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.
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
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