NetApp Certified Implementation Engineer - SAN Specialist, E-Series

The NetApp Certified Implementation Engineer–SAN, E-Series exam tests a candidate’s ability in managing E-Series storage systems.

Candidates should have six to 12 months of experience in installing, configuring, and managing E-Series storage systems in various SAN environments to provide reliable, high-performance block storage solutions.

You should be able to do these tasks:

• Install
• Configure
• Manage
• Troubleshoot

Domain 1. Storage Configuration

• Setup alerting and notification for the E-Series system.
• Create and administer Volume Groups or DDP and associated volumes.
• Physical and logical storage requirements.
• CHAP for an iSCSI environment.
• DDP or Volume Groups.

Domain 2. Documentation

• Reviewing and preparing a site for implementation of E-Series.
• Information you give a customer after deploying a solution.

Domain 3. Hardware

• Hardware components in an E-Series storage system.
• Fibre Channel, Ethernet, Infiniband and SAS cabling.
• Tasks for adding additional storage to an E-Series system.
• Drive encryption features.

Domain 4. Host Side

• Host connection options for E-Series systems.
• Configure hosts for multipathing.

Domain 5. Management

• Administrative tasks for managing E-Series systems with SANtricity System Manager.
• Management security features in SANtricity System Manager and SANtricity Unified Manager.
• Configure and use SANtricity Unified Manager.

Domain 6. Toolbox

• Tools required to design and implement an E-Series solution.

Domain 7. Protection

• Data Assurance with media scan protects your data.
• SANtricity data protection features.

Domain 8. SAN

• End-to-end network configuration for Fibre Channel and Ethernet.

Domain 9. Troubleshooting

• Steps for troubleshooting an E-Series system.
• Analyze multipathing issues between a host and an E-Series system.

Candidates must first achieve the NetApp Certified Data Administrator (NCDA) certification.

Consider completing the following NetApp Associate Accreditation exams:

NetApp Cloud Native Associate

NetApp Hybrid Cloud Associate