Dell EMC Unity XT Hardware Concepts and Features

Delivery - On Demand Class 

Audience
This course is intended for professionals who will be positioning, designing, deploying, managing and supporting a solution using the Dell EMC Unity XT storage system. It is also suitable for anyone seeking to learn the basics of Dell EMC Unity XT systems.

Prerequisite Knowledge/Skills
To understand the content and successfully complete this course, a student must have a suitable knowledgebase/skill set. The student must have an understanding of:
• Hardware concepts and technologies used in customer environments, such as compute nodes, servers, network and basic storage system infrastructures
• Software technologies used in customer environments such as enduser applications, databases, operating systems, etc.
• Ethernet and TCP/IP networking (e.g. switch management, VLANs, IP addressing and routing)
• Basic Microsoft Windows user, file and domain administration
• Basic Unix/Linux user and file management
• Fiber Channel Storage Area Networks (e.g. zoning, WWNs, LUNs, masking)
• Basic backup and recovery terms and techniques

Course Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, participants should be able to:
• Describe the hardware components in a Dell EMC Unity XT Disk Processor Enclosure (DPE) and Storage Processor (SP)
• Identify the DPE/SP ports and the connection options
• Describe the component LED status indicators
• Identify available the I/O expansion modules
• Identify the types of Disk Array Enclosure (DAE) and supported disk drives available

Course Outline
The content of this course is designed to support the course objectives.
• Disk Processor Enclosure Hardware Overview
o Hardware components redundancy
o Disk Processor Enclosure
o DPE Power Supplies
• Storage Processor Overview
o SP components
o Dell EMC Unity XT Hybrid platform maximums
o Dell EMC Unity XT All Flash platform maximums
• DPE/SP Port Identification and Connections
o DPE/SP embedded ports
o DPE expansion slots
• LED Identification and Status Indicators
o DPE status LEDs
o DPE Power Supply status LEDs
o SP status LEDs
• I/O Expansion Modules
o I/O expansion modules technologies
o Backend expansion modules
o Frontend expansion modules
• Disk Array Enclosure and Disk Drives
Supported Disk Array Enclosures
o DAE components and connections
o DAE front and rear LCC LEDs
o Flash drives support
o Rotating drives support