ONTAP Performance Administration

Administrators and Architects

This course focuses on enabling you to do the following:

• ;Describe how to use NetApp tools for performance measurement
• ;Describe the layers within the ONTAP architecture
• ;Diagram the flow of read and write requests through the network and data layers of ONTAP software
• ;Discuss how storage quality of service (QoS) operates in an ONTAP cluster
• ;Explain how to monitor and manage workload performance
• ;Use the performance analysis tools to identify NAS and SAN performance obstacles

Module 1: NetApp Storage System Architecture

• ;FAS/AFF system architecture
• ;Read and write paths

Module 2: Performance Analysis Fundamentals

• ;Performance concepts
• ;Workloads

Module 3: Performance Analysis Tools

• ;Performance analysis tools
• ;Using Active IQ Unified Manager

Module 4: Network Layer

• ;Identifying network performance issues
• ;Resolving network I/O performance issues

Module 5: NAS Protocols

• ;Network Attached Storage
• ;Identifying NAS performance issues
• ;Resolving NAS performance issues
• ;Network I/O bottlenecks

Module 6: SAN Protocols

• ;SAN overview
• ;SAN multipathing
• ;SAN load balancing
• ;SAN I/O misalignment
• ;Queue depth ;

Module 7:WAFL Layer

• ;WAFL functions
• ;WAFL readahead
• ;Resolving WAFL performance issues

Module 8: Storage Layer

• ;Storage subsystem hardware
• ;Identifying storage performance issues
• ;Identifying storage performance issues

Module 9: Cache Subsystem

• ;Cache subsystems
• ;Flash Cache
• ;Flash Pool
• ;Cache policies
• ;Cache sizing

Module 10: Storage Quality of Service

• ;Managing System Performance with QoS
• ;Monitoring storage QoS
• ;Performance service levels

Module 11: CPU and Memory

• ;CPU subsystem
• ;Memory subsystem
• ;Resolving WAFL performance issues

Module 12: External Resources

• ;Virus Scanning
• ;File access policies