Table of Contents

1. Short Summary
2. Duration
3. Content Description
4. Objectives
5. Agenda
6. Audience
7. Skill Level
8. Labs?
9. Keywords
10. Prerequisites
11. Enrollment
12. Errata
13. Follow-on Courses

Short Summary

This course includes information on various Storage Scale features that enable remote access to data that is stored in a cluster file system.

Duration in Hours ⌚

24.0

Content Description

Enterprises are creating, analyzing and keeping more data than ever before. An organization’s underlying storage must support new-era big data and artificial intelligence workloads along with traditional applications while ensuring security, reliability and high performance. IBM Storage Scale meets these challenges as a high-performance solution for managing data at scale.

This course is intended for IT professionals tasked with administering a Storage Scale storage cluster consisting of Linux nodes. The course includes information on various Storage Scale features that enable remote access to data that is stored in a cluster file system. This includes: multi-cluster support, clustered NFS, cluster export services (CES) and protocol support (NFS, SMB, and Object), Active File Management (AFM), and AFM-based Asynchronous Disaster Recovery (AFM DR). The features are described in lecture materials and implemented in lab exercises.

Objectives

• Configure a cluster to allow remote file system access
• Mount a Storage Scale file system from a remote cluster
• Implement Active File Management (AFM)
• Summarize AFM cache modes
• Describe AFM DR
• Differentiate AFM and AFM DR
• Implement AFM DR
• Describe and implement Clustered NFS (CNFS)
• Describe the Cluster Export Services (CES) architecture
• Implement CES protocols (NFS, SMB, and Object)
• Differentiate CNFS and CES NFS

Agenda

WEEK 1:

Unit/Module 1: IBM Storage Scale Remote Data Access Overview [2 hours]

Topic/Lesson 1: Describing the Multi-Cluster Architecture

Topic/Lesson 2: Configure a cluster environment to allow remote file system access

Topic/Lesson 3: Mounting a file system from a home cluster

Exercise 1: Configuring multi-cluster file system access

Quiz: 30 min

U2V1: AFM Architecture and Summary of AFM Terminology Including Home and Cache Filesets

U2V2: Differentiate AFM Cache Modes and Distinguish Application and Gateway Nodes

U2V3: Create and Manage an AFM Relationship

Exercise 2: Configuring Active File Management (AFM)

Quiz/Project: 30 min

WEEK 2

U3V1: AFM DR Architecture and Summary of AFM DR Terminology Including Primary and Secondary Filesets

U3V2: Differentiating AFM DR and AFM

U3V3: Creating Primary and Secondary Filesets

U3V4: Describing the Failover and Failback Procedures

Exercise 3: Configuring AFM-based Asynchronous Disaster Recovery (AFM DR)

Quiz: 30 min

U4V1: CNFS Architecture and Its Advantages

U4V2: Static and Aliased IP Address Configurations

U4V3: CNFS Failover Process and Group IDs_Designing Implementing and Managing a CNFS Cluster

Exercise 4: Configuring Clustered NFS (CNFS)

Quiz: 30 min

WEEK 3

U5V1: Cluster Export Services CES

U5V2: Open-Source Software and CES Requirements

U5V3: IP Addrss Distribution - CES Cluster and Node Status - Implementing a CES Cluster

Exercise 5: Configuring Cluster Export Services (CES)

Quiz: 30 min

Unit 6: CES NFS protocol support

U6V1: Describe and enable the CES NFS protocol service (Slides 3-6)

U6V2: Configure and manage CES NFS protocol exports (Slides 7-18)

U6V3: Summary of NFS vs. CNFS and configuration (Slides 19-20)

Exercise 6: Configuring CES NFS protocol exports

Quiz: 30 min

WEEK 4

Unit 7: CES SMB protocol support

U7V1: Samba and the CES SMB protocol service (Slides 3-6)

U7V2: Configure and manage CES SMB protocol shares (Slides 7-10)

U7V3: CES SMB configuration steps (Slides 11-16)

Exercise 7: Configuring CES SMB protocol shares

Quiz: 30 min

Unit 8: CES object protocol support

U8V1: Object storage and addressing concepts (Slides 3-5)

U8V2: Introduction to Object storage in Storage Scale (Slides 6-10)

U8V3: Configuring Storage Scale object protocol support (Slides 11-15)

U8V4: Unified file and object access (Slides 16-21)

U8V5: Object multi-region and S3 considerations (Slides 21 - 24)

Exercise 8: Configuring CES object protocol storage

Quiz/Project: 30 min

Audience

This lecture and exercise-based course is for individuals who want to configure a Spectrum Scale cluster to allow remote data access.

Skill Level

Advanced

Labs? 💻

No

Keywords

H012DG;H008;spectrum scale; sds; cluster; AFM; CES; NFS; CNFS; SMB; Object storage

Prerequisites

Students must already know the basics of installing, configuring and managing a Storage Scale clustered file system. This prerequisite can be met by attending the following courses:

H010DG - IBM Storage Scale Fundamentals

H011DG - IBM Storage Scale Administration

Enrollment

https://www.ibm.com/training/course/H012DG

Errata

None specified.

Follow-on Courses

SS01DG