NCDA Boot Camp

This 10-day boot camp will prepare you for the NetApp Certified Data Management Administrator (NCDA) Data ONTAP 7-Mode exam # NSO-154. Through lectures and labs, you will learn about the features and functions of the NetApp® Data ONTAP® 7-Mode operating system and about network-attached storage (NAS) administration and SAN configuration.

Network Professionals seeking the NetApp Certified Data Management Administrator (NCDA) certification.

This course is also valuable for those who need to perform in-depth support, administrative functions, and performance management for environments using any of the following enterprise storage solutions: CIFS, NFS, FCP, iSCSI protocols on a NetApp storage appliance running the Data ONTAP 8.1 operating system.

By the end of this course you should be able to:

• Identify the various components of a NetApp storage environment
• Install and perform the setup configuration of Data ONTAP
• Perform basic administration on a storage system
• Explain and configure physical and logical storage
• Identify and configure client protocols
• State virtualization techniques available in Data ONTAP
• Describe Snapshot copies and space consumption in Data ONTAP
• Discuss backup methods available in Data ONTAP
• Configure and administer client-server relationships in NFS environments
• Configure, administer, and troubleshoot storage systems in CIFS environments
• Collect and analyze performance data to assist with troubleshooting storage system hardware, operating systems, network connections, NFS configuration files, and options
• Define the components of a SAN environment and explain how LUNs relate to the storage system
• Describe the Fibre Channel (FC) and iSCSI SAN multipathing options for Windows and Linux-based operating systems
• List the storage-system and data availability methods
• Configure and administer SnapRestore®, asynchronous and synchronous SnapMirror®, MetroCluster™, SnapVault®, and Open Systems SnapVault technologies

Module 1 The NetApp Storage Environment

• Identify the key features and functions of NetApp storage systems
• Describe the advantages that a NetApp storage system provides
• Distinguish between network-attached storage (NAS) and SAN topologies
• Describe NetApp Unified Storage Architecture
• Access the NetApp Support site to obtain software and hardware documentation

Module 2 WAFL Simplified

• Describe how data is written to and read from WAFL (Write Anywhere File Layout) file system on a volume
• Explain the WAFL file system concepts, including consistency points (CPs), RAID management, and storage levels
• Describe how RAID is used to protect disk data
• Explain how the WAFL file system processes write and read requests

Module 3 Basic Administration

• Connect remotely to a FAS system by using the console and a remote host
• Access NetApp System Manager to administrator a storage system
• Execute commands by using the console, a remote host and NetApp System Manager
• Use commands to analyze a FAS system
• Configure and manage the NetApp AutoSupport tool for a FAS system

Module 4 Physical Storage

• Describe Data ONTAP RAID technology
• Identify 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
• Describe the effects of using multiple disk types
• Create a 32-bit aggregate and a 64-bit aggregate
• Execute aggregate commands in the Data ONTAP operating system
• Calculate usable disk space

Module 5 Logical Storage

• Explain the concepts related to volumes in the Data ONTAP operating system
• Define and create a flexible volume
• Execute vol commands
• Define and create qtrees

Module 6 Administration Security

• Restrict administrative access
• Restrict console and NetApp System Manager access
• Configure a client machine as an administration host to manage a storage system

Module 7 Networking

• Identify the configuration of network settings and components in the Data ONTAP operating system
• Explain and configure name resolution services
• Configure routing tables in the Data ONTAP operating system
• Define and create interface groups
• Discuss the operation of virtual LANs (VLANs) and how to route them

Module 8 NFS

• Explain NFS implementation in the Data ONTAP operating system
• License NFS on a storage system
• Explain the purpose and format of /etc/ exports
• List and define the export specification options
• Describe the use of the exportfs command
• Mount an export on a UNIX host

