Course Content
This intermediate-level course introduces key concepts and techniques for protecting data on NetApp® ONTAP® based storage systems. You learn about the data protection solutions that are integrated in ONTAP software. You also learn about tools to manage ONTAP data protection features. In the hands-on exercises, you use ONTAP System Manager and the ONTAP CLI to perform key data protection tasks. This course is updated for ONTAP 9.11.1 software.
Who should attend
Backup administrators and data protection specialists
Certifications
This course is part of the following Certifications:
Prerequisites
- ONTAP Cluster Administration (3-day instructor-led course)
- ONTAP Data Protection Fundamentals (eLearning)
Course Objectives
This course focuses on enabling you to do the following:
- Describe and distinguish the data protection features in ONTAP software
- Administer the appropriate ONTAP data protection feature to address your data protection concern
- Configure NetApp SnapMirror® relationships for disaster recovery and data backup
- Demonstrate SVM DR
- Illustrate NDMP-enabled operations to back up NAS data to tape
- Integrate the cloud-based data protection solutions that complement your ONTAP based storage systems
- Structure NetApp MetroCluster components and functionality
- Illustrate NetApp SnapMirror Business Continuity components and functionality
Outline: ONTAP Data Protection Administration (DATAPROT9)
Module 1: Overview of ONTAP data protection
- Data protection introduction
- ONTAP data protection solutions
- ONTAP management solutions
Module 2: SnapMirror Fundamentals
- SnapMirror overview
- Configuring SnapMirror relationships
- Guidelines for Intercluster networking
- Cluster and storage VM peering
Module 3: SnapMirror for disaster recovery and backup
- SnapMirror for FlexVol volumes
- SnapMirror configuration considerations
- Using SnapMirror for volumes
- Interaction between SnapMirror and other ONTAP features
- S3 SnapMirror
- FabricPool
- Load-sharing mirrors
- Addendum: SnapMirror and other data protection feature interaction
Module 4: SnapMirror Synchronous for disaster recovery
- SnapMirror Synchronous
- Configuring SnapMirror Synchronous
- Additional SnapMirror Synchronous configuration
Module 5: Storage VM Disaster Recovery (SVM DR)
- SVM DR introduction
- SVM DR requirements and configuration
- SVM data mobility
Module 6: ONTAP backup and archive solutions
- NDMP fundamentals
- NDMP topologies
- NDMP management
- Addendum: NetApp SnapCenter
Module 7: Cloud-based data protection
- Cloud Volumes ONTAP
- SnapMirror Cloud
- Cloud Backup Service
- ONTAP data protection with cloud volumes
Module 8: ONTAP business continuity solutions
- MetroCluster fundamentals
- MetroCluster operations
- Consistency group management
- SnapMirror Business Continuity introduction
- SnapMirror Business Continuity configuration
- Failover operations and failure scenarios
- Addendum: SyncMirror feature
- Configuring cluster peering and Storage VM peering
- Using SnapMirror software to mirror FlexVol volumes
- Performing SnapMirror disaster recovery
- Configuring SnapMirror for unified replication
- Restoring data from a Snapshot copy
- Configuring a load-sharing mirror relationship
- Configuring cluster and storage VM peering for a cascade relationship
- Configuring a cascade relationship
- Configuring a SnapMirror synchronous relationship
- Configuring SVM DR