VBlock 2 Initialization, Deployment, and Management (MR-1CN-VBOPS2)

This course is intended for EMC personnel, partners, and customers responsible for the installation and initial configuration of a Vblock 2 environment.

To understand the content and successfully complete this course, the student must have a suitable knowledgebase/skill set. The student must have an understanding of:

• EMC Symmetrix Storage
• VMware Installation and Configuration
• Basic Understanding of a Vblock environment
• Basic Understanding of the Symmetrix Configuration Manager (SMC)

This list of specific prerequisite courses can also be found in EMC Education Services Learning Management System

Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Identify the components that comprise a Vblock 2 infrastructure
• Discuss the initialization tasks and identify the necessary environmental configuration data prerequisites for Vblock initialization
• Discuss the SAN interconnect configuration with Fibre Channel for Vblock 2 initialization
• Describe the basic storage requirements and management interfaces for the Vblock 2 initialization
• Create and deploy
  • Simple Cisco UCS server profiles
  • RBAC user profile
  • Symmetrix boot LUNs for Vblock initialization using SMC
  • VMware ESX to Cisco UCS blades in a Fibre Channel boot configuration
• Perform simple management and monitoring functions for Vblock 2 using:
  • Symmetrix Configuration Manager (SMC)
  • vCenter
  • UCSM (Cisco UCS Manager)
  • EMC UIMv1

This course will provide a comprehensive hands-on experience for the Initialization, Deployment and Management of the Vblock 2 infrastructure. Vblock Architecture, fundamental initialization, deployment and management tasks, along with the pertinent details will be covered. Lab exercises will guide the participants through all the initial steps involved in performing the necessary tasks to bring a new Vblock 2 solution into production.