Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS) is a Dell software-defined, cloud-scale, storage platform offering for archival and next-gen workloads. It provides geo-distributed multi-protocol access to data with the reliability and control of a private-cloud infrastructure. This introductory lab guides the user through an overview of ECS functionality. It covers the basics of namespace set up and system administration tasks including monitoring, reporting, explanation of the UI, creation of namespace, users, and storage buckets. Also basic replication concepts will be explored Author: David Felt