ECS Administration

Course code

MR-1CN-ECSMGTMON

Duration

5 Days, 40 Acad. Hours

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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

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

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