NetApp Training Courses

This two-day course provides a technical overview of the features and benefits of NetApp ONTAP 9 data-management software. The course enables you to explain the architecture and functionality of an ONTAP cluster. You will also be introduced to basic administration, configuration and management of an ONTAP cluster. Through hands-on exercises, you will learn how to create a cluster, aggregates, storage virtual machines (SVMs), LIFs, FlexVol volumes and Snapshot copies.

In this three-day course, you learn the basic administration tasks of a NetApp ONTAP cluster. You use the clustershell and NetApp ONTAP System Manager to manage cluster storage and network resources. The course explains the configuration of basic data protection and data efficiency functions and common cluster maintenance tasks.

This two-day 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 handson exercises, you use ONTAP System Manager and the ONTAP CLI to perform key data protection tasks.

This five-day course comprises the ONTAP Cluster Administration (ONTAP9ADM) followed by the 2 day ONTAP Data Protection Administration (DATAPROT9) courses.

The first 3 days uses lecture and hands-on exercises to teach the basic administration tasks of an ONTAP 9.11 cluster. You use the cluster shell and OnCommand System Manager to manage storage and network resources. ONTAP Cluster Administration is an intermediate course in a comprehensive learning path for NetApp customers, partners and employees.

Students spend the final 2 days learning about the different data protection solutions that are integrated into ONTAP software, including the SyncMirror, SnapMirror, storage virtual machine (SVM) disaster recovery, and SnapVault solutions. The course also provides an overview of ONTAP MetroCluster configuration, NDMP, and cloud-based data protection with NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP and NetApp Data Availability Services. You also learn about the tools for managing ONTAP data protection features. In the hands-on exercises, you use NetApp OnCommand System Manager and the CLI to complete key data protection tasks.

The course also provides an overview of the ONTAP MetroCluster high-availability and disaster recovery software solution.

This one-day course extends the information about the NFS protocol found in the ONTAP Cluster Administration course. The course reviews NFS and explores in more detail different NFS versions and the features of NetApp ONTAP 9 software that support NFS. You use ONTAP 9 to complete the exercises.

This one-day course extends the SMB information discussed in the ONTAP Cluster Administration course. Learn how to configure the SMB client for NetApp ONTAP. Also learn about advanced ONTAP 9 features that support the SMB protocol.

This is a two-day course. Through brief lectures, exercises, and classroom discussion, you discover how to deploy and maintain NetApp Active IQ® Unified Manager. You also learn how the performance-management features of Unified Manager provide a unified approach to storage management that reduces complexity.

In this three-day course, you will learn the ONTAP 9 Data Management Software installation process for a SAN environment. The course provides information about block-level protocols, including FC, FCoE, NVMe, and iSCSI, on Microsoft Windows Server, Linux and VMware ESXi host operating systems. The learning will be reinforced through hands-on guided labs.

This one-day ONTAP Security and Compliance course describes the architecture and functionality of the integrated data protection security and compliance features and benefits in ONTAP 9 data-management software, including SnapLock software, key management features, and encryption technologies. The course also explains the integrated data protection compliance features’ administration, configuration, and management.

ONTAP Security and Compliance Solutions Administration is intended for data protection administrators of any experience level

This three-day course enables you to collect and analyze system performance data from NetApp storage systems that run NetApp ONTAP 9 software. You learn to interpret data and identify and implement changes that improve system efficiency. You also know to use system commands and features to monitor and enhance storage system performance. You learn from hands-on exercises, case studies, and technical discussions.

In this four-day course, you increase your proficiency as a NetApp ONTAP software engineer by learning how to troubleshoot ONTAP environments. Specifically, you learn how to troubleshoot the management component, scale-out networking, NAS protocols (NFS), and SAN protocols. From lectures, demonstrations, and active exercises, you learn how to isolate issues, verify configurations, view logs, view trace messages, and use event management system (EMS) messages for troubleshooting.

This three-day course focuses on the deployment of NetApp SnapCenter Server. You learn how to install, monitor, and manage SnapCenter Server. The course also discusses installation and use of licenses and role-based access control. You learn how to prepare hosts, install SnapCenter Plug-ins, and connect to NetApp storage systems. You also review backup and restore of Windows file system data and the configuration of SnapMirror and SnapVault relationships for use with SnapCenter software.

In this two-day course, you will learn to implement Microsoft Hyper-V on Data ONTAP, and how to design and implement virtualization solutions on NetApp storage systems using Microsoft Hyper-V. You will also discover how to deploy the Microsoft Windows Server 2022 virtual infrastructure on Data ONTAP storage.

In this three-day course you learn to implement a hybrid cloud solution with Amazon Web Services using NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP. Connect an AWS Virtual Private Cloud and an on-premises data center to unify your infrastructure. Use NetApp Cloud Manager to move and manage storage in the hybrid cloud. Learn about NetApp cloud services integrated into Cloud Manager to provide persistent storage for Kubernetes containers and enhance data protection, security, and compliance. Learn to optimize capacity and performance of Cloud Volumes ONTAP.

This three-day 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. This course also builds on the concepts that you learned in StorageGRID Fundamentals and is complementary to Installing StorageGRID.

This two-day course teaches you how to manage VMware vSphere virtualization solutions with NetApp ONTAP data management software. You learn how to use NetApp ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere and other ONTAP solutions to deploy, manage, and protect the VMware virtual infrastructure on ONTAP based storage systems in both SAN and NAS environments. The course introduces you to the ONTAP tools Virtual Storage Console (VSC), NetApp VMware vSphere API for Storage Awareness (VASA) Provider, and Storage Replication Adapter (SRA). You also learn how to use the NetApp SnapCenter Plug-in for VMware vSphere to configure backup and recovery.

This one-day course describes the deployment of the SnapCenter Plug-in for VMware vSphere. In this course, you learn about the plug-in’s features and how to install and perform the initial configuration of the plug-in. You also use NetApp SnapCenter software to learn how to protect and restore VMware virtual machines (VMs) and datastores. Through instructor-led presentations and web-based courseware, you gain knowledge about these topics. Hands-on exercises provide you with experience in performing these tasks.

This five-day course will teach you different methods to implement VMware vSphere on NetApp ONTAP. The system provides a quick update on the current ONTAP and VMware versions, introduce the current tools to manage a VMware virtual infrastructure (ONTAP tools for vSphere) and describe and provide practical exercises to provision datastores and storage for guest VMs with various protocols. It also points administrators to methods to back up their virtual infrastructure according to best practices and discusses methods and tools to manage and monitor for health and performance.

In this four-day course, you learn how to configure a new E-Series or EF-Series storage system and establish connectivity with a SAN. You use the SANtricity storage management software and CLI to manage the E-Series and EF-Series controllers. You also use SANtricity storage management software features to restore data. Additionally, you learn how to support and monitor E-Series and EF-Series storage systems by performing various troubleshooting tasks, such as evaluating support data and using the built-in tools to identify storage system errors.