Dell - PowerStore Implementation and Administration

This course provides instruction for the implementation and administration of PowerStore systems. It includes a PowerStore system portfolio and feature introduction along with practice opportunities to achieve a functional production storage state. Day-to-day PowerStore administrative tasks for block, file, and VMware storage resources and services are also provided as well as basic troubleshooting.

• Configure PowerStore systems to a functional production storage state
• Administer PowerStore storage resources and services
• Perform basic PowerStore system troubleshooting tasks

This course is intended for professionals who will be positioning, designing, deploying, managing and supporting a solution using PowerStore systems.

To understand the content and successfully complete this course, a student must have a suitable knowledge base/skill set. The student must have an understanding of:

• Hardware concepts and technologies used in customer environments, such as compute nodes, servers, network and basic storage system infrastructures
• Software technologies used in customer environments such as enduser applications, databases, operating systems, etc.
• Ethernet and TCP/IP networking (e.g. switch management, VLANs, IP addressing and routing)
• Basic Microsoft Windows user, file and domain administration
• Basic Unix/Linux user and file management
• Fiber Channel Storage Area Networks (e.g. zoning, WWNs, LUNs, masking)
• Basic backup and recovery terms and techniques