ECS Management and Monitoring

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

• Provide an overview of the ECS solution, its components, and typical deployment configurations
• Explain ECS architecture, core software constructs, data flows, and internal operation
• Use the ECS Portal to configure and manage an ECS solution
• Demonstrate how ECS works as object storage with local replication and geo replication
• Perform metering, monitoring, basic health checks, and basic troubleshooting in an ECS environment
• Customize and use supported data clients to access ECS storage

The content of this course is designed to support the course objectives.

• Module 1: Overview of the ECS Solution
  o ECS Introduction
  o Typical ECS Configurations
  o Lab 0: Connecting to your class lab environment
• Module 2: ECS Architecture
  o Core ECS Abstractions
  o Data Packaging and Local Protection
  o Failure Handling and Failover Scenarios
• Module 3: Managing ECS using the ECS Portal
  o Configuring VDCs, Storage Pools, and Replication Groups
  o Configuring Namespaces, Users, and Buckets
  o Lab 1: Configure ECS Storage Infrastructure
• Module 4: ECS Access from Object Clients
  o S3 API Client with ECS
  o Swift API Client with ECS
  o Centera CAS API with ECS
  o Hadoop Clients with ECS
  o ECS NFS File Access
  o Lab 2: Basic tests of I/O access from various data clients
• Module 5: Advanced Configuration
  o Access Control, Retention, and Quotas
  o Multi-tenancy Considerations
  o ECS D@RE
  o Lab 3: ECS customizations: ACLs, quotas, and retention
  o Lab 4: Multi-tenancy with Active Directory/LDAP Integration
• Module 6: ECS Monitoring and Metering
  o Monitoring Capabilities
  o SNMP Support
  o Syslog Support
  o Lab 5: ECS Metering and Monitoring
  

In addition to lecture and demonstrations, this course includes labs designed to allow practical experience for the participant.