EMC VCE Vblock Systems Administration and Management

This course is intended for anyone charged with understanding and/or performing administrative and maintenance tasks using the Vblock system.

• Understand the main elements of Administration and Management
• Develop a working understanding of the Vblock system as it pertains to:

o Validation

o Monitoring

o Administration

o Management

o Security

• Perform resource isolation for simulated multi-tenant environments
• Explain the steps for configuring monitoring and alert setup including thresholding
• Build a Vblock System Run Book by walking through each of the component management interfaces.
• Inventory current Vblock system configuration
• Enact role based security
• Understand and explore VCE Vision

LAB 1. Capturing the Vblock System Configuration Baseline

• Establish a Vblock System Configuration Baseline
• UCS Manager GUI: Capture Compute Resource Configuration
• UCS Manager CLI: Capture Compute Resource Configuration
• EMC Unisphere for VNX: Capture VNX Storage Configuration Information
• Navisphere CLI: Capture VNX Storage Configuration using
• Solutions Enabler CLI: Capture VMAX Storage Configuration (Optional)
• NX-OS CLI for MDS Switch: Capture Storage Area Network (SAN) Configuration
• NX-OS CLI for Nexus 5548: Capture Network Configuration
• vSphere Web Client: Explore vCenter Configuration
• Collecting Support Information with VCE Vision and vSphere

LAB 2. VCE Vision: Administration

• VCE Vision Intelligent Operations Utilization
• Vision System Library Administration

LAB 3. VCE Vision Plug-in for vCenter

• Install VCE Vision Plug-in for vCenter

LAB 4. Additional UCS Configuration Options

• Modifying the time zone setting using UCS Manager
• Adding a network time protocol server using UCS Manager

LAB 5. Monitoring for Component Errors or Failures

• Vblock System Events
• Log Browser
• UCS Fault Detection
• Storage Alerts

LAB 6. Vblock System Assurance

• Running Compliance Scans
• Installing New Certification Matrixes
• Installing Optional components in a Compliance Scan
• Installing the latest VMware vSphere ESXi 5.1 patch

LAB 7. Proactive Monitoring

• Validating SNMP Setting within the UCS
• Validating SNMP on the MDS switches
• Validating SNMP on Nexus 5K Switches
• Validating SNMP on VNX
• Validating SNMP trap forwarding in EMC Unisphere
• Configure UCS Threshold Policies
• Syslog Management
• Using VCE Vision SNMP in Network Management Systems
• Testing System Library Configuration

LAB 8. Service Profile Templates and Service Profiles

• Modifying an Initial Service Profile Template
• Modifying the Service Profile by Bind to an Initial Service Profile Template
• Cloning a Service Profile to an Updating Service Profile Template
• Modifying an Updating Service Profile Template and the Bound Service Profile

LAB 9. UCS Manager: Expanding Address and ID Pools

• UUID Pool
• Expand MAC Address Pool
• Expand WWNN Address Pools
• Expand the WWPN Pool

LAB 10. Managing Boot Devices and Paths

• MDS NX-OS CLI: WWPN Verification
• UCS Manager: New Boot Policy (VNX)
• Unisphere for VNX: Connecting to VNX Storage - New Initiators
• Unisphere for VNX: Connecting to VNX Storage – Storage Groups
• Unisphere for VNX: Connecting to VNX Storage - Creating a boot LUN

LAB 11. UCS Manager: Create a Service Profile from Scratch

• Creating a New Service Profile
• Associate a new service profile
• Installing ESX-i
• Restore Original Service Profile

LAB 12. Deploying Virtual Machines

• Creating a New Datastore
• Provision an Additional LUN
• Create a New Data Store
• Creating a Virtual Machine
• Creating a New VM in vSphere Web Client
• Accessing the VM
• Capacity Management
• VMware Capacity Monitoring
• Monitoring Storage
• Monitor a Storage Pool
• Monitoring a RAID group
• Capacity Expansion
• Expand A Storage Pool
• Expand an Existing LUN
• Expand a Data Store
• Template Creation and Usage
• Creating a VM Template in vSphere Web Client
• Creating a VM from a Template
• Accessing the VM
• VLAN Creation
• Add a VLAN on UCS
• Adding a VLAN to the Cisco Nexus 5000
• Adding a VLAN to the Cisco Nexus 1000V
• Adding the VLAN to VMware Virtual Switch
• Changing the VLAN for the Application VMs

LAB 13. Creating NFS Stores

• Configuring advanced settings for VMware vSpere ESXi 5.1
• Configure File System and NFS Exports
• ESXi NFS Configuration
• VM Access to the NFS File System
• Finding the NFS VLAN
• Adding a New Interface To VNX
• Create new network in vSphere
• Create new NIC the Application VM
• Create The NFS Mount on the VM

LAB 14. Managing CIFS

• Creating a CIFS Server
• Create a Volume
• Creating a File System Pool
• Creating a CIFS file system
• Mount a File System on the CIFS Server in VNX
• Test the CIFS File System on your Management Workstation
• Mount CIFS on VM

LAB 15. Protecting Vblock System Metadata

• VCE Vision Configuration Backup
• VCE Vision Configuration Restoration
• VCE Vision Interface to Vblock System Configuration
• Backup of UCS Manager
• Backup of the Nexus 5k Switch
• Backup of the MDS Switch

LAB 16. Protecting Vblock System Production Data

• Protection in Unisphere

LAB 17. Securing the Vblock System

• Security
• vCenter Password Retention
• VCE Vision Appliance and Central Authorization
• Adjusting Syslog maximum log file size
• Securing a New VLANs with Roles
• Creating a QoS Policy on the Nexus 1000v

LAB 18. Trusted Multi-tenant in a Vblock System

• Trusted Multi-Tenancy
• Create Admin Account
• Create Sub-Organization
• Segregated Storage
• Create a Segregated Storage Pool on EMC VNX
• Segregate UCS Compute Environment
• Segregate vSphere Access

Prerequisite Knowledge To understand the content and successfully complete of this course, a participant must have a suitable knowledgebase/skill set in datacenter disciplines of storage, network and server virtualization.

Completion of the VCE Converged Infrastructure Solutions Foundations eLearning course is strongly recommended