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Managing NAS Performance on Clustered Data ONTAP (NASPAD)
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Managing NAS Performance on Clustered Data ONTAP (NASPAD) Overview:
Managing NAS Performance on Clustered Data ONTAP (NASPAD) five-day course covers CIFS, NFS, and performance analysis topics in order to collect and analyze performance data from NetApp storage systems. This course provides you with the knowledge and skills that you need to administer CIFS version 1.x to 2.x and NFS versions 3, 4, and 4.1 in a clustered Data ONTAP operating system.
Managing NAS Performance on Clustered Data ONTAP (NASPAD) Prerequisites:
Before attending this course, it is recommended you take the following:
Managing NAS Performance on Clustered Data ONTAP (NASPAD) Objectives:
After successfully completing this course, you should be able to:
- Describe CIFS and NFS protocols
- Describe configuration in the clustered Data ONTAP operating system
- Use the Data ONTAP PowerShell Toolkit to write PowerShell scripts
- Use Data ONTAP operating system to configure home directories
- Review performance management for CIFS and NFS environments
- Explain troubleshooting techniques for NetApp storage systems and for clients who use the CIFS and NFS protocols
- Describe how data flows through the network and protocol layers of clustered Data ONTAP
- Define performance-related terms and describe basic methodologies
- Identify the methods that can be used to monitor and analyze storage system performance
- Explain how methods and tools can be used to collect performance data
- Use command output to analyze system performance
- Use command output from case studies to identify performance bottlenecks
- Implement configuration for recommended practices for resiliency and performance
- Locate resources and information that help you maximize system performance
Managing NAS Performance on Clustered Data ONTAP (NASPAD) Outline:
Module 1: NetApp Storage System Overview
- Layers within the Data ONTAP architecture
- Advantages that are provided by the ability of WAFL to optimize writes
- Purpose of NVRAM
- Diagram the flow of read and write requests through the network and protocol layers of Data ONTAP
- Benefits that RAID provides
Module 2: NAS Performance Overview
- Review the following performance-related terms:
- Baseline
- Bottleneck
- Little’s law
- Latency
- Baseline performance guidelines and methodologies as they relate to NetApp storage systems
- Module 2 Labs:
- Lab 1: Identify the exercise environment
- Lab 2: Log in to the exercise environment
- Lab 3: Add a cluster to OnCommand System Manager
- Lab 4: Configure SNMP public community name
- Lab 5: Identify clustered Data ONTAP components
- Lab 6: Set the clustered Data ONTAP command line system timeout value
Module 3: Clustered Storage System Workloads and Bottlenecks
- Gather information about the workload of an existing storage system
- Storage system components that can affect performance—become bottlenecks
- Module 3 Labs:
- Lab 1: Examine the statistics catalog commands
- Lab 2: Examine the statistics start and statistics show commands
- Lab 3: Defining workload characteristics
Module 4: Cluster NAS Performance Monitoring and Analysis
- Cluster health checks performance analysis tools
- Key performance commands and describe the command output that they produce
- NetApp tools to measure performance
- Benefits of using the AutoSupport support tool for performance analysis
- Module 4 Labs:
- Lab 1: Perform initial health checks on the cluster
- Lab 2: Baseline performance monitoring from the cluster shell
- Lab 3: Performance monitoring from the cluster shell
- Lab 4: Unlock diag userid
- Lab 5: Using the performance and statistics collector (Perfstat)
Module 5: OnCommand Management Tools
- Three categories of performance tools
- Insight Perform features and functions
- OnCommand Balance features and functions
- View performance data using OnCommand management tools
Module 6: Storage QoS
- How the Storage Quality of Service (QoS) feature works in a clustered Data ONTAP environment
- Commands to manage policy groups
- Workload performance monitoring
- Module 6 Labs:
- Lab 1: Reactively limit thoughput to a workload by associating the workload with QoS policy group
- Lab 2: Proactively monitor workload performance by associating a workload with a QoS policy group
- Lab 3: Isolate a tenant workload by associating the workload with a QoS policy group
Module 7: NFS Overview
- Define NFS List use cases for NFS
- NFS protocol version differences
- Two implementations of Data ONTAPNetApp
- Module 7 Labs:
- Lab 1: Identify the exercise environment
- Lab 2: Log in to the exercise environment
- Lab 3: Install OnCommand System Manager in the exercise environment
- Lab 4: Add a cluster to OnCommand System Manager
- Lab 5: Configure SNMP public community name
Module 8: NFS Version 3
- NFS version 3 (NFSv3) features
- Data ONTAP support for NFSv3
- Use cases for NFSv3
- Configure Data ONTAP operating in 7-Mode to use the NFSv3 protocol
- Configure clustered Data ONTAP to use the NFSv3 protocol
- NFSv3 security
- Module 8 Labs:
- Lab 1: Create a data aggregate
- Lab 2: Add the NFS license to a cluster
- Lab 3: Create a vServer
- Lab 4: Create a UNIX group and user
- Lab 5: Define a new export policy and rule
- Lab 6: Allocate an aggregate as a resource for a vServer
- Lab 7: Create the vServer’s namespace
- Lab 8: Mount the vServer’s namespace
- Lab 9: Explore file permissions
Module 9: NFS Version 4
- NFS version 4 (NFSv4) features
- Data ONTAP support for NFSv4
- Use cases for NFSv4
