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Free ‘How to Build NetApp ONTAP 9 Lab Guide’

Thursday, October 27th, 2016

NetApp ONTAP 9, the latest version of the operating system for the popular FAS storage platforms went General Availability this week. If you want to get a first look and hands on practice with the new OS then you can download a free ‘How to Build a NetApp ONTAP 9 Lab for Free‘ eBook from our instructor Neil Anderson.

The eBook walks you through setting up a fully networked NetApp lab featuring two NetApp clusters with Windows and Linux clients. Best of all you can deploy and run it all in software on your laptop for free. The guide explains where to find the software for free and has step by step instructions with screenshots about how to configure everything.

You can have the entire lab up and running in around an hour, and from there you can work on NetApp storage just as if you had your own physical system. Nearly all features are supported and you can work with both the System Manager GUI and the command line. This gives you great value if you want to test features out before running them in your production environment, or if you’re studying for the NetApp Certified Data Administrator NCDA or NetApp Certified Implementation Engineer NCIE exams.

You can download the eBook from Neil’s blog at http://www.flackbox.com/netapp-simulator/ where you can also find loads of NetApp tutorial videos with more being added weekly.

Neil also has a free Introduction to SAN and NAS Storage video course available where he provides an overview of Fibre Channel, iSCSI, FCoE, NFS and CIFS/SMB storage. It’s pitched directly at systems and network engineers who need to learn the core details of storage as quickly as possible.

The blog has mostly NetApp content right now but wider Cloud and Data Center technologies such as Cisco, FlexPod, AWS and IBM SoftLayer will be added in future.

NetApp Simulator 9 Free eBook – Build Your Own NetApp ONTAP 9 Lab!

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Free ‘Introduction to SAN and NAS Storage’ Video Course

Thursday, October 27th, 2016

Our instructor Neil Anderson has released a free 90 minute ‘Introduction to SAN and NAS Storage’ video course, aimed at systems and network engineers who want to learn the fundamentals of storage. The course covers the theory of SAN and NAS protocols and features live lab demos.

Free Course – Introduction to SAN and NAS Storage

Today’s data center and cloud environments have converged infrastructures and management tools, and with the advent of virtualization technologies like VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V, external SAN and NAS storage is becoming a standard. It’s no longer possible to get by as an IT professional by knowing only servers, networking or storage, you need an understanding of all three for your career to thrive.

The course will give you the knowledge you need to understand SAN and NAS storage. You’ll learn the theory of the CIFS (SMB), NFS, Fibre Channel, iSCSI and FCoE protocols, and see how to configure the storage system and connect from the client with hands-on lab demonstrations.

The lessons are vendor agnostic so they’re suitable no matter who the manufacturer of your storage system is. NetApp is used as the storage system in the live demos but the information is relevant to all vendors.

 

What are the requirements?

  • A basic knowledge of computer networks
  • No previous storage knowledge is necessary

What am I going to get from the course?

  • Understand the basics plus more of Storage Area Networks and Network Attached Storage
  • Be a more rounded and effective member of an IT team
  • Understand the difference between SAN and NAS
  • Connect to CIFS (SMB) NAS storage from a Windows client
  • Connect to NFS storage from a Linux client
  • Connect to iSCSI storage from a Windows client
  • Understand the intracacies of Fibre Channel SAN
  • Understand Fibre Channel over Ethernet FCoE
  • Perform a basic configuration of SAN and NAS storage on a NetApp storage system

What is the target audience?

  • IT professionals or enthusiasts who want to understand SAN and NAS storage
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NetApp Subnets Video Tutorial

Thursday, October 27th, 2016

We explain NetApp Subnets in this, the sixth post in our NetApp networking video tutorial series. Subnets allow the allocation of specific blocks or pools of IP addresses, and help make Logical Interface (LIF) creation easier.

NetApp Subnets Networking Tutorial

 

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NetApp Broadcast Domains and Failover Groups Tutorial

Thursday, October 27th, 2016

We explain NetApp Broadcast Domains and Failover Groups in this, the fifth post in our NetApp networking video tutorial series. It’s essential to ensure that if a LIF fails over to another physical port, clients will still have connectivity to that LIF. Broadcast Domains are there to ensure this.

NetApp Broadcast Domains and Failover Groups Tutorial

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