VMware vSphere Integration with Symmetrix (MR-1CP-VMVSSYMINT)

Managing or supporting various Symmetrix storage, array management, and business continuance configurations with ESX Server hosts.

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

• VMware ESX Server installation and configuration
• VMware virtual machine creation, management and administration
• Networking of VMware virtual machines
• VMware virtual machine storage management technologies.
• VMotion migrations and resource management of virtual machines
• SRDF product family concepts, terminology and functionality
• SRDF family operations using the SYMCLI command set
• SRDF host considerations and configurations
• SRDF consistency technology concepts and operations
• Open Replicator concepts, terminology and functionality
• Open Replicator operations using the SYMCLI command set and SMC
• Configure PowerPath for availability, failover and load balancing
• Configure Windows and Unix hosts to present Symmetrix LUNs
• Analyze, tune and manage Symmetrix array performance

A list of specific prerequisite courses can be found in EMC Education Services Learning Management System.

This course provides students with hands-on experience integrating EMC Symmetrix storage with VMware ESX Server. The course focuses on operations that IT Professionals may be required to perform when provisioning, managing, migrating, replicating, and performing backups of Symmetrix storage to support a VMware ESX Server. The course also examines some of the specifics of storage management in an ESX environment. The course details the integration of Symmetrix storage arrays into an ESX Server environment. Base connectivity (including Boot from SAN), array management, virtual machine storage provisioning, storage visibility, multipathing (ESX Multipath), business continuance operations (with TimeFinder and Symmetrix Remote Data Facility), and Symmetrix/VMware storage best practices.

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

• Configure Symmetrix base connectivity to an ESX Server (Boot from SAN).
• Install and configure array management software within a virtual machine and ESX
• Server.
• Provision storage to an ESX Server virtual machine, and examine specifics of
• migrating/expanding VM storage.
• Examine storage visibility via ESX and Symmetrix utilities.
• Configure and test ESX Multipath for correct operation in a Symmetrix environment.
• Integrate TimeFinder and SRDF with ESX Server, and test backup, migration,
• failover and failback operations involving virtual machines.
• Examine storage best practices for ESX Server in a Symmetrix environment.
• Implement an appropriate online/offline backup schema for ESX Server.
• Perform appropriate performance monitoring for an ESX Server storage
• environment.

Modules

These modules are designed to support the course objectives. The following modules are included in this course:

• Module 0 – Course Introduction & Overview
• Module 1 – Architecture Review (ESX Server 3.5 and Symmetrix DMX)
• Module 2 – Base Connectivity
• Module 3 – Array Management (Service Console and VM-based)
• Module 4 – Virtual Machine Storage Provisioning
• Module 5 – Mapping and Multipathing
• Module 6 – Symmetrix Data Replication
• Module 7 – Online and Offline Backup
• Module 8 – Performance

Labs

Labs reinforce the information you have been taught. The labs for this course include:

• Lab 1 – Base Connectivity to ESX Server
• Lab 2 – VMware ESX-based Symmetrix Array Management
• Lab 3 – Virtual Machine Storage Provisioning in Symmetrix Storage Environments
• Lab 4 – ESX Multipath Integration with Symmetrix Storage Environments
• Lab 5 – Symmetrix Data Replication with ESX Server
• Lab 6 – Online and Offline Virtual Machine Backups in Symmetrix Storage

Assessments

Assessments validate that you have learned the knowledge or skills presented during a learning experience. This course includes no assessments.