Netapp ONTAP WAFL explored

A closer look at the WAFL environment and performance

Created by: Peter van der weerd
Netapp Trainer/Consultant & Linux Trainer

What Will I Learn?

• Students will have a good working knowledge of WAFL's features and functions.
• A lot of topics will be discussed and lots of demos will be given.
• And we will look at tools to monitor performance, like sysstat, statistics
• Most of the texts will be available in pdf from the resource section so you read afterwards if things were too fast (I hope not).
• WAFL will be explored in great depth, but also common features like deduplication, flex clones, compression, compaction, will be dealt with.

Requirements

• Students should have a practical or at least conceptual knowledge of how Netapp Clusters work in general.
• This is a somewhat advanced training that presupposes some administrative experience.
• Knowledge of filesystems is not necessary, but would be beneficial.

Target audience

• Netapp Administrators or future administrators that are interested in the techniques that file systems environments apply, WAFL in particular.