PowerStore Implementation and Administration

Audience

This course is intended for professionals who will be positioning, designing, deploying, managing and supporting a solution using PowerStore systems.

Prerequisite Knowledge/Skills

To understand the content and successfully complete this course, a student must have a suitable knowledge base/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 Outline

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

Physical installation

• Rack and stack PowerStore systems
• Cable PowerStore systems

System initialization

• Configure PowerStore ToR Ethernet switching
• Run the PowerStore Initial Configuration Wizard (ICW)
• License PowerStore systems

Deployment configuration

• Configure PowerStore block, file and VMware storage resources
• Configure host and client access to PowerStore storage resources
• Configure PowerStore storage services

Administration

• Perform storage resource administrative tasks
• Perform administrative tasks on PowerStore storage services
• Perform PowerStore Manager user management

Upgrades

• Upgrade PowerStore software
• Upgrade PowerStore hardware

Troubleshooting

• Perform basic hardware troubleshooting
• Evaluate PowerStore system status
• Gather system log files
• Access PowerStore system with SSH as service user