Installing and Configuring StorageGRID Webscale (INCOSGWS) – Outline

Detailed Course Outline

Module 1: StorageGRID Webscale Architecture

  • Overview of object storage
  • RESTful API support in the StorageGRID Webscale system
  • StorageGRID Webscale overview
  • Architecture

Module 2: Overview of StorageGRID Webscale Nodes and Services

  • Nodes
  • Node services
  • System object processing
  • Data management

Module 3: StorageGRID Webscale Installation, Expansion and Upgrade

  • Deployment overview
  • Phase 1
    • VMware deployments
    • Software-only or bare-metal hypervisors
    • review
  • phase 2
    • grid management installation overview
    • initial verification
  • StorageGRID Webscale expansion
  • Upgrade

Module 4: StorageGRID Webscale Configuration Options

  • Configuration
  • Requirements
  • Grid options
  • Storage options
  • Display options
  • Access control

Module 5: Multitenancy

  • Overview
  • Tenant management interface
  • Workflow

Module 6: StorageGRID Webscale Features

  • Storage pools, grades and regions
  • Regional replication and erasure coding
  • Information lifecycle management policies
  • Metadata management

Module 7: API Management

  • API management
  • Amazon S3 API
  • OpenStack Swift API

Module 8: Amazon Simple Storage Service Access Policy and Secure Sockets Layer Configuration

  • API implementation
  • Simple storage service group policies
  • Bucket access policies
  • SSL certificate configuration
  • Configure for virtual-host-style access

Module 9: Monitoring, Maintaining and Troubleshooting StorageGRID Webscale

  • Monitoring
  • Email notification, AutoSupport and custom alarms
  • Maintenance
  • Troubleshooting

Appendix A: StorageGRID Webscale NAS Bridge

  • NAS Bridge
  • Configuration workflow
  • Managing file systems
  • NAS bridge reports

Appendix B: Integration with AltaVault, ONTAP and SolidFire

  • AltaVault cloud backup and archive
  • ONTAP integration and FabricPool
  • Use cases
  • How does FabricPool work
  • Data retrieval
  • Backup policy
  • Requirements
  • Best practices
  • SolidFire backup to StorageGRID Webscale
  • Demonstration

Appendix C: Performance

  • Factors
  • Performance data
  • Guidelines

Labs:

  • Deploying a StorageGRID Webscale installation, expansion and upgrade
  • Expanding the grid by adding data centers
  • Checking the system’s condition before upgrading software
  • Performing the upgrade
  • Updating data centers link costs
  • Reviewing StorageGRID Webscale tenant management documentation
  • Lightweight directory access protocol integration and tenant configuration
  • Configuring storage pools to determine where object data is stored
  • Creating erasure coding profile
  • Managing objects by configuring information lifecycle management (ILM) rules and policies
  • Using the metadata lookup tool to validate the ILM rules are applied correctly to an object