PowerStore Implementation and Administration

Course code

DESILT-839-7088

Duration

5 Days, 40 Acad. Hours

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Course Overview

Objectives

Prerequisites

Course Outline

Course Overview

Overview

The course provides instruction for physical installation and cabling of PowerStore systems. It includes PowerStore system initialization and deployment instructions along with practice opportunities to achieve a function production storage state. Day-to-day PowerStore administrative tasks for block, file, and VMware storage resources and services are also provided. The course includes PowerStore system hardware and software upgrades, and basic troubleshooting.

Objectives

Course Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, participants should be able to:

Physically install and cable PowerStore systems
Initialize and deploy PowerStore systems to a functional production storage state
Administer PowerStore storage resources and services
Upgrade PowerStore system hardware and software
Perform basic PowerStore system troubleshooting tasks

Prerequisites

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

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PowerStore Implementation and Administration

Course code:

DESILT-839-7088

Duration:

5 Days, 40 Acad. Hours

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