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ONTAP Cluster Administration
ONTAP9ADM · 3 days
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NetAppProfessionalOn requestUpdated: July 2026
PERFCDOT Training for Your Team — ONTAP Performance Analysis
“The storage is slow” is the accusation every storage team eventually faces, usually with no evidence attached and a database team already convinced. ONTAP Performance Analysis equips administrators to answer it properly: understand where latency originates in the ONTAP data path, read workloads as coherent stories rather than isolated counters, isolate bottlenecks methodically, and — when the cluster genuinely is the problem — prove exactly which resource and why.
The course sits above Cluster Administration in the ONTAP track and assumes real operational experience; its payoff is a repeatable diagnostic method plus fluency with the analysis tooling built into current ONTAP 9.15/9.16 releases, including quality of service as the remedy for noisy-neighbor contention.
We organize delivery through authorized partners with instructors who have run their share of performance escalations — live online in your time zone, on site, or as a private group analyzing workload patterns like yours.
Who this course is for
- Storage administrators fielding recurring performance complaints
- Senior engineers responsible for capacity and performance planning
- Teams running mixed workloads that compete on shared clusters
- Admins who need evidence, not intuition, in vendor and app-team discussions
What your team will learn
Topic areas below are grouped in our own words. The full official agenda is available on request — it comes from the authorized partner as part of your quote.
- Where latency actually comes from: the ONTAP data path without the mythology
- Reading workloads: IOPS, throughput and latency as a story, not three lonely numbers
- Using ONTAP's own counters and tools before buying another monitoring product
- Isolating the bottleneck: disk, CPU, network — or the application, politely proven
- Quality of service: protecting critical workloads from their noisy neighbors
- Building a performance baseline so "it feels slow" becomes a measurable claim
Key facts
| Duration | On request |
|---|---|
| Level | Professional |
| Prerequisites | ONTAP Cluster Administration course or equivalent, plus hands-on operational experience |
| Formats | Live online (VILT), On-site at your location, Private group, Seats in scheduled groups |
| Languages | English + local-language instructors on request |
Formats and how we organize it
- Live online (VILT)
- On-site at your location
- Private group
- Seats in scheduled groups
One request → three options
Fill in the form below — it takes a couple of minutes. Within 5 business days you compare 2–3 concrete offers — provider, instructor, dates, price below the public list. We contract and administer the delivery end to end. Details:how we work and vendor training.
PERFCDOT vs alternatives: which to choose
Factual criteria only — level, duration, audience and certification. The right choice depends on your team's starting point and stack.
ONTAP Cluster Administration
The prerequisite foundation. Performance Analysis assumes fluent day-to-day administration and real operational exposure — it is the specialist course teams take once running the cluster is routine and understanding it under load is the next problem.
ONTAP Data Protection Administration
The other classic follow-up to Cluster Administration. Factually different scope: replication and DR versus performance diagnostics. Most teams need Data Protection sooner; Performance Analysis is for estates where load, not loss, is the pressing risk.
A custom intensive
One chronic performance mystery on one production cluster? A custom engagement can combine the course method with a guided analysis of your own counters — training and root-cause work in the same week.
Need only part of PERFCDOT?
If your team needs a subset of this program — or a mix of topics from several courses — we build a custom 2–4 day intensive on our own materials, shaped by your infrastructure. One custom program typically replaces 2–3 catalog courses.
Explore custom coursesPERFCDOT: frequently asked questions
Who is this course really for?
Administrators past the basics: comfortable running ONTAP daily, now expected to explain why a workload is slow. It rewards operational experience — attendees who have lived through a performance escalation get the most from the diagnostic method.
Which ONTAP versions and tools are used?
Current ONTAP 9 releases (9.15/9.16), using the platform's built-in statistics and monitoring capabilities first. The method transfers to whatever external monitoring you run, but the course deliberately starts with what every cluster already provides.
Does the course cover QoS?
Yes — quality of service is treated as the practical remedy once analysis identifies noisy-neighbor contention: setting floors and ceilings, and knowing when QoS genuinely helps versus when the honest answer is more hardware or workload separation.
Will this help us push back on "the storage is slow" claims?
That is much of its value. The course builds a defensible diagnostic chain — baseline, measurement, bottleneck isolation — so conversations with application teams and vendors run on shared evidence instead of competing intuitions.
How do we organize PERFCDOT training?
Fill in the request form on this page — team size, format, timing. Within 5 business days you receive 2–3 options from authorized partners with vetted instructors, dates and prices below public lists.
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