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- Introduction and concepts
  - ONTAP concepts
    - Network architecture
    - Disks and aggregates
    - Storage virtualization
    - Path failover
    - Replication
    - Storage efficiency
    - Security
  - ONTAP and the cloud
    - Data protection and the cloud
    - Move entire workloads to the cloud
      - Storage protocols
    - Performance and efficiency in the cloud
    - Manage ONTAP in the cloud
    - Compliance and the cloud
- Set up, upgrade and revert ONTAP
  - Setup ONTAP
    - Set up a cluster with the CLI
  - Upgrade ONTAP
    - Upgrade without Upgrade Advisor
      - What should I verify before I upgrade without Upgrade Advisor?
    - What should I verify before I upgrade with or without Upgrade Advisor?
      - Special considerations
        
        MetroCluster configurations
        
        SnapMirror
    - Which upgrade method should I use?
      - Manual nondisruptive using the CLI
        
        MetroCluster configurations
    - What should I do after my upgrade?
      - Verify special configurations
  - Revert ONTAP
    - What should I read before I revert?
    - What else should I check before I revert?
      - SnapMirror
    - What should I do after reverting my cluster?
- Cluster administration
  - Cluster management with System Manager
    - Manage nodes
  - Cluster management with the CLI
    - Cluster and SVM administrators
    - ONTAP management interface basics
      - Access the cluster by using the CLI (cluster administrators only)
      - Use the ONTAP command-line interface
        
        About the different shells for CLI commands (cluster administrators only)
      - Manage CLI sessions (cluster administrators only)
        
        Manage records of CLI sessions
    - Use the ONTAP command-line interface
      - About the different shells for CLI commands (cluster administrators only)
    - Cluster management basics (cluster administrators only)
    - Manage nodes
      - Rules governing node root volumes and root aggregates
      - Start or stop a node
      - Manage a node remotely using the SP/BMC
        
        Configure the SP/BMC network
        
        Access the SP/BMC
    - Manage audit logging for management activities
    - Manage the banner and MOTD
    - Manage licenses (cluster administrators only)
    - Manage jobs and schedules
    - Back up and restore cluster configurations (cluster administrators only)
      - Manage configuration backups
      - Recovering a node configuration
      - Recover a cluster configuration
    - Monitor a storage system
      - Manage AutoSupport with the CLI
        
        Troubleshoot AutoSupport
      - Monitor the health of your system
    - Manage access to web services
      - Configure SAML authentication for web services
      - Manage web services
    - Verify the identity of remote servers using certificates
      - Mutually authenticating the cluster and a KMIP server
  - Disk and tier (aggregate) management
    - Manage local tiers (aggregates)
      - Prepare to add a local tier (aggregate)
      - Add (create) a local tier (aggregate)
      - Manage the use of local tiers (aggregates)
      - Add capacity (disks) to a local tier (aggregate)
    - Manage disks
      - Disk and partition ownership
      - Disk sanitization
    - Manage RAID configurations
    - Manage Flash Pool local tiers (aggregates)
      - Manage Flash Pool caching policies
      - Create a Flash Pool local tier (aggregate) using SSD storage pools
  - FabricPool tier management
    - Configure FabricPool
      - Prepare for FabricPool configuration
        
        Set up an object store as the cloud tier for FabricPool
    - Manage FabricPool
      - Add or move volumes to FabricPool as needed
      - Object tagging using user-created custom tags
      - Promote data to the performance tier
    - Manage FabricPool mirrors
  - SVM data mobility
  - HA pair management
  - Rest API management with System Manager
- Volume administration
  - Volume and LUN management with System Manager
  - Logical storage management with the CLI
    - Create and manage volumes
      - SAN volumes
      - Delete directories
    - Move and copy volumes
    - Use FlexClone volumes to create efficient copies of your FlexVol volumes
    - Use FlexClone files and FlexClone LUNs to create efficient copies of files and LUNs
      - How a FlexVol volume can reclaim free space with autodelete setting
    - Use qtrees to partition your FlexVol volumes
      - Convert a directory to a qtree
    - Logical space reporting and enforcement for volumes
    - Use quotas to restrict or track resource usage
      - Overview of the quota process
        
