Data ONTAP Cluster-Mode Administration

Data ONTAP® 8.1 is the next generation data storage operating system from NetApp. It builds on the stability and scalability of Data ONTAP 8.0.

In this course, you will learn the evolution of Data ONTAP clustering and use new features, including block protocols and System Manager 2.0. You will explore the benefits of scalability and cover the architecture and functionality of a Data ONTAP cluster. You'll learn how to install, configure, manage, and troubleshoot a Data ONTAP cluster.

What You Will Learn

• Benefits of Data ONTAP and explain its two modes of operation
• Steps for setting up a cluster
• Manage the physical and virtual resources within a cluster
• Manage features to ensure nondestructive operations
• Networking components and features of a cluster
• Implement supported cluster and management network switches
• Diagram the architecture of a cluster
• Set up and configure SAN and NAS protocols
• Administer mirroring and data protection for a cluster
• Perform basic troubleshooting of a cluster
• Notification capabilities of a cluster
• Scale a cluster horizontally
• Characteristics of a cluster that affect cluster performance

Audience

• Anyone with a working knowledge of network attached storage and SAN
• NetApp Professional Services, employees, partners, and customers

Prerequistes

Course Outline

1. Overview

• Unique features of Data ONTAP Cluster-Mode relative to 7-Mode
• Three primary benefits of Data ONTAP clustering
• Scope of Data ONTAP concepts such as node virtual servers (Vservers), administrative servers, and cluster Vservers

2. Installation

• Configuring nodes and install Data ONTAP 8.1 operating system
• Assigning and initializing disks
• Creating a multimode cluster
• Adding feature licenses to the cluster
• Setting the dates, times, and time zones of the nodes in the cluster

3. User Interface

• Comparing the CLI with the various GUIs
• Commands are available for a command directory
• Parameters requirements for a command
• Switching among privilege levels

4. Physical Data Storage

• Drawing the FC connections from a high-availability (HA) pair of controllers to the disk shelves
• Creating aggregates
• Steps that are required to enable storage failover (SFO)
• Enabling "two-node HA" mode for two-node clusters
• Take over and giveback storage between the nodes of an HA pair
• Adding disks to an aggregate
• Enumerating the steps to expand an aggregate from 32-bit to 64-bit

5. Virtual Data Storage

• Creating a volume
• Building a namespace using multiple volumes
• Configuring SnapMirror relationships
• Moving volumes to other aggregates in a cluster
• User, group, and qtree quotas

6. Architecture

• Showing the end-to-end path of a file write request through a cluster
• Answering questions about replicated database (RDB) concepts
• Differences between a vol0 root volume and a cluster virtual server (Vserver) root volume

7. Physical Networking

• Drawing the connections of the network cables from three networks to a controller
• Port roles
• Creating an interface group

8. Virtual Networking

• Creating data logical interfaces (LIFs) for each cluster virtual server
• Creating static routes for the data LIFs
• Migrating and reverting a data LIF
• LIF failover rules

9. NAS Protocols

• Creating an export policy for a Vserver
• Creating an NFS configuration for a Vserver
• Writing data into each volume through an NFS client
• Creating a CIFS domain, server, and share
• Writing data into each volume through a CIFS client

10. SAN Protocols

• Differences among the supported SAN protocols
• Components that implement scalable SAN on a cluster in Data ONTAP environment operating in Cluster-Mode
• Configuring iSCSI on a cluster and create a LUN
• Configuring a Windows iSCSI initiator

11. Storage Efficiency

• Storage efficiency features that are built into the Data ONTAP system operating in cluster-mode
• Commands that are needed to manage storage efficiency on a Data ONTAP cluster
• Benefits of the mirroring engine
• Creating load-sharing (LS) and data protection (DP) mirrors
• Manually and automatically replicating mirrors
• Promoting (restoring) a mirror to replace its read/write volume
• Implementing intercluster data protection mirrors
• Creating a Snapshot copy of a volume and create Snapshot policies
• Promoting (restoring) a Snapshot copy to be a read/write volume
• Answering questions about NDMP backup strategies for a cluster

12. Basic Troubleshooting

• Configuring and using the AutoSupport tool for a cluster
• Demonstrating the use of the cluster event management system (EMS)
• Determining the health of the cluster and cluster network
• Identifying any offline storage (disks, aggregates, or volumes)
• Determining if any member of a replicated database (RDB) unit is down
• Verifying that client operations are getting through to the volumes
• Required steps for forcing a system core dump
• Tools for monitoring a cluster
• Engaging with NetApp Global Support

