Learn how to administer NetApp® StorageGRID®, a software-defined, object-based storage system. Dive into the Grid Management Interface to manage, monitor, and maintain grid nodes, configure information lifecycle management (ILM) policies, and administer Simple Storage Service (S3) buckets. Explore tenant management through the Tenant Manager interface. Also, learn how to seamlessly integrate StorageGRID with NetApp solutions. This course is updated for StorageGRID 12.0.

This course focuses on enabling you to do the following:

• Use the StorageGRID Grid Manager to monitor and manage a StorageGRID object-based storage solution
• Create and manage storage tenant accounts, groups, and users
• Configure information lifecycle management (ILM) rules and policies
• Configure the StorageGRID API Gateway Nodes for client access
• Manage Simple Storage Service (S3) buckets and objects
• Monitor StorageGRID system activity
• Perform grid maintenance tasks
• Integrate a StorageGRID system

Role  

• Administrator, engineer, architect, operator

• StorageGRID Fundamentals

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

Module 0: Introduction

• Course agenda 

Module 1: StorageGRID components and services 

Lessons
• StorageGRID components
• StorageGRID deployment options
• StorageGRID networks
• StorageGRID network topologies 

Exercises
• Checking the exercise equipment

Module 2: StorageGRID management 

Lessons
• StorageGRID Grid Manager
• StorageGRID configuration options
• StorageGRID administrators
• Securing access to StorageGRID
• StorageGRID Management API 

Exercises
• Exploring StorageGRID Grid Manager
• Creating and managing StorageGRID administrator accounts
• Using the API to manage the StorageGRID system

Module 3: Storage tenant administration 

Lessons
• Tenant accounts
• Tenant Manager
• Tenant access control
• StorageGRID Tenant API 

Exercises
• Managing tenant accounts
• Using S3 tenant accounts

Module 4: Information lifecycle management 

Lessons
• ILM policies and rules
• Policy tags
• Storage pools, storage grades, and regions
• Configuring ILM policies 

Exercises
• Configuring basic ILM
• Tiering object storage
• Controlling placement based on object metadata

Module 5: Managing client connections 

Lessons
• VLAN interfaces
• High-availability groups
• Load balancer endpoints
• Traffic classification 

Exercises
• Configuring Gateway Nodes

Module 6: S3 bucket administration 

Lessons
• Bucket access control
• Branch buckets
• S3 bucket configuration options
• S3 API stored object settings
• Platform services
• Virtual hosted-style identifiers 

Exercises
• Managing access to S3 buckets

Module 7: Monitoring the StorageGRID system 

Lessons
• Alerts
• Audit logs
• SNMP
• Node services
• Reporting 

Exercises
• Managing alerts
• Viewing StorageGRID reports
• Managing audit logs

Module 8: StorageGRID maintenance 

Lessons
• StorageGRID AutoSupport
• Managing StorageGRID services
• Maintenance procedures
• StorageGRID software upgrades 

Exercises
• Performing grid maintenance tasks

Module 9: Integrating a StorageGRID system 

Lessons
• ONTAP FabricPool
• ONTAP backup to the cloud
• NetApp Backup and Recovery
• NetApp Copy and Sync 

Exercises
• Configuring Cloud Storage Pools