IBM Storage Scale/ESS Production Readiness Program

Code: SE2

Description

This 10-day training plan is aimed at customers who will run their own IBM Storage Scale/ESS environment. It goes beyond IBM Storage Scale Basic Administration for Linux and AIX (H005G), IBM Storage Scale Advanced Administration for Linux (H006G), and IBM Storage Scale – Remote Data Access (H008G), and includes additional advanced topics such as Performance and Tuning. The course takes into account the current knowledge and experience of the participants and is aligned with their requirements and goals.

Audience

This course is intended for system administrators, storage administrators, infrastructure specialists, and technical teams responsible for installing, configuring, managing, and supporting IBM Storage Scale and ESS environments. In other words, this is the course required for those who plan to run their own Scale/ESS.

Prerequisites

The student is expected to have a good understanding of UNIX/Linux, SAN, and data center storage concepts.

Objectives

  • Summarize the key features of IBM Storage Scale
  • Describe IBM ESS and Storage Scale RAID
  • Install IBM Storage Scale and configure a cluster
  • Manage a cluster
  • Implement information lifecycle management (ILM)
  • Configure IBM Storage Scale high availability features
  • Back up critical cluster data
  • Use advanced installer tools to install Storage Scale
  • Upgrade a cluster to a newer level of Storage Scale
  • Monitor cluster health
  • Configure cluster performance data collection
  • Monitor cluster performance
  • Configure cluster security options
  • Encrypt file system data
  • Configure the Storage Scale call home feature
  • Configure a cluster to allow remote file system access
  • Mount a Spectrum Scale file system from a remote cluster
  • Implement Active File Management (AFM)
  • Summarize AFM cache modes
  • Describe AFM DR
  • Differentiate AFM and AFM DR
  • Implement AFM DR
  • Describe and implement Clustered NFS (CNFS)
  • Describe the Cluster Export Services (CES) architecture
  • Implement CES protocols (NFS, SMB, Object, and block)
  • Differentiate CNFS and CES NFS
  • Performance
  • Tuning
  • ESS Topics

Topics

  • Unit: IBM Storage Scale overview
  • Exercise: Cluster node preparation
  • Unit: Installation and cluster configuration
  • Exercise: Installation and cluster configuration
  • Unit: Cluster management
  • Exercise: Cluster management and configuration
  • Unit: Information Lifecycle Management (ILM)
  • Exercise: Storage pools, filesets, and policies
  • Unit: High availability and cluster data backups
  • Exercise: Replication and snapshots
  • Unit: Advanced installation techniques
  • Exercise: Advanced installation techniques
  • Unit: Upgrading a cluster
  • Exercise: Upgrading a cluster
  • Unit: Monitoring cluster health
  • Exercise: Monitoring cluster health
  • Unit: Performance monitoring and tuning
  • Exercise: Monitoring cluster performance
  • Unit: Cluster and data security
  • Exercise: Cluster and data security
  • Unit: Storage Scale call home
  • Exercise: Storage Scale call home
  • Welcome and course introduction
  • Unit: Spectrum Scale multi-cluster support
  • Exercise: Configuring multi-cluster file system access
  • Unit: Active File Management (AFM)
  • Exercise: Configuring Active File Management (AFM)
  • Unit: AFM-based Asynchronous Disaster Recovery (AFM DR)
  • Performance
  • Tuning
  • Other advanced topics
  • ESS Topics
  • Course adaptation
    • The topics covered may vary slightly depending on participant experience, customer priorities, and the technical discussions that arise during the course.

Price (ex. VAT)

€ 11.320,00 per person

Duration

10 days

Schedule

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Delivery methods

  • Classroom
  • On-site (at your location)
  • Virtual (instructor online)

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