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Isilon Advanced Administration Training

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This course is designed to take an experienced Isilon Administrator and provide advanced details about the Isilon cluster operations.

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What is Isilon Advanced Administration Training about?

This course is designed to take an experienced Isilon Administrator and provide advanced details about the Isilon cluster operations. The course provides the expertise necessary for an Administrator to consider and plan for future growth, the understanding to implement best practices to avoid common issues, and the ability to quickly diagnose the source of issues and work efficiently with Isilon support resources. This training consists of 11 modules. The total time required to complete this course is approximately 5 days.


Audience
This course is intended for customers.

What are the objectives of Isilon Advanced Administration Training ?

Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Use notifications and events to identify and diagnose issues
  • Navigate the system log structure
  • Perform log analysis
  • Identify and resolve networking and SmartConnect issues
  • Perform trend analysis to find anomalies
  • Establish sound administrative practices
  • Identify disaster recovery options for Isilon clusters
  • Differentiate between and explain upgrade options
  • Understand the overhead and impact of different data protection options
  • Understand latency and performance issues

What are the prerequisites for Isilon Advanced Administration Training?

To understand the content and successfully complete this course, a student must have a suitable knowledgebase/skill set. The student must have an understanding of:

  • Isilon scale-out storage platform
  • Isilon hardware troubleshooting and maintenance procedures
  • Basic networking components including Ethernet, switches, and network aggregation
  • Network protocols including TCP/IP, DNS, SMB, and NFS


Students should have completed the following EMC courses:

  • Isilon Fundamentals (e-learning)
  • Isilon Installation and Initial Configuration (e-learning)
  • Isilon Administration & Management

Available Training Modes

Live Online Training

40 Hours

Classroom Training

5 Days

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  • Support commands
  • Using commands
  • Using compound commands
  • System settings
  • Gathering logs
  • Key log entries
  • Log analysis
  • Principles of sound practices
  • Capacity management
  • Jobs and priorities
  • Environment and dependencies
  • Reports and extrapolation
  • Performance data
  • Job engine monitoring
  • Cluster backend fundamentals
  • Cluster front end routing
  • SmartConnect and DNS
  • Integration of pools, subnets, and SmartConnect
  • Access zones and SmartConnect
  • Disaster recovery levels
  • Snapshots, requested protection, and backup
  • Replication
  • Failover and failback processes
  • Cluster restoration after complete site loss
  • Upgrade design goals and direction
  • Upgrade types
  • Planning upgrades
  • Patching
  • Firmware updates
  • SmartPool troubleshooting skills
  • SmartPools service and job issues
  • File pool policy issues
  • Cluster performance tuning overview
  • Workflow impact
  • Cluster tuning

Who is the instructor for this training?

The trainer for this Isilon Advanced Administration Training has extensive experience in this domain, including years of experience training & mentoring professionals.

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