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IBM Certified Solution Advisor - Tivoli Storage 2008


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Job Role Description / Target Audience

ROLE DESCRIPTION

An IBM Certified Solution Advisor - Tivoli Storage is a person who identifies opportunities and influences direction for IBM Tivoli storage solutions within the customer environment and is responsible for educating and influencing key decision makers.

Key areas of competency include:

  • Map customer business requirements to IBM Tivoli storage solutions.
  • Apply storage concepts and standards to a customer-s IT infrastructure. 
  • Assess IT process maturity.
  • Assess the customer-s infrastructure for storage opportunities.
  • Align IBM, Tivoli, and partner products to storage opportunities.
  • Assess requirements and create a solution design.
  • Describe business/technical advantages of IBM Tivoli storage solutions.
  • Apply storage concepts to the solution design.
  • Apply data protection concepts to the solution design.
  • Recommend education opportunities to customer based on the IBM Tivoli storage solution.
  • Supply a transition document to interested parties.


Recommended Prerequisite Skills

REQUIRED PREREQUISITE SKILLS 
The following qualifications are requirements for success:

  • Working knowledge of IT process model (i.e. Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)). (working knowledge)
  • Experience with IT organization structures. (working skill)
  • Conceptual knowledge of IT storage standards (government and civil), regulations, and certifications (SNIA etc.). (working knowledge)
  • Familiarity with aspects of key IBM products (WebSphere, DB2, etc.). (basic skill)
  • Working skills with the aspects of network, storage, SAN hardware and SAN fundamentals. (working skill)
  • Working knowledge of storage virtualization (working knowledge)
  • Familiarity with IBM Tivoli storage education offerings. (basic knowledge)
  • Working skills with networking environments, SAN environments, operating systems, and relational databases. (working skill)
  • Capability to assess and analyze the storage environment according to IBM practices (based on an IBM storage solution). (working skill)
  • Create a business case justification for an IT project. (working skill)
  • Experience defining proof of concepts and associated success criteria. (working skill)
  • Working knowledge of these Tivoli products:
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Extended Edition
Disaster Recovery Manager
NDMP backup for Network Attached Storage
TotalStorage Productivity Center Basic Edition
IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center Standard Edition
IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Data
IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Disk
IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Fabric
IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Replication
  • Basic knowledge of these Tivoli products:
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Advanced Copy Services
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Copy Services
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Databases
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Enterprise Resource Planning
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Microsoft SharePoint
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Management
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Storage Area Networks
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for System Backup and Recovery
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager HSM on Windows
IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files

Recommended Prerequisites
In addition, experience in the following areas is highly recommended:

  • Awareness of shell and scripting as relating to the storage solution
  • Awareness of the SAN Volume Controller and storage virtualization
  • Familiarity with server virtualization
  • Awareness of CommonStore solutions
  • Awareness of Bare Machine Recovery options
  • Familiarity with data center concepts
  • Familiarity with IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager
  • IBM Tivoli Change and Configuration Management Database

KEY:

1 - Basic Skill/Knowledge: Familiarity with basic functionality and concepts, may need to rely on assistance from documentation or other resources.
2 - Working Skill/Knowledge: Working knowledge of functionality and concepts, can use 
product or explain concepts with little or no assistance.
3 - Advanced Skill/Knowledge: Substantial experience with functionality or concepts, can teach others how to use functionality or explain concepts.
4 - Expert Skill/Knowledge: Extensive and comprehensive experience with functionality or concepts, can create or customize code, architecture, or processes.


Requirements

This certification requires 1 test(s).

Test(s):

  1. Test 439 - Fundamentals of Enterprise Solutions Using IBM Tivoli Storage 2008



Test registration

Authorized Prometric test centers (worldwide testing)

Announcement

IBM certification tests to be delivered only through Prometric, beginning July 2, 2007