EMC Avamar Administration
Who Needs to Attend
System administrators, systems engineers, partners and support specialists who administer and support EMC Avamar
Prerequisites
- An understanding of backup and recovery concepts and principles, network administration in a TCP/IP environment, and UNIX/Linux system administration
- EMC Avamar Overview - Self Study
Follow-On Courses
There are no follow-ons for this course.
The EMC Avamar Administration course provides you with the knowledge and basic skills necessary to administer, monitor, and troubleshoot EMC Avamar. The course contains lectures, review questions, and hands-on labs. Recommended Avamar best practices are presented throughout the course.
Certification:
Assessments validate that you have learned the knowledge or skills presented. This course includes review questions at the end of each module.
What You'll Learn
- Describe the Avamar advantage over traditional backup systems
- Define Avamar terminology
- Describe the major cycles in the snapup process
- Describe Avamar system architecture, components and processes
- Install Avamar Administrator and Client software
- Create a group policy
- Run on-demand snapups from the Avamar Administrator and the Avamar Client
interfaces - Restore files using Avamar Administrator and Avamar Web Restore interfaces
- Describe Avamar daily maintenance activities: checkpoints, HFS checks, and
garbage collection - Use Avamar tools to perform system monitoring, maintenance and troubleshooting
Course Outline
1. Avamar Fundamentals
2. Avamar Administration
3. Avamar Backups
4. Performing Recoveries
5. Using Enterprise Manager and Replication
6. System Monitoring and Maintenance
7. Logs, Troubleshooting, and Reporting
Labs
Lab 2-1: Install and Launch Avamar Administrator
Lab 2-2: Perform Avamar Account Management Tasks
Lab 2-3: Installing Avamar Client Software
Lab 3-1: Create Avamar Groups
Lab 3-2: On-demand Snapups
Lab 3-3: Managing Backups
Lab 4-1: Running Restores
Lab 5-1: Using Avamar Enterprise Manager
Lab 5-2: Avamar Replication
Lab 6-1: Performing Daily System Monitoring Tasks
Lab 6-2: Using dpnctl
Lab 6-3: Daily Maintenance Activities
Lab 7-1: Exploring Avamar Processes and Logs
Lab 7-2: Running Standard and Custom Reports
Classroom Dates and Locations
| Date |
Location Details |
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| Oct 11 - 13, 2010 | Boston, MA | Register |
| Nov 8 - 10, 2010 | Dulles, VA | Register |
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Course Code: 1781
Registration Information
$3000 USD
3 Day Course


