ONTAP® helps you create a smart, powerful, and trusted storage infrastructure that reduces costs, accelerates critical workloads, and protects and secures data across your hybrid cloud.

Learn to manage ONTAP administrators, configure and manage storage and networking resources in this 3-days hands-on NetApp course.

Overview

Learn the basic administration tasks of a NetApp® ONTAP® 9.16 cluster. Use the clustershell and NetApp ONTAP System Manager to manage cluster storage and network resources. Discover how to configure basic data protection and data efficiency functions and common cluster maintenance tasks.

Skills Covered

This course focuses on enabling you to do the following:

  • Define ONTAP cluster components
  • Describe the role of a storage VM (storage virtual machine, also known as SVM) in the NetApp storage architecture
  • Configure an ONTAP cluster
  • Configure and manage both networking and storage resources
  • Create and configure a storage VM
  • Create, manage, and protect NetApp FlexVol® volumes
  • Implement storage efficiency features
  • Manage ONTAP administrator access and user accounts
  • Manage NetApp storage systems

Prerequisites

  • ONTAP Cluster Fundamentals (web-based training [WBT]) or ONTAP Cluster Foundation (ILT)
  • ONTAP NAS Fundamentals (WBT)
  • ONTAP SAN Fundamentals (WBT)

Target Audience

  • Administrator
  • Architect
  • Operator

Course Curriculum

Module 1: ONTAP 9 clusters

  • ONTAP deployment options
  • ONTAP cluster
  • Storage VMs
  • Software-defined storage

Module 2: Cluster Setup

  • Supported ONTAP cluster configurations
  • Setting up a cluster
  • Administration interfaces
  • ONTAP licenses
  • Policies and schedules

Module 3: Physical storage management

  • Drives, RAID, and aggregates
  • Advanced Disk Partitioning
  • Flash Cache and Flash Pool features
  • FabricPool aggregates

Module 4: Logical storage management

  • Flexible volumes
  • Moving storage resources
  • FlexGroup volumes
  • FlexCache volumes

Module 5: Storage efficiency

  • Thin provisioning
  • Deduplication and compression
  • Flash efficiency
  • Volume and file clones

Module 6: Network management

  • ONTAP network review
  • Network ports
  • Network traffic segregation
  • Logical network interfaces
  • Nondisruptive LIF configuration
  • Routing management

Module 7: NAS data access

  • Use NAS protocols to access data
  • Use the NFS protocol to access data
  • Use the SMB protocol to access data
  • Use the S3 protocol to access data

Module 8: SAN data access

  • Use SAN protocols to access data
  • Use the iSCSI protocol to access data
  • Use the FC protocol to access data
  • Use the NVMe protocol to access data

Module 9: Data protection

  • Manage Snapshot copies
  • Restore data from a Snapshot copy
  • Back up and replicate data
  • Compliance

Module 10: ONTAP security

  • Access control
  • Storage encryption
  • Ransomware protection

Module 11: Cluster maintenance

  • Data collection, monitoring, and automation tools
  • Upgrading your cluster
  • Technical support

Dates & Locations

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July 6, 2026 - July 8, 2026

Location: Kuala Lumpur
Modal: ILT
Availability: TBC
Exam:
RM 675
RM 10917

July 6, 2026 - July 8, 2026

Location: Online
Modal: VILT
Availability: TBC
Exam:
RM 675
RM 10917

October 5, 2026 - October 7, 2026

Location: Kuala Lumpur
Modal: ILT
Availability: TBC
Exam:
RM 675
RM 10917

October 5, 2026 - October 7, 2026

Location: Online
Modal: VILT
Availability: TBC
Exam:
RM 675
RM 10917
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Exam & Certification

NetApp Certified Data Administrator, ONTAP

Training & Certification Guide

You have proven skills in performing in-depth support, administrative functions, and performance management for NetApp® data storage controllers running the ONTAP® operating system in NFS and Windows® (CIFS) multiprotocol environments. You understand how to implement high-availability controller configurations, and have detailed knowledge of technologies used to manage and protect mission-critical data.

NCDA logos and certificates will be granted to those individuals who successfully pass the NetApp Certified Data Administrator, ONTAP (NS0-162) exam.

Candidates for NCDA (NetApp Certified Data Administrator) certification should have at least six to 12 months of field experience implementing and administering NetApp® data storage solutions in multiprotocol environments. In addition, candidates taking the NetApp Certified Data Administrator, ONTAP exam should know how to implement HA controller configurations, SyncMirror® software for rapid data recovery, or ONTAP® solutions with either single- or multi-node configurations.

The NetApp Certified Data Administrator, ONTAP (NS0-162) exam includes 60 test questions, with an allotted time of 1-1/2 hours to complete. In countries where English is not the native language, candidates for whom English is not their first language will be granted a 30-minute extension to the allotted examination completion time.

Your results will be available in CertCenter two (2) to five (5) business days after you complete your exam.

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