide
- Data ONTAP Release Notes
- Using configuration worksheet to collect data for installation
- Describe how to perform Data ONTAP software upgrades and reboots
- Using setup command to configure a storage system
