HCE-3700 Hitachi Vantara Certified Expert - Performance Architect Practice Exam

The HCE-3700 Hitachi Vantara Certified Expert - Performance Architect certification from Hitachi is designed for IT professionals who are responsible for designing and optimizing high-performance data environments using Hitachi’s storage solutions. The HCE-3700 certification certifies a candidate's skills in configuring, tuning, and maintaining Hitachi storage systems for best performance and reliability. The HCE-3700  includes Hitachi's advanced storage architectures, operations and performance monitoring.
Why is HCE-3700 Hitachi Vantara Certified Expert - Performance Architect important?

• Validates advanced skills in designing and optimizing performance-focused data architectures.
• Helps storage professionals to stand out in the job market and qualify for higher-level roles in storage architecture.
• Recognized certification that demonstrates proficiency in Hitachi’s technologies and solutions.
• Equips professionals to enhance system performance and reliability, driving organizational success.
• Develops critical skills for diagnosing and resolving performance issues in data environments.

Who should take the HCE-3700 Hitachi Vantara Certified Expert - Performance Architect Exam?

• Performance Architect
• Storage Administrator
• Systems Engineer
• Data Center Manager
• IT Consultant

Skills Evaluated

Candidates taking the certification exam on the HCE-3700 Hitachi Vantara Certified Expert - Performance Architect is evaluated for the following skills:

• Storage System Configuration
• Performance Monitoring
• Troubleshooting Techniques
• Data Management Practices
• Architecture Design

HCE-3700 Hitachi Vantara Certified Expert - Performance Architect Certification Course Outline
The HCE-3700 Hitachi Vantara Certified Expert - Performance Architect Certification covers the following topics -

Module 1. Storage Systems Architecture

• Explain common performance expectations and measurement criteria.

• Explain storage media characteristics and features that influence performance.

• Distinguish the performance characteristics of the different RAID levels available with Hitachi storage systems.

• Distinguish the various characteristics of Hitachi storage systems processing and path architecture relevant to performance optimization.

• Distinguish the characteristics of Hitachi storage systems cache architecture that relate to performance optimization.

• Show understanding of connectivity amongst the host and the storage array as it is related to performance.

Module 2. Pools, Tiers and Workload Profiles

• Distinguish the performance-related data to be collected prior to a design.

• Explain the characteristics and principles of tiering and non-tiering pools, and how to choose amongst them.

• Show understanding of workload profiling for the design of storage pools and tiers.

• Show knowledge of Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning and Hitachi Dynamic Tiering concepts as they relate to customer requirements.

• Defining and applying Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning strategies, and monitoring performance in meeting customer needs and expectations.

• Defining and applying Hitachi Dynamic Tiering strategies, and monitoring performance in meeting customer needs and expectations.

Module 3. Storage Virtualization

• Explaining Hitachi Vantara recommended practices for the deployment of virtualized storage solutions.

• Explaining the performance aspects of cache partitions as they relate to virtualized storage solutions.

• Showing the performance aspects of Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning with virtualized storage solutions.

• Showing the performance aspects of Hitachi Dynamic Tiering with virtualized storage solutions.

Module 4. Performance Tools and Data Acquisition

• Distinguishing industry-standard tools used for performance-data monitoring, data collection, data analysis and workload simulation.

• Showing how to apply workload profile information to industry-standard workload generators.

• Explaining the performance and configuration data that Hitachi Performance Monitor and Hitachi Tuning Manager collect.

• Reviewing Hitachi Dynamic Tiering performance data from Hitachi Performance Monitor and Hitachi Tuning Manager.

• Explaining the data to be collected to size Hitachi storage solutions in meeting customer performance requirements and utilization expectations.

• Explaining the data to be collected when planning for capacity growth and performance for Hitachi storage systems.

Module 5. Solution Design and Deployment Planning

• Explaining Hitachi Vantara recommended design practices when sizing and configuring Hitachi storage systems for industry-standard database applications.

• Explaining Hitachi Vantara recommended design practices when sizing and configuring Hitachi storage systems for non-database application workloads.

• Configure Hitachi storage system capacity for planned growth while maintaining the customer's performance requirements.

• How path management software load-balancing algorithms are used to optimize storage performance.

• Explaining concepts of logical devices, LUNs per port, and queuing as they relate to performance.

Module 6. Monitoring and Troubleshooting

• Explaining common, generic principles/concepts used to analyze performance data, isolate bottlenecks and troubleshoot performance-related problems.

• Explaining the Hitachi products and services that are available to investigate and identify performance problems.

• Analyzing performance data, isolating bottlenecks and troubleshooting performance-related problems of Hitachi storage systems.

• Identifying a replication-related performance problem.

• Troubleshooting performance issues outside of the storage array.