Course Overview
Explore block-level protocols, including FC, FCoE, iSCSI, NVMe over FCoE (NVMe/FC), and NVMe over TCP (NVMe/TCP), on Microsoft Windows Server, Linux, and VMware ESXi host operating systems. Examine how to administer, configure, and manage NetApp® ONTAP® data management software for a SAN environment. This course focuses on ONTAP 9 functionality and includes lectures and hands-on exercises.
Who should attend
SAN storage administrators
Prerequisites
- Working knowledge of ONTAP 9 software and SAN
 - ONTAP Cluster Fundamentals
 - ONTAP SAN Fundamentals
 - ONTAP Cluster Administration ONTAP Cluster Administration (ONTAP9ADM)
 
Course Objectives
This course focuses on enabling you to do the following:
- Illustrate SAN configuration and LUN provisioning
 - Explain ONTAP block protocol features and recommendations
 - Demonstrate volume and LUN space efficiency configurations in a SAN environment
 - Discover ONTAP availability strategies and data protection for LUNs
 - Outline SAN performance considerations
 - Perform SAN-specific manageability configurations
 - Describe Foreign LUN Import and explore use cases