Duration

5 days

Overview

The course is designed for an experienced Isilon cluster administrator who requires advanced details around cluster operations. This course provides the expertise necessary for an Administrator to: consider and plan for future growth, understand and implement best practices, identify performance metrics and workload differences, and strengthen their ability to diagnose and support critical cluster situations.

Audience

This course is intended for all audiences.

Prerequisite Knowledge/Skills

To understand the content and successfully complete this course, a student must have a suitable working knowledge of the following:

Isilon scale-out storage platform
Isilon hardware troubleshooting and maintenance procedures
Basic networking components including Ethernet, switches, and network aggregation
Network protocols including TCP/IP, DNS, SMB, and NFS

Course Objectives

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

Perform cluster administration tasks using Isilon tools and features
Manage the Isilon system, users, and network Monitor the system for health and performance
Optimize and troubleshoot identified issues in the cluster

Course Outline

The content of this course is designed to support the course objectives.

Course Introduction

Introduction

OneFS Review

Administrator’s Tasks

▬ Explore advanced tasks

▬ Performance basics in complex environments

Monitoring & Events

▬ Configure system alerts and event groups

▬ Perform a cluster health-check

▬ Troubleshooting Isilon clusters

▬ Gather and read log files

▬ Troubleshoot Events

Monitoring, Capacity Issues & Job Priorities

▬ Access performance and file system analytic reports using InsightIQ

▬ Calculate system capacity for management purposes

▬ Comprehend, schedule and manage system jobs Job Engine management

User Managements

▬ Identify authentication providers

▬ Access zones and protocols

▬ Manage multi-protocol permissions

Networking

▬ Managing SmartConnect

▬ Network latency and performance issues

▬ Identify and resolve networking and SmartConnect issues

Performance Tuning

▬ Perform a performance analysis

▬ Establish a performance baseline

▬ Identify workflows for small file efficiency

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

This is a version-specific reference outline. Confirm the current syllabus and delivery arrangements with EIEIO.