Course Description
This course introduces participants to the methodology for analyzing the performance of the PowerMax & VMAX All Flash family of storage arrays. Unisphere for PowerMax is used to analyze the performance of PowerMax & VMAX All Flash arrays. Metrics that are relevant for the analysis of each of the components in the collections are presented. Participants learn to find bottlenecks in performance & provide recommendations to remedy the problem. Hands-on lab exercises using performance archives reinforce the concepts & methodology presented in the lecture.
Prerequisites
Participants should understand PowerMax & VMAX All Flash array architecture, configuration, & components. Familiarity with features such as Service Level-based provisioning, SRDF, & TimeFinder SnapVX is expected. Basic knowledge of Unisphere for PowerMax for management & monitoring of arrays is required.
Audience Profile
This course is intended for Dell Technologies Personnel, Partners, & Customers to assist in troubleshooting & to manage the performance of PowerMax & VMAX All Flash arrays.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, participants should be able to:
- Find best practices for optimal performance of PowerMax & VMAX All Flash arrays
- Monitor & analyze the performance of arrays using Unisphere for PowerMax
- Illustrate the correlation between workloads & Service Levels, & how they affect performance
- Devise a strategy to analyze key metrics to investigate performance issues & provide remediation recommendations
- Apply analysis information to future planning
Content Outline
- Architecture & configurations
- Features
- Best practices
- Methodology
- Measurements
- Workload profiles & characterization
- Administrative Tasks
- Monitoring performance
- Performance reports
- Offline Performance Viewer
- Front-End metrics & analysis strategy
- Storage Group planning
- Overview of cache
- I/O flow
- Cache performance analysis strategy
- Back-end overview
- Back-end metrics & analysis strategy
- Data Reduction
- SRDF considerations & performance analysis
- TimeFinder SnapVX considerations
- Certification
Certification
DCE: PowerMax & VMAX All Flash Solutions
FAQs
A: This course introduces participants to the methodology for analyzing the performance of the PowerMax & VMAX All Flash family of storage arrays. Unisphere for PowerMax is used to analyze the performance of PowerMax & VMAX All Flash arrays.
A: To attend the training session, you should have operational Desktops or Laptops with the required specification and a good internet connection to access the labs.
A: We recommend you attend the live session to practice & clarify the doubts instantly & get more value from your investment. However, if, due to some contingency, you have to skip the class, Radiant Techlearning will help you with the recorded session of that particular day. However, those recorded sessions are not meant only for personal consumption & NOT for distribution or commercial use.
A: Radiant Techlearning has a data center containing a Virtual Training environment for participants’ hand-on-practice.
Participants can easily access these labs over Cloud with the assistance of a remote desktop connection.
Radiant virtual labs allow you to learn from anywhere in the world & in any time zone
A: The learners will be enthralled as we engage them the real-world & industry Oriented projects during the training program. These projects will improve your skills & knowledge & you will gain a better experience. These real-time projects will help you a lot in your future tasks & assignments.