Duration
12 hours
Overview
This self-paced course covers the knowledge necessary to understand the features and functionality of a Unity storage system. Topics include an overview of the Unity platform, hardware components, UnityVSA, installation and configuration, storage provisioning, data protection and mobility, maintenance activities and best practices. The content is structured in small, easy to consume topics enabling the learner to focus on topics of interest as needed.
Audience
This course is intended for professionals responsible for the installation, deployment, management, and support of Unity storage systems in heterogeneous host environments.
Prerequisite Knowledge/Skills
To understand the content and successfully complete this course, a student should have fundamental knowledge and skills associated with the following:
- Ethernet and TCP/IP networking
- Microsoft Windows
- Unix and Linux
- Fibre Channel Storage Area Networks concepts
- RAID protection concepts
Course Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, participants should be able to:
- Describe Unity and UnityVSA features and functionality
- Identify hardware components and understand LED indicators
- Install and configure Unity and UnityVSA
- Perform administrative operations via Unisphere interface
Course Outline
The content of this course is designed to support the course objectives.
- Unity Fundamentals
Overview
- Basic Architecture
- Scalability and Performance Features
- Efficiency Features
- Data Security Features
- Data Protection Features
- Data Mobility Features
- Management
- Virtualization
- UnityVSA
- Specification
- Hardware Fundamentals
- Hardware and Component Redundancy
- Disk Processor Enclosure (DPE)
- Storage Processor Enclosure (SPE)
- DPE/SPE Port locations
- LED Locations and States
- I/O Expansion Modules
- Disk Array Enclosure (DAE)
- Disk Drives
- Installation and Initial Configuration
- Racking, Cabling and Powering Up a Unity Storage System
- Deploying a UnityVSA system
- System Administration
- Interfaces and Access Control
- Basic Settings
- Unisphere Support Configuration
- Unisphere Alerts
- Storage Provisioning
- Storage Resources Overview
- Block Storage Management
- File Storage Management
- VMware Datastores Management
- Unity Storage Resources Access
- Block Storage Access
- File Storage Access
- VMware Datastores Access
- Advanced Storage Features for Block
- FAST Cache and FAST VP
- Unity Compression
- Data at Rest Encryption (D@RE)
- Host I/O Limits
- Advanced Storage Features for File
- IP Multi-tenancy
- Advanced Static Routing and IP Packet Reflect
- UFS64 File System Extension and Shrink
- Lock and Rename Policies for Multiprotocol File Systems
- File System Quotas
- CEE and Event Publishing Support
- Data Protection – Snapshots
- Unity Snapshots Overview
- Managing Snapshots
- Using Snapshots
- Data Protection – Replication
- Unity Replication Overview
- Managing Replication
- Remote Replication Operations
- Data Mobility – File Import
- File Import Overview
- File Import Configuration
- File Import Operations
- Data Mobility – Native SANCopy Import
- Native SANCopy Import Overview
- Native SANCopy Import Configuration
- Native SANCopy Import Operations
- Data Mobility – Local LUN Move
- Local LUN Move Overview
- Local LUN Move Configuration and Operations
- Data Mobility – Unity DHSM Support with CTA Integration
- Basic Maintenance
- Unity Service Tasks
- Unity Upgrades
- CRU Replacement Procedures
- Data-in-Place Conversions (DIP)
- Best Practices
- System Configuration
- Storage Configuration
- Data Services
- Application Considerations
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.