VNX File Storage Deployment and Management

$5,000.00


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  • virtual

  • Onsite

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Duration: 5 Days

In this Specialist-level course, you will gain in-depth knowledge and work through practical labs with EMC VNX storage systems. Along with covering the key elements of NAS (file access) deployment, you will learn about:

  • Integrating VNX file-level access configured for Windows, Linux, and VMware user/application environments via NFS, pNFS, and CIFS environments
  • Initial storage system configuration, domain management, security, and availability using Unisphere
  • NAS configurations, including file system creation, export, permissions, and quotas in Linux, VMware ESXi, and Windows environments
  • Implementation of local replications solutions

What You Will Learn

  • Implement Unisphere security
  • Configure a VNX storage system
  • Provision storage to VNX Data Movers
  • Implement advanced storage features
  • Navigate the Unisphere interface
  • Implement Data Mover failover
  • Set up basic IP network functionality
  • Create and manage VNX file systems
  • Provide file system access to NFS users and applications
  • Advanced VNX file features (MPFS, pNFS)
  • Configure advanced networking features
  • Provide file system access to CIFS users and applications
  • Configure Virtual Data Movers
  • Manage permissions for CIFS
  • Set up and manage file system quotas
  • Implement CIFS features
  • Usermapper operations
  • Configure and manage VNX SnapSure
  • Employ CLI operations for advanced scripting and administration

Audience

Storage/cloud infrastructure administrators who configure, deploy, and manage NAS/file-based VNX storage systems in heterogeneous host environments

Prerequistes

Knowledge and skills associated with:

  • VNX hardware and software architecture
  • Familiarity with Unisphere and VNX Control Station CLI
  • Ethernet switch configuration, including managed switch features such as VLANs
  • TCP/IP networking
  • Ethernet settings, including duplex, throughput, and port channeling
  • Basic Microsoft Windows administration skills (managing users/groups, files, and directories)
  • Basic UNIX administration skills (managing users/groups, files, and directories)
  • Basic VMware ESX/ESXi operations and management

Course Outline

1. Implementing Unisphere Security

  • Configuring Unisphere Security
  • Control Station Auditing

2. Storage System Configuration and Management

  • Configuring SP Networking
  • Describe SP Memory and Cache Configuration

3. Storage Provisioning and Management

  • Configuring RAID Groups and Traditional LUNs
  • Configuring Pools, Thin and Thick LUNs

4. Advanced Storage Concepts

  • Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST)
  • Data Compression
  • FAST Cache

5. Unisphere for File

  • Unisphere Navigation
  • Unisphere Monitoring and Notification Methods

6. Data Mover Failover

  • Configuring Data Mover Failover
  • Testing Data Mover Failover and Failback

7. Basic Network Configuration

  • Data Mover Network Devices
  • Implement DNS and Time Services
  • Data Access Protocol and Services

8. Configuring File Systems

  • File System Components
  • Creating File Systems
  • Managing File Systems
  • File System Auto Extension/Virtual Provisioning
  • Data Mover Root File Systems

9. Exporting File Systems to UNIX and ESXi

10. Advanced File Systems

  • MPFS Concepts
  • pNFS Concepts

11. Networking Features

  • Configuration
  • Complex Examples and Considerations

12. Configuring CIFS

  • Configure the Data Mover for a Windows Environment
  • Create and Join a CIFS Server to a Windows Domain
  • File System Access via CIFS
  • Computer names, NetBIOS names, and Aliasing

13. Virtual Data Movers

  • Overview
  • Configuriation

14. Managing and Assigning Permissions in a CIFS Environment

15. File System Quotas

  • Quota Fundamentals
  • User and Group Quota Management
  • Tree Quotas
  • Managing Quotas from Windows 2000/03/08
  • Viewing Quota Status on a Unix client

16. CIFS Features

  • Auditing CIFS
  • Home Directory Support
  • Alternate Data Streams
  • Common AntiVirus Agent (CAVA)
  • VNX Support for Microsoft Group Policy Objects
  • File Extension Filtering
  • Distributed File Systems (DFS)

17. Usermapper

  • 18. VNX SnapSure
  • Writeable Snapshots
  • Creating and Accessing Snapshots
  • Managing Snapshots
  • Planning for SnapSure

19. VNX CLI

Course Labs