ONTAP: Your foundation for a seamless hybrid cloud.
ONTAP allows you to flexibly deploy storage on your choice of architectures—hardware storage systems, software-defined storage (SDS), and the cloud—while unifying enterprise data management across all of them. Accelerate your enterprise applications with flash, without compromising on the essential data services that you need. And seamlessly manage your data as it flows to wherever you need it most to help you make the best possible decisions for your organization.
ONTAP makes it easy to create an environment that is smart, powerful, and trusted that spans flash, disk, and cloud and is ready to handle your future requirements.
Overview
ONTAP SMB Administration is a one day course that extends the CIFS information found in the ONTAP Cluster Administration course. You will review and explore SMB 3.x and the features of ONTAP 9 software that support the SMB protocol. Hands-on labs are completed using ONTAP 9 software.
Skills Covered
- This course focuses on enabling you to do the following:
- Explore the SMB protocol
- List the interfaces that you use to manage ONTAP software
- Configure ONTAP for file access by using the SMB protocol
- Manage data access control through permissions and authorizations
- Configure multiprotocol NAS access
- Configure home directories automatically
- Implement auditing of SMB file access events by using ONTAP functionality
Prerequisites
- ONTAP Cluster Administration (ONTAP 9.6) (ONTAP9ADM)
- ONTAP NAS Fundamentals
- Familiarity with Microsoft Windows Server
- Familiarity with Microsoft Active Directory
Are you new to NetApp ONTAP? If yes, do consider the BNCA: Basic NetApp Configuration and Administration fundamental course.
Target Audience
- Administrator
- Engineer
- Architect
- Operator
Module 1: Introduction to SMB
- SMB basics
- Interfaces for managing ONTAP based storage systems
Module 2: SMB Setup
- SMB implementation
- Licensing CIFS
- SVM for SMB access
- FlexVol volumes
- DNS entries for the SVM
- SMB share access
Module 3: SMB Shares
- Share configuration
- Working with share properties
- Client share access
Module 4: Manage SMB sessions
- Session management and authentication
- Session signing and encryption
Module 5: Access control
- Authentication
- Authorization and permissions
- Addendum: Dynamic access control
- Addendum: Local users and groups
Module 6: Multiprotocol NAS in ONTAP software
- Setting up multiprotocol access
Module 7: Advanced topics
- Home shares
- Group Policy Objects
- Symlinks and widelinks
- FPolicy
- Vscan for SMB data protection
- ONTAP SMB auditing
Appendix A: BranchCache
- Versions
- BranchCache environment configurations
- ONTAP 9 BranchCache
- BranchCache installation on Windows Servers
- BranchCache configuration on Windows clients
Appendix B: Auditing
- Auditing concepts
- Terminology
- ONTAP 9 auditing process
- Implement auditing
- Output file format
Labs:
- Install NetApp PowerShell Toolkit and configure for use
- Create a Storage Virtual Machine (SVM) and configure it for SMB access
- Create an SMB share, connect to the share from your Windows client, and manage SMB sessions
- Create a domain user, restrict share-level permissions
- Create a local user group and give share-level permissions
- Create a multiprotocol configuration and enable a root Linux user to be mapped to the Windows domain administrator
- Configure home directories and symbolic links on the SVM
Dates & Locations
December 21, 2026 - December 22, 2026
December 21, 2026 - December 22, 2026
March 8, 2027 - March 9, 2027
March 8, 2027 - March 9, 2027
June 14, 2027 - June 15, 2027
June 14, 2027 - June 15, 2027
September 20, 2027 - September 21, 2027
September 20, 2027 - September 21, 2027
December 23, 2027 - December 24, 2027
December 23, 2027 - December 24, 2027
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