Xyratex Certified Performance Specialist Training - Agenda
The table below shows the day by day agenda along with breaks and Lab exercises. As you can see the student must be present all the way into the final day of training in order to be certified.
| Times |
Day 1 |
Day 2 |
Day 3 |
Day 4 |
| 9:00 to 10:15 |
Introduction and Admin:30
1. Performance Basics:45 |
Review:45
Lab 3 SAS versus SATA Drives:30 |
Review: 45
8. Multipathing
Lab 14 Multipathing:30 |
Review:60
12. Benchmarking tools:15 |
| 10:15 to 10:30 |
Break |
Break |
Break |
Break |
| 10:30 to 12:00 |
2. System Concepts:45
3. Performance Implications:45 |
Lab 4 RAID-5 2+1 versus 3+1:30
Lab 5 RAID-5 versus
RAID-6:30
Lab 6 Chunk Size 64k versus 256k:30
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9. Operating & File systems:30
Lab 15 Tuning File Systems:30
10. Common pre-canned field problems 1 X 30 minutes
Lab 16 Problem 1 |
13. Storage and Server Virtualization:30
Lab 21 VMware:60 |
| 12:00 to 13:00 |
Lunch |
Lunch |
Lunch |
Lunch |
| 13:00 to 14:15 |
3. Performance Implications continued:30
4. System Architectures:60 |
Lab 7 Queue Depth 1 versus 32:30
Lab 8 Host I/O Size 4k versus 64k:30
Lab 9 Read-ahead Cache Disable, Auto & 2MB:30 |
Common pre-canned field problems 3 X 30 minutes
Lab 17 Problem 2
Lab 18 Problem 3
Lab 19 Problem 4 |
14. Review Techsupport.db files:90 |
| 14:15 to 14:30 |
Break |
Break |
Break |
Break |
| 14:30 to 15:45 |
Lab 1 Capture Techsupport.db file:15
5. Decode Techsupport.db File:45 |
Lab 10 WB/WT Transitions:30
Lab 11 Disable WBC Mirroring:30 |
Lessons Learned:45
11. Introduction to Applications StorView:15 |
Lab 22 Equipment Teardown:45
Exam Prep:15 |
| 15:45 to 16:00 |
Break |
Break |
Break |
Break |
| 16:00 to 17:00 |
Lab 2 Command TT file Capture:20
6. Decode Command Time Trace File:40 |
Lab 12 Target Command Thread Balance:30
Lab 13 TQM or Sequential Write Optimization:30 |
7. Array settings in StorView i.e. Video Server, email, etc…:30
Lab 20 Array Settings:30 |
Certification Test:60 |
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Please Note: Class size is limited to eight (8) students.
Xyratex Certified Performance Specialist Training
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