ECS Administration (ECSMGTMON) – Outline

Detailed Course Outline

Module 1: Overview of the ECS Solution

• ECS Introduction
• Typical ECS Configurations
• Gen3
• ECS Network
• Use Cases

Module 2: ECS Architecture

• ECS Architecture Overview
• Core ECS Abstractions Layers
• Data Packaging and Local Protection
• Failure Handling and Failover Scenarios
• ECS Space Reclamation
• Lab: Exploring your ECS lab environment
• Lab: Connecting to your class lab environment

Module 3: Managing ECS using the ECS Portal

• Configuring Storage Pools, VDCs, and Replication Groups
• Configuring Namespaces, Users, and Buckets
• ECS Security
• Lab: Configure ECS Storage Infrastructure
• Lab: Basic tests of I/O access from various data clients (Namespace, Users, and Buckets)

Module 4: ECS Access from Object Clients

• S3 API Client with ECS
• Swift API Client with ECS
• Centera CAS API with ECS
• Hadoop Clients with ECS
• ECS File Access
• GeoDrive
• CLI
• Cloud DVR
• REST API
• Lab: Basic tests of I/O access from various data clients

Module 5: Advanced Configuration

• Access Control, Retention, and Quotas
• Multi-tenancy Considerations
• ECS D@RE
• Lab: ECS customizations: ACLs, quotas, and retention
• Lab: ECS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• Lab: Multi-tenancy with Active Directory/LDAP Integration

Module 6: ECS Monitoring and Maintenance

• Monitoring Capabilities
• Maintenance
• SNMP Support
• Syslog Support
• ECS Performance Monitoring
• ECS Logs
• Lab: ECS Monitoring and Maintenance

Module 7: Troubleshooting

• Lab: Temporary Site Outage (TSO) and Permanent Site Outage (PSO)