Module 9 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

Module 10 NAS Management

• List some security methods for protecting data
• Explain and configure a security style setting for a volume and a qtree
• Describe methods of tracking and restricting storage usage
• Explain, create, and manage quotas
• Explain and configure the Data ONTAP FPolicy file-screening policy

Module 11 SAN

• Explain the purpose of a SAN
• Identify supported SAN configurations
• Distinguish between Fibre Channel (FC), Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and iSCSI protocols
• Define a LUN and explain LUN attributes
• Use the LUN setup command and NetApp System Manager to create iSCSI-attached LUNs
• Access and manage a LUN from a Windows host
• Define SnapDrive data management software and its feature

Module 12 Snapshot Copies

• Describe the function of Snapshot copies
• Explain the benefits of Snapshot copies
• Identify and execute Snapshot commands
• Create and delete Snapshot copies
• Configure and modify Snapshot options
• Explain the importance of the .snapshot directory
• Describe how Snapshot technology allocates disk space for volumes and aggregates
• Schedule Snapshot copies
• Configure and manage the Snapshot copy reserve

Module 13 Space Management

• List the storage efficiency techniques that are available within the Data ONTAP operating system
• Identify the factors that impact space consumption in the Data ONTAP operating system
• Describe how and when a volume consumes space from the aggregate that contains it
• Explain how to guarantee writes for a file
• Explain how the Data ONTAP operating system can provide space to a full volume
• Identify the deduplication and compression techniques that are available in the Data ONTAP operating system

Module 14 High-Availability

• Describe high-availability (HA) solutions
• Discuss how HA increases the reliability of storage
• Define HA controller configuration
• Describe the three modes of HA operation with an HA pair
• Analyze how HA affects clients protocols during failover and giveback operations

Module 15 Virtualization Solutions

• Describe how to virtualize a storage controller by using MultiStore software
• Configure MultiStore software
• Assign client protocols on MultiStore software

Module 16 Backup and Recovery Methods

• List the methods available to back up and recover data
• Use ndmpcopy to process full and incremental data transfers
• Discuss dump and restore
• Describe, enable, and configure Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) on a storage system

Module 17 Data Collection Tools

• Use the sysstat, stats, and statit commands
• Describe the factors that affect RAID performance
• Execute commands to collect data about write and read throughputs
• Execute commands to verify the operation of hardware, software, and network components
• Identify commands and options that are used to obtain configuration and status

Module 18 Data ONTAP Upgrades

• Access the NetApp Support site for the following documents:
• Data ONTAP Upgrade Guide
• Data ONTAP Release Notes
• Use a configuration worksheet to collect data for installation
• Describe how to perform Data ONTAP software upgrades and reboots
• Use the setup command to configure a storage system

