Course Overview
This course is a comprehensive analysis of NetApp® StorageGRID® administration. You learn how to configure, monitor, maintain, and expand a StorageGRID system. The course outlines the new features and enhancements in StorageGRID 11.6. The course materials include a guide for hands-on exercises that you perform in a lab environment. This course also builds on the concepts that you learned in StorageGRID Fundamentals and is complementary to Installing StorageGRID.
Who should attend
Storage administrators, professional services personnel, and support services personnel
Prerequisites
Course Objectives
This course focuses on enabling you to do the following:
- Use the StorageGRID Grid Manager to monitor and manage a StorageGRID object-based storage solution
- Create and manage storage tenant accounts, groups, and users
- Configure information lifecycle management (ILM) rules and policies
- Control access to the StorageGRID system and implement service levels
- Manage Simple Storage Service (S3) buckets and objects
- Monitor StorageGRID system activity
- Configure and manage email notifications and custom alerts
- Integrate the StorageGRID solution into your data fabric
Outline: StorageGRID Administration (SGWSADM)
Module 0: Welcome
- About the StorageGRID curriculum
- About this course
- Course agenda
Module 1: StorageGRID Components and Services
- StorageGRID components
- Node service workflows
Module 2: StorageGRID management
- Grid manager
- StorageGRID Configuration options
- StorageGRID Administrators
- Securing Access to StorageGRID
- StorageGRID Management API
Module 3: Storage Tenant Administration
- Tenant Accounts
- Tenant Manager
- Tenant Access Control
- StorageGRID tenant API
Module 4: Information Lifecycle Management
- ILM Policies and Rules
- Storage pools, Storage Grades and Regions
- Configuring ILM policies
Module 5: Managing Client Connections
- VLAN interfaces
- High-availability groups
- Load balancer endpoints
- Traffic classification
Module 6: S3 bucket administration
- Virtual hosted-style identifiers
- Bucket access control
- S3 bucket configuration options
- Client stored object options
- Platform services
Module 7: Monitoring the StorageGRID system
- Alerts
- Audit log
- Reporting
Module 8: StorageGRID maintenance
- StorageGRID AutoSupport
- Managing StorageGRID services
- Maintenance procedures
- StorageGRID software upgrades
Module 9: Integrating a StorageGRID system
- ONTAP FabricPool
- ONTAP backup to cloud
- SolidFire backup to cloud
- NetApp Cloud Sync service
- NetApp Cloud Backup service