Overview

This course is designed to help you understand, install, and monitor the DS8000 for the Open Systems environment. The exercises enable you to perform a step-by-step implementation.

Audience

This intermediate course is for System administrators and technical personnel who need to install a DS8000 in their environment.

Prerequisites

Recommended:

Introduction to Storage - (SS01G)

Planning and Implementation a SAN - (SN71G)

More details are available at www.ibm.com/training

Objective

• Recall the DS8000 models and features 

• Remember the architecture and hardware associated with the DS8000 

• Classify the DS8000 virtualization concepts 

• Summarize the DS8000 DS8000 command-line interface 

• Summarize the DS8000 graphical user interface 

• List the Copy Services features 

• Classify the features associated with performance, tuning, and monitoring 

• List the steps required to configure the DS8000 for Open Systems environment 

• Recognize the IBM DS8000 solutions for Business Continuity

Course Outline

Day 1

• Welcome and introduction
• Unit 1: IBM DS family, DS8000 overview
• Unit 2: Architecture and hardware overview
• Unit 3: Virtualization concepts

Day 2

• Unit 4: DS command-line interface (DS CLI)
• Unit 5: DS8000 Storage Manager GUI
• Unit 6: Host system attachment
• Exercise 0: Lab setup and preliminary instructions
• Exercise 1: DS8000 DS CLI: Installation and configuration
• Exercise 2: DS8000 DS CLI: DDMs, array sites, arrays, ranks, and extent pools
• Exercise 3: Windows Server preparation

Day 3

• Exercise 4: Windows Server attachment to the DS8000
• Exercise 5: AIX Server attachment to the DS8000
• Exercise 6: DS8000 Storage Manager: Arrays, ranks, and extent pools
• Exercise 7: DS8000 Storage Manager: FB volumes, volume groups, and hosts
• Exercise 8: DS8000 Storage Manager: Other functions
• Exercise 9: DS8000 Easy Tier: Dynamic Volume Relocation
• Exercise 10: DS8000 Easy Tier: Dynamic Extent Pool Merge

Day 4

• Unit 7: Performance, tuning, and monitoring
• Unit 8: Business Continuity: Copy Services
• Unit 9: Summary
• Exercise 11: DS8000 Storage Manager: Thin provisioning
• Open lab sessions