Lab Exercises

• Lab 1-1 Identify the exercise environment
• Lab 1-2 Explore the NetApp support site
• Lab 2-1 Explain how the Data ONTAP operating system writes data
• Lab 2-2 Explain how the Data ONTAP operating system reads data
• Lab 3-1 Log in to the exercise environment
• Lab 3-2 Install System Manager
• Lab 3-3 Add a storage system to NetApp System Manager
• Lab 3-4 Use the CLI to access a storage system
• Lab 3-5 Explore the Help command and privilege levels
• Lab 3-6 List the options on a storage system
• Lab 3-7 From the CLI, examine the system configuration of a storage system
• Lab 3-8 Use NetApp System Manager to configure DNS
• Lab 3-9 Use system manager to configure the AutoSupport tool
• Lab 4-1 Exploring the current disk configuration
• Lab 4-2 Understand the impact of disk scrub on a storage system
• Lab 4-3 Run the storage configuration wizard
• Lab 4-4 Use NetApp system manager to create a 64-bit aggregate
• Lab 4-5 Use the CLI to create a 64-bit aggregate
• Lab 4-6 Use the CLI to create a 32-bit aggregate and upgrade to 64-bit
• Lab 4-7 Cause a disk to fail
• Lab 4-8 Add disks to an aggregate
• Lab 5-1 Use system manager to create a volume
• Lab 5-2 Resize a volume
• Lab 5-3 Delete a volume
• Lab 5-4 Create qtrees
• Lab 5-5 Delete qtrees
• Lab 6-1 Create an administrative user account
• Lab 6-2 Use the CLI to configure administrative security
• Lab 6-3 Log in with a new user account
• Lab 7-1 Use the System Manager to configure network settings
• Lab 7-2 Use the CLI to configuration network settings
• Lab 7-3 Use the CLI to create a single-mode interface group
• Lab 7-4 Use the CLI to create a multimode interface group
• Lab 8-1 Use NetApp System Manager to license NFS
• Lab 8-2 Use NetApp System Manager to export a volume
• Lab 8-3 Use the CLI to export a volume
• Lab 8-4 Mount exports from an administration host
• Lab 9-1 Use NetApp System Managerr to license CIFS service
• Lab 9-2 Use NetApp System Manager to configure CIFS service
• Lab 9-3 Create a window domain user
• Lab 9-4 Use the CLI and NetApp System Manager to view and create shares
• Lab 9-5 Create a new share with computer management
• Lab 9-6 Map shares to drive letters
• Lab 9-7 Modify user permissions
• Lab 9-8 Display CIFS sessions
• Lab 9-9 Configure SMB 2.0 protocol
• Lab 9-10 Terminate CIFS sessions
• Lab 10-1 Create and manage quotas
• Lab 10-2 Create a quota report
• Lab 10-3 Modify the /etc/quotas file and implement quota changes
• Lab 10-4 Use the CLI to create qtrees and quotas for the qtrees
• Lab 10-5 Create a native file-blocking policy
• Lab 11-1 License and start the iSCSI service
• Lab 11-2 Configure iSCSI on Windows Server 2008 R2
• Lab 11-3 Use NetApp System Manager to create a LUN
• Lab 11-4 Use the CLI to create a LUN
• Lab 11-5 Access LUNs from Windows Server 2008 R2
• Lab 11-6 Nondistributively move a volume that contains a LUN
• Lab 12-1 Use NetApp system manager to create a SnapShot copy
• Lab 12-2 Restore a windows file from a SnapShot copy
• Lab 12-3 Restore a linux file fom a SnapShot copy
• Lab 12-4 Use NetApp system manager to manage SnapShot copies
• Lab 12-5 Restore a file by using the windows previous version tool
• Lab 12-6 License and configure SnapRestore technology
• Lab 12-7 Revert a volume using SnapRestore technology to restore a volume
• Lab 12-8 Use SnapRestore technology to restore a file
• Lab 13-1 Explore volume space consumption
• Lab 13-2 Explore file space consumption
• Lab 13-3 Configure deduplication
• Lab 15-1 Create two MultiStore systems with separate IP aliases
• Lab 15-2 Create a CIFS share on a MultiStore system
• Lab 15-3 Create an iSCSI LUN on a MultiStore system
• Lab 16-1 Copy a volume by using the NDMPCOPY command
• Lab 17-1 Identify the commands that you can use to troubleshoot and solve problems
• Lab 17-2 Run the statit command on a storage system
• Lab 17-3 Run the stats command on a storage system

Accelerated NCDA Boot Camp Data ONTAP 7-Mode (ANCDABC87)

Module 1 NCDA Overview

• Identify the skills and knowledge that NetApp Certified Data Management Administrator (NCDA) certification verifies and the benefits that certification provide
• Explain key concepts from the Data ONTAP 7-Mode Administration course

Module 2 NFS Overview

• Define NFS
• Differentiate between NFS protocol versions
• Recognize the differences between stateless and stateful protocols
• Describe how the storage system acts as an NFS file server
• List the requirements of NFS

