Module 1: NCDA Overview

• Identify the skills and knowledge that NetApp Certified Data Management Administrator (NCDA) certification verifies
• Describe the benefits of certification
• Explain the key concepts of Data ONTAP operating in 7-mode

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
• Configure a storage system to perform IP to host-name resolution
• Add Network Information Server (NIS) to manage users, groups, and name-to-IP resolution
• Configure a storage system 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 exports with the exportfs command
• Create mount points and mount exported resources on a client
• Monitor the usage of exported resources
• Explain how to monitor exports with access cache

Module 5: CIFS Overview

• Describe basic CIFS terminology and CIFS versions
• Describe the role of the Data ONTAP storage system within Windows environments:
  • Microsoft® Windows® workgroup
  • Non-Windows workgroup
  • Windows domains
• Describe host name resolution
• Describe user authentication and authorization

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 the list of shared resources available on the storage system
• Configure a client machine to access a storage system share
• Identify users and hosts that are connected to the storage system in CIFS sessions
• Add, modify, and delete shares

Module 8: CIFS Access Control

• Create and manage local users for a storage system
• Create and manage local users for a storage system
• Create local group and local users for that group
• Use the CLI (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 permissions 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

• Describe security styles and how they affect file permissions
• Determine and verify user mappings for CIFS users that access UNIX® volumes and qtrees and mixed volumes and qtrees
• Determine and verify user mappings for UNIX users that are access New Technology File System (NTFS) volumes and qtrees and mixed volumes and qtrees
• Describe the WAFL (Write Anywhere File Layout) Credential Cache

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 the 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 to identify their sources

Module 12: SAN Overview

• Describe the differences between network-attached storage (NAS) and storage area network (SAN)
• List the protocols to implement a SAN environment
• Define a LUN, initiator, and target
• Describe ports, worldwide node names (WWNNs), and worldwide port names (WWPNs)
• Implement a SAN

Module 13: iSCSI Connectivity

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

Module 14: FC Connectivity

• Implement multiple paths with Fibre Channel (FC) connectivity
• Configure FC ports on Windows® and Data ONTAP systems
• Describe the commands and utilities to identify worldwide node names (WWNNs) and worldwide port names (WWPNs) on Windows® and Data ONTAP systems

Module 15: LUN Access

• Describe the steps that are required to enable a Windows® Server initiator to access a LUN on a storage system

Module 16: Availability Features

• Describe the features that you can use to ensure system availability
• Explain RAID-DP functionality
• Define SyncMirror
• Define the high-availability controller configuration
• 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 17: Managing Snapshot Copies

• Describe the functions and benefits of Snapshot and SnapRestore technologies
• Use the storage system CLI and NetApp System Manager interfaces to manage Snapshot copies
• Manage and reclaim space used by Snapshot copies
• Use Snapshot copies to restore lost data

Module 18: SnapMirror Technology

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

Module 19: Managing SnapVault Technology

• Describe SnapVault® components and benefits
• Configure SnapVault software on primary and secondary systems
• Administer a SnapVault backup on primary and secondary systems
• Describe the application-consistent backup operations
• Restore data from secondary system to primary system

Module 20: Open Systems SnapVault

• Describe how Open Systems SnapVault® integrates with Data ONTAP® SnapVault
• Describe 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: Storage Efficiency

• Utilize FlexClone technology to create efficient copies of volumes, files, and LUNs
• Use deduplication and compression to manage data growth

Module 22: Performance and Data Collections Tools

• Use Data ONTAP operating system commands and tools to capture performance data
• Describe Data ONTAP tools that can affect performance
• Use the reallocate command to maintain performance
• Use recommended techniques to optimize Data ONTAP configuration for SAN and NAS

