📚 Course Curriculum Overview

Repeated live trainings will be provided for 5 years.

This program is designed to help learners from non-storage backgrounds transition into the storage domain with confidence.

🕒 Class Schedule

• Time: 9-10 AM IST

• Trainer: DG (WhatsApp: +91 9647524712)

• L2 Duration: 25 hours

• L3 Duration: 40 hours

• L3 = L2 + L3 (Troubleshooting-oriented training)

🔰 Storage Basics

• SAN and NAS architecture

• Front-end ports, back-end ports, and cache (read hit, write hit, etc.)

• Disk types and RPM

• Performance metrics: IOPS, throughput, latency

• Zoning setup in Brocade SAN switches

• SAN switch troubleshooting: port errors, slow drain devices

• Ports on demand licensing, TrueFOS licensing

• SAN switch upgrade

• SAN switch backup and log collection

• Virtual Fabric setup

• NPIV setup

• LSAN setup

📘 L2 Syllabus – NetApp Foundation

After covering storage and SAN switch basics, we begin with NetApp storage:

1. Architecture of FAS and AFF arrays; Disk Shelf cabling, numbering, disk ownership

2. NetApp licensing and three shells

3. ADP; aggregate creation and expansion

4. Networking concepts: LIF, VLAN, ifcfg, ipspace, BD

5. CIFS and NFS share creation and troubleshooting

6. Qtree creation, quota increase, volume expansion, auto-grow

7. ISCSI and FC LUN allocation and troubleshooting

8. Storage health check using AIQUM and On Command System Manager

9. Local snapshot configuration, restore deleted data, troubleshooting

10. Auto Support setup, SSL/HTTPS certificate installation

11. ONTAP upgrade and rollback with AIQ prechecks and troubleshooting

12. Non-disruptive operations: storage failover, vol move, vserver migration, LIF migration

13. Concepts: Epsilon, Quorum

14. Snap Mirror replication, vault setup, DR testing for NAS & SAN

15. System configuration backup setup, scheduling weekly backups, FTP transfer

🧠 L3 Syllabus – Troubleshooting & Advanced Topics

16. Storage migration using SVM-DR and troubleshooting

17. MetroCluster IP configuration

18. Snap Mirror active sync for critical workloads

19. ONTAP Deploy upgrade and related issues

20. Troubleshooting space issues and object-not-found errors during code upload

21. Creating ONTAP Select cluster and troubleshooting

22. AIQUM installation, alert setup, ServiceNow integration

23. ONTAP installation session

24. Troubleshooting device discovery in AIQUM

25. 7-Mode to C-Mode migration using 7MTT tool

26. ONTAP FlexGroup volume setup

27. BlueXP connector installation

28. Disaster recovery using BlueXP

29. Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP via BlueXP

30. Cloud Volumes ONTAP deployment for Azure CVO

31. Deploying a single-node Cloud Volumes ONTAP instance and HA pair with NFS & SMB.

32. StorageGRID management, replication setup, troubleshooting

33. Azure NetApp Files (ANF) deployment and management

34. SAN/NAS performance analysis using AIQUM and CLI

35. Cloud Insight/DII tool usage

36. BlueXP tiering

37. Cloud backup

38. Encryption

39. FabricPool configuration

40. Real-time troubleshooting: NFS mount, Plex, SnapMirror, NTLM, ONTAP Deploy, Hypervisor integration, failover, CRC errors, QSFP replacement

41. Google Cloud Storage for NetApp configuration

42. Ransomware protection and recovery

43. Multiprotocol NAS setup

44. Data protection using Snap Center

45. Additional sessions: FlexCache, FlexClone, MFA, FPolicy, SnapLock, ONTAP S3, E-Series, ASA arrays (initial config and BAU tasks)

46. Use the troubleshooting methodology for NAS and SAN protocols to define and isolate issues.

47. WAFL performance monitoring and analysis

48. Cluster interconnect performance

49. Interview preparation and one-on-one mock interviews

50. NCDA certification preparation

📝 Notes

• Each batch includes new troubleshooting sessions.

🆕 Additional Topics

• NFS trunking configuration

• Graceful shutdown and power-up of one HA pair in a 4+ node cluster

• Storage decommission process

NetApp Storage Training