NET701 Netapp Lab - part 1 (1/2)

In this blog, I'll be talking about how I progressed through the Basic NetApp Configuration and Administration Part 1 Self-Paced Lab.

Exercise 1 and 2
To start off, I got the lab guide and VM window open so that I had a starting ground for the lab.
The first exercises involved getting familiar with the CLI and OnCommand systems for managing the cluster.
I had to check that the time settings were synchronized between the server and the cluster by using the 'timezone' command in putty to change the cluster timezone to be the same as the server. There was also a few commands to check the cluster status that I used like 'cluster show' and 'license show'.
Additionally, I had to add DNS records for the cluster and a Linux machine and just go through how all the CLI commands work, and how the OnCommand interface is laid out.

My thoughts on the CLI interface are that it reminds me of how the Vyos command line interface works. General command line features such as autocompletion of commands makes it fast to use, and it shows where I am in the system fairly well with the double colons.

Here are some screenshots of when I was playing around with the different interfaces:

Exercise 3

This exercise just continued on from the first ones in getting familiar with the CLI and OnCommand interfaces. Nothing particular to note, so here's screenshots taken during the exercise:

I'll finish up for tonight, it's getting late! The next blog will continue the lab from exercise 4 which finally touches on creating and managing aggregates on the cluster.