Course Highlights: - Develop your architecting storage expertise by keeping up with the latest in performance concepts, tools and design principles
- Understand and apply Hitachi Command Suite analytics, and use Hitachi Tuning Manager to view performance metrics
- Diagnose and troubleshoot performance issues and practical solutions from best-in-class case studies
- Identify metrics for storage configuration, sizing and performance
Course Description: This 5 day course covers performance concepts and tools, design principles, storage-related equipment and applications, I/O concepts, storage configurations, assessment and planning, and design of storage solutions.
This course includes case studies that will allow learners to diagnose performance issues and provide viable solutions.
Course Objectives:Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:
- Describe performance design principles
- Describe workload profiling
- Identify metrics to be collected prior to configuring and sizing the storage system for performance
- Describe best practices when configuring and sizing storage systems for industry-standard applications
- Demonstrate how to configure and size Hitachi storage for performance
- Describe tiered storage virtualization techniques using Hitachi storage systems
- Use Hitachi optimization and virtualization tools
- Use Hitachi monitoring and reporting tools to proactively monitor performance
- Demonstrate ability to troubleshoot performance-related problems
Course Outline:Content Modules
- Basics Review
- Enterprise Storage Architecture
- Modular Storage Architecture
- Performance Tools and Data Sources
- Hitachi Command Suite Analytics
- Hitachi Tuning Manager v8.x Overview
- Reports
- Agent-Level Alarm Management
- Assessing Performance Metrics
- Tiers, Resource Pools and Workload Profiles
- Deployment Planning – Part 1
- Deployment Planning – Part 2
- Storage Virtualization
- Capacity Virtualization
- Monitoring and Troubleshooting
Learning Activities — Labs
- Setting up the Environment
- Understanding Performance Metrics
- Using Workload Generators
- Basic Navigation
- Performance Reporter Reports
- Bookmarks
- Alarms
- Analytics
- Problem Determination