Purpose

The purpose of the class is to discuss installation, configuration, and the administration of the DS5000 family of storage subsystems, Storage Area Network (SAN) in this hands-on course, emphasizing the use of IBM DS

Storage Manager.

Students should exit the course with skills to configure a DS5000 storage subsystem and present storage resources to host servers.

Audience

This is an intermediate course for individuals who are assessing or planning to deploy an IBM system Storage

DS5000 storage subsystem.

Prerequisites

You should have technical knowledge and experience with Open Systems servers and a Fibre Channel environment.

Objectives

After completing this course, you should be able to:

Describe how to plan and configure the DS5000

Create arrays and logical drives, and present them to the host servers using Storage Partitioning

Configure the copy services for the DS5000, including FlashCopy, VolumeCopy, and Enhanced Remote

Mirroring

Configure a base SAN installation and zoning

Perform basic problem determination and isolation tasks

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Agenda

Day 1

Introductions

Day 2

Labs

Day 3