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ECS for Geo-Scale Object Storage

  • Course Code ECSGSOS
  • Duration 3 days

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£2,093.00

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Course Overview

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This course shows how to configure, manage and use ECS. It provides detailed coverage of ECS features designed to support typical use cases, including global content repository, geo-scale object storage with Access Anywhere, and Big Data analytics.

Course Schedule

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Target Audience

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This course is intended for anyone who needs to manage, customize, monitor, or use an ECS system for data storage.

Course Objectives

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

  • Provide an overview of the ECS solution, its components and typical deployment configurations
  • Explain the ECS architecture, core software constructs, data flows, and internal operation
  • Use the ECS portal to configure the system for object storage, local replication, and geo replication
  • Customize and use supported object clients and Hadoop clients to access ECS storage
  • Perform metering, monitoring, and basic health checks in an ECS environment

Course Content

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

Module 1: Overview of the ECS solution

  • Introduction to ECS
  • Typical Hardware Configurations
  • ECS Use Cases

Module 2: ECS Architecture

  • Major ECS Abstractions
  • Data Packaging and I/O Operations
  • Failure Handling and Failover Scenarios

Module 3: Basic ECS Configuration: Using the Portal

  • Creating Storage Pool, VDC, Replication Group, etc.

Module 4: ECS Access from Object Clients and Usage

  • AWS S3 Clients
  • OpenStack Swift
  • Centera CAS
  • Hadoop Clients: Non-secure and Secure Access

Module 5: Advanced ECS Configuration

  • ACLs, Retention, and Quotas
  • ECS integration with Active Directory/LDAP
  • Multi-tenancy

Module 6: Metering and Monitoring

Course Prerequisites

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Familiarity with storage solutions in single and multi-site data center environments, including block, file, and object storage, and basic cloud concepts.
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