Module 6: Storage Infrastructure Management

Question 1

Management functions

Answer 1

Control Plane - Orchestrates data services, does not implement the native data searvices

Data Plane - Access the data directly and manages its operations, and provides native data services

Management Plane - Administers the storage from one view, requires no separate management solutions for the storage infrastructure components.

Question 2

System Management Software

Answer 2

GUI based
Manage single storage system.
Wizards and work flows to do all work.

Question 3

Unified management software

Answer 3

Allows for management of multiple devices.
Integrated software.
Manage a single device or multiple devices and different components within your infrastructure

Question 4

Monitoring and Reporting

Answer 4

Analytics (forecasting)
Performance monitoring
Security Monitoring
Alerting
Reporting

Question 5

Automated Operations

Answer 5

Replace manual work with automated routines

Manual = clips, web based GUI
Automation = API, scripts

Examples:
Provision, migrate or decommission storage for databases or filesystems.
Automate your data protection process to a disaster recovery location.

Question 6

Key Management Processes

Answer 6

Configuration management - Provides an automated method for maintains computer systems and software.

Capacity Management - Ensure adequate availability of resources to manage their service level requirements.

Performance Management - Ensures optimal performance for all servers, storage and network components

Data Protection - Provides admin of different types of protection relationships to ensure that data is securely protected and recoverable.

Incidents and Problem Management - Incident (identifies and correct unplanned events), problem (carries out root cause analysis)

Question 7

Storage provisioning: An example

Answer 7

Storage provisioning is an example of capacity management

The process of assigning storage capacity such as creating RAID sets and LUNs

Thick or thin provisioining

Question 8

Storage Tiering

Answer 8

Mixing different drive types in a pool to ensure increased data performance and capacity.

Question 9

Capacity Optimization Techniques

Answer 9

Deduplicatiopn - removes duplicate data from the environment to ensure cost savings

Compression - removes patterns of data within an object to reduce its capacity size.