This course is designed to provide the student with the knowledge and skills necessary to install, configure, maintain, diagnose, and repair data failures associated with the SGI's Network Attached Storage System (NAS) product offerings.

NAS provides a universal data access point by connecting a high-performance storage system to an Ethernet network using NFS, CIFS, or FTP protocols to serve clients (UNIX, Windows, and Apple) in a heterogeneous environment. Network Load Balancing (NLB) software maximizes performance across multiple Ethernet connections on the Data Manager(s). NAS Data Managers (Origin/Altix350 servers) can be set-up in a FailSafe configuration to maintain high reliability and availability. NAS scalability is achieved by adding additional disks to an existing storage system or by connecting additional storage systems together through a storage area network (SAN).

At course completion, the student will be able to install, configure, and maintain SGI supported NAS configurations by using the NAS Manager, storage (TPSSM) and FailSafe graphical user interfaces (GUI).

Topics Covered

• Review of NAS hardware component functions
• Cabling supported NAS configurations
• Installing and licensing applicable NAS and support software
• Configuring the storage system with NAS Manager GUI
• Configuring NLB
• Configure NAS in a FailSafe cluster
• Monitor the system with NAS Manager GUI
• Understand NAS and HSM concepts

Objectives

Upon completion of this course, the student should be able to:

• Describe supported NAS configurations
• Configure hardware components
• Installing NAS software components
• Explain and configure NLB concepts
• Configure storage system configuration
• Monitoring the system using GUI tools
• Test the system
• Interpreting log entries
• Configure NAS with SAN
• Configure a NAS Cluster with FailSafe (IRIX only)
• Describe NAS configurations with DMF

Prerequisites

• Student must be an SGI employee or SGI-approved service provider
• Non-GCS service personnel must possess a maintenance agreement
• Familiarity with XVM Volume Managers
• Familiarity with IRIX and Linux Operating Systems
• SGI Origin or Altix 350 server hardware and administration experience
• SGI TP9x00 series storage system experience
• SGI Storage Area Network (SAN) experience
• SGI CXFS or FailSafe experience recommended but not required
• SGI Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) Data Migration facility (DMF) experience recommended but not required.

Format

Instructor led (Lecture/Lab)

Course Schedule

• Class Hours
  Course hours vary depending on the training center you select. The course dates and times will be included in the confirmation notice you receive from SGI after you register. Typically, classes start at 9:00 a.m.