NetApp

Module 1: ONTAP Review and What’s New
– New supported Hardware
– Efficiency Enhancements
– Performance Enhancements
– Networking Enhancements
– Data Protection Enhancements
– Management Tools
Module 2: VMware Review and What’s New
– New vCSA, HTML5 “complete”
– ESXi HTML5 host client
– Virtual HW improvements
– VMFS improvements
– VVol improvements
Module 3: NetApp Tools for VMware
– Native VAAI support in ONTAP
– Native UNMAP support in ONTAP
– System Manager AppDM
– VSC 9.6, now in the HTML5 client
– VASA Provider (for VVols)
– SRA for SRM
– SnapCenter Plugin
– OCI
– RBAC User Creator
Module 4: NAS Datastores, Classic: Networking & NFS
– Networking Best Practices
– vSphere Networking
– NFS datastores, advantages, prerequisites and how to provision them
– NFS 4.1 cautions
Module 5: SAN Datastores, Classic: VMFS
– VMFS datastores, capabilities and limitations
– FC datastores, networking considerations, FCoE
– iSCSI datastores, networking considerations
Module 6: Datastores, Modern: SPBM & VVols
– Storage Policy Based Management (SPBM)
– VASA Provider
– VVol datastores, capabilities and limitations, management
Module 7: Data Storage for VM Guests
– (Mis-)Alignment
– RDMs, advantages and limitations
– NFS Exports
– SMB shares
– FC LUNs (In-Guest)
– iSCSI LUNs (In-Guest iSCSI)
– SCSI timeouts
– BP for MS-Cluster
Module 8: Data Availability, VMware
– VMware RBAC
– High Availability
– Resource Management, DRS
– VMware HA
– VMware FT
– VM Guest Cluster
– Network Contention, NIOC
– Datastore Contention, SDRS
Module 9: NetApp Data Availability
– Security, RBAC, Administration Delegation
– Networking, QoS, A-QoS
– Storage: RAID, HA-pairs, MetroCluster (FC, IP, SDS)
– vSphere Metro Storage Cluster