Course Information

Gain practical experience and learn the best practices for managing services effectively

IMPORTANT: This course is best suited for those new to Hitachi Ops Center Administrator and who have not completed Managing Hitachi Ops Center Administrator – TSI2929.

This intermediate course provides information about administration and provisioning tasks using Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) 360 Fleet Management section. These tasks include storage setup and configuration (onboarding and discovering storage).

The course introduces essential tools and features that Storage Administrators need to effectively manage daily operations, features like Server Group and provisioning workflow for creating and protecting volumes. Describing the storage fundamentals, such as creating parity groups, pools will still be available in the course contents.

The course also explains how to manage and monitor storage from Hitachi VSP 360 Dashboard.

Additionally, hands-on lab activities enable you to gain practical experience and knowledge about administering and provisioning using Hitachi VSP 360 Fleet Management.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

• Architect
• Field Engineer
• Storage Administrator

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

• Basic knowledge of management software
• Basic understanding of block storage

LEARNING PATH

• Storage and SAN Administrator with Data Protection/Rep VSP360

DIGITAL BADGE

At the successful completion of this course, you will receive the Managing Storage with Hitachi VSP 360 digital badge.

CERTIFICATION

If you are interested in pursuing a certification or qualification, this course prepares you for the following Hitachi Vantara Qualified Professional qualification test:

• Hitachi Vantara Qualified Professional – VSP 360 Storage Administration (HQT-6742)

Depending on the location and course delivery format, this closed-book, proctored qualification test may be offered and administered by the instructor at the conclusion of this course, using the Kryterion Webassessor system. It is also available online (online proctored) and at Kryterion testing centers (onsite proctored).

Objectives

 ▪ Describe the Unified management platform Hitachi VSP 360
▪ Use Hitachi VSP 360 Dashboard to add storage systems
▪ Describe host operations, including attaching volumes, running workflow, and settings
storage system ports attributes
▪ Provide a brief overview of Hitachi storage systems
▪ Describe Hitachi VSP 360 installation and upgrades
▪ Explain how to create parity groups, pools, and volumes
▪ Use Hitachi VSP 360 Fleet Management for cloning and snapshot to protect a volume.
▪ Describe multipathing concepts, such as the Asymmetric Logical Unit Access (ALUA)
feature and Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager (HDLM) software
▪ Describe the Virtual Storage Machine (VSM) concept and its applications
▪ Describe Adaptive Data Reduction (ADR) and list its benefits
▪ Monitor capacity utilization and hardware resources

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