Advanced NCDA Boot Camp (ANCDA BC)
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Course Length:
5 Days
Course Description:
This 5-day intensive, hands-on advanced boot camp will prepare you for all required NetApp exams to achieve the NCDA certification, assuming you have met the prerequisites. You will be provided with two test vouchers to use to sit the two exams required for the NCDA certification. Should you not pass an exam, we will provide you with one extra voucher to retake an exam.
Who Should Attend:
Network Professionals seeking the 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 operating system.
Benefits of Attendance:
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Describe the different server environments
- Identify the appropriate server environment for your storage system
- Configure the CIFS environment on a storage system
- Administer a storage system in a CIFS environment
- Explain how to troubleshoot basic CIFS problems
- Explain NFS protocol overview, NFS versions, and NFS Implementation criteria
- Configure and administer client and server in an NFS environment
- State the rules for exporting resources to hosts, subnets, and netgroups
- Explain the /etc/ exports access options and how they relate to mount permissions
- Analyze NFS performance using sysstat, nfsstat, and other commands
- Collect and analyze data
- Define the characteristics of a SAN environment and how LUNs relate to the storage system
- Describe the components of FC and IP SANs
- Describe size planning requirements for LUNs
- Create and manage LUNs on a storage controller for both Windows and UNX hosts
- Explain FC and IP SAN multipathing options for Windows and UNIX operating systems
- Explain how to troubleshoot common SAN issues
- Explain the concept of Information Lifecycle Management (ILM)
- Set up and maintain snapshots
- Plan and perform data recovery using SnapRestore
- Configure and administer Asychronous and Synchronous SnapMirror
- Configure and administer SnapVault and OSSV
- List best practices and perform troubleshooting of SnapMirror, SnapVault and OSSV
- Use NDMP to archive data
- Configure and administer SnapLock and LockVault
- Define High Availability and Network Appliance solutions: active-active configuration, SyncMirror, Stretch MetroCluster, and Fiber-Attached MetroCluster
- Create a SyncMirror aggregate
- Articulate best practices when deploying active-active configurations
- Configure MetroCluster and SyncMirror
Prerequisites:
Students should have taken the Data ONTAP Fundamentals course.
Course Outline:
- Server environments
- Configuring the CIFS environment on a storage system
- Administering a storage system in a CIFS environment
- Troubleshooting basic CIFS problems
- NFS protocol overview, NFS versions, and NFS Implementation criteria
- Configuring and administering client and server in an NFS environment
- Rules for exporting resources
- /etc/ exports access options
- Analyzing NFS performance
- Collecting and analyzing data
- Characteristics of a SAN environment
- Components of FC and IP SANs
- Size planning requirements for LUNs
- Creating and managing LUNs on a storage controller
- FC and IP SAN multipathing options
- Troubleshooting common SAN issues
- Information Lifecycle Management (ILM)
- Snapshots
- Data recovery using SnapRestore
- Asychronous and Synchronous SnapMirror
- SnapVault
- Configuring and administering OSSV
- Best practices
- Troubleshooting of SnapMirror, SnapVault and OSSV
- Using NDMP to archive data
- SnapLock and LockVault
- High Availability and Network Appliance solutions
- SyncMirror aggregate
- Best practices when deploying active-active configurations
- MetroCluster
- SyncMirror