Arctera InfoScale Storage 9.0 for UNIX/Linux: Administration

COURSE OUTLINE

MODULE 01 Installing and Licensing InfoScale

• Introducing the Arctera InfoScale Product Suite
• Tools for Installing InfoScale Products
• InfoScale Cloud Offerings
• Installing Arctera InfoScale Storage
• Installing Arctera InfoScale Availability
• Upgrading Arctera InfoScale Enterprise

Labs: Introduction

• Exercise A: Viewing the Virtual Machine Configuration
• Exercise B: Displaying Networking Information

Labs: Installation of InfoScale Storage

• Exercise A: Verifying that the System Meets Installation Requirements
• Exercise B: Installing InfoScale Storage and Configuring Storage Foundation
• Exercise C: Performing Post-Installation and Version Checks
• Exercise D: (Optional) Visualizing InfoScale Information in AI Browser

MODULE 02 Virtual Objects

• Operating System Storage Devices and Virtual Data Storage
• Volume Manager (VxVM) Storage Objects
• VxVM Volume Layouts and RAID Levels
• Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager (IOM): Overview

Labs

• Exercise A: Using Text-based VxVM Menu Interface
• Exercise B: Accessing CLI Commands
• Exercise C: Adding Managed Hosts to the IOM Management Server
• Exercise D: Working with the IOM GUI Dashboard and Inventory Information
• Exercise E: Exploring the IOM GUI Licensing Option
• Exercise F: Working with the IOM GUI Settings Option

MODULE 03 Creating a Volume and File System

• Preparing Disks and Disk Groups for Volume Creation
• Creating a Volume and Adding a File System
• Displaying Disk and Disk Group Information
• Displaying Volume Configuration Information
• Removing Volumes, Disks, And Disk Groups.

Labs

• Exercise A: Creating Disk Groups, Volumes, and FileSystems (CLI)
• Exercise B: Removing Volumes and Disks (CLI)
• Exercise C: Destroying Disk Data Using Disk Shredding (CLI)
• Exercise D: (Optional) Creating Disk Groups, Volumes, and File Systems (IOM)
• Exercise E: (Optional) Removing Volumes, Disks, and Disk groups (IOM)

MODULE 04 Working with Volumes with Different Layouts

• Volume Layouts
• Creating Volumes with Various Layouts
• Allocating Storage for Volumes

Labs

• Exercise A: Creating Volumes with Different Layouts (CLI)
• Exercise B: (Optional) Creating Volumes with User Defaults (CLI)

MODULE 05 Making Configuration Changes

• Administering Mirrored Volumes
• Resizing a Volume and a File System
• Moving Data Between Systems
• Renaming VxVM Objects
• InfoScale Support for Protection Against Ransomware

Labs

• Exercise A: Administering Mirrored Volumes
• Exercise B: Resizing a Volume and File System
• Exercise C: Renaming a Disk Group
• Exercise D: Moving Data Between Systems
• Exercise E: (Optional) Resizing Only the File System

MODULE 06 Administering File Systems

• Arctera File System: Benefits
• Using Arctera File System Commands
• Arctera File System: Logging
• Controlling File System Fragmentation
• Using Thin Provisioning Disk Arrays

Labs

• Exercise A: Preparing to Defragment the Arctera File System
• Exercise B: Defragmenting a Arctera File System
• Exercise C: Working with SmartMove
• Exercise D: Observing Thin Reclamation

MODULE 07 SmartIO

• InfoScale Storage: SmartIO
• Support for Caching on Solid State Drives
• Using the SmartAssist Tool

Labs

• Exercise A: Configuring VxVM Caching
• Exercise B: Configuring VxFS Read Caching
• Exercise C: Configuring VxFS WriteBack Caching
• Exercise D: (Optional) Destroying the Cache Area

MODULE 08 Dynamic Multi-Pathing

• Managing Components in the VxVM Architecture
• Discovering Disk Devices
• Managing Multiple Paths to Disk Devices

Labs

• Exercise A: Administering the Device Discovery Layer
• Exercise B: Displaying DMP Information
• Exercise C: Displaying DMP Statistics
• Exercise D: Enabling and Disabling DMP Paths
• Exercise E: Managing Array Policies

MODULE 09 Working with Erasure Coding

• Erasure Coded: Overview
• Erasure Coded Architecture
• Erasure Coded Volume Enhancements
• Erasure Coded Performance Comparison

Labs

• Exercise A: Creating Erasure Coded Volume for Object Store (CLI)
• Exercise B: Creating Erasure Coded Volume for Generic Workloads (CLI)

MODULE 10 Resolving Hardware Problems

• VxVM and Hardware Failures
• Recovering Disabled Disk Groups
• Resolving Disk Failures