13. Performance

• Characteristics of a cluster that affect its performance
• IOZone

14. Cluster Management

• Upgrading the Data ONTAP software on two nodes with no storage downtimes
• Scaling the cluster's storage capacity by adding disks to an aggregate
• Moving volumes off an aggregate and delete the aggregate
• Steps for swapping a controller
• Removing a node from a cluster
• Vserver administrative roles
• Configuring onboard antivirus protection

15. Best Practices

• Best practices for Data ONTAP Cluster-Mode high availability
• Best way to balance cluster-mode resources
• Best methods for managing a cluster
• Enumerating some of the ways to protect and recover a cluster from a disaster

Course Labs

Lab 1-1: Identify the Characteristics of Cluster-Mode Components

Lab 1-2: Identify the Scope of Cluster-Mode Concepts

Lab 2-1: Create a Cluster and Configure the First Node in the Cluster

Lab 2-2: Add a Second Node to the Cluster

Lab 3-1: Connect to the Command Shell and Explore the Command Hierarchy

Lab 3-2: Command Options

Lab 3-3: Compare Privilege Levels

Lab 3-4: Use Partial Commands and Complete Commands with the Tab Key

Lab 3-5: Install NetApp System Manager

Lab 3-6: Configure NetApp System Manager for Your Cluster

Lab 4-1: Create a New Aggregate

Lab 4-2: Add disks to the Aggregate

Lab 4-3: Create an Aggregate using System Manager

Lab 5-1: Create a Cluster Virtual Server

Lab 5-2: Create a Flexible Volume

Lab 5-3: Use System Manager to Create a Flexible Volume

Lab 6-1: Identify Kernel and User Space Processes

Lab 6-2: RDB and Quorum Concepts

Lab 6-3: Vol0 Volumes Uses and Limitations

Lab 7-1: Identify Port Roles

Lab 7-2: Create an Interface Group

Lab 8-1: Create A NAS Data LIF

Lab 8-2: Explore Routing Groups

Lab 8-3: Migrate a Data LIF

Lab 8-4: Re-Home a Data LIF

Lab 8-5: Fail Over a Data LIF

Lab 8-6: Delete the Interface Group

Lab 9-1: Create a Vserver

Lab 9-2: Configure the CIFS Protocol for Your Vserver

Lab 9-3: Access Your CIFS Share from a Windows Client

Lab 9-4: Set and Verify the Preferred Domain Controller

Lab 9-5: Configure CIFS Home Directories

Lab 9-6: Configure NFS for Your Vserver

Lab 10-1: Use NetApp System Manager to Create a Vserver for Iscsi

Lab 10-2: Enable an Aggregate as a Resource for a Vserver

Lab 10-3: Configure Windows for MPIO

Lab 10-4: Install the Windows Host Utilities

Lab 10-5: Configure the iSCSI Software Initiator (In Windows)

Lab 10-6: Use NetApp System Manager to Create an iSCSI-Attached LUN

Lab 10-7: Access the iSCSI-Attached LUN on the Windows Host

Lab 11-1: Create a Volume

Lab 11-2: Resize a Volume

Lab 11-3: Create a Qtree and Set Quotas

Lab 11-4: Use FlexClone Volumes

Lab 11-5: Enable Deduplication and Data Compression

Lab 12-1: Create and Initialize LS and DP SnapMirror Replications

Lab 12-2: Compare DP Mirror Replication Times

Lab 12-3: Add Volumes and Files to A Replicated NameSpace

Lab 12-4: Schedule Periodic SnapMirror Replications

Lab 12-5: Promote an LS Mirror

Lab 12-6: Set Up an Intercluster Peer Relationship

Lab 12-7: Use System Manager to Configure A SnapMirror Relationship

Lab 12-8: Use the CLI to Configure a SnapMirror Relationship

Lab 12-9: Update SnapMirror Relationships

Lab 13-1: Determine the Cluster Health

Lab 13-2: Verify the Health of the Data Storage

Lab 13-3: Unlock the Diagnostic User

Lab 13-4: Monitor the RDB

Lab 13-5: Explore Volume Statistics

Lab 13-6: Collect a Core Dump

Lab 14-1: Collect Performance Statistics

Lab 14-2: Explore Additional Performance Tools

Lab 15-1: Move a Volume

Lab 15-2: Replace an Aggregate

Lab 15-3: Use Roles to Delegate Administrative Tasks

Lab 16-1: Benefits of Various Best Practices