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IBM : SAN Volume Controller (SVC) V6 Planning and Implementation Workshop

13 September 2018 @ 8:00 am - 17 September 2018 @ 3:30 pm

Velisa Africa is the official Global Knowledge partner in Sub-Saharan Africa. Course details : https://www.globalknowledge.co.uk/courses/ibm/network_storage/snv1g.html

Leverage networked storage connectivity by integrating a layer of intelligence – the SAN Volume Controller (SVC) – to facilitate storage application data access independence from storage management functions and requirements. Focus on planning and implementation tasks associated with integrating the SVC into the storage area network. Centralize storage provisioning to host servers from common storage pools. Facilitate the coexistence and migration of data from non-virtualized to the virtualized environment. Utilize network-level storage subsystem-independent data replication services to satisfy backup and disaster recovery requirements. This course offering is at the SVC V6 level.

The course SAN Volume Controller (SVC) Planning and Implementation Workshop (SN83GB) covers SVC V5.

Pre-Requisites

You should complete:

Introduction to Storage Networking (SN70GB)
Or have equivalent experience
And understand the basic concepts of open systems disk storage systems and I/O operations

Content

Day 1

Introducing the SAN Volume Controller
Storage provisioning with the SAN Volume Controller
SAN Volume Controller clustering environment
SVC Cluster Setup and Storage Provisioning
SVC physical environment and management interfaces
Storage systems and LUN assignments to SVC
Cluster creation and storage provisioning
Additional functions: Quorum disks, expand/shrink volumes, back-end MDisk pathing, SSDs and RAID
Labs:
SVC cluster creation
SVC cluster and GUI/CLI access setup
Identify back-end storage to the SVC cluster
Create storage pools
Create host objects and assign volumes

Day 2

Fabric Zoning and iSCSI Connectivity
Host to SVC volume access infrastructure
Fibre Channel host to SVC SAN fabric zoning
iSCSI host to SVC IP Connectivity
Thin Provisioning and Volume Copy
Thin provisioned volumes
Volume Mirroring
Labs:
Access storage from Windows and AIX
Thin provisioning and Volume Mirroring
Data access and SDD path selection
Access storage from iSCSI host

Day 3

Data Migration
Pool Migration
Migration Wizards (Import, Migration, Export)
MDisk removal
Storage system replacement
Copy Services-FlashCopy/Remote Copy
FlashCopy
Metro/Global Mirroring introduction
Labs
Pool migration
Migration Import Wizard
FlashCopy and Consistency Groups

Day 4

Managing the SVC Environment
Logging and diagnostics
Code upgrades and node replacement
SVC configuration backup
Labs
Expand volume size
Change volume I/O Group and SVC scripting
Manage user roles

Objectives

Create an implementation task list to integrate the SVC solution into the storage network fabric
Establish or update zoning policies to enable the SVC to control storage device access and facilitate storage provisioning to host servers
Utilize SVC user interfaces to manage the networked storage environment, assign storage to servers, migrate data, replicate data across storage systems, and monitor storage access activities
Assess issues related to coexistence between the SVC and native disk storage access across host servers Migrate existing data to the virtualized SVC environment
Use interfaces provided by the Subsystem Device Driver (SDD) to monitor and manage SDD multi-path I/O access and path management
Implement point-in-time copies across the SVC cluster using FlashCopy GUI presets