PowerFlex Administration

This course guides learners through managing a PowerFlex System, picking up where implementation finishes, and continuing through administration to sustaining operations. Deployment of production cluster components using both configuration text files and Templates/Resource Groups are discussed. It covers managing PowerFlex components such as MDM, SDS, SDC, volumes, and file systems. Further management activities such as user configuration and alerting are also covered. Labs, demonstrations, and simulations complete the learning experience.

Course Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, participants should be able to:
• Recommend the correct PowerFlex model based on a given set of circumstances.
• Understand the major software components, and how they interact.
• Successfully complete the post-installation tasks.
• Successfully perform a PowerFlex upgrade.
• Use a PowerFlex Template to customize the production deployment of a node and deploy the node from a Resource Group
• Successfully configure the features of PowerFlex system such as:
o Protection Domain
o Fault Sets
o Storage Pools
o Volumes
o NAS Servers, NFS Filesystems, and their Quotas
o Maintenance Mode
o Snapshots

o Replication
• Perform steps required to connect a new node to the existing PowerFlex cluster.
• Successfully add, configure, and remove users and passwords for various components in a PowerFlex system.
• Successfully add, configure, and remove for block storage on a PowerFlex system.
• Successfully add, configure, and remove Storage Data Servers on a PowerFlex system.
• Successfully reconfigure MDM’s in a PowerFlex system.
• Successfully configure both a host and the PowerFlex cluster to utilize NVMe/TCP.
• Successfully add and configure CloudLink on a PowerFlex system.
• Successfully setup alerting options in a PowerFlex Cluster
• Articulate what options PowerFlex offers in an Apex environment.