VNX Unified Storage Deployment and Management

$5,000.00


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  • virtual

  • Onsite

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Duration: 5 Days

This Specialist-level course is targeted for storage/cloud infrastructure administrators requiring in-depth knowledge and practical lab work with EMC VNX Unified Storage systems. This intensive training covers all the key elements of SAN/IP-SAN (block access) and NAS (file access) deployment.

You will cover a wide range of topics in detail, and you'll participate in hands-on lab exercises that reinforce the concepts, including:

  • Integrating VNX block access for open systems hosts (Linux, Windows, and VMware ESXi) through FC, iSCSI, and FCoE connectivity options
  • Configuring VNX file-level access for Windows, Linux, and VMware user/application environments via network file system (NFS) and common Internet file system (CIFS) environments
  • Initial storage system configuration, security, and availability using Unisphere
  • NAS configurations, including file system creation, export, permissions, and quotas in Linux, VMware ESXi, and Windows environments
  • Implementing local replications solutions

An end-of-class assessment validates that you have learned the knowledge or skills presented.

What You Will Learn

 

  • Implement Unisphere security
  • Provision block-level storage
  • Manage host access to block storage
  • Perform basic host integration tasks for block storage
  • Integrate a Windows host to VNX block storage
  • Integrate a Linux host to VNX block storage
  • Details of a VMware ESXi/VNX block-level solution
  • Implement advanced storage features
  • Configure basic networking for VNX file-level access
  • Configure VNX file systems
  • Export VNX file systems for NFS access
  • Usermapper operations and management
  • Configure VNX file systems for CIFS access
  • Create and manage Virtual Data Movers
  • Manage permissions for CIFS
  • Implement file system quotas
  • Configure CIFS features
  • Implement networking features
  • Implement VNX SnapView snapshots
  • Implement VNX SnapView clones
  • Configure VNX SnapSure

Audience

 

IT professionals responsible for configuring, deploying, and managing block- and file-based VNX storage systems in heterogeneous host environments

Prerequistes

 

We strongly recommend that you have knowledge of and experience with:

  • VNX system architecture
  • Unisphere and Navisphere Secure CLI
  • EMC PowerPath operations
  • SAN configurations, including basic utilization of the software tools used to manage the major Fibre Channel, FCoE, and Ethernet switch environments
  • TCP/IP networking
  • Ethernet switch configuration, including managed switch features such as VLANs
  • 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. Unisphere Security and Basic Management

  • Unisphere Security Features
  • Unisphere Authentication using LDAP
  • Control Station Auditing
  • IP Address Filtering
  • Unisphere SSL/TLS Certificates
  • VNX File Notifications Methods

2. Block Storage Provisioning and Management

  • Configuring RAID Groups and Traditional LUNs
  • Pools and Pool LUNs

3. Managing Host Access to Block Storage

  • Access Logix

4. Host Integration Basics

  • Connectivity
  • Software

5. Windows Host Installation and Integration

6. Linux Host Installation and Integration

7. ESXi Host Installation and Integration

8. Advanced Storage Concepts

  • Configuring MetaLUNs
  • LUN Migration
  • FAST
  • Data Compression
  • FAST Cache

9. Basic Network Configuration

  • Data Mover Network Devices
  • Implementing DNS and Time Services
  • Data Access Protocols and Services

10. Configuring File Systems

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

11. Exporting File Systems to Linux and ESXi

12. Networking Features

  • Configuration
  • Considerations

13. Configuring CIFS

  • Create and Join a CIFS Server to a Windows Domain
  • File System Access Via CIFS
  • Computer Names, NetBIOS Names, and Aliasing

14. Virtual Data Movers

  • Overview
  • Configuration

15. Managing and Assigning Permissions in a CIFS-Only Environment

16. File System Quotas

  • User and Group Quota Management
  • Tree Quotas
  • Managing Quotas from CIFS/NFS Clients

17. CIFS Features

  • Auditing CIFS
  • Home Directory Support
  • Common AntiVirus Agent (CAVA)
  • File Extension Filtering

18. Usermapper

19. VNX SnapSure

  • Writeable Snapshots
  • Creating and Accessing Snapshots
  • Managing Snapshots
  • Planning for SnapSure

Course Labs