Module 3 NFS Setup

• Configure NFS on a NetApp® storage system
• Add Network Information Server (NIS) to manage users, groups, and name-to-IP resolution
• Configure a storage system to perform hostname (Domain Name System or DNS) look ups
• Configure a storage system to access a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) server, in order to centrally manage users and groups
• Configure PC-NFS and WebNFS environments to extend the reach of NFS

Module 4 Exports and Mounts

• Identify exportable resources
• Export and unexport resources to clients, subnets, and netgroups
• Manage a storage system with the exportfs command
• Create mountpoints and mount exported resources on a client
• Monitor the usage of exported resources
• Discuss a nondisruptive migration technique

Module 5 CIFS Overview

• Describe basic CIFS features
• Describe the following network environments:
• Microsoft® Windows® workgroup
• Non-Windows workgroup
• Windows domains
• Describe how a storage system authenticates users in each server environment
• Explain the advantages and disadvantages of each server environment

Module 6 CIFS Workgroups

• License CIFS on a storage system
• Join a storage system to a Microsoft® Windows® workgroup environment using the CIFS setup command
• Review the results of CIFS setup
• Manage newly created configuration files for a CIFS workgroup environment

Module 7 CIFS Shares and Sessions

• Display all shares that are available on the storage system
• List the default shares
• Configure a client machine to access any share
• Identify the CIFS sessions that have been established by accessing a share on the storage system
• Add, modify, and delete shares

Module 8 CIFS Access Control

• Create and manage local users for a storage system
• Identify how to create a local group and make a local user a member of that group
• Use the command-line interface, NetApp® System Manager, and Microsoft® tools to add, delete, and modify access permissions for shares
• Use Microsoft tools to add, delete, and modify access per missions for files and folders

Module 9 CIFS Domains

• Terminate the CIFS service to prepare for CIFS domain configuration
• Reconfigure the CIFS service for a Windows® domain
• Identify the resulting files
• Create domain users and add the domain users to a local storage system group
• Configure preferred domain controllers (DCs)

Module 10 NAS Multiprotocol

• Determine and verify user mappings for CIFS users that are accessing UNIX® volumes and qtrees and mixed volumes and qtrees
• Determine and verify user mappings for UNIX users that are accessing New Technology File System (NTFS) volumes and qtrees and mixed volumes and qtrees

Module 11 NAS Troubleshooting

• Locate options and configuration files that might be misconfigured on the storage system
• Test for Domain Name System (DNS) resolution on both they storage system and the client
• Use client-side tools to test the client configuration
• Use storage system and client tools to isolate network system blockages
• Recognize typical error messages and list the commands that you can use to identify the sources of the error messages

Module 12 SAN Overview

• Describe the differences between network-attached storage (NAS) and storage area network (SAN)
• List the methods that you can use to implement a SAN environment
• Define a LUN, initiator, and target
• Describe ports, worldwide node names (WWNNs), and worldwide port names (WWPNs)
• List the basic steps required to implement a SAN

Module 13 FC Connectivity

• Describe how to implement multiple paths with Fibre Channel (FC) connectivity
• Describe hot to configure FC ports on Windows®, Red Hat®, and NetApp® systems
• Describe the commands and utilities that you can use to identify worldwide node names (WWNNs) and worldwide port names (WWPNs) on Windows®, Red Hat®, and NetApp® systems

Module 14 iSCSI Connectivity

• Describe multiple path implementation with iSCSI connectivity
• Configure network ports on Windows®, Red Hat®, and NetApp® systems
• Identify the worldwide node name (WWNN) on Windows, Red Hat, and NetApp systems
• Configure and verify multiple-path iSCSI connectivity between Windows, Red Hat, and NetApp systems

Module 15 LUN Access

• Describe the steps that you must complete to allow a Windows® Server 2008 R2 initiator to access a LUN on a storage system
• Describe the steps that you must complete to allow a Red Hat® initiator to access a LUN on a storage system

Module 16 Availability Overview

• List the methods that you can use to back up and recover data for data availability
• Describe the methods that you can use to ensure system availability

