About this course
Course Overview
The course is designed for an experienced Isilon cluster administrator who requires advanced details around cluster operations. This course provides the expertise necessary for an Administrator to: consider and plan for future growth, understand and implement best practices, identify performance metrics and workload differences, and strengthen their ability to diagnose and support critical cluster situations.Target Audience
This course is intended for all audiences.Course Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, participants should be able to:
- Perform cluster administration tasks using Isilon tools and features
- Manage the Isilon system, users, and network Monitor the system for health and performance
- Optimize and troubleshoot identified issues in the cluster
Course Content
The content of this course is designed to support the course objectives.
- Course Introduction
▬ Introduction
▬ OneFS Review - Administrator’s Tasks
▬ Explore advanced tasks
▬ Performance basics in complex environments - Monitoring & Events
▬ Configure system alerts and event groups
▬ Perform a cluster health-check
▬ Troubleshooting Isilon clusters
▬ Gather and read log files
▬ Troubleshoot Events - Monitoring, Capacity Issues & Job Priorities
▬ Access performance and file system analytic reports using InsightIQ
▬ Calculate system capacity for management purposes
▬ Comprehend, schedule and manage system jobs Job Engine management - User Managements
▬ Identify authentication providers
▬ Access zones and protocols
▬ Manage multi-protocol permissions - Networking
▬ Managing SmartConnect
▬ Network latency and performance issues
▬ Identify and resolve networking and SmartConnect issues - Performance Tuning
▬ Perform a performance analysis
▬ Establish a performance baseline
▬ Identify workflows for small file efficiency
In addition to lecture and demonstrations, this course includes labs designed to allow practical experience for the participant.
Course Prerequisites
To understand the content and successfully complete this course, a student must have a suitable working knowledge of the following:
- Isilon scale-out storage platform
- Isilon hardware troubleshooting and maintenance procedures
- Basic networking components including Ethernet, switches, and network aggregation
- Network protocols including TCP/IP, DNS, SMB, and NFS
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