Course Overview
This course aims to provide an understanding of IBM's Spectrum range of products, specifically IBM Spectrum Accelerate. It has been written to teach everything from the basics of installing IBM XIV as Software to performing advanced administrative tasks using it. The course will also attempt to clarify the concepts involved in planning, deploying and implementing IBM's Spectrum Accelerate product. It will cover the basics of XIV storage virtualization from a technology standpoint as it is today, the product architecture of IBM Spectrum Accelerate, explain its major features and benefits while showing how to implement the solution. It will also cover configurations that an administrator must be aware of by showing multiple use cases.
Who should attend
Enrollment in this course is not restricted. Typical students may include:
- Customers
- Technical IBM personnel
- Business Partner technical personnel
- IT consultants and architects
Prerequisites
Course Objectives
By the end of the course you should be able to:
- Demonstrate an understanding of Software-defined storage from a technology standpoint
- Summarize IBM’s Spectrum range of products and their benefits
- Summarize the architecture of IBM Spectrum Accelerate
- Integrate and deploy IBM Spectrum Accelerate in an existing storage infrastructure
- Summarize the key administrative tasks that need to be performed after the installation of IBM Spectrum Accelerate
- Demonstrate an ability to access and interact with the graphical and command line interfaces of the product
- Summarize the various tasks that can be performed on block storage using IBM Spectrum Accelerate by understanding various use cases
Course Content
Agenda
- Unit 1: Introduction to IBM Spectrum Accelerate
- Unit 2: Planning for Spectrum Accelerate
- Unit 3: IBM Spectrum Accelerate Implementation
- Unit 4: IBM Spectrum Accelerate Administration
- Unit 5: IBM Spectrum Accelerate Trouble Shooting
Lab Exercises
- Exercise 1: Not used in this course
- Exercise 2: Navigation and User Management in IBM Spectrum Accelerate
- Exercise 3: Managing Capacity
- Exercise 4: Manageing Snapshots & Consistency Groups
- Exercise 5: Managing Host Attachments
- Exercise 7: Monitoring in IBM Spectrum Accelerate
- Exercise 8: A walk-through of mirroring with IBM Spectrum Accelerate
- Exercise 9: Multi-tenancy and Troubleshooting