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