SAN Volume Controller (SVC) V6 Planning and Implementation Workshop

This intermediate lecture and exercise-based course is for individuals who are assessing and/or planning to deploy networked storage virtualization solutions.

After completion of this course, you should be able to:

• Outline the benefit of implementing an SAN Volume Controller (SVC) storage virtualization solution
• Differentiate between the SVC 2145-DH8 model and the previous generation SVC 2145 models
• Outline steps required to integrate the SVC system solution
• Implement zoning policies for device access between the SVC, native disk storage, and host servers
• Implement the SVC GUI and CLI management operations to configure, monitor, and manage the SVC systems
• Identify issues related to coexistence between the SVC and native disk storage access across host servers
• Migrate existing data to the virtualized SVC system environment
• Implement storage efficiency solutions to maintain data growth, enhance storage performance and reliability
• Apply advanced system management strategies to provide high availability
• Employ administrative operations to maintain system ability

Day 1

• Welcome
• Unit 1: Introduction to IBM SAN Volume Controller
• Unit 2: SVC hardware architecture
• Unit 3: SVC planning and zoning requirements
• Unit 4: SVC cluster initialization and user authentication
         o Exercise 0: Lab environment overview
         o Exercise 1: SVC system initialization
         o Exercise 2: SVC system configuration
         o Exercise 3: Examine back-end storage system

Day 2

• Review
• Unit 5: SVC storage provisioning
• Unit 6: SVC host access
         o Exercise 4: Storage provisioning
         o Exercise 5: Access SVC storage from Windows and AIX
• Unit 7: Spectrum Virtualize advanced features
         o Exercise 6: Thin Provisioning and Volume Mirroring
         o Exercise 7: Storage access and SDD path selection

Day 3

• Review
• Unit 8: Spectrum Virtualize data migration
         o Exercise 8: SVC data migration
         o Exercise 9: Migrate existing data: Migration Wizard
         o Exercise 10: Migrate existing data with Import Wizard GUI
         o Exercise 11: Migrate existing data with Import Wizard CLI
• Unit 9: Spectrum Virtualize Copy Services

Day 4

• Review
         o Exercise 12: SVC scripting and I/O group modification
         o Exercise 13: Real-time Compression and the IBM Comprestimator
• Unit 10: SVC administration management
         o Exercise 14: SVC FlashCopy and consistency groups
         o Exercise 15: Assign user roles and access
• Class Review and Evaluation

The following courses are required prior to this class:

• Introduction to Storage (SS01G)
• Storage Area Networking - Fundamentals (SN71G or SN71SG)
• An understanding of the concepts of open systems disk storage systems and I/O operations