ONTAP Performance Analysis (PERFCDOT)

Detailed Course Outline

Module 1: Performance Analysis Fundamentals

• Basic Concepts of Performance
• Performance Monitoring Methodology

Module 2: Performance Analysis Tools

• Performance terminology
• Using Active IQ Unified Manager

Module 3: Storage System Architecture and Data Flow

• FAS and AFF Architecture
• Data Flow
• NVRAM Functionality

Module 4: WAFL

• WAFL Functions
• WAFL Readahead
• Resolving WAFL issues

Module 5: CPU and Memory

• Identifying CPU Performance Bottlenecks
• Resolving CPU Performance Bottlenecks
• Identifying Memory Performance Bottlenecks
• Resolving Memory Performance Bottlenecks

Module 6: Disk Subsystem

• Disk Subsystem Hardware
• Analyzing and Isolating Disk Subsystem Bottlenecks
• Analyzing Disk Subsystem Bottlenecks with Statit
• Resolving Disk Subsystem Bottlenecks

Module 7: Cache Subsystem

• Cache Subsystem Overview
• Flash Cache Feature
• Flash Pool Feature
• Flash Cache Policies and Flash Pool Policies
• Storage Pool
• Cache Sizing

Module 8: Storage Quality of Service

• Managing System Performance with QoS

Module 9: NAS Subsystem

• NAS functions
• Identifying NAS Bottlenecks
• Resolving NAS Bottlenecks

Module 10: SAN Subsystem

• SAN Overview
• SAN Multipathing
• SAN load balancing
• SAN I/O Misalignment
• Queue depth

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