Customer Training Webinar - Data Catalog
This webinar will focus on the VAST Data Catalog, a powerful feature that provides deep insights into your data landscape by indexing metadata attributes of all data stored on the VAST cluster. Learn how to leverage the Catalog for advanced data discovery, analysis, and management without impacting performance. Key Topics: - Understanding the VAST Data Catalog: 10 min Explore the fundamental advantage of the VAST Catalog over traditional storage systems, enabling metadata analysis at scale without performance penalties. Learn how the system takes periodic snapshots of all file metadata across your storage environment and ingests it into the optimized VAST Catalog database. Understand that the database is constantly updated, ensuring your metadata insights remain current. Gain awareness of the limitations and the process to turn on catalog. - Accessing and Navigating the VAST Catalog: 15 min Discover the different ways to access the VAST Catalog, including the VAST Web UI and the VAST Catalog CLI or other options. Learn how to navigate the interface to gain visibility into your data. Learn the steps to enable users on the client network to query the VAST Catalog using the CLI. Understand how to provide the VAST Catalog CLI Host IP. Learn how to grant user access and permissions to query the Catalog. Get guidance on providing VAST Catalog CLI installation instructions to users. - Performing Advanced Metadata Queries: 10-15 min Master the techniques for running high-performance queries on files, objects, and directories based on various attributes. Explore practical usage examples such as finding files based on age, size, location, and user (and how it is superior to Find command). Examples: All files created by Joe, scratch files created over 6 months ago and haven’t been accessed in a month, all files/objects tagged with this S3 tag Learn how to find S3 objects with specific tags. Understand how to report on capacity and usage, including ranking users consuming the most capacity in specific folders. Visualizing and Analyzing Metadata Insights: 10 min See how the VAST Catalog transforms metadata analysis into an interactive experience. Learn how to customize the display of query results in the VAST Web UI. (Grafana & Superset) Understand how VAST Catalog provides deep insights into your data landscape beyond simple file listings. Takeaways: - Understand the architecture and benefits of the high-performance VAST Data Catalog for metadata management. - Learn how to access and navigate the VAST Catalog using different interfaces. - Gain the skills to perform advanced queries to find and analyze data based on its metadata. - Discover how to visualize metadata insights for better data understanding and management. Learn how to provide client access to the VAST Catalog CLI for end-user data exploration.