ONTAP SMB Administration

This course extends the CIFS information found in the ONTAP Administration course. This course will review SMB while exploring in more detail SMB 3.x. The lab exercises will be accomplished using ONTAP 9.

The average salary for NetApp Systems Administrator is $102,764 per year

Course Objectives:

• Explain the CIFS and SMB protocol
• Demonstrate the Windows PowerShell CLI
• Configure SMB features using ONTAP 9 software
• Create and manage SMB shares and sessions
• Secure SMB sessions
• Configure ONTAP for multiprotocol data access
• Discuss SMB advanced topics, such as opportunistic locks (oplocks), BranchCache, auditing, group policy, automatic home shares, symbolic links (symlinks), and widelinks

Audience:

• Engineers
• Channel Partners
• NetApp Customers

Prerequisites: ONTAP 9 Administration

Course Outline

Module 1: SMB Overview

• Data fabric
• Data fabric layers
• CIFS and SMB protocols
• NT LAN manager
• Kerberos authentication
• Active Directory
• Workgroup environments
• NetApp PowerShell toolkit

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 and Sessions

• SMB share
• Creating a share
• Client access
• SMB automatic referrals
• SMB sessions
• Session administration
• SMB encryption
• Offline folders
• Offloaded data transfer

Module 4: Access Control

• Share permission administration
• Access-based enumeration
• Dynamic access control
• File blocking policies
• Local users
• Workgroup authentication
• Multiprotocol access

Module 5: Advanced Topics

• Microsoft opportunistic Lock (oplock) features
• Automatic home share
• Group policy object (GPO)
• Symlinks
• Widelinks

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
• Implemtent 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