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SAN Implementation
In this workshop course, you learn how to connect Windows and Linux hosts via Fibre Channel (FC) and iSCSI protocols to NetApp SANs. Skills Gained By the end of this course you should be able to:...
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$2,700 USD
Course Code
NA-SANIMP
Duration
3 days
Available Formats
Classroom
In this workshop course, you learn how to connect Windows and Linux hosts via Fibre Channel (FC) and iSCSI protocols to NetApp SANs.
Skills Gained
- By the end of this course you should be able to:
- Define and describe SANs that use FC, FCoE, and iSCSI protocols
- Configure Windows Server 2012, Red Hat 6.4, and Data ONTAP systems for iSCSI connectivity
- Configure Windows Server 2012, Red Hat 6.4, and Data ONTAP systems for FC and FCoE connectivity
- Use FC and iSCSI protocols to create and access LUNs from Windows Server 2012 and Red Hat 6.4 systems
- Install and use SnapDrive for Windows and SnapDrive for Linux software to create LUNs and Snapshot LUNs, to restore LUNs from Snapshot copies, and to remove LUNs
- Size, clone, back up, and recover LUNs on Windows Server 2012 and Red Hat 6.4 systems
- Troubleshoot SAN connectivity and performance issues
Who Can Benefit
- Professionals who implement SAN solutions that use NetApp storage systems
Prerequisites
- Certification as a NetApp Data Management Administrator
- Completion of two courses:
- SAN Fundamentals on Data ONTAP WBT
- Either Data ONTAP 7-Mode Administration (D7ADM) or Clustered Data ONTAP 8.2 Administration (DCADM)
Course Details
SAN Implementation
- Module 1 SAN Concepts
- Describe the difference between SAN and NAS
- Explain the SCSI architecture model
- List the NetApp SAN technologies
- Define basic SAN terminology
- List the basic steps for implement a Data ONTAP SAN
- Describe the educational lab environment for this Course
- Module 2 Windows IP Connectivity
- Describe multiple path implementation with iSCSI connectivity
- Configure network ports on Windows and NetApp systems
- Identify the node name on Windows and NetApp systems
- Implement and verify multiple path iSCSI connectivity between Windows and NetApp systems
- Module 3 Windows LUN
- Discuss LUN access for Windows Server 2012
- Create a LUN by using wizards
- Explore techniques to configure a LUN for Windows Server 2012
- Explain how SnapDrive for Windows simplifies LUN management
- Module 4 Linux IP
- Describe multiple path implementation with iSCSI connectivity for Red Hat and NetApp systems
- Configure network ports on Red Hat systems
- Identify the node name on Red Hat systems
- Set up and verify multiple path IP connectivity between Red Hat and NetApp systems
- Module 5 Linux LUN Access
- Describe the steps that you take to allow a Red Hat initiator to access a LUN on a storage system
- Review the Data ONTAP LUN configuration steps
- Find and prepare a LUN on a Linux operating system
- Configure multipath I/O on Linux
- Create and protect LUNs by using SnapDrive for UNIX
- Module 6 FC Architecture
- Describe the architecture of the FC topology
- Explain the FC initialization process
- Identity the layers in the FC protocol
- Module 7 FC Fabrics
- Discuss fabric layouts
- Describe FC switch concepts
- Explain fabric services
- Describe routing in FC switches
- Examine zoning in FC switches
- Module 8 Windows FC Connectivity
- Describe multiple path implementation with FC connectivity
- Configure FC ports on Windows and Data ONTAP storage systems
- Use commands and utilities to identify the worldwide node name (WWNN) and worldwide port name (WWPN) on Windows and Data ONTAP storage systems
- Use commands and utilities to examine FC switch Activity
- Module 9 Unified Connect
- Describe NetApp Unified Connect
- Examine the FC over Ethernet (FCoE) enabling technologies
- Configure FCoE on a host, a switch, and a NetApp storage system
- Explain how to leverage older FC technologies with FCoE
- Module 10 Linux FC
- Describe multiple path implementation with FC connectivity for Red Hat and NetApp systems
- Configure FC ports on Red Hat systems
