Course Overview
This course provides an experienced Dell EMC PowerScale Administrator advanced information about PowerScale cluster operations. The course provides the expertise necessary for an Administrator to consider and plan for future growth, the understanding to implement best practices to avoid common issues, and the ability to quickly diagnose the source of issues and work efficiently with PowerScale support resources. It also provides advanced details about PowerScale disaster recovery and the expertise necessary for an administrator to consider and plan for disasters.
Who should attend
This course is intended for all audiences.
Prerequisites
To understand the content and successfully complete this course, a student must have a suitable working knowledge of the following:
- Networking fundamentals such as TCP/IP, DNS and routing
- PowerScale hardware troubleshooting and maintenance procedures
- PowerScale Concepts Course
- PowerScale Administration Course
Course Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, participants should be able to:
- Configure cluster monitoring and reporting features
- Identify and resolve networking and SmartConnect issues
- Understand multiprotocol permissions
- Understand the OneFS Job Engine
- Perform performance analysis
- Discuss the data protection and disaster recovery features of OneFS
- Optimize and troubleshoot identified issues in the cluster
Course Content
Module 1 - Concepts
- A Day in Life of a Storage Administrator
- Disaster Recovery Introduction
- PowerScale Disaster Resilience
- OneFS Domains
- Troubleshooting PowerScale Cluster
Module 2 – Advanced Access
- Networking Architecture
- Access Zones
- SmartConnect Advanced and DNS
- Authentication Providers
- Protocols
Module 3 – Advanced Authorization
- Multiprotocol Permissions
- User Mapping
Module 4 – Reporting
- Events and Alerts
- Log Files
- Notifications
- Protocol Auditing
- SNMP
Module 5 – OneFS Job Engine
- Job Engine Architecture
- Job Types, Priority, and Impact
- Job Engine Management
Module 6 – OneFS Services
- SFSE – Small Files Storage Efficiencies
- Migration
- SmartQuotas Advanced
- SnapshotIQ Advanced
- SyncIQ Advanced
Module 7 – Disaster Recovery
- Data Protection and Disaster Recovery
- SyncIQ DR
- NDMP
- Cloud and Virtual Storage Strategies
Module 8 – Performance and Monitoring
- DataIQ Deep Dive
- HealthCheck
- Performance Foundation
- Performance Analysis