Has anyone taken the "NetApp 202: Advanced System Administration and Troubleshooting for Network Appliance Filers class. And if so, was it useful?
It wasn't mindblowing, but it gave me a good chance to do evil things to some F760s I couldn't dream of doing to production hardware :> It's always nice to have run through things like booting off the floppy image to revert to a previous snapshot before you -need- to do it at 3am.
It was certainly worth the day off of work, and if they've changed the content I'll probably attend it again. The instructor we had (hi Stefan!) was competent and personable, and at one point was on the phone to some other people at netapp to get an explanation of what some forgotten argument to a command was, which I thought was pretty cool (both in that he admitted he didn't know and was willing to go to the effort of finding out).
Running through some failure recovery scenarios was probably worth it by itself (and that was why I attended), but the performance monitoring stuff was also useful. About the only thing I would have wanted more on was backup strategies (which was only briefly touched on IIRC).