What you’ll learn in this course
Discover how to automate administration of a NetApp® ONTAP® based storage system by using modern ONTAP REST APIs and Python. Explore how to use the Python client library (PCL) in your Python program to automate storage administration tasks.
Also, learn how to configure your system for SMB, NFS, Simple Storage Service (S3), and SAN protocols by writing Python programs.
Prerequisites
• Python programming experience (required)
• ONTAP Cluster Administration
Course Objectives
• Analyze ONTAP REST APIs and Python frameworks
• Illustrate how to use PCL calls from within your Python program to automate storage administration tasks
• Configure SMB, NFS, S3, and SAN protocols programmatically by using Python programs
• Identify the performance metrics of an ONTAP based system
Course Outline
Module 1: ONTAP REST API
• What is REST API?
• ONTAP REST API documentation
Module 2: REST API use cases: Python programs
• Aggregate, SVM, and volume
• Volume management
• Snapshot copy
Module 3: SMB configuration
• SMB Configuration via Python
Module 4: NFS configuration
• NFS Configuration via Python
Module 5: S3 configuration
• S3 Configuration via Python
Module 6: SAN configuration
• SAN REST API documentation
• iSCSI configuration
• FCP and NVME-oF configuration
Module 7: Performance monitoring
• ONTAP performance
• Performance metrics
• Collecting ONTAP performance metrics
• BlueXP and ONTAP System Manager
Further information
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