ONTAP Performance Analysis (PERFCDOT)

Module 1: How a NetApp Storage System Works
· NetApp FAS system architecture
· ONTAP architecture layers
· Data access
· NVRAM

Module 2: Performance Analysis Tools
· Performance terminology
· Performance guidelines and methodologies
· Analysis tools and commands
· Output commands
· Tools for performance measurement
· AutoSupport tools
· Perfstat
· OnCommand Insight

Module 3: OnCommand Performance Manager
· Features
· Dashboard
· Performance troubleshooting
· Events
· User defined thresholds

Module 4: CPU and Memory Performance
· CPU performance bottlenecks
· Resolving bottlenecks
· Memory performance bottlenecks
· Resolving bottlenecks

Module 5: WAFL Performance
· WAFL functions
· Inodes
· WAFL readahead
· Resolving WAFL issues
· Best practices

Module 6: Disk I/O Performance
· Disk subsystem hardware and software
· Subsystem bottlenecks
· Analyzing bottlenecks with Statit
· Resolving bottlenecks
· RAID-DP technology

Module 7: Flash Cache and Flash Pool Performance
· Virtual Storage tier
· Flash pool
· Flash cache
· Automatic workload analyzer
· Cache performance issues

Module 8: Cluster Interconnect Performance
· Cluster interconnect uses
· Switchless and switched configurations
· Cluster interconnect bottlenecks
· Bottleneck resolutions

Module 9: Storage QoS
· Managing system performance with QoS
· QoS policies
· Reactive storage QoS
· Proactive storage QoS
· Monitoring commands

Module 10: NAS Performance
· NAS functions
· Bottlenecks
· NAS protocol traffic
· Monitoring NFS usage commands
· Monitoring SMB usage commands
· Bottleneck resolutions

Module 11: SAN Performance
· SAN overview
· Protocols
· FCoE
· iSCSI
· SAN LIFs
· SAN performance issues
· SAN multipathing
· SAN load balancing
· I/O misalignment
· Queue depth

Module 12: Using What You Learned
· Performance overview
· Performance tools
· Windows monitoring and analysis
· Linux monitoring and analysis
· VMware monitoring and analysis
· Slow application performance
· Using performance manager
· Best practices

Labs:
· Identifying cluster components
· Analyzing performance statistics
· OnCommand performance manager thresholds, events and alerts
· Identifying and resolving storage controller performance issues
· WAFL performance monitoring and analysis
· Identifying and resolving disk I/O bottlenecks
· Exploring cache performance
· Cluster interconnect performance
· Workload management with storage QoS
· NAS performance
· SAN protocol performance