Overview
This intermediate-level course introduces key concepts and techniques for protecting data on NetApp® ONTAP® based systems. You learn about the data protection solutions that are integrated in ONTAP software. You also learn about tools for managing 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 9.12 software.
Prerequisites
- ONTAP Cluster Administration (3-day instructor-led course)
- ONTAP Data Protection Fundamentals (eLearning)
Delegates will learn how to
This course focuses on enabling you to do the following:
- Describe and distinguish the data protection features in NetApp ONTAP software
- Administer the correct ONTAP data protection feature to address your concern
- Configure SnapMirror relationships for disaster recovery and data backup
- Demonstrate SVM DR
- Describe NDMP-enabled operations to back up NAS data to tape
- Describe the cloud-based data protection solutions that complement your ONTAP based systems
- Describe MetroCluster components and functionality
- Describe SnapMirror Business Continuity components and functionality
Outline
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
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