Trainer- Anup Mukherjee

IBM Storage Syllabus

IBM SAN Volume Controller introduction

· Benefits of using IBM Spectrum Virtualize

· IBM SAN Volume Controller supported product range

· New in Spectrum Virtualize v8

· Supported products

· IBM SAN Volume Controller high-level features

· IBM SAN Volume Controller product range

· Advanced functions for data reduction

· Data Reduction Pools

· Deduplication

· Thin provisioning

· Thin-provisioned flash copies

· Advanced software features

· Data migration

· Copy services

· Easy Tier

· External virtualization

· Enhanced stretch cluster

· IBM HyperSwap

· Licensing

Storage area network

· SAN topology general guidelines

· SAN performance and scalability

· ISL considerations

· SAN topology-specific guidelines

· Single switch SAN Volume Controller SANs

· Basic core-edge topology

· Edge-core-edge topology

· Full mesh topology

· IBM Spectrum Virtualize as a SAN bridge

· Device placement

· SAN Volume Controller ports

· Slots and ports identification

· Port naming and distribution

· Zoning

· Types of zoning

· Prezoning tips and shortcuts

· SAN Volume Controller internode communications zones

· SAN Volume Controller storage zones

· SAN Volume Controller host zones

· Hot Spare Node zoning considerations

· Zoning with multiple SAN Volume Controller clustered systems

· Split storage subsystem configurations

· Distance extension for Remote Copy services

· Optical multiplexors

· Long-distance SFPs or XFPs

· Fibre Channel over IP

· SAN extension with Business Continuity configurations

· Native IP replication

· Tape and disk traffic that share the SAN

· Switch interoperability

· torage back-end

· General considerations for managing external storage

· Storage controller path selection

· Guidelines for creating optimal back-end configuration

· Considerations for compressing and deduplicating back-end

· Controller-specific considerations

· Considerations for DS8000 series

· IBM XIV Storage System considerations

· IBM FlashSystem A9000/A9000R considerations

· FlashSystem 5000, 5100, 7200, 9100, and 9200 considerations

· IBM FlashSystem 900 considerations

· Path considerations for third-party storage with EMC VMAX and Hitachi Data

· Systems

· Quorum disks

Storage pools

· Introduction to pools

· Standard pool

· Data reduction pools

· Standard pools versus DRPs

· Data reduction estimation tools

· Understanding capacity use in a DRP

· Storage pool planning considerations

· Planning for availability

· Planning for performance

· Planning for capacity

· Extent size considerations

· External pools

· Data reduction pool best practices

· Data reduction pools with IBM FlashSystem NVMe attached drives

· DRP and external storage considerations

· Data reduction pools and VMware vVols

· Data reduction pool configuration limits

· DRP provisioning considerations

· Standard and DRP pools coexistence

· Data migration with DRP

· Operations with storage pools

· Creating data reduction pools

· Adding external MDisks to storage pools

· Renaming MDisks

· Removing MDisks from storage pools

· Remapping-managed MDisks

· Controlling extent allocation order for volume creation

· Considerations when using encryption

· General considerations

· Hardware and software encryption

· Encryption at rest with USB keys

· Encryption at rest with key servers

· Easy Tier, tiered, and balanced storage pools

· Easy Tier concepts

· Easy Tier definitions

· Easy Tier operating modes

· MDisk tier types

· Changing the tier type of an MDisk

· Easy Tier overload protection

· Removing an MDisk from an Easy Tier pool

· Easy Tier implementation considerations

Easy Tier settings

· Monitoring Easy Tier using the GUI

· Volumes

· Overview of volumes

· Guidance for creating volumes

· Thin-provisioned volumes

· Compressed volumes

· Deduplicated volumes

· Thin provisioning considerations

· Limits on virtual capacity of thin-provisioned volumes

· Mirrored volumes

· Write fast failovers

· Read fast failovers

· Maintaining data integrity of mirrored volumes

· HyperSwap volumes

· VMware virtual volumes

· Cloud volumes

· Transparent cloud tiering configuration limitations and rules

· Restoring to the production volume

· Restore to a new volume

· Volume migration

· Image-type to striped-type volume migration

· Migrating to image-type volume

· Migrating with volume mirroring

· Migration from standard pools to Data Reduction Pools

· Preferred paths to a volume

· Moving a volume between I/O groups and nodes

· Changing the preferred node of a volume within an I/O group

· Moving a volume between I/O groups

· Volume throttling

· Volume cache mode

· Other considerations

· Volume protection

· Volume resizing

Migrating from Fibre Channel connections to RDMA over Ethernet connections between nodes Copy services

