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Course title:
IBM SAN File System Planning and Implementation Workshop
Course duration: 3.0 days
Course number: SN846
Abstract: Examine the high level design of the IBM TotalStorage Storage Area Network (SAN) File System (FS), a member of the IBM Open Software Family. Identify the installation and customization tasks necessary to install and exploit the technology. Learn about the components and features of the IBM TotalStorage SAN FS, including the Metadata Server engines, master console, IBM TotalStorage SAN FS software, global namespace, filesets, storage pools, volumes, policies, and clients. Explore how to plan the connections from the SAN FS to the metadata Logical Unit Numbers (LUN) and the Local Area Network (LAN) attachment used to communicate with the FS clients. Discuss the SAN zoning requirements for the SAN FS and clients. Install the base Operating System, and SAN FS software. Create the SAN FS cluster. Configure SAN FS metadata servers and two SAN FS clients running on different Operating Systems so files can be shared between them. Configure and verify the results of the Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) technology. Hands-On Labs Thirteen hands-on labs are included to address installing SuSE Linux, installing SAN FS prerequisite software, installing SAN FS software, installing SAN FS Linux client, installing SAN FS Windows client, SAN FS setup, storage pools, filesets, and permissions. Also, installing heterogeneous file sharing software, SAN FS policy configuration, configuring heterogeneous Windows and Linux file sharing, file movement, installing an Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) server, SAN FS copy sevices, and data migration. Training Path This course is part of an IBM Training Path. Taking this course in the recommended sequence allows you to maximize the benefits from your education. http://www.ibm.com/services/learning/ites.wss/us/en?pageType=page&contentID=a0000376
This is an intermediate course for individuals who are assessing or planning to deploy a SAN File System.
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Course title:
IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center 3.3 Administration and Operation
Course duration: 5 days
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Abstract: IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center is a comprehensive solution for managing storage capacity, availability, events, performance, and assets in an enterprise environment. Automated user-defined policies can detect potential problems and make adjustments based on user criteria. IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center is a key component in the information life cycle management solution.
This course comprises over 50 percent hands-on lab exercises that reinforce the instructor-based lectures. Instructor lecture and demonstrations focus on daily administration and operation, report generation and analysis, and policy management. Students are assigned a unique server to administer IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center 3.3 in a Windows 2003 environment. Practice administering the entire suite of products including Fabric Manager, Disk Manager, and Data Manager and learn to integrate those components into your storage solution.
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Course title:
Tivoli Implementation Foundation Skills: An Introduction to Data Centers
Course duration: 8 hours
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Abstract: This course provides an introductory overview of the data center. It examines the business system in the context of the data center, and introduces the students to common components of business system and networks. It concludes with a discussion of management requirements for data centers.
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Magstar Virtual Tape Server Concepts (DVL)
This course can also be purchased as part of the License Pack, Starter Pack, or complete IBM Digital Library. For details, visit http://ibm.com/training/us/dvl It is equivalent to our standard classroom course: IBM TotalStorage Virtual Tape Server Concepts (SS220) Virtual tape technology offers you new ways to solve concerns with traditional tape processing. Learn to compare virtual tape to traditional tape, describe virtual tape, and explore the hardware and software needed. Review the evolution of tape subsystems and see how common practices prevent full exploitation of tape hardware and media. Learn why virtual tape technology offers better exploitation of performance and capacity because of how a Virtual Tape Server (VTS) works. Learn hardware configuration choices and the DFSMS/MVS components to manage a VTS. The main emphasis of the course is System/390 environments. IBM instructors demonstrate the lab portion of the course should the classroom version of this course contain labs. Lab files required to perform labs are not available for distribution.
Operations analysts, storage managers, database administrators, system programmers, and technical managers, who need an introduction to the Magstar VTS.
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TotalStorage Productivity Center (TPC) 3.3 System Hands On Workshop
This is a basic course for IBM and IBM Business Partners designed to help a person who already understands TPC functionality and wants to become familiar with TPC 3.3 installation, tailoring and advanced functions. Participants new to TPC have also found this workshop to be an excellent use of their time.
The Advanced Technical Support team in Gaithersburg has developed a System Hands-On Workshop (SHOW) environment for IBMers and Business Partners to install, tailor and work-with TPC 3.3. This workshop takes one day.
There are two parts to this workshop.
Part 1: TPC 3.3 System Hands-On Workshop - Installation and Tailoring
Part 2: TPC 3.3 System Hands-On Workshop - Advanced Functions
Participation is via Windows Remote Desktop Connection so no student travel is required.
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Course title:
Differences for IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center 3.3
Course duration: 4 hours
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Abstract: This course will cover the differences between IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center (TPC) version 3.3 and TPC version 3.1. Through recoreded demonstrations and presentations you will learn how installation, configuration and operation of TPC has improved in the latest release. Topics include changes in the installation process, reporting enhancements, usability enhancements, and the requirements for a successful migration from TPC 3.1
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IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager and IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center—Storage Provisioning Configuration and Exercises
The provisioning of SAN-attached storage capacity to a server can be a time consuming and
cumbersome process. The task requires skilled storage administrators, and the complexity
of the task can restrict an IT department’s ability to respond quickly to requests to provision
new capacity. There is an automated solution.
End-to-end storage provisioning is the term applied to the whole set of steps required to
provision usable storage capacity to a server. It covers the configuration of all the elements
in the chain from carving out a new volume on a storage subsystem, to creating a file system
at the host, and making it available to the users. Typically, this task involves a storage
administrator using several different tools, and each tool is for the specific task at hand. The
tasks could also be spread across several people. The resulting complexity and high degree
of coordination required can lead to errors and possibly impact systems and application
availability.
Using workflows to automate each step can significantly simplify the end-to-end storage
provisioning process. The benefits are increased responsiveness to business requirements,
lower administration costs, and higher application availability.
This paper and the outlined exercises explore how an automated storage provisioning
solution can be realized for a Windows environment using IBM TotalStorage Productivity
Center 3.1 (TPC) and IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager 5.1 (TPM).
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