Module 17 Snapshot Copies

• Describe the function of Snapshot® copies
• Explain the benefits of Snapshot copies
• Identify and execute Snapshot commands
• Create and delete Snapshot copies
• Configure and modify Snapshot options
• Explain the importance of the .snapshot and ~snapshot directory
• Describe how disk space is allocated by a Snapshot copy for volumes and aggregates
• Schedule Snapshot copies
• Configure and manage the Snapshot reserve

Module 18 SnapRestore Software

• Explain how SnapRestore® technology works with SnapShot® copies
• Describe what SnapRestore software can revert or restore
• Revert and restore volumes and files using SnapRestore software
• Explain how SnapRestore software works with SnapMirror® software
• Describe the effects of using SnapRestore software on backup operations

Module 19 SnapVault

• Describe SnapVault® components and benefits
• Configure SnapVault on primary and secondary systems
• Administer SnapVault on primary and secondary systems
• Describe the application-consistent backup feature available in Data ONTAP® 7-Mode
• Restore data from secondary to primary systems

Module 20 Open Systems SnapVault

• Describe how Open Systems SnapVault® integrates with Data ONTAP® SnapVault
• List Open Systems SnapVault advanced features
• Configure and administer Open Systems SnapVault
• Perform Open Systems SnapVault backup and restore operations
• Troubleshoot and resolve Open Systems SnapVault transfer failures

Module 21 High-Availability

• Define the high-availability controller configuration
• Describe the three modes of high-availability operation with a high-availability pair
• Analyze the effect on client protocols during failover and giveback operations

Module 22 MetroCluster

• Describe a stretch MetroCluster environment
• List the basic steps to implement a stretch MetroCluster
• Describe a fabric-attached MetroCluster environment
• List the basic steps to implement a fabric-attached MetroCluster

Module 23 SnapMirror

• Explain the SnapMirror® Async, Sync, and Semi-Sync modes of operation
• Describe how volume SnapMirror and qtree SnapMirror replicate data
• Configure SnapMirror
• Perform advanced SnapMirror operations
• Explain SnapMirror performance impact

Module 24 Performance

• Use Data ONTAP® tools to identify networking, disk I/O, FC loop saturation, and CPU bottlenecks using sysstat, stats, perfstat
• Discuss how increasing utilization can affect performance
• Use the reallocate command to maintain performance
• Use recommended techniques to optimize Data ONTAP configuration for SAN and NAS

