IBM FlashSystem V9000 Storage Implementation

This lecture and exercise-based course is for individuals who are assessing and/or planning to deploy IBM System Storage networked storage virtualization solutions. Enrollment in this course is not restricted.

Typical students may include: 

• Customers
• Technical IBM personnel
• Business Partner technical personnel
• IT consultants and architects

After completing this course, you should be able to:

• Summarize the units associated with this course.
• Recall the history and fundamentals for IBM FlashSystem storage.
• Distinguish the core principles of the IBM FlashCore Technology.
• Classify the characteristics and components of the IBM FlashSystem V9000 storage system.
• Outline the physical and logical planning requirements to setup and configure a FlashSystem system environment.
• Summarize the symmetric virtualization process converting IBM MicroLatency modules to storage resources.
• Recall the process to create host access storage on the IBM FlashSystem V9000.
• Determinate the advanced software features designed to simplify data management, improve data security, and preserve storage investments.
• Interpret the process in which to migrate data to and from the virtualized FlashSystem V9000 system environment.
• Recall the administrative functions and maintenance procedures to centralize the management and servicing of IBM FlashSystem V9000 storage resources.

Day 1

• Welcome
• Unit 1: IBM FlashSystem V9000 Introduction
• Unit 2: Emergence of flash storage
• Unit 3: IBM FlashCore Technology
• Unit 4: IBM FlashSystem V9000 hardware architecture
• Unit 5: FlashSystem V9000 installation and configuration
• Unit 6: IBM Spectrum Virtualize RAID protection
• Exercise 0: Lab environment overview
• Exercise 1: System user authentication
• Exercise 2: Provisioning internal storage

Day 2

• Unit 7: FlashSystem V9000 storage provisioning
• Unit 8: IBM Spectrum Virtualize host integration
• Unit 9: IBM Spectrum Virtualize volume allocation
• Unit 10: IBM Spectrum Virtualize data reduction technologies
• Unit 11: IBM Spectrum Virtualize Easy Tier
• Exercise 3: Managing external storage resources
• Exercise 4: Windows host definitions and volume allocations
• Exercise 5: AIX host definitions and volume allocations
• Exercise 6: Linux host definitions and volume allocations
• Exercise 7: Thin Provision and Volume Mirroring
• Exercise 8: Easy Tier Hybrid pool implementation

Day 3

• Unit 12: IBM Spectrum Virtualize data migration
• Unit 13: IBM Spectrum Virtualize FlashCopy and Consistency groups
• Unit 14: IBM Spectrum Virtualize Transparent Cloud Tiering
• Exercise 9: Easy Tier and STAT analysis
• Exercise 10: V9000 data pool migration
• 11: Migrate existing data with Import Wizard GUI
• Exercise 12: Migrate existing data with Migration Wizard

Day 4

• Unit 11: IBM Spectrum Virtualize remote data replication
• Unit 16: IBM Spectrum Virtualize administration management
• Exercise 13: Migrate existing data with Import Wizard CLI
• Exercise 14: Real-time Compression and IBM Comprestimator
• Exercise 15: FlashCopy and consistency groups
• Exercise 16: FlashCopy snapshot monitoring user roles and access
• Exercise 19: Snapshot to the Cloud
• Class review and evaluation

An understanding of the basic concepts of open systems disk storage system and I/O operations - we recommend the following:

• Introduction to Storage Concepts & solutions (DL08002G) - no cost
• Foundations of Storage (SS00DG) or
• Introduction to Storage (SS01G) and
• IBM Flash Storage Fundamentals (SSFS1G / SSFS1WG)