- Identify the worldwide node name (WWNN) and worldwide port name (WWPN) on Red Hat systems
- Set up and verify multiple path FC connectivity between Red Hat and NetApp systems
- Module 11 LUN Provisioning
- Describe how and when a LUN consumes space from its containing volume
- Discuss backup guarantees through NetApp Snapshot reserve
- Discuss the overwrite guarantee for space-reserved LUNs
- Analyze the default LUN configuration and two thinprovisioning Configurations
- Module 12 Host Considerations
- Explore the disk structure of popular file systems
- Describe flow-control issues on a host
- Identify techniques for growing and shrinking a LUN
- Discuss copy offload capacities
- Module 13 SAN Management
- Perform administrative tasks on FC target ports
- Perform administrative tasks on LUNs
- Discuss LUN protection schemes
- Module 14 SAN Troubleshooting
- Explain how to diagnose a problem within a SAN environment
- Review diagnostic tools and techniques for NetApp Data ONTAP software
- Lab Exercises
- Lab 1-1 Identify the exercise environment
- Lab 1-2 Log in to the exercise environment
- Lab 1-3 Install OnCommand System Manager in the exercise environment
- Lab 1-4 Create a cluster
- Lab 1-5 Add a cluster to OnCommand System Manager
- Lab 1-6 Join a node to a cluster
- Lab 1-7 Configure SNMP public community name
- Lab 2-1 Setup Multipath I/O on Microsoft Windows Server 2012
- Lab 2-2 Install the host utilities kit on Microsoft Windows Server 2012
- Lab 2-3 Configure NIC teaming on Microsoft Windows Server 2012
- Lab 2-4 Create a data aggregate
- Lab 2-5 Use NetApp OnCommand System Manager to create a Vserver for iSCSI
- Lab 2-6 Configure iSCSI sessions on Microsoft Windows Server 2012
- Lab 2-7 Confirm iSCSI sessions on the Data ONTAP operating system
- Lab 3-1 Create a local administrative account for NetApp software
- Lab 3-2 Install NetApp SnapDrive for Windows on Microsoft Windows Server 2012
- Lab 3-3 Configure clustered Data ONTAP for SnapDrive for Windows
- Lab 3-4 Update the Windows hosts file for SnapDrive for Windows
- Lab 3-5 Create a Windows iSCSI disk with SnapDrive for Windows
- Lab 4-1 Verify the Linux configuration
- Lab 4-2 Install the NetApp Linux Host Utilities on your Linux system
- Lab 4-3 Configure the iSCSI software initiator for Linux
- Lab 4-4 Confirm the iSCSI sessions on the storage system
- Lab 5-1 Enable Linux native multipathing (dm-multipath)
- Lab 5-2 Create iSCSI-attached LUNs for Linux
- Lab 5-3 Discover iSCSI-attached LUNs for Linux
- Lab 5-4 Prepare an individual LUN and mount it on the Linux
- Lab 5-5 Configure an LVM2 logical volume
- Lab 7-1 Recall FC key concepts
- Lab 8-1 Investigate the initial switch configuration
- Lab 8-2 Configure FC HBAs on a storage system pair
- Lab 8-3 Configure a storage virtual machine for FC connectivity
- Lab 8-4 Install QLogic FC tool on Windows 2012 system
- Lab 8-5 Enable FC HBA ports on a Windows 2012 system
- Lab 8-6 Assign aliases to WWPNs on a storage system
- Lab 8-7 Provide LUN access using the CLI
- Lab 8-8 Create Windows Dynamic Disks by using NetApp LUNs
- Lab 9-1 Create a VLAN on the switch
- Lab 9-2 Configure a target FCoE port on the switch
- Lab 9-3 Configure an initiator FC port on the switch
- Lab 9-4 Setup one-to-one zone mapping between the initiator and target port
- Lab 10-1 Install SnapDrive for UNIX
- Lab 10-2 Create a LUN by using SnapDrive for UNIX
- Lab 10-3 Recover data using SnapDrive for UNIX
- Lab 11-1 Create an iSCSI-attached LUN on a NetApp high-availability storage system
- Lab 11-2 Create a Snapshot copy of a LUN
- Lab 11-3 Observe the effects of writing to a LUN
- Lab 11-4 Observe the effects of deleting from a LUN
- Lab 11-5 Observe the effects of overwriting to a LUN
- Lab 11-6 Observe the effects of setting a Snapshot automatic deletion policy
- Lab 12-1 Recall the key host considerations
- Lab 12-2 Create an iSCSI-attached LUN
- Lab 12-3 Expand the iSCSI-attached LUN
- Lab 12-4 Shrink the iSCSI-attached LUN
- Lab 13-1 Clone a LUN for Linux
- Lab 13-2 Remove a LUN with Linux
- Lab 13-3 Reset the storage HBAs to initiator mode
