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Role: Powerscale
Duration: 632 Hours
Location: Remote
Must have skills = PowerScale Project Tasks Customer has had a large IT turnover and the majority of the team has minimal experience with PoweScale. The customer has a tech refresh scheduled the week of 9/8 in two locations (IN/KY).
This outline the experience should have for this assignment:
- Assist with day to day operational activities/tasks
- General troubleshooting/optimization - ensure the customer understands how to manage these areas once residency is completed
- Monitors, reviews, and manage environment to identify areas of improvement following Dell EMC best practice
- Review user permission/access, provide areas of improvement/best practice recommendation
- KT to keep clusters healthy moving forward (code/firmware upgrades)
- Monitors, reviews, and manage environment
- Conduct knowledge transfer for new technology features, management and admin activities, and Standard Operating Procedures.
- Review IT processes and policies (Incident, capacity, performance and change management as part of new solution)
- May need to create shares when needed
- Assist with cluster replication if needed
- Assist with how to set up policies to replicate if needed
- Share best practice methodologies throughout the residency assignment
- Resident is expected to be self-directed, able to accomplish tasks with little to no direction
Description:
Key Responsibilities:
* Describe Isilon nodes and their components
* Explain cluster management tools and their applications
* Identify internal and external networking components and their interactions with PowerScale
* Recommend upgrades for customers based on key needed features provided in new software releases
* Understand the Isilon Configuration Guide and EPS
* Apply license files to clusters to enable software modules
* Compare structured and unstructured data models and their applications
* Complete configuration tasks, including node configuration and cluster creation
* Discuss nodes workflow application, node model details, and adding new nodes to clusters
* Explain and utilize enhancements, features, and functionality in PowerScale OneFS 9.7.0.0 and 9.8.0.0, as well as the 16G platform
* Explain application of Isilon with Big data and its benefits
* Explain data management and security in Isilon and its components
* Explain Isilon Physical Architecture and its components
* Explain Isilon's OneFS operating system and its components
* Explain the benefits of using NVT and its applications
* Explain the difference between FDC and NVT and their applications
* Explain the purpose of using NVT and its security aspects
* Capture and analyze existing environments, design migration solutions, and perform associated tasks
* Join nodes to existing clusters and perform initial configuration tasks
* Perform OneFS upgrades and updates
* Prepare nodes for deployment
* Remove, reformat, and reimage nodes as needed
* Request license files for software modules
* Run NVT and provide results for analysis
* Understand new enhancements, features, and functionality in Dell PowerScale F910, F210, and F710 platforms
Requirements:
* Strong understanding of PowerScale architecture and its components
* Experience with Isilon nodes, cluster management tools, and networking components
* Ability to recommend upgrades and configure PowerScale solutions
* Knowledge of Isilon Configuration Guide and EPS
* Experience with license file application and software module enablement
* Ability to compare structured and unstructured data models
* Experience with node configuration, cluster creation, and node workflow application
* Strong understanding of PowerScale OneFS 9.7.0.0, 9.8.0.0, and 16G platform enhancements, features, and functionality
* Experience with Big data application and Isilon data management and security
* Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
* Ability to capture and analyze existing environments, design migration solutions, and perform associated tasks
* Experience with OneFS upgrades and updates
* Ability to prepare nodes for deployment and remove, reformat, and reimage nodes as needed
* Strong communication and collaboration skills