CVCSA Instructors Guide and Lab Activities Summary

Key Points

Day 1 Lecture and Demo Topics Time Day 1 Lab

Introductions and Roll call
Overview of course topics
Review of exam and electives
Review of class Resources
Review lab configuration
Break
CommCell deployment and
configuration
Lunch
Storage, Disk, Cloud
Break
Tape library and media management
Storage policies
Day 1 Review and Lab
0900-1000
1000-1010
1010-1200 Pre-Installation Guide/Planning
Software installation (explain download)
CommServe Installation
CommCell console (walk through)
Post CS tasks: Software Cache, Metrics, DR
backup
Review of push and interactive installations
MediaAgent
Indexing (Change Locations)
Security Users and Groups (basic)
1200-1300
1300-1430 Configure Disk Library and review library and
mount path options.
Review Cloud Library configuration
1430-1445
1445-1500 Configure Tape Library (using the virtual library
tool)
Brief review Tape Library options (ask the
audience)
1500-1600 Storage policies, Standard, Dedupe, Global
Dedupe
Retention (simplified)
Encryption, compression, deduplication
Secondary Copies (Synch/Selective)
1600-1700 Review, Lab, one-on-one time

Day 2 Lecture and Demo Topics Time Day 2 Lab

Server and server groups (clients) 0900-0930 Agents Overview
overview Client Agent Structure
Agent Deployment
File server 0930-1015 Agent and subclient configuration
Server (Client) administration
Server (Client) computer groups
Basic backup and recovery
Break 1015-1030
Virtualization 1030-1200 Deploy VSA
Configure Pseudo Client
Subclient configurations
Readers
Transport modes
Basic Backup
 Basic Recovery options
Lunch 1200-1300
Application Aware 1300-1330 Backup and recovery of Exchange database
Basic overview of Exchange and Backup and recovery
SQL virtual machine
Network Control 1330-1400 Firewall and Network Topology
Break 1400-1415
Monitoring Alerts and Reports 1415-1500 Configure:
Alerts
Reports
Web Console review
Software store review
Admin console (walk through)
Working with Support / 1500-1530 Send Log files
Troubleshooting GxTail
Closing Remarks 1530-1600 Review eLearning and other education
recommendations, to include HyperScale
Review exam details
Lab Time 1600-1700 One-on-One, etc.