Course Overview
Effective management of the PowerStore storage appliance enables organizations to achieve faster ROI. This course provides the knowledge and necessary skills to perform post-installation and day-to-day PowerStore administration tasks, including system administration, storage provisioning, storage resource access, and performance features. The course also covers storage efficiency, data protection, and mobility features, as well as replication concepts and techniques.
Who should attend
This course is intended for professionals positioning, designing, deploying, managing, and supporting a solution using PowerStore systems.
Prerequisites
To complete this course, participants must possess knowledge 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 end-user applications, databases, operating systems
- Ethernet and TCP/IP networking, including 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, including zoning, WWNs, LUNs, and masking
- Basic backup and recovery terms and techniques
Course Objectives
Upon completion of this course, professionals are able to:
- Add, manage, and remove PowerStore users
- Attach, edit, and remove hosts
- Create and manage volumes and volume groups
- Migrate volumes
- Configure and manage local data protection, data efficiency, and data encryption
- Create and modify replication policies and rules
- Manage replication operations, including failover, synchronization, pause, and resume
- Configure and administer metro volumes
- Integrate PowerStore with VMware SRM
- Troubleshoot vVol replication
Course Content
The content of this course is designed to support the course objectives. Practical experience is included throughout the course.
User Management
- User management
- Managing PowerStore user
- Adding, managing, and removing PowerStore users
Host Management
- Manage hosts and host groups
- Attaching, editing, and removing hosts
Volume Management
- Manage volumes and volume groups
- Creating and managing volumes and volume groups
- Migrating volumes
Data Protection and Efficiency
- Local data protection
- Data efficiency in PowerStore
- Data encryption
- Configure and manage local data protection, data efficiency, and data encryption
Replication
- Replication concepts and techniques
- Configure replication
- Replication setup - workflow
- Tag ports for replication
- Replication data network
- Create a remote system connection
- Create a protection policy to a volume
- Assign the protection policy to a volume
- Verify the inbound replication details and inbound volumes
- Verify contents of inbound replication volume
Block Volume Replication
- Manage replication, failover, planned failover, synchronization, pause and resume, and remove
- DR failover test
NAS Server Replication
- NAS server replication
- Async replication for NAS servers
- Async replication requirements
- Configure file mobility network
- Create remote system
- Replication operations
- Modify destination NAS server
- Clone destination NAS server
vVol Asynchronous Replication
- vVol asynchronous replication
- PowerStore integration with SRM
- PowerStore configuration requirements for vVol replication
- Troubleshooting vVol replication
Metro Volumes
- Configure metro volumes
- PowerStore metro volume introduction
- Metro volume operations
- Administer metro volume states
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