Course Overview
This instructor-led course covers the knowledge necessary to understand the features and functionality and key use cases of a Dell EMC Unity storage system. Topics include system administration, storage provisioning, storage resource access, scalability and performance features, storage efficiency features, data protection features and data mobility features. Hands-on labs provide practical experience applying concepts discussed throughout the course.
Course Content
The content of this course is designed to support the course objectives, and is provided in a role-based structure.
Module 1: System Administration
- Lesson 1: Interfaces and access control
- Lesson 2: Basic settings
- Lesson 3: Unisphere support configuration
- Lesson 4: Unisphere Alerts
Module 2: Storage Provisioning
- Lesson 1: Storage resources overview
- Lesson 2: Dynamic Pool Considerations
- Lesson 3: Block storage provisioning
- Lesson 4: File storage provisioning
- Lesson 5: VMware datastore provisioning
Module 3: Storage Resource Access
- Lesson 1: Block storage access
- Lesson 2: File storage access
- Lesson 3: VMware datastore access
Module 4: Scalability and Performance
- Lesson 1: FAST Cache
- Lesson 2: Host I/O Limits
- Lesson 3: UFS64 File System extension and shrink
Module 5: Storage Efficiency
- Lesson 1: Data reduction
- Lesson 2: FAST VP
- Lesson 3: Thin Clones overview
- Lesson 4: File system Quotas
Module 6: Data Mobility
- Lesson 1: Local LUN Move overview
- Lesson 2: Local LUN Move configuration and operations
- Lesson 3: Local NAS Server Mobility overview
- Lesson 4: Local NAS Server Move operation
Module 7: Data Protection with Snapshots
- Lesson 1: Snapshots overview
- Lesson 2: Managing Snapshots
- Lesson 3: Using Snapshots
Module 8: Data Protection with Replication
- Lesson 1: Replication overview
- Lesson 2: Managing replication
- Lesson 3: Remote Replication operations
Who should attend
This course is intended for professionals who will be positioning, designing, deploying, managing and supporting solutions using Dell EMC Unity arrays.
Prerequisites
- Dell EMC Unity Features and Concepts
- Dell EMC Unity Hardware Features and Concepts
Course Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, participants should be able to:
- Perform administration operations via Unisphere
- Provision block, file and VMware datastore storage
- Access block, file and VMware datastore storage
- Use performance and scalability features
- Use data efficiency features
- Perform snapshot and replication data protection operations
- Perform block and file data mobility operations