PowerScale Advanced Administration

Audience

This course is intended for all audiences.

Prerequisite Knowledge/Skills

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 Outline

The content of this course is designed to support the course objectives.

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

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