Target group
This course is intended for Dell EMC customers, partners and employees responsible for configuration and administration of PowerMax and VMAX Family arrays.
Course structure
he content of this course is designed to support the course objectives.
Configuration Administration
- Overview
- Storage Provisioning Overview
Provisioning and Service Levels
- Virtual Provisioning and FAST Overview
- PowerMaxOS 5978 Service Levels
- VMAX3 FAST Algorithms and Parameters
Device and Port Management
- Device Management
- Port Management
Storage Allocation using Auto-provisioning Groups
- Auto-provisioning Groups Overview
- Host Considerations – Storage Allocation
- Service Level Based Provisioning with Unisphere
- Service Level Based Provisioning with SYMCLI
Management in a Virtualized Environment
- Virtual Server Management – Unisphere for PowerMax
- Dell EMC VSI for VMware vSphere Web Client
Monitoring and Workload Planning with Unisphere for PowerMax
- Monitor SRP
- Monitor Compliance
- Monitor Data Reduction
- Workload Planning
Introduction to Business Continuity
TimeFinder SnapVX Operations
- TimeFinder SnapVX Concepts and Operations
- TimeFinder SnapVX Operations Using Unisphere for PowerMax
- Replicating VMFS Datastore
SRDF/Synchronous Operations
- SRDF Initial Setup Operations
- SRDF Disaster Recovery Operations
- SRDF Decision Support Operations
- SRDF/S Operations Unisphere for PowerMax
- SRDF/S VMFS Datastore Disaster Recovery
SRDF/Asynchronous Operations
- SRDF/A Concepts and Operations
- SRDF/A Resiliency Features
- Independent Groups and Multi-Session Consistency
SRDF/Metro
- SRDR/Metro Introduction
- Implementing SRDF/Metro
- Configure SRDF/Metro Device Pairs
In addition to lectures, this course includes labs designed to allow practical experience for the participant.
Upon successful completion of this course, participants should be able to:
- Provide an overview of PowerMax and VMAX Family configurations
- Discuss storage provisioning concepts
- Manage ports and port characteristics
- Perform Service Level based provisioning to hosts
- Provide an overview of storage management in a virtualized environment
- Use Unisphere for PowerMax for Compliance Monitoring and Workload Planning
- Provide details on local and remote replication offerings in PowerMax and VMAX Family arrays
