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ISILON ADMINISTRATION TRAINING

Description:

This course will prepare students to install, configure, and manage Isilon storage systems and Isilon application software. This course covers all aspects of administering Isilon storage; from building a cluster to enforcing quotas. This instructor-led course gives you hands-on learning, to quickly build your technical expertise with the Isilon scale out storage platform to apply to your storage environment and your business.

Prerequisites:

To understand the content and successfully complete this course, a student should have a basic understanding of traditional storage environments, networking and general system administration knowledge and skills associated with the following:

• RAID and data protection
• SAN
• NAS
• Data protection
• IOPS
• Basic understanding of the purpose of metadata/inodes
• TCP/IP
• iSCSI
• Network throughput
• Understanding the difference between throughput and IOPS
• Access to Windows and UNIX file shares
• Basic understanding of permission at both the share and file level

Course Outline

Introduction to Isilon

• Scaleup and scaleout Architecture. Differentiate.
• Exploring on scaleout.
• What type of data does Isilon Support?

Hardware

• Type of nodes
• Architecture of nodes and Parts.

Software

• OneFS filesystem architecture.
• Installation of three node cluster.
• Steps to configure the cluster.
• Different ways to the cluster.
• Useraccounts that are used to login. And the authprovider.

Access Zones

• What is Access zone.
• Creation, Authentication providers.
• User accounts.

Networking

• Groupnets
• Subnets
• Pools
• DNS
• Isilon Smartconnect.
• Flexnet.
• Gateway priorities
• Default Gateways.
• Static Routes.
• Source based routing.

Protocols

• SMB
• NFS
• HDFS
• Separate class

Access Management

• ACLS
• File and directory level permissions.
• Access, Deny, Inheritence.
• Authentication providers.
• AD.

Cluster management

• Events
• Date and Time.
• Auditing
• I can only show you the audit events. And types of audits.

Data layout

• File protection
• Node pools and diskpools.
• Caching.

Storage administration.

• Smartquotas
• Smartpools and filepools
• Smartlock

Data Protection

• SyncIQ
• Failover and failbackr
• Snapshots
• NDMP

InsightIQ.

• Perfomance monitoring and Filesystem Monitoring