Course Overview
This course extends the information about the NFS protocol that is 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.
Who should attend
Systems administrator, storage administrator, and enterprise architect
Prerequisites
- ONTAP Cluster fundamentals[]
- ONTAP Cluster Administration (ONTAP9ADM)
- ONTAP NAS Fundamentals
- Familiarity with UNIX and Linux operating systems
Course Objectives
This course focuses on enabling you to do the following:
- Explain the NFS protocol
- List the interfaces that you use to manage ONTAP software
- Configure NFS in ONTAP 9
- Manage NFSv3 and NFSv4
- Configure ONTAP software for multiprotocol data access
- Monitor and manage NFS
Outline: ONTAP NFS Administration (NFSAD)
Module 1: NFS Fundamentals
- NFS overview
- NFS concepts in ONTAP software
- Interfaces for managing ONTAP based systems
Module 2: NFS setup
- NFS implementation
- Configure NFS access
- Create storage for NFS-enabled storage VM
- Export policy and rules
- Setting up for NFS access
- Addendum: NFS over RDMA
Module 3: Managing NFS v3 and NFS v4
- Managing NSFv3
- Managing NSF v4
Module 4: Multiprotocol configuration
- Multiprotocol configuration
- Name mapping
Module 5: Monitoring and Managing NFS
- Monitor NFS active clients
- Collecting NFS statistics and data