ECS Administration
Course code
MR-1CN-ECSMGTMON
Duration
5 Days, 40 Acad. Hours
Course Overview
Objectives
Prerequisites
Course Outline
Course Overview
Overview
This course provides detailed coverage of ECS features designed to support typical use cases, including global content repository, geo-scale object storage with Access Anywhere, and Big Data Analytics.
Objectives
Course Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, participants should be able to:
- Provide an overview of the ECS solution, its components, and typical deployment configurations
- Explain ECS architecture, core software constructs, data flows, and internal operation
- Use the ECS Portal to configure and manage an ECS solution
- Demonstrate how ECS works as object storage with local replication and geo replication
- Perform metering, monitoring, basic health checks, and basic troubleshooting in an ECS environment
- Customize and use supported data clients to access ECS storage
Prerequisites
Audience
This course is intended for anyone who needs to manage, customize, monitor, or use an ECS system for data storage.
Prerequisite Knowledge/Skills
Familiarity with storage solutions in single and multi-site data center environments, including block, file, and object storage; and basic cloud concepts.
Course Outline
Course Outline
The content of this course is designed to support the course objectives.
Module 1: Overview of the ECS Solution
- ECS Introduction
- Typical ECS Configurations
- ECS Use Cases
- Lab 1: Connecting to your class lab environment
Module 2: ECS Architecture
- Core ECS Abstractions Layers
- Data Packaging and Local Protection
- Failure Handling and Failover Scenarios
Module 3: Managing ECS using the ECS Portal
- Configuring Storage Pools, VDCs, and Replication Groups
- Configuring Namespaces, Users, and Buckets
- Lab 2: Configure ECS Storage Infrastructure
Module 4: ECS Access from Object Clients
- S3 API Client with ECS
- Swift API Client with ECS
- Centera CAS API with ECS
- Hadoop Clients with ECS
- ECS File Access
- Lab 3: Basic tests of I/O access from various data clients
Module 5: Advanced Configuration
- Access Control, Retention, and Quotas
- Multi-tenancy Considerations
- ECS D@RE
- Lab 4: ECS customizations: ACLs, quotas, and retention
- Lab 5: Multi-tenancy with Active Directory/LDAP Integration
Module 6: ECS Monitoring and Maintenance
- Monitoring Capabilities
- Maintenance
- SNMP Support
- Syslog Support
- Lab 6: ECS Monitoring and Maintenance
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ECS Administration
Course code:
MR-1CN-ECSMGTMON
Duration:
5 Days, 40 Acad. Hours