        Special kinds of quotas
        
        How quotas work with users and groups
        
        How tree quotas work
        
        How qtree changes affect quotas
        
        How quotas are activated
        
        How you can view quota information
        
        Difference in space usage displayed by a quota report and a UNIX client
    - Use deduplication, data compression, and data compaction to increase storage efficiency
      - Create a volume efficiency policy to run efficiency operations
      - Manage volume efficiency operations manually
      - Manage volume efficiency operations using schedules
      - Monitor volume efficiency operations
    - Rehost a volume from one SVM to another SVM
    - Recommended volume and file or LUN configuration combinations
    - Cautions and considerations for changing file or directory capacity
    - Features supported with FlexClone files and FlexClone LUNs
  - FlexGroup volumes management with the CLI
    - FlexGroup volume setup
    - Manage FlexGroup volumes
    - Data protection for FlexGroup volumes
    - Manage data protection operations for FlexGroup volumes
      - Disaster recovery for FlexGroup volumes
      - Expand FlexGroup volumes in a SnapMirror relationship
    - Convert FlexVol volumes to FlexGroup volumes
  - FlexCache volumes management with the CLI
    - FlexCache volume creation
      - Process to create a FlexCache volume
    - Manage a FlexCache relationship
- Network management
  - Manage your network with System Manager
  - Set up NAS path failover with the CLI
    - ONTAP 9.8 and later
      - Workflow NAS path failover
    - ONTAP 9.7 and earlier
      - Workflow NAS path failover
  - Manage your network with the CLI
    - Upgrade considerations
    - Networking components of a cluster
    - Configure network ports (cluster administrators only)
    - Configure IPspaces (cluster administrators only)
    - Configure broadcast domains (cluster administrators only)
      - ONTAP 9.8 and later
      - ONTAP 9.7 and earlier
    - Configure failover groups and policies for LIFs
    - Configure subnets (cluster administrators only)
    - Configure LIFs (cluster administrators only)
    - Configure host-name resolution
    - Balance network loads to optimize user traffic (cluster administrators only)
    - Secure your network
    - Configure QoS marking (cluster administrators only)
    - Manage SNMP on the cluster (cluster administrators only)
    - Manage routing in an SVM
    - ONTAP port usage on a storage system
    - View network information
- NAS storage management
  - Manage NAS protocols with System Manager
    - Enable NAS storage
  - Configure NFS with the CLI
    - Preparation
    - Configure NFS access to an SVM
      - Configure name services
        
        Configure local UNIX users and groups
        
        Work with netgroups
        
        Use LDAP
      - Use Kerberos with NFS for strong security
    - Add storage capacity to an NFS-enabled SVM
      - Create a volume or qtree storage container
      - Secure NFS access using export policies
    - How ONTAP exports differ from 7-Mode exports
  - Manage NFS with the CLI
    - Understand NAS file access
      - Namespaces and junction points
      - How ONTAP controls access to files
      - How ONTAP handles NFS client authentication
    - Create and manage data volumes in NAS namespaces
    - Configure security styles
      - How security styles affect data access
    - Set up file access using NFS
      - Secure NFS access using export policies
      - Using Kerberos with NFS for strong security
      - Configure name services
        
        Use LDAP
      - Configure name mappings
    - Manage file access using NFS
      - Configure the NFS credential cache
      - Manage export policy caches
      - Manage file locks
      - Manage NFSv4 ACLs
      - Manage NFSv4 file delegations
      - Configure NFSv4 file and record locking
    - Appendix: Supported NFS versions and clients
    - Appendix: NFS and SMB file and directory naming dependencies
  - Manage NFS over RDMA
  - Configure SMB with the CLI
    - Preparation
    - Configure SMB access to an SVM
      - Set up an SMB server in an Active Directory domain
      - Set up an SMB server in a workgroup
    - Configure SMB client access to shared storage
      - Create a volume or qtree storage container
  - Manage SMB with the CLI
    - SMB server support
    - Manage SMB servers
      - Use options to customize SMB servers
        
        Manage how file security is presented to SMB clients for UNIX security-style data
      - Manage SMB server security settings
        
        Use SMB signing to enhance network security
        
        Configure required SMB encryption on SMB servers for data transfers over SMB
        
        Secure LDAP session communication
        
        Configure LDAP over TLS
      - Configure default Windows user to UNIX user mappings on the SMB server
      - Improve client performance with traditional and lease oplocks
      - Apply Group Policy Objects to SMB servers
        
        How GPOs are updated on the SMB server
      - Manage domain controller connections
      - Use null sessions to access storage in non-Kerberos environments
      - Manage NetBIOS aliases for SMB servers
      - Manage miscellaneous SMB server tasks
      - Use IPv6 for SMB access and SMB services
    - Set up file access using SMB
      - Configure security styles
        
        How security styles affect data access
      - Create and manage data volumes in NAS namespaces
      - Configure name mappings
      - Configure multidomain name-mapping searches
      - Create and configure SMB shares
        
        Use SMB share properties
      - Secure file access by using SMB share ACLs
      - Secure file access by using file permissions
      - Secure file access by using Dynamic Access Control (DAC)
      - Secure SMB access using export policies
      - Secure file access by using Storage-Level Access Guard
    - Manage file access using SMB
      - Use local users and groups for authentication and authorization
        
