IBM Spectrum Virtualize - Advanced Cluster Concepts

This module focus on advanced cluster features for maintaining high availability in configuration/metadata recovery, system fail-overs and system upgrades.

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This course is for IBM personnel, IBM Business Partners, IT consultants and customers who are assessing and/or planning to deploy IBM System San Volume Controller Storage solutions and are interested in learning more on IBM Spectrum Virtualization.

IBM Spectrum Virtualize for the IBM SAN Volume Controller (SNV10G)

Upon completion of this course you should be able to:

Describe the concept of a quorum configuration
Identify the characteristics of the N_Port ID Virtualization
Identify the characteristics of a hot spare/standby node
Describe the concept of node failover
Describe the benefit of performing system upgrade with spare nodes

Quorum devices

N-Port ID Virtualization Book

Hot Spare/Standby nodes Book

Node failover Book

System Upgrades Book

Exercise: System firmware upgrade