The EMC Avamar Administration course provides participants with the knowledge and basic skills necessary to administer, monitor and troubleshoot EMC Avamar.
Recommended Avamar best practices are presented throughout the course.
The course contains lectures, review questions and hands-on labs.

Upon successful completion of this course, participants should be able to:

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

This course is intended for system administrators, systems engineers, partners and support specialists who administer and support EMC Avamar.

To understand the content and successfully complete this course, a student must have a suitable knowledgebase/skill set.

The student must have an understanding of:

• Backup and recovery concepts and principles
• Network administration in a TCP/IP environment
• Unix/Linux system administration

A list of specific prerequisite courses can be found in EMC Education Services Learning Management System.