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IBM Storage Scale Fundamentals (Digital version)
This IBM Self-Paced Virtual Class (SPVC) includes: - PDF course guide available to attendee during and after course - Lab environment where students can work through demonstrations and exercises at...
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This IBM Self-Paced Virtual Class (SPVC) includes:
- PDF course guide available to attendee during and after course
- Lab environment where students can work through demonstrations and exercises at their own pace
This course is intended for IT professionals tasked with administering an IBM Storage Scale storage cluster in environments running Linux and AIX nodes. The course includes information on installing, configuring, and monitoring an IBM Storage Scale cluster. Many Storage Scale features are described in lecture materials and then implemented in lab exercises. These features include: Storage management, high availability options, cluster management, and information lifecycle management (ILM) tools.
Upon completion of this course, you will earn an IBM digital badge that recognizes your skills and knowledge in this area.
Skills Gained
- 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
Who Can Benefit
This course is open to all interested learners, regardless of their experience. Typical students include customers, IBM technical personnel, business partner technical personnel, and IT consultants and architects.
Understanding UNIX/Linux, SAN, and storage concepts may be beneficial.
Prerequisites
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Course Details
Course Outline
WEEK 1:
Unit/Module 1: Introduction and IBM Storage Scale Overview [3 hours]
Topic/Lesson 1: Conventional and Clustered File Systems
Topic/Lesson 2: Introduction to IBM Storage Scale
Topic/Lesson 3: The History of IBM Storage Scale
Topic/Lesson 4: IBM Storage Scale Architecture
Topic/Lesson 5: IBM Storage Scale Cluster Configurations
Topic/Lesson 6: IBM Storage Scale System
Topic/Lesson 7: IBM Storage Scale RAID
Topic/Lesson 8: IBM Storage Scale Erasure Code Edition
Topic/Lesson 9: IBM Storage Scale Architectural Limits
Exercise 1: Cluster node preparation
Quiz
Unit/Module 2: Installation [3 hours]
Topic/Lesson 1: Prepare the nodes and allocate storage
Topic/Lesson 2: Install the Storage Scale software
Topic/Lesson 3: Create the Storage Scale cluster
Topic/Lesson 4: Start Storage Scale and verify the status of all nodes
Topic/Lesson 5: Configure NSDs
Topic/Lesson 6: Create file systems
Exercise 2: Installation and cluster configuration
Quiz
Unit/Module 3: Cluster Management [3 hours]
Topic/Lesson 1: Cluster Configuration Models
Topic/Lesson 2: The Storage Scale Node
Topic/Lesson 3: Protecting Data Integrity
Topic/Lesson 4: Node Roles
Topic/Lesson 5: Cluster Configuration Options
Topic/Lesson 6: NSD Access Methods
Exercise 3: Cluster management and configuration
Quiz
WEEK 2:
Unit/Module 4: Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) [3 hours]
Topic/Lesson 1: Information Lifecycle Management
Topic/Lesson 2: Storage Pools
Topic/Lesson 3: Filesets
Topic/Lesson 4: ILM Policies
Topic/Lesson 5: File System Quotas
Exercise 4: Storage pools, filesets, and policies
Quiz
Unit/Module 5: High Availability and Cluster Data Backups [3 hours]
Topic/Lesson 1: Replication
Topic/Lesson 2: Failure Groups
Topic/Lesson 3: File System Replication
Topic/Lesson 4: Snapshots
Topic/Lesson 5: Data Backup
Exercise 5: Replication and snapshots
Quiz
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