
Configuring and Monitoring NetApp E-Series and EF-Series Storage Systems (CMESERIES)
Программа курса
Module 1: E-Series and EF-Series Product Lines
- Describe the features of the E-Series and EF-Series storage product lines
- Identify and describe the components of the controllers and disk shelves
- Interpret the LED indicators
Module 2: Hardware Installation and Cabling
- List the basic steps for installing storage system hardware
- Explain the purpose of shelf IDs
- Describe proper disk-side and host-side cabling techniques
- Explain procedures for cabling controller and disk shelves
- Zone a SAN for redundant access to storage system controllers
Module 3: Storage Management Software
- Install NetApp SANtricity Storage Manager on a Windows or Linux management and data host
- Identify the components of the SANtricity operating system
- Use the SANtricity Storage Manager interface to access and control E-Series or EF-Series storage systems
Module 4: Logical Configuration
- Create logical configurations from physical disks
- Modify logical configuration settings
- Map a volume to an individual host or host group
- Use storage-based partitions to control LUN assignment and volume visibility
Module 5: Monitoring and Troubleshooting the Storage System
- Troubleshoot storage system issues
- Check the system status
- Use logs and storage system tools to identify system issues
- Resolve storage system issues
Module 6: Cache
- Set caching options on the storage system
- Choose caching options to maximize performance and efficiency
- Manage the cache battery
- Configure solid-state drive (SSD) read cache
Module 7: Disaster Recovery with Storage Management Software Features
- Differentiate among the SANtricity Snapshot, Volume Copy, and Remote Volume Mirroring features
- List the benefits of the Snapshot feature
- List the benefits of the Volume Copy feature
- Describe the functionality of remote mirroring modes
- Use SANtricity features in backup and disaster recovery scenarios
Module 8: Upgrading Storage System Firmware
- Identify the internal code that operates and controls the storage system
- Upgrade code and maintain proper levels of code on the storage system
Module 9: Management Connections
- Diagnose communication issues that involve the management connection
- Define SYMbol and explain SYMbol commands
- Explain operation error conditions for managing storage systems
Module 10: Host-Side and Controller Operation Troubleshooting
- Describe how controllers process data I/O
- Explain normal controller startup
- Distinguish between foreign and native controllers
- Describe controller states
Module 11: Host-Side Multipath Failover
- Describe multipath failover drivers
- Set the appropriate multipath failover driver for your I/O host
- Determine the status of a multipath failover driver
- Troubleshoot issues with multipath failover
Module 12: Drive-Side Operation
- Describe the drive-side I/O communication path
- Describe disk states and hot-spare functionality
- Analyze the drive-channel communication architecture
- Explain operational and error conditions that occur for drive-side cabling
- Describe predictive failure analysis (PFA)
Labs
- Identify hardware components
- Identify controller ports
- Identify E-Series and EF-Series LED indicators
- Install E-Series and EF-Series shelves
- Identify cabling best practices
- Diagram proper zones
- Describe the behavior of seven-segment LEDs
- Install SANtricity software
- Create the storage management domain and explore the enterprise management window
- Explore the script editor and SMCLI
- Explore the array management window
- Configure controller IP addresses for the out-of-band management
- Create a RAID 5 volume group
- Create a volume in a volume group
- Assign a Hot Spare disk
- Create a disk pool
- Create a volume in a disk pool
- Create a thin-provisioned volume in a disk pool
- Change a volume
- Change a disk pool
- Delete a volume
- Define a host
- Create a host group and partitions
- Investigate the AutoSupport feature
- Configure Alerts
- Save support data
- Save and view an event log file
- Use the recovery guru
- Use the onboard backup of the configuration database for disaster recovery
- Examine the storage system configuration and profile
- Use the CLI to evaluate the storage system
- Prepare a volume on a Windows server to receive data
- Prepare a volume on a Linux to receive data
- Test I/O performance based on cache settings
- Test I/O performance based on cache block size
- Recommend volume settings
- Work with SnapShot images for data backup and recovery
- Create and access a volume copy
- Activate asynchronous remote mirroring and create a mirrored pair
- Access mirrored data on a remote storage system
- Use the SnapShot feature with mirror volumes
- Save storage system recovery information
- Update controller firmware and NVSRAM for a storage system
- Update disk shelf ESM Firmware
- Use storage management software to review management connection details
- Use the storage system profile to review management connection details
- Create in-band and out-of-band connections
- Restart the monitoring agent
- Check the network response
- Save, remove, and recover connection files
- Delete and restore the access volume
- Connect to the controller shell
- Set a controller in service mode
- Take a controller offline
- Reset a controller
- View cache attributes
- View battery attributes
- Examine storage and host multipath configurations
- Debug a single-fault multipath scenario
- Debug a double-fault multipath scenario
- Locate disk properties from the management interface
- Locate disk and drive channel properties in the storage system profile
- Recover from a single-dish failure (online volumes)
- Recover from a multiple-dish failure
- Check the cable connections report
- Investigate support data