Data Domain System Administration

Target group

Administrators, support personnel, and others responsible for using and maintaining Data Domain systems

Skills gained

• Deduplication
• Data Domain operating environment, including Data Domain deduplication
• Configure Data Domain data paths
• Perform a Data Domain system initial setup
• Access and copy data to a Data Domain system
• Configure and manage Data Domain network interfaces
• Configure a VTL
• Customize and manage a Data Domain deduplication file system
• Perform data replication and recovery
• Configure and manage data security on a Data Domain system
• Data Domain Boost
• Perform a Data Domain Boost backup
• Capacity and throughput planning
• Monitor a Data Domain system

Course structure

1. Technical Overview

• Data Domain
• Deduplication Basics
• Data Domain Data Invulnerability Architecture (DIA)
• Data Domain Stream-Informed Segment Layout (SISL) Scaling Architecture
• Data Domain File Systems
• Data Domain Protocols
• Data Domain Data Paths
• Domain Administration Interfaces

2. Basic Administration

• Verifying Hardware
• Managing System Access
• Monitoring a Data Domain System
• Licensed Features
• Upgrading a Data Domain System

3. Managing Network Interfaces

• Configuring Network Interfaces
• Link Aggregation
• Link Failover
• VLAN and IP Alias Interfaces

4. CIFS and NFS

• CIFS
• NFS

5. File System and Data Management

• Configuring and Monitoring MTrees
• Snapshot Operations
• Fast Copy
• File System Cleaning
• Monitoring File System Space Usage

6. Data Security

• Data Domain Retention Lock
• Data Sanitization
• Encryption of Data at Rest

7. Data Replication and Recovery

• Data Replication
• Configuring Replication
• Monitoring Replication
• Data Recovery

8. Tape Library and VTL Concepts

• Data Domain VTL
• VTL Planning
• Configuring Data Domain as a VTL

9. Data Domain Boost

• Data Domain Boost and Features
• Configuring Data Domain to Use Data Domain Boost

10. Sizing, Capacity and Throughput Planning, and Tuning

• Capacity Planning
• Throughput Planning
• Model Capacity and Throughput Performance
• Throughput Monitoring and Tuning