Overview
The EMC Avamar Administration course provides participants with the knowledge and basic skills necessary to administer, monitor and troubleshoot EMC Avamar. . Recommended Avamar best practices are presented throughout the course. The course contains lectures, review questions and hands-on labs.
Pre-Requisites
Courses
EMC Avamar Overview - Self Study
Skills
To understand the content and successfully complete this course, a student must have a suitable knowledgebase/skill set. The student must have an understanding of:
• Backup and recovery concepts and principles.
• Network administration in a TCP/IP environment
• Unix/Linux system administration
A list of specific prerequisite courses can be found in the EMC Education Services Learning Management System.
Content
These modules are designed to support the course objectives. The following modules are included in this course:
• Avamar Fundamentals
• Avamar Administration
• Avamar Backups
• Performing Recoveries
• Using Enterprise Manager and Replication
• System Monitoring and Maintenance
• Logs, Troubleshooting and Reporting
Labs:
Labs reinforce the information you have been taught. The labs for this course include:
• Lab Exercise 2-1: Install and Launch Avamar Administrator
• Lab Exercise 2-2: Perform Avamar Account Management Tasks
• Lab Exercise 2-3: Installing Avamar Client Software
• Lab Exercise 3-1: Create Avamar Groups
• Lab Exercise 3-2: On-demand Snapups
• Lab Exercise 3-3: Managing Backups
• Lab Exercise 4-1: Running Restores
• Lab Exercise 5-1: Using Avamar Enterprise Manager
• Lab Exercise 5-2: Avamar Replication
• Lab Exercise 6-1: Performing Daily System Monitoring Tasks
• Lab Exercise 6-2: Using dpnctl
• Lab Exercise 6-3: Daily Maintenance Activities
• Lab Exercise 7-1: Exploring Avamar Processes and Logs
• Lab Exercise 7-2: Running Standard and Custom Reports
Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, participants should be able to:
Describe the Avamar advantage over traditional backup systems
Define Avamar terminology
Describe Avamar system components and processes
Describe the Avamar de-duplication backup process
Install Avamar Administrator and Client software
Create a group policy
Run on-demand backups from the Avamar Administrator and the Avamar Client interfaces
Restore files using Avamar Administrator and Avamar Web Restore interfaces
Describe the types of Avamar replication and configure Avamar standard replication
Describe Avamar server daily maintenance activities: checkpoints, HFS checks, and garbage collection
Use Avamar tools to perform system monitoring, maintenance and troubleshooting
Target Audience
This course is intended for system administrators, systems engineers, partners and support specialists who administer and support EMC Avamar.
Certification
Assessments validate that you have learned the knowledge or skills presented during a learning experience. This course includes review questions at the end of each module.
