Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems Essentials

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Exam Topics:

Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems Overview

• Explain core systems features (e.g., Fishworks, Hybrid Storage Pools)
• Explain advanced features (e.g., price/*, Analytics, Compression)
• Describe the systems architecture (e.g., Clustering, Hybrid Storage Pools)
• Describe supported data services and client protocols
• Understand differences between storage profiles
• Understand clustering concepts and architecture

Installation

• Perform system installation
• List default usernames and passwords
• Define user access and roles
• Perform software and firmware updates

User Interface and Systems Status

• Access and navigate the Browser User Interface (BUI)
• Write Command Line Interface (CLI) scripts
• Monitor overall appliance status
• Customize status summary
• Configure alerts

Configuration

• Configure network connectivity
• Configure and manage RAIDZ
• Configure block storage via FC, iSCSI, or SRP (configuring a SAN)
• Configure directory services

Clustering

• Setup a cluster
• Perform a rolling software upgrade
• Size a system for clustering (Failover/Failback)

Shares/Pools

• Configure storage pool
• Create and manage pools/shares
• Configure share properties
• Understand advantages/disadvantages of SSDs

Active Directory/LDAP Integration

• Understand prerequisites for Active Directory/LDAP implementation
• Connect a 7000 system to an AD domain/LDAP/NIS
• Set permissions with local and AD/LDAP users
• Setup DFS targets
• Publish shares in AD

Data services

• Administer snapshots/cloning
• Configure and manage data replication
• Evaluate compression ratios and performance for data optimization
• Evaluate performance impact of deduplication for data optimization
• Configure and manage thin-provisioning
• Monitor Transaction activity by name or per Server for commits and rollbacks

Analytics

• Generate systems statistics
• Create custom worksheets
• Perform drill-down analysis
• Archive statistics

Performance Sizing

• Understand the impact of workloads on performance and throughput
• Size the system to meet performance and throughput goals (capacity planning)
• Identify and diagnose performance issues

Application Sizing

• Define systems parameters for disk backup
• Define systems parameters for Oracle databases
• Define systems parameters for file sharing
• Define systems parameters for virtualization
• Define systems parameters for Microsoft infrastructures
• Define systems parameters for consolidation/bulk storage