• Explain how space is allocated and mapped
• Understand performance bottlenecks and best practices to overcome them
• Size an array for adaptive optimization
• Explain 3PAR events and alerts
• Use best practices to troubleshoot your storage system
• Upgrade your hardware and software of your storage system
• Employ tools that can be used to troubleshoot and respond to 3PAR performance issues

Non-Objectives

The following topics are not included in this course: •Hands-on hardware installation •Hands on with hardware •Array installation •Hands-on Peer Motion •On-line Import •VMware labs

Benefits to you •Gain the knowledge necessary to understand advanced features of managing a 3PAR StoreServ array

Module 1: Overview

Module 2: Space Explained

• Physical disks
• Chunklets
• Raid
• Logical disks
• Virtual Volumes
• CPG
• Space
• Reclaimation
• Initialization
• Mapping Space
• Deduplication

Module 3: Performance

• Understanding Performance
• Best practices
• Chunklet speed
• Step Size
• RAID
• Initiators
• Front end vs back end
• Back end writes
• CPU
• Cache
• Adaptive Flash Cache
• General PD Performance
• General VLUN Performance
• Flash Cache
• Component Benchmarks
• Hardware FC Links
• Benchmarks
• Performance Alerts
• CLI Counters
• Benefits
• Troubleshooting
• Considerations
• 3PAR Performance check

Module 4: Adaptive Optimization

• Purpose of Adaptive Optimization
• Adaptive Optimization tiers
• Reading I/O density Reports
• ClI Output
• Sizing a Storeserv
• Supported A.O configurations

Module 5: Alerts

• Working with alert information
• Collect logs
• Using the SNMP Infrastructure
• Using on-node CIM provider to monitor array

Module 6: Troubleshooting

• Steps customers can take for different situations
• Identifying problems
• What do I do when I add new disks?
• What should I do if 1 disk fails?
• What should I do before I call support?
• Interpreting log files

Module 7: Upgrading How to expand (connect 4 or more nodes)

• Steps to perform when upgrading
• Best practices
• 3PAR OS Upgrade Instructions
• Servicing the Storage System
• Upgrading the Storage System

Module 8: Configuration Rebalancing

• Performance tuning
• System Tuning
• Use of Tunesys after upgrading
• CPGs and RAID levels
• Host I/O (and impact of tuning)
• Node balancing

• Storage administrators with experience managing 3PAR StoreServ arrays on a daily basis for at least a year.

A storage administrator who has been managing 3PAR StoreServ arrays on a daily basis for at least a year. This training is not for an individual who has no experience managing a 3PAR array