Labs

• Log in to the exercise environment
• Perform a health check on the storage systems and the Linux server
• Install NetApp OnCommand System Manager
• Add storage systems to System Manager
• Use OnCommand System Manager to create aggregates
• Use OnCommand System Manger to create an aggregate with a flash pool
• Use the CLI to create aggregates
• Use the CLI to create an aggregate with a flash pool
• Destroy an aggregate and initialize its disks
• Create a Flexvol volumes
• Resize Flexvol volumes
• Create Qtrees
• Use the CLI to investigate the status of the NFS protocol
• Investigate NIS and LDAP
• Investigate NFS protocols and configuration files
• Determine if the storage system is accessible from a unix or unix host
• Enable the NFS protocol
• Create a netgroup on the storage system
• Designate a unix host as an administrative host
• Designate a unix host as an administrative host
• Change the permissions for the root volume export
• Mount exported volumes on a unix administration host
• Use system manager to export a Qtree to a subnet
• Use a unix admin host to export a Qtree to a netgroup
• Investigate the status of the CIFS protocol on your storage systems
• Execute the CIFS setup script
• Determine the CIFS protocol status
• Map a drive to the root volume of the storage system
• View CIFS shares from the CLI, system manager, or computer management
• Use the CLI to create shares
• Use system manager to create shares
• Use Windows Computer Management to create shares
• View file and folder properties from the windows host
• Display CIFS session information from the storage system CLI
• Add a local user account on the storage system
• Add a local group to a storage system
• Grant share access to the new group
• Determine whether CIFS configuration prerequisites are met
• Set up the prerequisites for CIFS configuration
• Use system manager to terminate CIFS services
• Use the CIFS setup wizard to join a storage system to a Windows domain
• Use the storage system CLI to join a storage system to a Windows domain
• Create a domain user as a member of the built-in administrators group
• Use Windows Computer Management to manage storage system shares
• Display CIFS session
• Configure multiprotocol access
• Use the WCC to view the mapping of unix to Windows users
• Create, share, and export unix, NTFS, and mixed-style Qtrees
• Access a unix-style volume as a Window server
• Access NTFS security-style volumes as a unix user
• Troubleshoot multiprotocol access
• Send an autosupport message
• Locate storage system diagnostic log files
• Recall diagnostic commands to enter on the storage system
• Capture a packet trace
• Recall diagnostic commands to enter on a unix host
• Recall diagnostic commands to enter on a windows host
• Identify the components of your SAN exercise environment
• Configure iSCSI on a storage system
• Configure Windows for MPIO
• Install NetApp Host Utilities
• Configure iSCSI on Window
• Confirm an iSCSI session on a storage system
• Confirm a second iSCSI session on Windows
• Create a Flexvol volume to contain LUNs
• Create a LUN that is mapped to an igroup
• Initialize a LUN with disk management
• Provision a LUN with disk management
• Make the mounting of a LUN persistent
• Move a volume
• Manage Snapshot copies on the storage system CLI and System Manager
• Ensure that Snapshot directories are visible to CIFS and NFS users
• Restore a windows file from a Snapshot copy
• Create a data-loss test scenario
• Use SnapRestore technology to restore a volume
• Use SnapRestore technology to restore a file
• Identify the source and destination systems
• Set up SnapMirror on the source storage system
• Set up SnapMirror on the destination storage system
• Initiate a baseline transfer and schedule updates
• Update the SnapMirror relationship
• Break the SnapMirror relationship
• Resynchronize the relationship from the source storage system
• Reinstate the original SnapMirror relationship
• Configure synchronous SnapMirror mode
• Identify primary and secondary systems
• Configure SnapVault software on the primary system
• Configure SnapVault software on the secondary system
• Initialize the transfer
• Perform a restore
• Restart the backup relationship
• Install Open Systems SnapVault for Windows server
• Configure the SnapVault secondary system
• Configure Windows Server 2012 firewall settings
• Establish the Open Systems SnapVault baseline
• Perform a restore and resume SnapVault operations
• Enable, schedule, and run volume deduplication operations
• Create a FlexClone volume clone
• Create a FlexClone LUN clone and work with fractional reserve
• Locate statistics on flash pool performance
• Set processing priorities with the FlexShare tool
• Use the sysstat command to collect performance statistics
• Use the stats command to collect performance statistics