NA-PAD

Performance Analysis on Data ONTAP (PAD)

Audience

Administrators and support personnel who administrate NetApp storage systems running Data ONTAP 7.3 and who wish to have a deeper understanding of the system performance.

Course Objectives

The Performance Analysis on Data ONTAP® 7.3 course provides students with the knowledge and skills to perform data collection and analysis on NetApp® storage systems. Students will learn how to interpret data and apply performance changes based on their analysis. They will use analysis data for tuning and monitoring performance.

Course Content

Recognize performance terminology and basic methodology
Use known methods and tools to collect performance data
Describe the Data ONTAP architecture and the benefits of features such as NVRAM and the WAFL® (Write Anywhere File Layout) file system
Use knowledge about how data flows through the network and protocol layers of Data ONTAP to monitor and analyze storage system performance
Examine command output from case studies to identify performance bottlenecks
Use FlexCache^TM to improve NFSv2 and NFSv3 read performance
Use the reallocate command to measure volume or file layout and optimize the layout when appropriate
Implement configuration for best practices for resiliency and performance
Identify where to find further information