Dell PowerScale Deploy D-PSC-DY-23

Deploy D-PSC-DY-23

Validates ability to install, implement, manage and administer a PowerScale scale-out NAS solution in a live datacenter environment, covering OneFS architecture, access, identity, data protection, and monitoring.

OneFS SmartConnect SmartPools CloudPools SyncIQ SnapshotIQ SmartLock WORM SmartDedupe SmartQuotas ZRBAC NFSv4 CA SMB3 CA S3 Buckets FEC Protection InsightIQ DataIQ Groupnets / IP Pools Access Zones

Curriculum Highlights

What You Will Learn

Seven expert modules covering every skill required to install, configure, administer and troubleshoot a Dell PowerScale cluster in production.

Module 01

NAS, PowerScale & OneFS

Scale-out vs scale-up architecture, PowerScale product line (F/H/A/B-series), Gen 5 vs Gen 6 hardware, OneFS single distributed filesystem, cluster management via WebUI/CLI/PAPI, OneFS /ifs directory structure.

Module 02

Configuring Foundations for Access

Cluster dependencies on NTP/DNS/AD, access zones as logical partitions, InfiniBand back-end networking, 10–100GbE front-end networking, multi-tenancy with groupnets, subnets and IP pools, SmartConnect DNS load balancing (round-robin / CPU / connection / throughput).

Module 03

Identity Management & Authorization

RBAC built-in and custom roles, ZRBAC zone-based API namespace isolation, user identifiers (UID/GID/SID), ID mapping rules for cross-protocol identity, POSIX mode bits (chmod/chown), Windows-style ACLs (DACL/SACL, ACE types, inheritance), identity resolution priority order.

Module 04

Configuring Client Access to Data

OneFS L1/L2 caching tiers; SMB3 CA with witness protocol and persistent handles, Server-Side Copy, SMB auditing/file filtering; NFSv4 CA delegation and session failover, export path/rootdir/maproot options; S3 service, bucket namespace mapping, access key management and bucket policies.

Module 05

Data Protection & Layout

FEC N+M Reed-Solomon parity (e.g. +2:1, +3:2, mirrored 2×/3×), file striping across nodes, requested vs suggested vs actual protection (isi get -D), concurrent vs streaming data layout, storage pools, neighborhoods, spillover, Virtual Hot Spare (VHS).

Module 06

Configuring Storage Pools

SmartPools file pool policies (tier by directory/extension/age/size), SSD metadata acceleration, automated tiering; CloudPools cloud tiering to AWS/Azure/GCP; SmartQuotas advisory/soft/hard limits; SmartLock WORM enterprise vs compliance mode; SmartDedupe post-process deduplication; SnapshotIQ CoW/RoW, schedules and aliases; SyncIQ async replication, failover/failback workflow.

Module 07

Monitoring Tools

HealthCheck cluster assessment report (node/drive/network/quota health); DataIQ data intelligence, classification and capacity forecasting; InsightIQ per-protocol/per-node/per-client performance dashboards (throughput/IOPS/latency/cache-hit); isi statistics CLI real-time queries by access zone and client.

Curriculum

7-Module D-PSC-DY-23 Programme

From OneFS foundations and network access configuration to advanced data protection, storage pooling, and enterprise monitoring.

Scale-out (horizontal node addition) vs scale-up (vertical CPU/memory upgrade) storage architecture
PowerScale product line: F-series all-flash, H-series hybrid, A-series archive, B-series backup
Gen 5 vs Gen 6 hardware differences — Gen 6 larger chassis, more drives, higher density, chassis-based S200/S210 vs 1U nodes
OneFS single filesystem spanning all nodes — distributed metadata, no SAN/NAS split
Cluster management: WebUI (port 8080), CLI via SSH, Serial Console, PAPI REST API
OneFS directory structure: root /ifs, base directory configuration, access zone directories