- Configure Data ONTAP operating in 7-Mode to use the NFSv4 protocol
- Configure clustered Data ONTAP to use the NFSv4 protocol
- NFSv4 security2NetApp
- Module 9 Labs:
- Lab 1: Configure a vServer with a new storage and LIF
- Lab 2: Enable NFSv4 features on a vServer and client
- Lab 3: Explore an NFSv4 export on a client
- Lab 4: Explore NFSv4 ACLs
Module 10: NFS Version 4.1
- NFS version 4.1 (NFSv4.1) and parallel NFS (pNFS) features
- Data ONTAP support for NFSv4.1 and pNFS
- Use cases for NFSv4.1 and pNFS
- Configure clustered Data ONTAP to use the NFSv4.1 protocol
- Configure a Linux host to use the NFSv4.1 protocol
- Module 10 Labs:
- Lab 1: Configure a Vserver for NFSv4.1
- Lab 2: Explore an NFSv4.1 export on a client
- Lab 3: Analyze the effects of a volume move operation on pNFS
Module 11: NAS Performance and Basic Troubleshooting
- Factors that influence NFS performance
- Tools that are used to capture NFS performance statistics
- Areas in which issues might arise
- Interactions between CIFS and NFS name mapping
- Basic NFS troubleshooting between storage systems, the Linux client, and the network
- Troubleshooting NFS locks and leases
Module 12: CIFS Overview
- CIFS protocol version differences
- CIFS supported environments
- How CIFS authenticates resources in a workgroup environment and a domain environment
- Two implementations of Data ONTAP
- Module 12 Labs:
- Lab 1: Identify the exercise environment
- Lab 2: Log in to the exercise environment
- Lab 3: Install NetApp OnCommand System Manager in the exercise environment
- Lab 4: Add a cluster to OnCommand System Manager
- Lab 5: Configure SNMP public community name
Module 13: SMB Setup
- Configure workgroup authentication for a storage system with Data ONTAP operating in 7-Mode
- Set up a storage system with clustered Data ONTAP for Windows domain authentication
- Configure Windows domain authentication for a storage system with Data ONTAP operating in 7-Mode
- Module 13 Labs:
- Lab 1: Create an aggregate
- Lab 2: Configure the prerequisites for the CIFS services
- Lab 3: Add the CIFS license to a cluster
- Lab 4: Create a Vserver for CIFS
- Lab 5: Verify the CIFS server configuration
- Lab 6: Configure DNS for a data LIF
Module 14: Shares and Sessions
- List the default shares
- Display all shares that are available on the storage system
- Configure a client machine to access any share
- Sparse files and set their attributes
- CIFS sessions that are established by accessing a share on the storage system
- Add, modify, and delete shares
- Module 14 Labs:
- Lab 1: Allocate an aggregate as a resource for a vServer
- Lab 2: Create the vServer’s namespace
- Lab 3: Create CIFS shares for the vServer’s volumes
- Lab 4: Mount the vServer’s shares
- Lab 5: Verify an SMB session using Computer Management
- Lab 6: Verify an SMB session using Data ONTAP CLI and PowerShell
- Lab 7: Explore the copy-offload feature
- Lab 8: Investigate the auto location feature
Module 15: Access Control
- Add, delete, and modify the access permissions of shares using the CLI, OnCommand System Manager, or Microsoft tools
- Add, delete, and modify the access permissions of files and folders using Microsoft tools
- Use access-based enumeration
- Local users creation
- Local groups creation
- Verify user mappings for CIFS users that access NTFS and UNIX volumes or qtrees
- Configure file policies
- Module 15 Labs:
- Lab 1: Create a domain group
- Lab 2: Create a domain user
- Lab 3: Explore share-level permissions with domain user authentication
- Lab 4: Configure local users authentication
- Lab 5: Implement a native file blocking policy
- Lab 6: Set up a multiprotocol configuration
- Lab 7: Create an export policy rule
- Lab 8: Configure a vServer for NFS access
- Lab 9: Use multiple protocols to access a volume
Module 16: Advanced Topics
- Opportunistic locks (oplocks) implementation within the Data ONTAP operating system
- Metacache support for Clustered Data ONTAP
- Support for BranchCache
- Configure auditing
- Set up home directory shares
- Group policy object implementation within the Data ONTAP operating system
- Configure CIFS security settings
- Implement symbolic links and wide-links
- Module 16 Labs:
- Lab 1: Configure BranchCache in Data ONTAP
- Lab 2: Configure BranchCache in Windows
- Lab 3: Configure home directories
- Lab 4: Test the home directories with different users
- Lab 5: Implement event auditing
- Lab 6: Use symbolic links
- Lab 7: Implement a wide-link on the vServer
- Lab 8: Implement a wide-link on a remote server
Module 17: PowerShell and the Data ONTAP PowerShell Toolkit
- Microsoft PowerShell
- Configure a Microsoft Windows host to work with the Data ONTAP Software Development Kit (SDK)
- How the Data ONTAP SDK can be used to script storage features
- Methods of using PowerShell
- How to create simple scripts
- Redirect output results to log files
- Make Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) calls using PowerShell
- Module 17 Labs:
- Lab 1: Set up the Data ONTAP PowerShell Toolkit
- Lab 2: Explore the toolkit help
- Lab 3: Use PowerShell to connect to the cluster
- Lab 4: Use PowerShell to create a vServer
- Lab 5: Use PowerShell to configure a CIFS server
- Lab 6: Use PowerShell to create a share
- Lab 7: Work with PowerShell ISE
Module 18: Performance and Basic Troubleshooting
- Factors that influence CIFS performance
- Tools that are used to capture CIFS performance statistics
- Recognize areas in which issues might arise
- Basic CIFS troubleshooting between storage systems, a Windows client, the authentication mechanism, and the network
- Troubleshooting SMB 3.0 locks
