Symantec Enterprise Vault 10.x for File System Archiving: Administration (EVFSA)

This course is for Symantec customers, consultants, partners, technical support engineers, system engineers, sales engineers, file server experts, and anyone who is responsible for installing, operating, and maintaining Enterprise Vault in a File System Archiving environment.

You must have a working knowledge of Windows with some system administration experience. Basic familiarity with SQL Server and Windows Active Directory is sufficient, while an understanding of NetApp filer, EMC Celerra server, and Symantec Backup Exec is an added advantage.

The Symantec Enterprise Vault 9.0 for File System Archiving: Administration course is designed primarily for system administrators responsible for installing, operating, integrating, and monitoring the day-to-day performance of Enterprise Vault within their File System Archiving environments. This course covers how to install, configure, manage, and troubleshoot Enterprise Vault from the File System Archiving perspective. The course helps you to better understand the product’s functionality, features, and operations, as well as those topics that matter most to customers. This course includes practical exercises that enable you to test your new skills and begin to transfer them into your working environment. By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Explain the purpose and functionality of Enterprise Vault 9.0 for File System Archiving.
• Install and configure Enterprise Vault for File System Archiving in a Windows file server.
• Describe File System Archiving architecture.
• Manage client access to archived items and indexing.
• Configure File System Archiving for a NetApp filer.
• Configure File System Archiving for retention folders, file blocking, and reporting.
• Back up and restore Enterprise Vault.
• Maintain file server targets for File System Archiving.
• Troubleshoot File System Archiving issues.

• Introduction to Enterprise Vault
  • Enterprise Vault overview
  • Enterprise Vault functions
  • Enterprise Vault architecture
  • Enterprise Vault Administration Console options
• Installing and Configuring Enterprise Vault
  • Basic design and deployment
  • Installation prerequisites
  • Installing Enterprise Vault
  • Configuring Enterprise Vault
  • Hands-On Labs
• Post Installation Configuration
  • Archive storage overview
  • Creating a Vault Store Group
  • Configuring Vault Store Partitions
  • Setting up Enterprise Vault Site properties
  • Hands-On Labs:
  • Navigating the Enterprise Vault Administration Console
  • Configuring Enterprise Vault storage
  • Creating Enterprise Vault Administrator using roles-based access
  • Configuring the Sharing Level
  • Adding Index locations
• Introduction to File System Archiving
  • File System Archiving : Overview
  • File System Archiving architecture
  • File System Archiving terminology
  • Planning File System Archiving policies
• Configuring File System Archiving
  • Planning File System Archiving
  • Configuring File System Archiving
  • File System Archiving best practices
  • Hands-On Labs
• Managing Client Access and Searching
  • Accessing archived items
  • Indexing: Overview
  • Managing indexing
  • Hands-On Labs
• File Lifecycle, Retention Folders, File Blocking, and Pruning
  • File lifecycle management: Overview
  • Setting up retention folders
  • Configuring file blocking
  • Configuring pruning
  • Hands-On Labs
• Archiving from Non-Windows File Servers
  • Introduction
  • Configuring NetApp filer
  • Configuring EMC Celerra device
  • Hands-On Lab
• File System Archiving Reporting
  • Reporting overview
  • Installing and configuring FSA Reporting
  • Managing FSA Reporting
  • Hands-On Labs
• Backing Up and Recovering Enterprise Vault
  • Enterprise Vault components to back up
  • Configuring collection
  • Backup mode
  • Recovery procedures
  • Backing up and restoring Enterprise Vault configuration
  • Hands-On Labs
• Maintaining File Server Targets
  • Need for maintaining file server targets
  • Using FSAUtility
  • Troubleshooting FSAUtility
  • Backing up and restoring placeholders
  • Hands-On Labs
• Troubleshooting File System Archiving
  • Troubleshooting procedure and tools
  • Troubleshooting common FSA issues
  • FSA Checkpointed Scan
  • Troubleshooting shortcut creation and deletion issues
  • Hands-On Labs