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NetApp SnapCenter Administration

  • Course Code NEP_SNAP-C-ADM
  • Duration 3 days

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Course Delivery

This course is available in the following formats:

  • Public Classroom

    Traditional Classroom Learning

  • Virtual Learning

    Learning that is virtual

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Course Overview

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This course focuses on the deployment of NetApp® SnapCenter® Server 4.4. You learn how to install, monitor, and manage SnapCenter Server. The course also discusses installation and use of licenses and role-based access control. You learn how to prepare hosts, install SnapCenter Plug-ins, and connect to NetApp ONTAP® AFF and FAS storage systems. You also review backup and restore of Windows file system data and the configuration of SnapMirror® and SnapVault® relationships for use with SnapCenter software. The course materials include an exercise workbook that serves as an on-the-job reference guide.

Virtual Learning

This interactive training can be taken from any location, your office or home and is delivered by a trainer. This training does not have any delegates in the class with the instructor, since all delegates are virtually connected. Virtual delegates do not travel to this course, Global Knowledge will send you all the information needed before the start of the course and you can test the logins.

Course Schedule

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    • Delivery Format: Virtual Learning
    • Date: 26-28 January, 2026 | 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
    • Location: Virtual (GMT Standa)
    • Language: English

    £2,660.00

    • Delivery Format: Virtual Learning
    • Date: 05-07 May, 2026 | 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
    • Location: Virtual (GMT Standa)
    • Language: English

    £2,660.00

    • Delivery Format: Virtual Learning
    • Date: 01-03 September, 2026 | 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
    • Location: Virtual (GMT Standa)
    • Language: English

    £2,660.00

    • Delivery Format: Virtual Learning
    • Date: 02-04 November, 2026 | 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
    • Location: Virtual (GMT Standa)
    • Language: English

    £2,660.00

Target Audience

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  • NetApp and NetApp Partner Professional Services
  • Systems Engineers
  • NetApp Customers

Course Objectives

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  • Explain the benefits and relationships between the various components of the SnapCenter solution
  • Describe the methods to install the SnapCenter Server software
  • Perform SnapCenter configuration of role-based access control, installation of licenses, and connections to storage VMs (storage virtual machines, also known as SVMs)
  • Configure hosts and SnapCenter Server Plug-in packages
  • Prepare data protection relationships for SnapCenter software
  • Perform backup and restore of Windows data
  • Explain monitoring and managing capabilities of SnapCenter Server

Course Content

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Module 1: SnapCenter Software Review

  • Introduction to the SnapCenter Suite
    • Server architecture
    • Plug-in Packages
    • licensing
    • Management Interfaces
    • Integration with ONTAP features

    Module 2: SnapCenter Server Deployment

    • Server Installation Workflow
    • Server Requirements
    • Additional Installation Options
    • Module 3: SnapCenter Server Configuration

      • License Management
      • Server Connections to the Storage System
      • Server RBAC
      • Module 4: Preparing Hosts for SnapCenter

        • Add Hosts to the SnapCenter Server
        • Installing Plug-in Packages
        • Module 5: Assigning NetApp Storage to Windows Hosts

          • Configuring LUN storage on Windows
          • Windows Disk Management
          • Working with SMB Shares
          • Module 6: Preparing Data Protection Relationships for SnapCenter

            • Data protection relationships with SnapCenter
            • Preparing the storage systems for replication
            • Module 7: Data Backup and Restore

              • Backup of Windows file systems
              • Restore of Windows file systems
              • Cloning Windows file system backups
              • Module 8: Monitoring and Managing with the SnapCenter server

                • Managing the SnapCenter Repository
                • Monitoring Activities
                • Understanding SnapCenter Reporting Features
                • Labs:

                  • Storage configuration
                  • SnapCenter server configuration
                  • Plug-in configuration, installation and monitoring
                  • Storage configuration
                  • SnapMirror and SnapVault configuration
                  • SnapCenter backup, restore and clone fundamentals
                  • Monitoring and managing SnapCenter software
                  • Course Prerequisites

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                  • SnapCenter Fundamentals