Course Overview
The course provides instruction for physical installation and cabling of PowerStore systems. It includes PowerStore system initialization and deployment instructions along with practice opportunities to achieve a function production storage state. Day-to-day PowerStore administrative tasks for block, file, and VMware storage resources and services are also provided. The course includes PowerStore system hardware and software upgrades, and basic troubleshooting.
Moyens d'évaluation :
- Quiz pré-formation de vérification des connaissances (si applicable)
- Évaluations formatives pendant la formation, à travers les travaux pratiques réalisés sur les labs à l’issue de chaque module, QCM, mises en situation…
- Complétion par chaque participant d’un questionnaire et/ou questionnaire de positionnement en amont et à l’issue de la formation pour validation de l’acquisition des compétences
Who should attend
This course is intended for professionals who will be positioning, designing, deploying, managing and supporting a solution using PowerStore systems
Prerequisites
To understand the content and successfully complete this course, a student must have a suitable knowledge base/skill set. The student must have an understanding 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 enduser applications, databases, operating systems, etc.
- Ethernet and TCP/IP networking (e.g. 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 (e.g. zoning, WWNs, LUNs, masking)
- Basic backup and recovery terms and techniques
Course Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, participants should be able to:
- Physically install and cable PowerStore systems
- Initialize and deploy PowerStore systems to a functional production storage state
- Administer PowerStore storage resources and services
- Upgrade PowerStore system hardware and software
- Perform basic PowerStore system troubleshooting tasks
Course Content
Physical installation
- Rack and stack PowerStore systems
- Cable PowerStore systems
System initialization
- Configure PowerStore ToR Ethernet switching
- Run the PowerStore Initial Configuration Wizard (ICW)
- License PowerStore systems
Deployment configuration
- Configure PowerStore block, file and VMware storage resources
- Configure host and client access to PowerStore storage resources
- Configure PowerStore storage services
Administration
- Perform storage resource administrative tasks
- Perform administrative tasks on PowerStore storage services
- Perform PowerStore Manager user management
Upgrades
- Upgrade PowerStore software
- Upgrade PowerStore hardware
Troubleshooting
- Perform basic hardware troubleshooting
- Evaluate PowerStore system status
- Gather system log files
- Access PowerStore system with SSH as service user
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Espagnol
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