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TRAINING

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NetApp Quick Start Administrator

Learn how to effectively manage your NetApp ONTAP environment.

Data storage is one of the most costly IT investments for any company, ensuring you make the most of your investment is key.

The course is structured to ensure you can achieve maximum efficiency and up-time using techniques such as advanced reporting, self-healing and automation.


COURSE AIMS

Business are built on data. Keeping your storage systems running and optimised for peak performance means less time managing systems and more time focused on business.

This three day course helps ensure your system administrators are fully up to date with latest NetApp best practices, giving them the ability to effectively manage and maintain your NetApp storage environment, key to avoiding unscheduled downtime.


WHO IS THIS COURSE FOR?

This course is suitable for any IT professional responsible for the daily administration of NetApp storage systems running ONTAP.

This would also be suitable for anyone transitioning from older versions of ONTAP.

The course covers all aspects of daily administration at an in-depth level. So regardless of your skill level prior to attending the course, the content will refresh and enhance your knowledge or provide you with a solid foundation of

the fundamental NetApp concepts.


WHAT WILL YOU GAIN?

With the enhanced feature set including the storage efficiency tools built into NetApp ONTAP you can easily discover how investing in training now could potentially help you delay your future storage spend.

Students will get hands on experience in a self-contained training environment to practice administrative commands in a safe and secure manner before executing them on your production systems.

By keeping the skill set in-house this can also lower the requirement for expensive external third party consultants.

The course is certificated and will result in each delegate receiving a Simplify IT NetApp Quick Start Administration certificate of attainment.


CONTENT OVERVIEW

The content of this course aims to cover:

  • An introduction to NetApp ONTAP
  • A comprehensive overview of the newest OS, ONTAP 9 and its new features.
  • Physical hardware installation and compliance of installation best practices.
  • Initial software installation and configuration of the cluster base environment.
  • Cluster management with effective use of management tools and user interface.
  • Physical and virtual data storage provisioning and networking.
  • SAN & NAS protocols.
  • Storage efficiency tools.
  • Data protection policies and methodology.


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NetApp SnapCenter

Increase availability and speed up backup and recovery for your application data.

Streamline storage management and simplify configuration, backup and restore for enterprise operating environments.

Make use of the NetApp integrated Backup & Recovery tools, eliminating third party backup costs.


COURSE AIMS

Our NetApp related training courses start with the NetApp Quick Start Administrator (NQSAT) course, right through to the more advanced administration level of the NetApp SnapCenter suite of products with our NetApp SnapCenter Training (NSCT) course. The course covers NetApp SnapCenterfor SQL, Exchange and VMWare environments.


All of our training courses are uniquely designed and delivered by our inhouse fully certified NetApp consulting engineers. The same engineers who are on a day-today basis designing, installing and supporting NetApp Data Storage solutions for our customers. The material is clear, concise and delivers content in real-world customer environments.

NSCT can be taken as a standalone 2-day course or combined with our NetApp Quick Start Administrator Training (NQSAT) into a 5 day intensive NetApp course.


WHO IS THIS COURSE FOR?

This course is suitable for NetApp System Administrators who have attended a fundamental NetApp training course and those looking to extend their knowledge & skills into SnapManager for SQL, Exchange and VMWare.


WHAT WILL YOU GAIN?

The course will provide delegates with the ability to, on a day-to-day basis, install and manage major SnapCenter products to enable them to protect the integrity of critical application data and ensure its speedy recovery in the event of a disaster. SnapCenter can be used to provide application consistent backups and instant recovery, which reduces backup and recovery times to minutes rather than hours.


CONTENT OVERVIEW

The content of this course aims to cover the following topics:

  • SnapCenter Principles and basics of application consistency
  • Install and use of SnapCenter for Exchange and Single Mailbox Recovery
  • Install and use of SnapCenter for SQL server
  • Install and use of the Virtual Storage console for VMWare environments (formerly SMVI)
  • Use of third party backup products (Backup Exec as an example)


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Cisco UCS

Training

Learn how to install, operate and manage Cisco UCS Blade Infrastructure

Cisco UCS servers simplify your data centre architecture; reduce the number of devices to purchase, deploy and maintain; and improve speed and agility. This training allows you to operate and manage your UCS infrastructure to the optimal design and best practices of the product range.


COURSE AIMS

By the end of this course you will be able to:

Identify the UCS platform and its components

Perform a system installation from out the box

  • Setup networking connectivity
  • Setup SAN connectivity
  • Setup service profiles for server use
  • Setup servers for use
  • Highlight and resolve common issues


WHO IS THIS COURSE FOR?

This course is aimed at system administrators who are already operating UCS infrastructure and also system

architects who are designing services deployed on UCS infrastructure.


WHAT YOU WILL GAIN

System administrators will gain the knowledge and skills to be able to operate the UCS systems in the most efficient way. This includes the ability to connect to existing SAN and LAN systems whilst maintaining all of the high availability services.


This will allow for full, non-disruptive operation of the system requiring no downtime for firmware or hardware changes.

System architects will gain the knowledge to allow them to design UCS systems so that they meet the high availability and performance specifications of the system. This allows for full, seamless operation of the system and designs that maintain the highest levels of availability.

The course is certificated and will result in each delegate receiving a Simplify IT Cisco UCS Training certificate of attainment.


OVERVIEW OF COURSE CONTENT

The content of this course aims to cover the following topics:


Setup

  • Learn about the UCS Hardware platform
  • How to cable UCS
  • Run initial setup

Configure

  • Design/Implement SAN connectivity
  • Design/Implement LAN connectivity
  • Design/Implement Service Profiles

Maintain

  • Proactive monitoring
  • System administration
  • Firmware maintenance


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