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EMC Avamar Administration Training

Course Description

This course combines lecture, review questions and hands-on labs to provide you with the knowledge and skills necessary to administer, monitor, and troubleshoot EMC Avamar, including recommended best practices.

Highlights

• Avamar advantage over traditional backup systems
• Avamar terminology
• Avamar system components and processes
• Avamar de-duplication backup process
• Install Avamar Administrator and Client software
• Create a group policy
• Run on-demand backups from the Avamar Administrator and the Avamar Client interfaces
• Restore files using Avamar Administrator and Avamar client interfaces
• Types of Avamar replication and configure Avamar standard replication
• Configure and use Avamar Activation Manager and Desktop/Laptop interfaces
• Avamar server daily maintenance activities: checkpoints, HFS checks, and garbage collection
• Use Avamar tools to perform system monitoring, maintenance, capacity management, and troubleshooting

Audience

System administrators, systems engineers, partners and support specialists who administer and support EMC Avamar Agenda

Avamar Fundamentals

• Avamar Introduction
• Avamar Architecture
• Avamar Features and Capabilities
• Avamar Administration and Management
• Identify Avamar features and system components
• Describe the Avamar deduplication backup process
• Explain how to perform backups and restores
• Recognize Avamar replication
• List Avamar maintenance activities
• Identify Avamar monitoring and reporting capabilities

Avamar Virtual Edition

• Identify Avamar features and architecture
• Describe Avamar Virtual Edition server configurations
• Recognize Avamar Virtual Edition requirements and considerations
• Describe the Avamar Virtual Edition installation process

Avamar Management and Configuration

Avamar Fundamentals

• Introduction to Avamar
• Administration Tools and Specifications
• Avamar Processes
• Avamar Backup in Different Environments

Avamar Administration

• Avamar Administrator Console
• Installing Avamar Backup Client Software
• Account Management
• Using Client Manager

Avamar Backups

• Scheduled Backups
• On-demand Backups
• Configuring Avamar Desktop/Laptop
• Managing and Monitoring Backup Activities

Performing Restores

• Restoring Client Data
• Client Server Recovery with Avamar

Avamar Replication

• Avamar Replication

System Monitoring and Maintenance

• Avamar Server Environment
• Daily System Monitoring Tasks
• Daily Avamar Server Maintenance Activities
• Managing Avamar Server Capacity

Logs, Troubleshooting, and Reporting

• Avamar Processes and Logs
• Troubleshooting
• Avamar Reporting