Explore block-level protocols, including FC, FCoE, iSCSI, NVMe over FCoE (NVMe/FC), and NVMe over TCP (NVMe/TCP), on Microsoft Windows Server, Linux, and VMware ESXi host operating systems. Examine how to administer, configure, and manage NetApp® ONTAP® data management software for a SAN environment. This course focuses on ONTAP 9 functionality and includes lectures and hands-on exercises.

This course focuses on enabling you to do the following:

• Illustrate SAN configuration and LUN provisioning
• Explain ONTAP block protocol features and recommendations
• Demonstrate volume and LUN space efficiency configurations in a SAN environment
• Discover ONTAP availability strategies and data protection for LUNs
• Outline SAN performance considerations
• Perform SAN-specific manageability configurations
• Describe Foreign LUN Import and explore use cases

Administrator, engineer, and architect

• Working knowledge of ONTAP 9 software and SAN
• ONTAP Cluster Fundamentals
• ONTAP SAN Fundamentals
• ONTAP Cluster Administration

This course includes the following modules, lessons, and exercises:

Module 1: NetApp ONTAP SAN fundamentals review

• Introduction to SAN

• SAN scalability and maximums

Exercises:

• Configuring initial settings

Module 2: NetApp ONTAP SAN resource provisioning

• Volume and LUN provisioning

• Additional ONTAP CLI considerations

Module 3: NetApp ONTAP storage VM administration

• Storage VM creation workflow

• LUN creation

• NVMe namespaces and subsystems

• iSCSI, FC, NVMe/FC, and NVMe/TCP recommended guidelines

• iSCSI security and networking

Exercises:

• Creating LUNs

• Managing iSCSI configurations

• Managing FC configurations

• Managing NVMe/TCP configurations

Module 4: SAN availability and data protection

• High availability and host multipathing

• Data protection in SAN environments

Exercises:

• Examining multipathing

Module 5: Management of NetApp ONTAP SAN environments

• LUN mobility

• Volume and LUN reconfiguration

• SAN performance recommendations

Exercises:

• Managing an ONTAP SAN environment

Appendix:

SAN migration with Foreign LUN Import