ECS Management and Monitoring

• Provide an overview of the ECS solution, its components, and typical deployment configurations
• Explain ECS architecture, core software constructs, data flows, and internal operation
• Use the ECS Portal to configure and manage an ECS solution
• Demonstrate how ECS works as object storage with local replication and geo replication
• Perform metering, monitoring, basic health checks, and basic troubleshooting in an ECS environment
• Customize and use supported data clients to access ECS storage

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

Module 1: Overview of the ECS Solution

• ECS Introduction
• Typical ECS Configurations
• Lab 0: Connecting to your class lab environment

Module 2: ECS Architecture

• Core ECS Abstractions
• Data Packaging and Local Protection
• Failure Handling and Failover Scenarios
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Module 3: Managing ECS using the ECS Portal

• Configuring VDCs, Storage Pools, and Replication Groups
• Configuring Namespaces, Users, and Buckets
• Lab 1: Configure ECS Storage Infrastructure
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Module 4: ECS Access from Object Clients

• S3 API Client with ECS
• Swift API Client with ECS
• Centera CAS API with ECS
• Hadoop Clients with ECS
• ECS NFS File Access
• Lab 2: Basic tests of I/O access from various data clients
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Module 5: Advanced Configuration

• Access Control, Retention, and Quotas
• Multi-tenancy Considerations
• ECS D@RE
• Lab 3: ECS customizations: ACLs, quotas, and retention
• Lab 4: Multi-tenancy with Active Directory/LDAP Integration
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Module 6: ECS Monitoring and Metering

• Lab 5: ECS Metering and Monitoring