Introduction to copy services

· FlashCopy

· Metro Mirror and Global Mirror

· Volume Mirroring

· FlashCopy

· FlashCopy use cases

· FlashCopy capabilities overview

· FlashCopy functional overview

· FlashCopy planning considerations

· Remote Copy services

· Remote copy use cases

· Remote copy functional overview

· Remote copy network planning

· Remote copy services planning

· Multiple site remote copy

· 1920 error

· Native IP replication

· Native IP replication technology

· IP partnership limitations

· VLAN support

· IP compression

· Remote copy groups

· Supported configuration examples

· Native IP replication performance consideration

· Volume Mirroring

· Read and write operations

· Volume mirroring use cases

· Mirrored volume components

· Volume Mirroring synchronization options

· Volume Mirroring performance considerations

· Bitmap space for out-of-sync volume copies

· Business continuity

· Business continuity topologies

· Business continuity with Stretched Cluster

· Business continuity with Enhanced Stretched Cluster

· Business continuity with HyperSwap

· Third site and IP quorum

· Quorum modes

· HyperSwap Volumes

· Comparison of business continuity solutions

· Other considerations and general recommendations

Hosts General configuration guidelines

· Number of paths

· Host ports

· Port masking

· N-port ID virtualization

· Host to I/O group mapping

· Volume size as opposed to quantity

· Host volume mapping

· Server adapter layout

· Host status improvements

· Considerations for NVMe over Fibre Channel host attachments

· Considerations for iSER host attachments

· Path selection

· Queue depths

· Persistent reservations

· Clearing reserves

· Multipathing support

· Configuration recommendations for AIX

· Multipathing support

· Physical and logical volumes

· Identifying a disk for use as a virtual SCSI disk

· Multipathing support

· Windows configuration

Solaris MPxIO

· Symantec Veritas Volume Manager

· DMP multipathing

· Configuring VMware

· Multipathing configuration maximums

· Monitoring with the GUI

· Monitoring using quotas and alert

· Performance monitoring with the GUI

· Performance monitoring with IBM Spectrum Control

· Performance monitoring with IBM Storage Insights

· Storage system capacity metrics

· Pool capacity metrics

· Volume capacity metrics

· Alert examples

· Alert to monitor back-end capacity: Physical allocation

Monitoring MM and GM with scripts

· Management GUI

· Service Assistant Tool GUI

· Command-line interface

· Determining the target software level

· Obtaining software packages

· Hardware considerations

· Update sequence

· SAN fabrics preparation

· Storage controllers preparation

· Hosts preparation

· Copy services considerations

· Running the Upgrade Test Utility

Updating software

· Cross-referencing WWPN

· Cross-referencing LUN ID

· Adding nodes

· Upgrading nodes in a cluster

· Moving to a new IBM SAN Volume Controller cluster

· Splitting an IBM SAN Volume Controller cluster

· Adding expansion enclosures

· Removing expansion enclosures

· I/O throttling overview

· I/O throttling on front-end I/O control

· I/O Throttling on back-end I/O control

· Overall benefits of using I/O throttling

· I/O throttling considerations

· Configuring I/O throttling using the CLI

· Configuring I/O throttling using the GUI

· Creating a volume throttle

· Creating a host throttle

· Creating a host cluster throttle

· Creating a storage pool throttle

· Creating an offload throttle

Red Hat Ansible

· RESTful API

· Naming conventions

· SAN fabric documentation

· IBM SAN Volume Controller documentation

· Storage documentation

· Technical support information

· Tracking incident and change tickets

Subscribing to IBM SAN Volume Controller support

· Using the GUI

· Recommended actions and fix procedure

· Diagnostic data collection

· Collecting data from IBM Spectrum Virtualize

· Host multipath software data collection

· Additional data collection

· Common problems and isolation techniques

· Host problems

· SAN problems

· Storage subsystem problems

· Native IP replication problems

· Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) based Clustering

· Advanced Copy services problems

· Health status during upgrade

· Managing physical capacity of over provisioned storage controllers

· Remote Support Assistance

· Call Home Connect Cloud and Health Checker feature

· Health Checker

· IBM Storage Insights

· Storage Insights Customer Dashboard

· Customized dashboards to monitor your storage

· Creating support tickets

· Updating support tickets

· SI Advisor

· IBM Real-time Compression

· Evaluating compression savings by using Comprestimator

· Evaluating workload by using Disk Magic

· Verifying available CPU resources

· Configuring a balanced system

· Standard benchmark tools

· Compression with FlashCopy

· Compression with Easy Tier

· Compression on the backend

· Migrating generic volumes

· Converting RtC volumes to DRP compression

· Best practices for Spectrum Virtualize for Public Cloud in IBM Cloud

Base architecture

· Networking

· Node networking

· Hosts

· Storage

· Discovery and access

· EasyTier considerations

· Replication

· Best practices for Spectrum Virtualize for Public Cloud in AWS

· Base architecture

· Replication considerations

· IBM i considerations

· IBM i Storage management

· Single-level storage

· IBM i response time

· Planning for IBM i storage capacity

· Storage connection to IBM i

· Native attachment

· VIOS attachment

· Setting attributes in VIOS

· FC adapter attributes

· Disk device attributes

· Guidelines for Virtual I/O Server resources

· Disk drives for IBM i

· Defining LUNs for IBM i

· Data layout

· Fibre Channel adapters in IBM i and VIOS

· Zoning SAN switches

· IBM i Multipath

· Booting from SAN

· IBM i mirroring

· Copy services considerations

· Remote replication

· FlashCopy

· HyperSwap

· IBM SAN Volume Controller stretched cluster

· DB2 mirroring for IBM i