ECS Administration

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