This course focuses on enabling you to do the following:
· List the three core ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere
· Identify the types of datastores that ONTAP tools create
· Explain how ONTAP tools enable automated datastore provisioning for VM lifecycle management
· Describe the vVols datastore-management process
· Define ONTAP FlexGroup NAS datastores and illustrate quality-of-service (QoS) policy management for VMs in a FlexGroup volume
· Use the VMware vCenter UI to implement enhanced QoS policies
· Describe SRA features
- Describe NetApp VASA Provider features
- Use ONTAP tools to create vVols datastores and objects
- Use ONTAP tools to identify vVols performance characteristics
- Use ONTAP tools dashboards to monitor VMs
- List customer implementations for backup, restore, and cloning when integrating vSphere with NetApp
- Implement best practices for connectivity, provisioning, data layout, and multipathing
- Use ONTAP tools to access the Swagger UI and improved RESTful APIs for automation
- Use the NetApp SnapCenter Plug-in for VMware vSphere to configure and run backup and restore jobs
- List the best data protection solutions for a vSphere environment and discuss the benefits of these solutions
- Describe the components of NetApp storage and how they integrate into a vSphere environment
- Identify the types of datastores created by the Virtual Storage Console (VSC)
- Explain how VSC provides an automated datastore provisioning capability
- Describe the VVol datastore management process
- Create VVol datastores and VVols
- Identify performance characteristics of VVols using VSC
- Monitor virtual machines with VSC performance dashboard
- List the customer implementations for backup, restore and cloning capability when integrating vSphere with NetApp