NetApp - Performance Analysis on Clustered Data ONTAP (NA-PERFCDOT)

Groupes cibles:

Professionals who manage NetApp storage systems and would like a deeper understanding of Clustered Data ONTAP system performance.

Connaissances spécialisées:

Kursbesuch: NetApp - Clustered Data ONTAP Administration oder vergleichbare Kenntnisse.

Connaissances techniques:

Keine besonderen Anforderungen.

Classification de l’Agence pour l’emploi:

• C 1430-10-10 System-, Netzwerkadministration - allgemein

Contenus

- Module 1: How a NetApp Storage System Works
- - Describe the layers within the Data ONTAP architecture
- - List the advantages that are provided by the ability of WAFL to optimize writes
- - Explain the purpose of NVRAM
- - Diagram the flow of read and write requests through the network and protocol layers of Data ONTAP
- - Describe the benefits that RAID provides
- Module 2: Performance Overview
- - Define performance-related terms, such as "baseline,” "bottleneck,” "Little’s law,” and "latency”
- - Describe baseline performance guidelines and methodologies as they relate to NetApp storage systems
- - Module 3: Clustered Storage System Workloads and Bottlenecks
- - Gather information about the workload of an existing storage system
- - Identify the storage system components that can affect performance—become bottlenecks
- Module 4: Cluster Performance Monitoring and Analysis
- - Describe the performance analysis tools and commands that are commonly used for cluster health checks
- - Identify the key performance commands and describe the command output that they produce
- - Explain how to use NetApp tools for performance measurement
- - Describe the benefits of using the AutoSupport support tool for performance analysis
- Module 5: OnCommand Management Tools
- - List the three categories of performance tools
- - Explain the features and functions of Insight Perform
- - Explain the features and functions of OnCommand Balance
- - Use OnCommand management tools to view performance data
- Module 6: Storage QoS
- - Discuss how the Storage Quality of Service (QoS) feature works in a clustered Data ONTAP environment
- - Identify the commands that are used to manage policy groups
- - Monitor workload performance
- Labs
- - Identify the exercise environment
- - Log in to the exercise environment
- - Add a cluster to OnCommand System Manager
- - Configure SNMP public community name
- - Identify clustered Data ONTAP components
- - Set the clustered Data ONTAP command line system timeout value (optional)
- - Examine the statistics catalog commands
- - Examine the statistics start and statistics show commands
- - Defining workload characteristics
- - Perform initial health checks on the cluster
- - Baseline performance monitoring from the cluster shell
- - Performance monitoring from the cluster shell
- - Unlock diag userid
- - Using the performance and statistics collector (Perfstat)
- - Reactively limit thoughput to a workload by associating the workload with QoS policy group
- - Proactively monitor workload performance by associating a workload with a QoS policy group
- - Isolate a tenant workload by associating the workload with a QoS policy group