ONTAP MetroCluster Installation (NA-MCCIIW)
MetroCluster software is a unique high-availability and disaster-recovery solution. This is an advanced course where you will learn how to cable and set up a MetroCluster environment. Using active, participatory exercises, you practice the configuration and verification steps. You also learn how to identify component failures and practice recovery steps
About this Course
MetroCluster software is a unique high-availability and disaster-recovery solution. This is an advanced course where you will learn how to cable and set up a MetroCluster environment. Using active, participatory exercises, you practice the configuration and verification steps. You also learn how to identify component failures and practice recovery steps
Audience Profile
Primary audience for this course are:
NetApp customers, partners, and employees
At Course Completion
Upon course completion, students will be able to:
- Describe the major architectural components of a MetroCluster environment in ONTAP 9
- Cable nodes, back-end FC switches and FibreBridge devices
- Set up bridges and back-end FC switches
- Configure the clusters at both sites in a MetroCluster environment
- Set up a MetroCluster configuration and serve data to clients
- Detect and recover from failures in a MetroCluster environment
- Install and configure Tiebreaker software
Prerequisites
Before attending this course, students should have the following experience:
- ONTAP 9.3 Cluster Administration (ONTAP9ADM) and ONTAP 9.3 Data Protection Administration (DATAPROT9) OR
- ONTAP 9.3 Cluster Administration and Data Protection Bundle (CDOTDP9)
- Basic SAN knowledge
Course Outline
Module 1: MetroCluster Overview
- Introduction to MetroCluster
- MetroCluster configuration components
- Supported hardware
- MetroCluster Implementation steps
- Configuration tools
Module 2: MetroCluster Cabling
- Disk requirements
- Fabric MetroCluster cabling overview
Module 3: Bridge and Switch Configuration
- ATTO BibreBridge configuration
- Brocade FC switch configuration
- In-order-delivery (IOD)
- out-of-order delivery (OOD)
Module 4: Cluster Configuration
- Disk ownership configuration
- Cluster setup
Module 5: MetroCluster Configuration
- MetroCluster setup
- Verification
- Monitoring
- SVM configuration
- Unmirrored aggregate
- SnapLock aggregates
- NetApp volume encryption (NVE)
Module 6: Failure Scenarios
- Recognize and respond to failures
- Switchover
- Switchback
Module 7: TieBreaker Configuration
- TieBreaker software introduction
- Installation
- Configuration
Appendix A: Advanced Administration
- Transitioning
- Reallocating free space
- Performance testing
- Nondisruptive upgrade in a MetroCluster environment
- Integrating with vSphere 6
- Comparing features
- Scaling out
- Controller upgrades
- NVRAM allocation
Appendix B: Basic MetroCluster Troubleshooting
Appendix C: Front-End FC Fabrics in a MetroCluster Environment
Appendix D: FlexPod Solution in an All Flash FAS MetroCluster Environment
- FlexPod solution
- MetroCluster FlexPod full-stack architecture
- vMSC validation: failure scenarios and behavior
Appendix E: The ProLion ClusterLion Solution
- ClusterLion: an alternative to TieBreaker
Appendix F: Brocade Network Advisor
Labs:
- Identify the exercise environment
- Identify a supported configuration in the IMT
- Inspect the environment
- Log into the exercise environment
- Power off the controller
- Cable SAS shelf connections
- Cable ATTO connections
- Cable controller FC connections
- Cable FC-VI connections
- Cable the switchless cluster interconnect
- Cable cluster peering connections
- Cable ISL between Site A FC switches and Site B FC switches
- Assign shelf IDs
- Use the UI to verify bridge configuration
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