Duration

5 days

Overview

This course provides you with a foundation in Isilon storage cluster administration. Highlighted are topics related to network configuration, physical and logical layout, the configuration of basic and advanced SMB, NFS client access; FTP, HTTP configurations; data protection/replication in single and multi-cluster implementations, archive deployment, snapshots and replication, SNMP integration, data protection, analytics, support and monitoring, and troubleshooting. This training consists of 7 modules. The total time required to complete this course is approximately 5 days.

Audience

This course is intended for customers.

Prerequisite Knowledge/Skills

To understand the content and successfully complete this course, a student must have a suitable knowledgebase/skill set. The student must have an understanding of:

The Isilon scale-out storage platform
A working knowledge of the Isilon cluster core feature set (SmartConnect, SMB, NFS, iSCSI, security, SmartQuotas, InsightIQ, SnapShotIQ, SyncIQ, and SmartPools)
Installation process of an Isilon Cluster.

Students should have completed the following EMC courses:

Isilon Fundamentals (e-learning)
Isilon Installation and Initial Configuration (e-learning)
Information Storage and Management v2 (Video ILT)

Course Objectives

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

Inspect and describe an Isilon NAS installation
Adjust configurations to meet operational needs
Extract and understand monitoring data for Isilon NAS
Avoid and diagnose common issues

Course Outline

Isilon cluster architecture

Architecture
Name resolution architecture
Data protection
Cluster management interfaces

Cluster layout and access

Data layout
Data integrity
Isilon cluster caching system

Access to the cluster

Network configuration
Access control
RBAC

File access details

File access protocols
File permissions
Identity management
Permissions management
ACL management and policies
Alternative platform access

Storage management

SmartPool and node pool
File pool and tiers
SmartQuota
SnapshotIQ
SyncIQ
NDMP for backups
SmartLock

Application integration

Isilon VMware support
VAAI and VASA
Database and anti-virus
Monitoring
InsightIQ graphical monitoring tool
InsightIQ interface
SNMP and Nagios
SupportIQ and RDC

Troubleshooting

Common error sources
Troubleshooting actions
Underlying causes

In addition to lecture and demonstrations, this course includes labs designed to allow practical experience for the participant.

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