Optimizing Storage Services for Applications with XtremIO

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Course Overview

This course goes beyond simple administration and provides an in-depth understanding of how to leverage and optimize XtremIO features and capabilities in specific application areas. The course begins with providing hands-on coverage of operational aspects of the XtremIO environment and then leads to XtremIO features and performance optimization. Lastly it focuses on considerations and best practices for system integration with specific application use cases and the industry’s leading data protection solutions such as RecoverPoint VPLEX and AppSync.

At the end of the training, participants will be able to:

  1. Describe proper configuration and integration of XtremIO systems for end to end communication and all points in between
  2. Obtain maximum availability from a solution by properly configuring replication and proactive monitoring through alerts
  3. Analyze workloads and optimize for maximum performance thresholds
  4. Create custom reports to determine patterns and confirm with SLA guidelines
  5. Describe data protection capabilities of XtremIO using RecoverPoint, VPLEX, and AppSync
  6. Describe integration best practices for VDI and Oracle environments

Pre-requisite

  1. XtremIO foundational knowledge
  2. Connectivity protocols: IP, FC, iSCSI
  3. Basic understanding of Windows, UNIX, and other operating systems
  4. Virtualized data center concepts
  5. FC and iSCSI SANs
  6. Storage network troubleshooting and performance concepts
  7. Specific application architecture and functionalities \: Oracle and VDI
  8. Data protection and business continuity fundamentals

Duration

3 days

Course Outline

  1. Components, models, and resources
  2. XtremIO Management Server
  1. Accessing XtremIO storage management applications (GUI, CLI)
  2. Management through REST APIs and Plug-ins
  1. Storage presentation and volume management
  2. Host configuration : Windows, Linux, ESXi, Solaris, AIX, and HPUX
  3. Connectivity zoning best practices
  1. Snapshot features, capabilities, and operations
  1. Encryption, Compression, and Deduplication
  2. XDP (XtremIO Data Protection)
  3. Integration with ViPR, ViPR SRM, EMC Connectrix Manager Converged Network Edition (CMCNE)
  4. Integration with Cisco Data Center Network Manager (DCNM)
  5. Integration with VMware : VAAI, VSI, Operations Manager
  6. Microsoft : ODX, ESI, and VSS Plug-in
  1. Performance overview
  2. XtremIO reports and host tools
  3. Common performance issues
  1. RecoverPoint Integration
  2. Configuring XtremIO with RecoverPoint
  3. RecoverPoint Recovery Operations
  4. Integration with VPLEX
  1. Integration with Oracle environments
  2. Integration with VDI environments
  1. Managing alerts and power procedures
  2. Generating log files and IP modifications

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