This course shows how to configure, manage and use ECS. It provides detailed coverage of ECS features designed to support typical use cases, including global content repository, geo-scale object storage with Access Anywhere, and Big Data analytics.
COURSE OBJECTIVE:
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 the ECS architecture, core software constructs, data flows, and internal operation
• Use the ECS portal to configure the system for object storage, local replication, and geo replication
• Customize and use supported object clients and Hadoop clients to access ECS storage
• Perform metering, monitoring, and basic health checks in an ECS environment
TARGET AUDIENCE:
This course is intended for anyone who needs to manage, customize, monitor, or use an ECS system for data storage.
COURSE PREREQUISITES:
Familiarity with storage solutions in single and multi-site data center environments, including block, file, and object storage, and basic cloud concepts.
COURSE CONTENT:
The content of this course is designed to support the course objectives.
Module 1: Overview of the ECS solution
• Introduction to ECS
• Typical Hardware Configurations
• ECS Use Cases
Module 2: ECS Architecture
• Major ECS Abstractions
• Data Packaging and I/O Operations
• Failure Handling and Failover Scenarios
Module 3: Basic ECS Configuration: Using the Portal
• Creating Storage Pool, VDC, Replication Group, etc.
Module 4: ECS Access from Object Clients and Usage
• AWS S3 Clients
• OpenStack Swift
• Centera CAS
• Hadoop Clients: Non-secure and Secure Access
Module 5: Advanced ECS Configuration
• ACLs, Retention, and Quotas
• ECS integration with Active Directory/LDAP
• Multi-tenancy
Module 6: Metering and Monitoring
FOLLOW ON COURSES:
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