IBM DS8000 – Implementation Workshop for System z (SSF1G) – Outline

Detailed Course Outline

Day 1

• Welcome
• Unit 1: Concepts and architecture Unit 2: Concepts of virtualization Unit 3: DS Command Line Interface
• Exercise 0: Lab setup and preliminary instructions Exercise 1: DS8000 DS CLI: Installation and configuration
• Exercise 2: DS8000 DS CLI: DDMs, array sites, arrays, ranks, and extent pools
• Exercise 3: DS8000 DS CLI: LCU, CKD volumes, and PAVs

Day 2

• Unit 4: DS8000 Storage Manager GUI
• Exercise 4: DS8000 Storage Manager: Arrays, ranks, and extent pools Exercise 5: DS8000 Storage Manager: LCU, CKD volumes, and PAVs Exercise 6: DS8000 Storage Manager: I/O ports configuration Exercise 7: DS8000 Storage Manager: Other functions
• Exercise 8: DS8000 Easy Tier: Dynamic volume relocation

Day 3

• Exercise 9: DS8000 Easy Tier: Dynamic pool merge
• Unit 5: Host attachment
• Unit 6: Performance, tuning, and monitoring
• Unit 7: Business continuity