PowerFlex Administration

This course will guide you through managing a PowerFlex system, completing implementation and continuing management through to maintaining operations. It explains how to deploy production cluster components using configuration text files and templates/resource groups. It covers the management of PowerFlex components such as MDM, SDS, SDC, volumes and file systems. Other management activities such as user configuration and alerting are also covered. Exercises, demonstrations and simulations round off the learning experience.

• PowerFlex Introduction
• Model Breakdown & Positioning
• Software Architecture
• Management Interfaces Overview
• Outline the Deployment Processes
• Post-Installations Tasks and "Getting Started" Wizard
• Production Cluster Deployment (CSV)
• PowerFlex Cluster Upgrades
• PowerFlex Templates & Resource Groups
• Protection Domain Configuration
• Fault Set Configuration
• Storage Pools Configuration
• Create, Modify, and Delete Volumes
• NAS Server Creation
• Export/Share Filesystems and Configure Quotas
• Enter and Exit Maintenance Modes
• Perform Node Expansion
• Manage Users and Passwords in a PowerFlex Cluster
• Protect Volumes using SnapShots
• Replicate Volumes Between Clusters
• Configure Storage Data Servers
• Reconfiguring MDMs
• NVMe/TCP Configurations
• CloudLink in a PowerFlex Cluster
• PowerFlex Alerting Configuration
• PowerFlex in the Cloud (Apex)

Each participant will receive the original documentation from Dell Technologies.

This course is aimed at those involved in the deployment, configuration, administration and management of a PowerFlex solution.

To understand the content and successfully complete this course, you must have a suitable knowledge base/skills.

• Storage network infrastructures and concepts
• Monitoring and reporting concepts
• Concepts for virtualized data centres
• PowerFlex product concepts

To book a Dell technology course, you need an account with Dell in advance. You can set up this account at https://education.dell.com in the Sign in area (top right). Please note that you must sign in with your personal email address of your company.

After successfully completing this course, you should be able to:

• Recommend the correct PowerFlex model based on the given circumstances.
• Understand the key software components and how they interact.
• Successfully complete the post-installation tasks.
• Successfully complete a PowerFlex upgrade.
• Use a PowerFlex template to customize the production deployment of a node and deploy the node from a resource group.</li
• Successfully configure the features of the PowerFlex system, e.g:
  • Protection domain
  • Error records
  • Storage pools
  • Volumes
  • NAS servers, NFS file systems and their quotas
  • Maintenance mode
  • Snapshots
  • Replication
• Execute the steps required to connect a new node to the existing PowerFlex cluster
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• Successfully add, configure and remove users and passwords for various components in a PowerFlex system.</li
• Successfully add, configure and remove block storage on a PowerFlex system.</li
• Successfully add, configure, and remove storage data servers on a PowerFlex system.</li
• Successfully reconfigure MDMs on a PowerFlex system.
• Successfully configured both a host and the PowerFlex cluster to use NVMe/TCP.
• Successfully add and configure CloudLink on a PowerFlex system.</li
• Successfully set up alert options in a PowerFlex cluster.
• Explain what options PowerFlex offers in an Apex environment.