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Spectrum Virtualize

Course outline

3 days
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Duration

3 days

Overview

RAID Protection

This module introduces IBM Spectrum Virtualize support for traditional RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) arrays and the Distributed RAID arrays. Traditional RAID (or TRAID) and Distributed RAID (or DRAID) arrays are both data storage virtualization technologies that combines multiple physical disk drive components into one or more logical units. TRAID and DRAID offers increased storage performance, resiliency and low cost, with improved higher availability to recreate lost data from parity information. This module also discuss the benefits of implementing DRAID 6 to boost IO performance versus TRAID 5 in almost all production workloads.

Advanced Cluster Concepts

This module focus on advanced cluster features for maintaining high availability in configuration/metadata recovery, system fail-overs and system upgrades.

Transparent Cloud Tiering

IBM Spectrum Virtualize Transparent Cloud Tiering supports creating connections to cloud service providers to store copies of volume data in private or public cloud storage - freeing up capacity on the system.

This module discusses how transparent cloud tiering features and functions, and how it can help administrators to create point-in-time snapshots of data on the system and then copied and stored on the cloud storage. Thus allowing administrators to restore snapshots from the cloud for disaster recovery purposes.

You will also authenticate Transparent Cloud Tiering on an IBM Spectrum Virtualize system to an OpenStack cloud server, create a cloud snapshot of a volume, and recover the volume snapshot from the cloud.

IBM SAN Volume Controller

IBM Spectrum Virtualize software, part of the IBM Spectrum Storage family of software and the IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) is an enterprise-class storage system that helps organizations improve data economics by supporting the new large scale workloads that are critical to success. SVC systems can handle massive volumes of data from mobile and social applications, enable rapid and flexible cloud services deployments, and deliver the performance and scalability needed to gain insights from the latest analytics technologies.

Skills Gained

Upon completion of this course you should be able to:

  • Distinguish between Traditional and Distributed arrays.
  • Describe the concept of a quorum configuration
  • Identify the characteristics of the N_Port ID Virtualization
  • Identify the characteristics of a hot spare/standby node
  • Describe the concept of node failover
  • Describe the benefit of performing system upgrade with spare nodes
  • Define hybrid cloud storage
  • Identify the attributes of transparent cloud tiering
  • Characterize the function of the cloud snapshot
  • Characterize the function of the cloud snapshot recovery
  • Assess the use cases of cloud storage
  • Recall the concepts of storage virtualization - Define the architecture features of the latest IBM SAN Volume Controller 2145-SV1 storage engine - Identify the architecture features of the supported IBM SAS expansion enclosures

Who Can Benefit

This course is for IBM personnel, IBM Business Partners, IT consultants and customers who are assessing and/or planning to deploy IBM System San Volume Controller Storage solutions and are interested in learning more on IBM Spectrum Virtualization.

Prerequisites

  • IBM Spectrum Virtualize for the IBM SAN Volume Controller (SNV10DG)
  • Introduction to Storage (SS01G)

Key topics

  • Traditional RAID arrays - Overview
  • Distributed RAID - Overview
  • Quorum devices
  • N-Port ID Virtualization Book
  • Hot Spare/Standby nodes Book
  • Node failover Book
  • System Upgrades Book
  • Exercise: System firmware upgrade
  • Snapshot to the Cloud
  • The exercise component implements Transparent Cloud Tiering using an IBM Spectrum Virtualize system to a OpenStack cloud server, creates a cloud snapshot of a volume, and recovers the volume snapshot from the cloud.
  • Note: This simulation provides guided steps and hints on completing the exercise.
  • IBM Spectrum Virtualize: Improving storage efficiency

Topic 3: Benefits of IBM Spectrum Virtualize

  • IBM SAN Volume Controller: Architecture hardware

Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.