Detailed Course Outline
Module 1: MetroCluster Overview
- MetroCluster Introduction
- Define MetroCluster
- Describe MetroCluster Architecture
- Configuration Replication Service (CRS)
- Limitations
- MetroCluster supported configuration
- Controllers
- Shelves
- Switches and ISL configuration
- FAS8020, FAS8040, FAS8060 and FAS8080EX
- FlexArray virtualization support
- MetroCluster implementation overview
- Setup
- MetroCluster configuration tools and documentation
- Hardware
- Materials
- Technical content
Module 2: MetroCluster Cabling
- Disk requirements
- Plex SyncMirror overview
- Shelf IDs
- Cabinet Layout
- LUN layout with FlexArray storage virtualization software
- ATTO FibreBridge
- Cabling Shelves to Bridges
- Cabling Bridges to FC switches
- Controller Cabling
- Cluster Interconnect
- FC-VI Interconnect
- Onboard ports or HBAs
- CRS
- Management and data LIFs
- FC switch cabling
- Switch alternatives
- Brocade 6505 and 6510
- Cisco 9148
Module 3: Bridge and Switch Configuration
- ATTO FibreBridge configuration
- Brocade FC switch configuration
- FC switches
- Configuration
- RCF domains
- RCF ports and zone settings
- Brocade ISL configuration
- Calculating and setting distance
- Verifying
- OOD configuration – ONTAP 9 and later
Module 4: Cluster Configuration
- Controller configuration
- Setup
- Disk ownership
- FlexArray storage virtualization software
- Cluster setup
Module 5: MetroCluster Configuration
- MetroCluster setup
- Prerequisites
- Peer relationship
- Mirror aggregates
- Create mirrored data aggregates
- Enable configuration replication
- MetroCluster configure command
- MetroCluster verification
- Disk ownership fields
- Monitor FC switches
- Monitor FibreBridge devices
- Cluster status
- MetroCluster plug-in
- CLI health monitoring
- Node verification
- Components
- CRS component
- Interconnect mirror
- OnCommand unified manager
- Connectivity monitoring
- Replication monitoring
- Events and alerts
- SVM configuration in a MetroCluster environment
- Setup
- CLI
- Automatic creation
Module 6: Failure Scenarios
- Failures:
- Bridge
- Switch or switch port
- Single path
- Shelf
- CRS
- ISL
- Single HA node
- Double HA node
- Data center site
- Switchover types
- Simulation
- Negotiated switchover
- Non-negotiated switchover
- Switchover operation
- Switchback
- Switchback process
Module 7:Tiebreaker Configuration
- Tiebreaker software
- Disaster Detection
- Normal operation
- Tiebreaker installation
- Service operations
- Configuration
- Commands
- Monitor creation
- AutoSupport
- SNMP
Appendix A: Advanced Administration
Appendix B: Basic Metrocluster Troubleshooting
Appendix C: Front-End FC Fabrics in MetroCluster
Labs:
- Identify the exercise environment
- Identify a supported configuration in the IMT
- Inspect the environment
- Log into the exercise environment
- Power off the controller
- Cable SAS shelf connections
- Cable ATTO connections
- Cable controller FC connections
- Cable FC-VI connections
- Cable the switchless cluster interconnect
- Cable cluster peering connections
- Cable ISL between Site A FC switches and Site B FC switches
- Assign shelf IDs
- Use the UI to verify bridge configuration
- Update firmware on a bridge (optional)
- Use the CLI to verify bridge configuration
- Download the reference configuration file for a fabric switch
- Use the CLI to verify an FC switch configuration
- Reconfigure an FC switch
- Verify the ISL connections
- Verify the required ONTAP configuration in maintenance mode
- Set up a cluster
- Join the second node to the cluster
- Synchronize the system time for windows domain
- Configure network and storage objects
- Mirror the root aggregate and create data aggregates
- Configure MetroCluster health monitoring
- Enable the MetroCluster software
- Use the CLI to verify MetroCluster environment
- Create unmirrored aggregates
- Use config advisor to verify MetroCluster environment
- Set up OnCommand unified manager to monitor a MetroCluster environment
- Create an SVM for client protocols in a MetroCluster environment
- Use an unmirrored aggregate in a MetroCluster environment
- Use OnCommand unified manager to verify a MetroCluster environment
- Start Iometer traffic to a LUN
- Detect the loss of a node by performing a storage failover and giveback
- Detect the loss of cluster-replication service connections
- Detect the loss of ISL connections
- Detect the loss of a bridge connection
- Perform a negotiated cluster switchover
- Perform takeover and giveback during a switchover
- Perform a switchback of a negotiated cluster switchover
- Perform a non-negotiated cluster switchover
- Perform a switchback of a non-negotiated switchover
- Observe the loss of a site and an automatic switchover
- Perform a switchback of an automatic switchover
- Install the Tiebreaker software
- Configure Tiebreaker for a DR group in a MetroCluster environment
- Simulate a disaster to test Tiebreaker
- Observe how Tiebreaker initiates a switchover
- Perform a switchback and use Tiebreaker to monitor the process