        How ONTAP uses local users and groups
        
        What local privileges are
        
        Enable or disable local users and groups functionality
        
        Manage local user accounts
        
        Manage local groups
        
        Manage local privileges
      - Configure bypass traverse checking
      - Display information about file security and audit policies
      - Manage NTFS file security, NTFS audit policies, and Storage-Level Access Guard on SVMs using the CLI
        
        Configure and apply file security on NTFS files and folders using the CLI
        
        Configure and apply audit policies to NTFS files and folders using the CLI
      - Configure the metadata cache for SMB shares
      - Manage file locks
      - Monitor SMB activity
    - Deploy SMB client-based services
      - Use offline files to allow caching of files for offline use
      - Use roaming profiles to store user profiles centrally on a SMB server associated with the SVM
      - Use folder redirection to store data on a SMB server
      - Recover files and folders using Previous Versions
    - Deploy SMB server-based services
      - Manage home directories
        
        Home directory shares
      - Configure SMB client access to UNIX symbolic links
      - Use BranchCache to cache SMB share content at a branch office
        
        Requirements and guidelines
        
        Configure BranchCache
        
        Configure BranchCache-enabled SMB shares
        
        Manage and monitor the BranchCache configuration
        
        Disable BranchCache on SMB shares
        
        Disable or enable BranchCache on the SVM
        
        Delete the BranchCache configuration on SVMs
      - Improve Microsoft remote copy performance
      - Improve client response time by providing SMB automatic node referrals with Auto Location
      - Provide folder security on shares with access-based enumeration
    - NFS and SMB file and directory naming dependencies
  - SMB configuration for Microsoft Hyper-V and SQL Server
    - Nondisruptive operations for Hyper-V and SQL Server over SMB
    - Share-based backups with Remote VSS
    - Configuration requirements and considerations
    - Plan the Hyper-V or SQL Server over SMB configuration
    - Create ONTAP configurations for nondisruptive operations with Hyper-V and SQL Server over SMB
    - Manage Hyper-V and SQL Server over SMB configurations
    - Use statistics to monitor Hyper-V and SQL Server over SMB activity
    - Verify that the configuration is capable of nondisruptive operations
      - Determine whether SMB sessions are continuously available
- SAN storage management
  - SAN administration
    - SAN provisioning
    - NVMe provisioning
    - Manage LUNs
    - Manage igroups and portsets
      - Selective LUN Map
    - Manage iSCSI protocol
    - Manage FC protocol
    - Manage NVMe protocol
    - Manage systems with FC adapters
    - Manage LIFs for all SAN protocols
    - Recommended volume and file or LUN configuration combinations
    - Data protection methods in SAN environments
      - Effect of moving or copying a LUN on Snapshot copies
      - Use FlexClone LUNs to protect your data
      - Configure and use SnapVault backups in a SAN environment
    - SAN concepts
      - About SAN host provisioning
        
        iSCSI service management
        
        iSNS server registration requirement
      - About SAN volumes
      - About host-side space management
      - Storage virtualization with VMware and Microsoft copy offload
        
        Microsoft Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX)
  - SAN configuration reference
    - Considerations for iSCSI configurations
    - Considerations for FC configurations
    - Manage systems with FC adapters
      - Manage X1143A-R6 adapters
    - Ways to Configure FCoE
    - Fibre Channel and FCoE zoning
    - Host support for multipathing
    - Configuration limits
- S3 object storage management
  - S3 configuration
    - S3 support in ONTAP 9
    - About the S3 configuration process
    - Configure S3 access to an SVM
    - Add storage capacity to an S3-enabled SVM
      - Create or modify access policy statements
      - Enable client access to S3 object storage
  - Protect buckets with S3 SnapMirror
    - Mirror and backup protection on a remote cluster
    - Mirror and backup protection on the local cluster
    - Backup protection with cloud targets
  - Audit S3 events
- Security and data encryption
  - Manage security with System Manager
  - Manage administrator authentication and RBAC with the CLI
    - Create login accounts
      - Enable local account access
    - Manage access-control roles
    - Manage administrator accounts
      - Generate and install a CA-signed server certificate
      - Configure Active Directory domain controller access
      - Configure LDAP or NIS server access
    - Manage multi-admin verification
  - Ransomware protection
  - Antivirus configuration
    - About NetApp antivirus protection
    - Configure scanner pools
    - Configure on-access scanning
    - Configure on-demand scanning
    - Troubleshoot connectivity issues
  - NAS auditing and security tracing
    - Audit NAS events on SVMs
      - How auditing works
      - SMB events that can be audited
      - Create a file and directory auditing configuration on SVMs
      - Configure file and folder audit policies
      - Display information about audit policies applied to files and directories
      - CLI change events that can be audited
      - Manage auditing configurations
    - Use FPolicy for file monitoring and management on SVMs
      - How FPolicy works
        
