StorageGRID Administration

Administrator, engineer, architect, operator

This course focuses on enabling you to do the following:

• Use the StorageGRID Grid Manager to monitor and manage a StorageGRID object-based storage solution
• Create and manage storage tenant accounts, groups, and users
• Configure information lifecycle management (ILM) rules and policies
• Configure the StorageGRID API Gateway Nodes for client access
• Manage Simple Storage Service (S3) buckets and objects
• Monitor StorageGRID system activity
• Perform grid maintenance tasks
• Integrate a StorageGRID system

Module 0: Introduction

• Course agenda

Module 1: StorageGRID components and services

Lessons for MOdule 1:

• StorageGRID components
• StorageGRID deployment options
• StorageGRID networks
• StorageGRID network topologies

Exercises for MOdule 1:

• Checking the exercise equipment

Module 2: StorageGRID management

Lessons for MOdule 2:

• StorageGRID Grid Manager
• StorageGRID configuration options
• StorageGRID administrators
• Securing access to StorageGRID
• StorageGRID Management API

Exercises for MOdule 2:

• Exploring StorageGRID Grid Manager
• Creating and managing StorageGRID administrator accounts
• Using the API to manage the StorageGRID system

Module 3: Storage tenant administration

Lessons for MOdule 3:

• Tenant accounts
• Tenant Manager
• Tenant access control
• StorageGRID Tenant API

Exercises for MOdule 3:

• Managing tenant accounts
• Using S3 tenant accounts

Module 4: Information lifecycle management

Lessons for MOdule 4:

• ILM policies and rules
• Policy tags
• Storage pools, storage grades, and regions
• Configuring ILM policies

Exercises for MOdule 4:

• Configuring basic ILM
• Tiering object storage
• Controlling placement based on object metadata

Module 5: Managing client connections

Lessons for MOdule 5:

• VLAN interfaces
• High-availability groups
• Load balancer endpoints
• Traffic classification

Exercises for MOdule 5:

• Configuring Gateway Nodes

Module 6: S3 bucket administration

Lessons for MOdule 6:

• Bucket access control
• Branch buckets
• S3 bucket configuration options
• S3 API stored object settings
• Platform services
• Virtual hosted-style identifiers

Exercises for MOdule 6:

• Managing access to S3 buckets

Module 7: Monitoring the StorageGRID system

Lessons for MOdule 7:

• Alerts
• Audit logs
• SNMP
• Node services
• Reporting

Exercises for MOdule 7:

• Managing alerts
• Viewing StorageGRID reports
• Managing audit logs

Module 8: StorageGRID maintenance

Lessons for MOdule 8:

• StorageGRID AutoSupport
• Managing StorageGRID services
• Maintenance procedures
• StorageGRID software upgrades

Exercises for MOdule 8:

• Performing grid maintenance tasks

Module 9: Integrating a StorageGRID system

Lessons for MOdule 9:

• ONTAP FabricPool
• ONTAP backup to the cloud
• NetApp Backup and Recovery
• NetApp Copy and Sync

Exercises for MOdule 9:

• Configuring Cloud Storage Pools

• StorageGRID Fundamentals

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