Detailed Course Outline
Module 1: How a NetApp Storage System Works
- Describe the layers within the Data ONTAP architecture
- List the advantages that are provided by the ability of WAFL to optimize writes
- Explain the purpose of NVRAM
- Diagram the flow of read and write requests through the network and protocol layers of Data ONTAP
- Describe the benefits that RAID provides
Module 2: Performance Overview
- Define performance-related terms, such as “baseline,” “bottleneck,” “Little’s law,” and “latency”
- Describe baseline performance guidelines and methodologies as they relate to NetApp storage systems
Module 3: Clustered Storage System Workloads and Bottlenecks
- Gather information about the workload of an existing storage system
- Identify the storage system components that can affect performance—become bottlenecks
Module 4: Cluster Performance Monitoring and Analysis
- Describe the performance analysis tools and commands that are commonly used for cluster health checks
- Identify the key performance commands and describe the command output that they produce
- Explain how to use NetApp tools for performance measurement
- Describe the benefits of using the AutoSupport support tool for performance analysis
Module 5: OnCommand Management Tools
- List the three categories of performance tools
- Explain the features and functions of Insight Perform
- Explain the features and functions of OnCommand Balance
- Use OnCommand management tools to view performance data
Module 6: Storage QoS
- Discuss how the Storage Quality of Service (QoS) feature works in a clustered Data ONTAP environment
- Identify the commands that are used to manage policy groups
- Monitor workload performance
Labs
- Identify the exercise environment
- Log in to the exercise environment
- Add a cluster to OnCommand System Manager
- Configure SNMP public community name
- Identify clustered Data ONTAP components
- Set the clustered Data ONTAP command line system timeout value (optional)
- Examine the statistics catalog commands
- Examine the statistics start and statistics show commands
- Defining workload characteristics
- Perform initial health checks on the cluster
- Baseline performance monitoring from the cluster shell
- Performance monitoring from the cluster shell
- Unlock diag userid
- Using the performance and statistics collector (Perfstat)
- Reactively limit thoughput to a workload by associating the workload with QoS policy group
- Proactively monitor workload performance by associating a workload with a QoS policy group
- Isolate a tenant workload by associating the workload with a QoS policy group