VMAX All Flash and VMAX3 Configuration Management

Course Overview

This Specialist level course provides participants with an in-depth understanding of configuration tasks on the VMAX All Flash and VMAX3 Family of arrays. Key features and functions of the VMAX All Flash and VMAX3 arrays are covered in detail. Topics include storage provisioning concepts, virtual provisioning, automated tiering (FAST), device and port management, service level based storage provisioning and eNAS.  Participants will use Unisphere for VMAX and Solutions Enabler (SYMCLI) to manage configuration changes. The lab exercises will be performed on Open Systems hosts (traditional and virtualized) attached to VMAX3 arrays.

Target Audience

This course is intended for EMC personnel, customers, and partners who will be managing VMAX All Flash and VMAX3 arrays.

Course Objectives

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

• Provide an overview of configuration and storage provisioning
• Describe virtual provisioning concepts and automated tiering
• Create thin devices
• Manage ports and port characteristics
• Perform service level objective based provisioning to hosts
• Set/change  Host I/O Limits, SLO, and Workload Type
• Monitor Storage Resource Pools and SLO Compliance
• Use Unisphere for VMAX for Workload Planning
• Provide an overview of the eNAS solution
• Manage eNAS
• Provide an overview of storage management in a virtualized environment

Course Content

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

Module – Configuration Management Overview

• Lesson – Overview
• Lesson – Storage Provisioning Overview
• Lab – Explore VMAX3 Environment with Unisphere for VMAX and SYMCLI

Module – Virtual Provisioning and FAST Concepts

• Lesson – Virtual Provisioning and FAST Overview
• Lesson – FAST Algorithms and Parameters

Module – Device and Port Management

• Lesson – Device  Management
• Lesson – Port Management
• Lesson – iSCSI Management
• Lab – Port Management with Unisphere and SYMCLI

Module – Storage Allocation using Auto-provisioning Groups

• Lesson – Auto-provisioning Groups Overview
• Lesson – Host Considerations – Storage Allocation
• Lesson – Service Level Objective Based Provisioning with Unisphere
• Lab - Service Level Objective Based Provisioning with Unisphere
• Lesson – Service Level Objective Based Provisioning with SYMCLI
• Lab – Service Level Objective Based Provisioning with SYMCLI
• Lab – Cascaded Storage Groups – Moving devices Non-disruptively and Changing SLO
• Lab – Managing Host I/O Limits

Module – Monitoring and Workload Planning with Unisphere for VMAX

• Lesson – Monitor SRP
• Lesson – Monitor SLO Compliance
• Lesson – Workload Planning
• Lab – Monitoring SRP and SLO Compliance with Unisphere
• Lab – Workload Planning with  Unisphere

Module – eNAS Overview

Module – eNAS Management

• Lesson –  Unisphere for VMAX File Dashboard
• Lab – Allocate Storage to eNAS with Unisphere for VMAX File Dashboard
• Lesson –  Managing File Systems/Shares
• Lab – Create FS/Share on VMAX3 Storage with Unisphere for VNX

Module – Management in a Virtualized Environment

• Lesson – Virtual Server Management – Unisphere for VMAX
• Lesson – EMC VSI for VMware vSphere Web Client

This course includes labs designed to allow practical experience.

Course Prerequisites

 

• VMAX3 Fundamentals
• VMAX All Flash Fundamentals
• VMware vSphere