        How FPolicy works with external FPolicy servers
      - Plan the FPolicy configuration
        
        Plan the FPolicy external engine configuration
        
        Plan the FPolicy event configuration
        
        Plan the FPolicy policy configuration
        
        Plan the FPolicy scope configuration
      - Create the FPolicy configuration
      - Modify FPolicy configurations
      - Display information about FPolicy configurations
      - Manage FPolicy server connections
    - Use security tracing to verify or troubleshoot file and directory access
      - Perform security traces
  - Manage encryption with System Manager
  - Manage encryption with the CLI
    - Configure NetApp Volume Encryption
      - Configure NVE
        
        Configure external key management
      - Encrypt volume data with NVE
    - Configure NetApp hardware-based encryption
      - Configure external key management
      - Configure onboard key management
    - Manage NetApp encryption
      - Securely purge data on an encrypted volume
      - Make data on a FIPS drive or SED inaccessible
- Data protection and disaster recovery
  - Data protection with System Manager
  - Cluster and SVM peering with the CLI
    - Prepare for cluster and SVM peering
    - Configure intercluster LIFs
    - Configure peer relationships
  - Data protection with the CLI
    - Manage local Snapshot copies
      - Configure custom Snapshot policies
      - Manage the Snapshot copy reserve
      - Restore files from Snapshot copies
    - SnapMirror volume replication
      - SnapMirror licensing
    - Manage SnapMirror volume replication
      - Configure a replication relationship one step at a time
        
        Customize a replication policy
      - Serve data from a SnapMirror DR destination volume
      - Restore files from a SnapMirror destination volume
    - Manage SnapMirror SVM replication
      - Replicate SVM configurations
      - Serve data from an SVM DR destination
      - Reactivate the source SVM
    - Manage SnapMirror root volume replication
    - SnapMirror technical details
  - Archive and compliance using SnapLock technology
    - Configure SnapLock
      - Set the retention time
    - Commit files to WORM
    - Use the privileged delete feature
    - Move a SnapLock volume
  - Consistency Groups management
    - SnapMirror Business Continuity
      - Planning
      - Manage SnapMirror for Business Continuity using System Manager
      - Installation and setup using the ONTAP CLI
      - Administration
      - Troubleshooting
  - Mediator service for MetroCluster and SnapMirror Business Continuity
  - Manage MetroCluster sites with System Manager
  - Data protection using tape backup
    - Manage tape drives
    - About tape drives
      - Tape devices overview
      - Tape aliasing
    - Transfer data using ndmpcopy
    - NDMP for FlexVol volumes
      - About NDMP modes of operation
      - Environment variable
    - Manage node-scoped NDMP mode for FlexVol volumes
    - Manage SVM-scoped NDMP mode for FlexVol volumes
    - About dump engine for FlexVol volumes
    - About SMTape engine for FlexVol volumes
    - Monitor tape backup and restore operations for FlexVol volumes
      - What the dump and restore event log message format is
    - Error messages for tape backup and restore of FlexVol volumes
      - Backup and restore error messages
      - NDMP error messages
      - Dump error messages
      - SMTape error messages
  - NDMP configuration
    - Configure NDMP at the SVM level or the node level
      - Configure SVM-scoped NDMP
      - Configure node-scoped NDMP
  - Replication between NetApp Element software and ONTAP
    - Enable SnapMirror in Element software
    - Configure a replication relationship
      - Customize a replication policy
      - Create a replication relationship
    - Serve data from a SnapMirror DR destination volume
- Event and performance monitoring
  - View cluster performance with System Manager
  - Performance monitoring setup with the CLI
    - Performance monitoring
      - Install Active IQ Unified Manager
      - Set up basic monitoring tasks
        
        Use performance thresholds to generate event notifications
  - Performance management with the CLI
    - Monitor performance
      - Install Active IQ Unified Manager
      - Set up basic monitoring tasks
    - Manage performance issues
      - Perform basic infrastructure checks
        
        Check protocol settings on the storage system
      - Manage workloads
        
        Guarantee throughput with QoS
  - File System Analytics
  - EMS configuration
    - Configure EMS event notifications with the CLI
    - Update deprecated EMS event mapping

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Introduction and concepts
- ONTAP concepts
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Set up, upgrade and revert ONTAP
Cluster administration
Volume administration
Network management
NAS storage management
SAN storage management
- SAN administration
- SAN configuration reference
S3 object storage management
Security and data encryption
Data protection and disaster recovery