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- Acopia ARX 101 - Introduction to Adaptive Resource Switching
Acopia® ARX® 101 - Introduction to Adaptive Resource Switching
This four-day course is designed to help students learn about the architecture of the Acopia ARX Family, along with configuration, administration, and basic troubleshooting. Students will also learn how to pre-qualify storage to be virtualized and how to design namespaces for CIFS, NFS, and multi-protocol environments, as well as configuration for file, age, and load balancing policies. This hands-on course includes lectures, labs, and discussions.
Course Description
Topics covered in this class include:
- Overview of the Acopia Solution
- Architecture: Acopia ARX family
- Network: Services
- Namespace Concepts
- Namespace Configuration
- Automation: File Policing
- Automation: Online Storage Removal
- Automation: Data Lifecycle Management
- Automation: Capacity Balancing
- Resiliency: Redundancy and Clustering
Audience
Anyone who virtualizes storage and who is responsible for installing ARX on the network.
Prerequisites
- An understanding of NFS and CIFS protocols at a high level
- A basic understanding of server administration (RedHat/Windows/Network Appliance)
- A familiarity with Microsoft Management Console
- The ability to mount NFS reports and CIFS shares on a client
Student Note:
Students must provide their own laptops. If your laptop is running Linux/Solaris, it should have a CIFS client (for example, Samba). Recommended software for Labs: SSH Client (Optional).