Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP provides fully managed shared storage in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud with the popular features, data access options, and management capabilities of ONTAP.

In this course, you will learn about the features, benefits, and common use cases for FSx for ONTAP. You will learn to deploy FSx for ONTAP storage. You will also learn about the pricing, management, and monitoring options available to you with FSx for ONTAP.

• Course level: Intermediate
• Duration: 1.25 hours

Activities

This course includes interactive lessons, a demonstration, and knowledge check questions.

Course objectives

In this course, you will learn to:

• List the benefits and features of FSx for ONTAP that set it apart from other AWS storage offerings
• Identify the uses cases for FSx for ONTAP
• Identify the logical components of an FSx for ONTAP deployment
• Indicate the security-related options for creating FSx for ONTAP storage
• Create FSx for ONTAP file systems, storage virtual machines (SVMs), and volumes
• Explain the FSx for ONTAP pricing model
• Indicate options for migrating data into FSx for ONTAP
• View and verify key metrics collected on your FSx for ONTAP storage

Intended audience

This course is intended for:

• Cloud architects
• Storage and cloud operations administrators

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have:

• General knowledge of AWS and cloud computing
• Completed Getting Started with AWS Storage

Course Outline

Course Overview

Section 1: Introduction to FSx for ONTAP

• Lesson 1: Introduction to FSx for ONTAP
• Lesson 2: ONTAP Overview

• Why choose ONTAP?
• Storage efficiency
• Multi-protocol support for file shares
• iSCSI support
• Data tiering and FabricPool
• NetApp Snapshots
• FlexClone volumes
• SnapMirror
• SnapVault
• FlexCache and Global File Cache

• Lesson 3: FSx for ONTAP Overview

• Why choose FSx for ONTAP?
• Benefits of moving to cloud infrastructure for ONTAP
• Improved capacity utilization
• Rightsizing and infrastructure as code
• Benefits of a hybrid infrastructure
• Benefits of using a fully managed service

• Lesson 4: FSx for ONTAP Use Cases and Customers

• FSx for ONTAP use cases
• FSx for ONTAP customers

Section 2: Planning and Deploying FSx for ONTAP

• Lesson 1: Introduction to Planning and Deploying
• Lesson 2: Planning an FSx for ONTAP Deployment

• Planning your file system
• Where can you create FSx for ONTAP file systems?
• Amazon FSx console
• File systems and high availability
• Access a file system from on-premises
• Cloud-native access to FSx for ONTAP
• Storage capacity and performance
• FSx for ONTAP performance
• FSx for ONTAP logical components
• Security

• Lesson 3: Deploying FSx for ONTAP

• Creating FSx for ONTAP file systems with quick create
• Creating an FSx for ONPAP file system with standard create
• FSx for ONTAP demonstration

Section 3: FSX for ONTAP Post-Deployment Considerations

• Lesson 1: Introduction to Post-Deployment Considerations
• Lesson 2: FSx for ONTAP Pricing

• Components of FSx for ONTAP pricing
• Effective pricing
• Pricing example

• Lesson 3: Migrating, Managing, and Monitoring Your Data

• Migrating data into FSx for ONTAP
• Online migration tools
• Managing FSx for ONTAP
• Monitoring FSx for ONTAP

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