Duration
40 hours
Overview
IBM Spectrum Protect 7.1.4, formerly known as IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, is a data backup and recovery solution designed to help you manage your data retention, reduce the cost of storage, and provide appropriate recovery point objectives to meet any service level agreement. IBM Spectrum Protect offers improved efficiency and flexibility through the use of object-based data management and policy driven retention.
This five day course will focus on implementation and basic administration of a Spectrum Protect environment. The hands-on lab exercises are performed on a Windows 2012 environment. The course materials includes examples of AIX and Linux commands, when different from windows.
Audience
This self-paced lecture and exercise-based course is for implementers and administrators who are new to IBM Spectrum Protect/Tivoli Storage Manager data management.
Prerequisites
You may wish to take Introduction to Storage prior to this class.
- Introduction to Storage (SS01G)
- SS01WG - (Web)
Key topics
Day 1
Lab - Installing IBM Spectrum Protect
Day 2
Lab - Accessing Spectrum Protect administrative and client interfaces
Lab - Configuring devices and storage pools
Lab - Managing the database and recovery logs
Day 3
Lab - Customizing data retention
Lab - Configuring the client lab (start)
Day 4
Lab - Configuring the client lab (complete)
Lab - Protecting client data
Day 5
Lab - Protecting the database and storage pools
Lab - Automating and monitoring operations
Objectives
- After completing this course, you should be able to:
- Describe the purpose of IBM Spectrum Protect
- Install and configure the IBM Spectrum Protect components
- Use the administrative and client interfaces
- Discuss storage methodology options and create storage pool
- Managing the database and recovery log space
- Customize data movement and retention policies to meet business requirements
- Optimize client configuration
- Perform backup, restore, archive and retrieve operations
- Organize daily tasks required to protect the Spectrum Protect environment
- Automate and monitor client and administrative tasks and events
Follow-on courses
You may elect to take the next course in Spectrum Protect
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager 7.1 Advanced Admin, Tuning, Troubleshooting (TS625G)
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.