Labs

• Exercise A: Recovering a Temporarily Disabled Disk Group
• Exercise B: Inducing a Disk Failure in the Lab Environment
• Exercise C: Recovering from Temporary Disk Failure
• Exercise D: Recovering from Permanent Disk Failure
• Exercise E: (Optional) Recovering from Temporary Disk Failure – Layered Volume
• Exercise F: (Optional) Recovering from Permanent Disk Failure – Layered Volume
• Exercise G: (Optional) Replacing Physical Drives – Without Hot Relocation
• Exercise H: (Optional) Replacing Physical Drives – With Hot Relocation
• Exercise I: (Optional) Recovering from Temporary Disk Failure with vxattachd Daemon
• Exercise J: (Optional) Exploring Spare Disk Behaviour
• Exercise K: (Optional) Using the Support Website

MODULE 11 Storage Foundation Cluster File System Architecture

• Storage Foundation Cluster File System: Overview
• SFCFS Architecture
• SFCFS Communication
• VCS Management of SFCFS Infrastructure

Labs

• Exercise A: Performing a Pre-Installation Check Using the Installer Utility
• Exercise B: Installing Arctera InfoScale Storage and Configuring Cluster File System
• Exercise C: Configuring Cluster File System in a Pre-Installed InfoScale Storage Environment
• Exercise D: (Optional) Performing Post-Installation and Version Checks
• Exercise E: Verifying Cluster Communications
• Exercise F: Adding Managed Hosts to the IOM Management Server

MODULE 12 Cluster Volume Manager

• Volume Manager and Cluster Volume Manager: Overview
• Cluster Volume Manager: Concepts
• Cluster Volume Manager: Configuration
• CVM Response to Storage Disconnectivity

Labs

• Exercise A: Creating Shared Disk Groups and Volumes (CLI)
• Exercise B: Creating a Shared Disk Group and Volume (IOM)
• Exercise C: Converting a Disk Group from Shared to Private and Vice-versa
• Exercise D: Investigating the Impact of Disk Group Activation Modes
• Exercise E: (Optional) Observing the Impact of Rebooting the Master Node in a Storage Cluster

MODULE 13 Cluster File System

• Cluster File System Concepts
• Data Flow in CFS
• Group Lock Manager
• Administering CFS
• CFS Support for OpenStack

Labs

• Exercise A: Creating a Shared File System (CLI)
• Exercise B: Changing the Primary Node Role (CLI)
• Exercise C: Placing the Shared File System Under Storage Cluster Control (CLI)
• Exercise D: Deleting the Shared File System and Disk Groups

MODULE 14 Flexible Storage Sharing

• Understanding Flexible Storage Sharing
• Flexible Storage Sharing: Storage Objects
• Flexible Storage Sharing Case Study
• Flexible Storage Sharing: Implementation
• Flexible Storage Sharing: Configuration
• Dynamic LUN Expansion Support for FSS

Labs

• Exercise A: Administering Flexible Storage Sharing
• Exercise B: Testing Flexible Storage Sharing

MODULE 15 Disaster Recovery and Replication Overview

• Disaster Recovery Concepts
• Defining Replication
• Replication Options and Technologies
• Arctera Technologies for Disaster Recovery

MODULE 16 Arctera File Replicator

• Understanding Arctera File Replicator
• Setting up Replication for an Arctera File System
• Error Recovery with Arctera File Replicator

Labs

• Exercise A: Setting Up and Performing Replication for a VxFS File System
• Exercise B: Restoring the Source File System Using the Replication Target

MODULE 17 Arctera Volume Replicator Components

• Arctera Volume Replicator: Overview
• Comparing Volume Replication with Volume Management
• Volume Replicator Components
• Volume Replicator Data Flow

MODULE 18 Arctera Volume Replicator Operations

• Configuring the Replication Setup
• Assessing the Status of the Replication Environment
• Performing Migration, Takeover, and Fast Failback Operations

Labs

• Exercise A: Preparing Storage for Replication
• Exercise B: Establishing Replication
• Exercise C: Observing Data Replication
• Exercise D: Migrating the Primary Role

MODULE 19 InfoScale Support for Cloud Environments

• InfoScale Solutions for Cloud Environments
• InfoScale Support for Kubernetes on Linux
• Preparing for InfoScale Installations in Cloud Environments
• Configuration for Cloud Environments
• Migration Support for AWS
• Application Mobility Overview
• Troubleshooting Issues in Cloud Environment

Labs

• Exercise A: Configuring REST API Server
• Exercise B: Verifying S3 Server Details
• Exercise C: Creating InfoScale Storage Support for S3 Connector
• Exercise D: (Optional) Creating FSS and SmartIO Type Storage and Backing Up Data to the S3 Server
• Exercise E: Adding IOM Management Server in the Global Reports Perspective
• Exercise F: Generating IOM Reports

MODULE 20 Challenge Lab (Linux)

• Task A: Creating a 4-Node Storage Cluster (CVM Type)
• Task B: Creating a Local Mount Point (VxFS type) and Backing Up Data to S3 Server
• Task C: Creating an FSS Storage Type Cluster Mount Point and Backing Up Data to S3 Server