Lab Exercises

• Lab 1-1 Identify the exercise environment
• Lab 1-2 Log in to the exercise environment
• Lab 1-3 Install NetApp System Manager
• Lab 1-4 Allow NetApp System Manager access through Windows firewall
• Lab 2-1 Identify the exercise environment
• Lab 2-2 Log in to your assigned storage system
• Lab 2-3 Log in to NetApp System Manager and add your storage system
• Lab 3-1 License and configure the NFS service
• Lab 3-2 Add an administration host using the setup command
• Lab 4-1 Mount the root volume of the storage system on an administration host
• Lab 4-2 Export a volume using the command-line interface
• Lab 4-3 Rename a volume and verify the automatic export
• Lab 4-4 Export and mount a qtree
• Lab 4-5 Export to a subnet
• Lab 4-6 Export to a netgroup
• Lab 4-7 Export a qtree using NetApp System Manager
• Lab 4-8 Mount an export from an admin host
• Lab 5-1 Identify the exercise environment
• Lab 6-1 Configure a storage system for a Windows Workgroup environment
• Lab 6-2 Review the results of CIFS setup in a Windows Workgroup environment
• Lab 7-1 View current shares
• Lab 7-2 Create a new share using the command-line interface
• Lab 7-3 Verify share access and display session information
• Lab 8-1 Add a new local user account and configure user access
• Lab 8-2 Access a network drive and work with access control
• Lab 8-3 Create a local group
• Lab 9-1 Terminate CIFS services using NetApp System Manager
• Lab 9-2 Configure DNS with NetApp System Manager
• Lab 9-3 Configure time services with NetApp System Manager
• Lab 9-4 Reconfigure the CIFS services using NetApp System Manager
• Lab 9-5 Create a 32-bit aggregate using NetApp System Manager
• Lab 9-6 Create a volume using NetApp System Manager
• Lab 9-7 Create shares and manage the permissions of the shares
• Lab 9-8 Create a domain user
• Lab 9-9 Create a share with computer management
• Lab 9-10 Map shares to drive letters
• Lab 9-11 Display CIFS sessions
• Lab 10-1 Configure your storage system for multiprotocol access
• Lab 12-1 Identify the components of your SAN exercise environment
• Lab 14-1 Configure iSCSI on a storage system
• Lab 14-2 Configure Windows for MPIO
• Lab 14-3 Install the NetApp DSM for Windows
• Lab 14-4 Install the NetApp host utilities for Window
• Lab 14-5 Configure iSCSI on Windows
• Lab 14-6 Confirm an iSCSI session on a storage system
• Lab 14-7 Configure a second iSCSI session on Windows
• Lab 14-8 Confirm the second iSCSI session on a storage system
• Lab 14-9 Install host utilities on Red Hat Linux
• Lab 14-10 Install the iSCSI software initiator for Red Hat Linux
• Lab 14-11 Configure the iSCSI software initiator on Red Hat Linux
• Lab 14-12 Confirm an iSCSI session or iSCSI sessions on a storage system
• Lab 15-1 Create a LUN using commands
• Lab 15-2 Initialize a LUN with disk management
• Lab 15-3 Provision a LUN with disk management
• Lab 15-4 Make the mounting of a LUN persistent
• Lab 15-5 Create iSCSI-attached LUNS for Red Hat Linux
• Lab 15-6 Discover iSCSI-accessible LUNs from Red Hat Linux
• Lab 15-7 Prepare an individual LUN and mount it on Red Hat Linux
• Lab 16-1 Identify the exercise environment
• Lab 17-1 Create a Snapshot copy using NetApp System Manager
• Lab 17-2 Restore a Windows file from a Snapshot copy
• Lab 17-3 Restore a Unix or Linux file from a Snapshot copy
• Lab 17-4 Manage Snapshot copies using NetApp System Manager
• Lab 17-5 Create a FlexClone clone using the command-line interface
• Lab 18-1 License and configure the SnapRestore software
• Lab 18-2 Restore a volume using SnapRestore technology
• Lab 18-3 Restore a file using SnapRestore technology
• Lab 19-1 Identify primary and secondary systems
• Lab 19-2 Configure SnapVault on the primary system
• Lab 19-3 Configure SnapVault on the secondary system
• Lab 19-4 Initialize the transfer
• Lab 19-5 Perform a restore
• Lab 19-6 Restart the backup relationship
• Lab 20-1 Install Open Systems SnapVault for Windows server
• Lab 20-2 Configure the SnapVault secondary system
• Lab 20-3 Configure Windows Server 2008 R2’s firewall for Open Systems SnapVault
• Lab 20-4 Establish the Open Systems SnapVault baseline
• Lab 20-5 Perform a restore and resume SnapVault operations
• Lab 21-1 License and configure controller failover
• Lab 21-2 Perform a controller failover
• Lab 21-3 Perform a controller giveback
• Lab 23-1 Identify the source and destination systems
• Lab 23-2 Set up SnapMirror on the source storage system
• Lab 23-3 Set up SnapMirror on the destination storage system
• Lab 23-4 Initiate a baseline transfer and schedule updates
• Lab 23-5 Break the SnapMirror relationship
• Lab 23-6 Resynchronizing the relationship
• Lab 23-7 Reinstate the original SnapMirror relationship
• Lab 23-8 Configure synchronous SnapMirror

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