Dell – Powerflex 3.6.X Implementation and Administration

Details

Course Overview

This course provides a comprehensive view to installing, upgrading, and scaling a PowerFlex system. Consumption models discussed include PowerFlex rack, PowerFlex appliance, PowerFlex custom node, and PowerFlex software-only. Course content addresses both the physical architecture and the logical architecture of a PowerFlex solution. Lab exercises include best practices for managing SDS, SDC, MDM, and LIA components, in both VMware and Linux environments. Further lab exercises include volume operations – creation, mobility, snapshots – followed by monitoring and troubleshooting a PowerFlex solution.

Course Objectives

  • Understand the architecture of a PowerFlex solution
  • Install, upgrade, and scale a PowerFlex cluster
  • Create and map volumes to clients and applications
  • Manage volume snapshots and volume mobility
  • Manage system user accounts and secure the PowerFlex system
  • Implement Native asynchronous replication across PowerFlex clusters

Who Should Attend?

This course is intended for those who will be involved in installing, scaling, expanding, and upgrading a PowerFlex solution. This course is also intended for those who will be involved in configuring, managing, administering, and provisioning a PowerFlex solution.

Course Prerequisites

  • Storage networking infrastructure and concepts
  • Virtualized and software-defined data center concepts
  • Monitoring, reporting, and troubleshooting concepts

What's Included

What’s included?

  • Authorized Courseware
  • Intensive Hands on Skills Development with an Experienced Subject Matter Expert
  • Hands-on practice on real Servers and extended lab support 1.800.482.3172
  • Examination Vouchers & Onsite Certification Testing- (excluding Adobe and PMP Boot Camps)
  • Academy Code of Honor: Test Pass Guarantee
  • Optional: Package for Hotel Accommodations, Lunch and Transportation

Training Solutions

With several convenient training delivery methods offered, The Academy makes getting the training you need easy. Whether you prefer to learn in a classroom or an online live learning virtual environment, training videos hosted online, and private group classes hosted at your site. We offer expert instruction to individuals, government agencies, non-profits, and corporations. Our live classes, on-sites, and online training videos all feature certified instructors who teach a detailed curriculum and share their expertise and insights with trainees. No matter how you prefer to receive the training, you can count on The Academy for an engaging and effective learning experience.

Methods

  • Instructor-Led (the best training format we offer)
  • Live Online Classroom – Online Instructor-Led
  • Self-Paced Video

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Schedule

StartFinishPublic PricePublic Enroll Private PricePrivate Enroll
12/8/202512/12/2025
12/29/20251/2/2026
1/19/20261/23/2026
2/9/20262/13/2026
3/2/20263/6/2026
3/23/20263/27/2026
4/13/20264/17/2026
5/4/20265/8/2026
5/25/20265/29/2026
6/15/20266/19/2026
7/6/20267/10/2026
7/27/20267/31/2026
8/17/20268/21/2026
9/7/20269/11/2026
9/28/202610/2/2026
10/19/202610/23/2026
11/9/202611/13/2026
11/30/202612/4/2026
12/21/202612/25/2026
1/11/20271/15/2027

Curriculum

Agenda

Duration
4 Days

PowerFlex 3.6 Administration Introduction

  • Concepts Overview
  • How PowerFlex Scales
  • PowerFlex Offerings

PowerFlex Hardware

  • Nodes
  • Switches and Networking

PowerFlex 3.6 Architecture

  • PowerFlex Basics

Storage Organization

  • Protection Domains
  • Fault Sets
  • Storage Pools
  • Acceleration Pools
  • Volumes
  • Snapshots
  • Deployment Options

PowerFlex User Roles, Management, and Authentication

Management Interfaces

  • Presentation Server Web UI
  • CLI Management
  • PowerFlex REST API

Data Protection

  • Rebuild
  • Rebalance
  • Native Asynchronous Replication

Maintenance Mode

  • Maintenance Mode Introduction
  • Instant Maintenance Mode
  • Protected Maintenance Mode

CloudLink

PowerFlex rack

  • PowerFlex rack Overview
  • PowerFlex rack Architecture – Hardware
  • PowerFlex rack Architecture – PowerFlex Software
  • PowerFlex rack Architecture – other Software

PowerFlex Manager

  • PowerFlex Manager Features and Benefits
  • PowerFlex Manager Architecture
  • PowerFlex Manager User Roles
  • PowerFlex Manager Common Tasks

PowerFlex rack Management

  • Managing MDMs
  • Managing SDSs
  • Managing SDCs
  • Volume Management
  • Protection Domain Management
  • Storage Pool Management
  • Network and Switch Management
  • Storage Management
  • Compute Resource Management
  • Network Resource Management

Integrated Data Protection

  • VMware
  • Avamar, Data Domain, and PowerProtect
  • RecoverPoint

Monitoring and Troubleshooting

  • Monitoring PowerFlex Manager
  • Monitoring PowerFlex Web UI
  • Monitoring PowerFlex CLI
  • Monitoring PowerFlex CloudIQ
  • Monitoring Virtual Compute and Network
  • Monitoring with SNMP and Syslog Services
  • Monitoring using iDRAC
  • Monitoring NVDIMMs, HDDs, and SSDs
  • Monitoring Switches

Log Collection

Troubleshooting