Cluster dependencies on external services: NTP (clock sync), DNS (SmartConnect), LDAP/AD (authentication)
Access zones: logical partitions with independent share namespace, protocol settings, auth providers, IP pools
Internal network: back-end InfiniBand for node-to-node communication
External network: front-end 10/25/40/100GbE for client access
Multi-tenancy with groupnets — independent routing tables, DNS resolvers, NTP servers per tenant
Subnets and IP pools within groupnets
Network configuration Gen 5 vs Gen 6: LACP failover, FEC, Round Robin link aggregation
SmartConnect: DNS delegation, SSIP static switchover IP, IP pool, load-balancing policies (round-robin, CPU, connection count, throughput)

RBAC — built-in roles: SystemAdmin / AuditAdmin / BackupAdmin / NetworkAdmin; custom roles for CLI/PAPI
ZRBAC — Zone-Based RBAC: platform API namespace isolation per access zone, delegating zone-admin privileges
User identifiers: UID/GID from POSIX, SID from Windows/Active Directory
ID mapping rules: resolve cross-protocol identity conflicts, AD user to UID mapping, on-disk identity
POSIX permissions: mode bits (read/write/execute for owner/group/other), chmod, chown
ACL permissions: Windows-style DACLs/SACLs, ACE types (allow/deny), inheritance flags, mixed-mode ACLs
Identity resolution order: local → LDAP → AD; mapping rule priority

OneFS caching: L1 per-node RAM cache (read ahead, write-back), L2 SSD read cache on H-series; use cases for each tier
SMB shares: SMB3 Continuous Availability (CA) — witness protocol, persistent handles for transparent failover
SMB Server-Side Copy (offload copy between shares), SMB protocol auditing to syslog/CEE
File filtering: restrict file types by extension per share
NFS exports: NFSv4 CA delegation, persistent state, session-based failover; export path/rootdir/maproot options; hosts allow/deny access control
S3 buckets: enabling S3 service, bucket creation (namespace mapping to /ifs path), S3 access key management, bucket policies

FEC overview: N+M protection (N data stripes + M parity — e.g. N+2:1 tolerates 2 drive + 1 node failure)
Reed-Solomon parity calculation; protection level notation (+2:1, +3:2, mirrored 2×/3×)
File striping across nodes: how OneFS splits files into chunks distributed across node pools
Requested vs suggested vs actual protection (verify with isi get -D on a file)
Data layout models: concurrent (write across all nodes — high throughput large files) vs streaming (write to fewer nodes — sequential workloads)
Storage pools (by node type), file pool policies, neighborhoods (geo-aware placement), global namespace, spillover, VHS (Virtual Hot Spare)

SmartPools: file pool policies matching by directory/extension/access time/size; tier to different node pool types; SSD usage for metadata, L2 cache, write journal
File pool policy creation: criteria, actions (set protection level, data access pattern, tiering); automated tiering, performance SSD pools, deep archive HDD pools
CloudPools: cloud tiering with stub files locally, data in AWS S3/Azure/GCP — transparent on-demand recall
SmartQuotas: directory/user/group quotas — advisory/soft/hard limits, grace period, quota domain, quota report scheduling
SmartLock WORM: enterprise mode vs compliance mode, clock authority locking, retention date, once-written delete restriction
SmartDedupe: post-process deduplication, dedupe domain, shadow store, estimated savings analysis and scheduling
SnapshotIQ: Copy-on-Write vs Redirect-on-Write, snapshot schedule policies, aliases, delete impact, restoring from snapshot
SyncIQ: async directory replication to remote cluster — replication policies, schedule/manual, bandwidth throttle, failover/failback (promote target, re-sync source)

HealthCheck: cluster health assessment (node status, drive health, network configuration, quota status, protection levels) — schedule via isi_gather_info or WebUI
DataIQ: data intelligence — classification, tagging, workflow automation, capacity forecasting, identify stale/cold data, user/group activity
InsightIQ: performance monitoring and reporting — per-protocol, per-node, per-client stats; historical trending; dashboard widgets (throughput/IOPS/latency/cache hit ratio)
isi statistics CLI: isi statistics query, isi statistics protocol, isi statistics drive, isi statistics heat — breakdown by access zone or client

Live Training

7 Modules

Full D-PSC-DY-23 domains

30+ Hours

Total learning time

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7-Module D-PSC-DY-23 Programme

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