Storage performance and optimization

Course ID : UEC-006

Duration In-class (в days) : 5 days

Duration Online : 5 days

Сurriculum : in-class, Virtual Instructor-Led Training - ONLINE

Delivery : 30.06.2025 - 04.07.2025

Overview

This course covers performance concepts and tools, block storage design principles and related hardware and applications, I/O concepts, storage configurations, configuration, evaluation and planning, and designing storage solutions.

Audience for this course

Storage administrators
Storage Area Network Administrators
System administrators
Support Engineers
Data storage architects
IT Infrastructure Leaders
Allied professionals interested in storage performance

Objective

Familiarize yourself with the concept of storage infrastructure performance analysis
Get to know key performance metrics
Learn to describe recommended thresholds and the methodology used when working with reports for performance analysis
Learn to monitor and optimize data center performance
Learn how to use a centralized data center infrastructure performance monitoring system to conduct comprehensive analytics

Prerequisites for this course

The course is aimed at students with experience in the field of data storage

Outcomes

Upon completion of the course students will be able to:

Analyze performance and identify bottlenecks in the I / O system using built-in monitoring tools in operating systems and storage systems
Define monitoring options for target resources in threshold profiles
Fine-tune the I/O system to optimize performance
Assess and plan for the necessary storage resources to complete tasks
Theoretical knowledge is supported by the performance of laboratory work on real equipment.

Outline

Overview of the basics
Overview of storage architectures
Performance tools and data sources
Overview of the Centralized Performance Monitoring System
Performance evaluation
Workload profiles
Pools, disk space virtualization, storage tiering
Queues in the I/O system
Application monitoring
Virtualization of external storage systems
Cache management
Multi-channel connection to storage
Protocol Comparison
Monitoring and fault analysis