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

The foundations of the IBM Cloud Object Storage or COS solution for on-premises systems are covered in this course. It introduces students to IBM Cloud Object Storage, how to install the solution, configure it, and navigate the user interface.

Duration in Hours ⌚

8

Content Description

The foundations of the IBM Cloud Object Storage (COS) solution for on-premises systems are covered in this course. It introduces students to IBM Cloud Object Storage, how to install the solution, configure it, and navigate the user interface.

The course delves deeper into how to make capacity changes, self-healing features, and how to examine logs and troubleshoot IBM Cloud Object Storage.

There are pre-recorded lab demos to show these concepts in action.

This course earns you the IBM Cloud Object Storage Technical Essentials badge (https://www.credly.com/org/ibm/badge/ibm-cloud-object-storage-technical-essentials).

Objectives

• Identify the key features of the IBM Cloud Object Storage solution
• Summarize the architecture of the IBM Cloud Object Storage solution
• Perform the installation of the IBM Cloud Object Storage solution
• Navigate the Manager user interface of the IBM Cloud Object Storage solution
• Perform administrative tasks of the IBM Cloud Object Storage solution
• Perform basic troubleshooting tasks of the IBM Cloud Object Storage solution

Agenda

• Unit 1: IBM Cloud Object Storage Introduction
• Unit 2: Installation, Configuration, User Interface and APIs
• Unit 3: Input, Output and Capacity Changes
• Unit 4: Self-Healing, Reporting and Sandbox Overview
• Unit 5: Logs and Troubleshooting
• Unit 6: Additional Items and Support
• Unit 7: Lab demos
  • Deploy Images, Configure EFI RAM, Networking
  • Slicestor Configuration, Add Drives, Clone VMs
  • Manager, Accesser Configs
  • Add Slicestor and Manager Configurations
  • Create Storagepool, Access pool, Users, Vaults, Buckets, Cyberduck

Audience

Enrollment in this course is not restricted. Typical students may include:

• Customers
• Technical IBM personnel
• Business Partner technical personnel 
• IT consultants and architects

Skill Level

Basic

Labs? 💻

No

Keywords

COS;Cloud Object Storage, IBM Storage, Object Storage, IBM Spectrum

Prerequisites

None

Enrollment

https://www.ibm.com/training/course/SSC20DG

Errata

None specified.

Follow-on Courses

• H005G: IBM Spectrum Scale Basic Administration for Linux and AIX
• SSE12DG: Monitoring the IBM Elastic Storage System
• SNV1G: SAN Volume Controller (SVC) Planning and Implementation Workshop