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

Storage efficiency solutions including thin provisioning, volume mirroring, Real-time Compression, and Easy Tier are elements of this class.

Duration in Hours ⌚

32

Content Description

This course is designed to leverage SAN storage connectivity by integrating a layer of intelligence of virtualization, the IBM Storwize V7000 to facilitate storage application data access independence from storage management functions and requirements. The focus is on planning and implementation tasks associated with integrating the Storwize V7000 into the storage area network. It also explains how to:

• Centralize storage provisioning to host servers from common storage pools using internal storage and SAN attached external heterogeneous storage.

• Improve storage utilization effectiveness using Thin Provisioning and Real-Time Compression

• Implement storage tiering and optimize solid state drives (SSDs) or flash systems usage with Easy Tier.

• Facilitate the coexistence and migration of data from non-virtualization to the virtualized environment.

• Utilize network-level storage subsystem-independent data replication services to satisfy backup and disaster recovery requirements.

• This course lecture offering is at the Storwize V7000 V7.6. level.

Objectives

After completing this course, you should be able to:

• Outline the benefits of implementing an Storwize V7000 storage virtualization solution.

• Differentiate between the Storwize V7000 2076-524 control enclosure and the 2076-312/324 expansion enclosure models.

• Outline the physical and logical requirements to integrate the Storwize V7000 system solution.

• Implement the Storwize V7000 GUI and CLI system setup to configure the V7000 systems.

• Summarize the symmetric virtualization process to convert physical storage into virtual storage resources.

• Implement volume allocations and map volumes to SAN attached host systems.

• Summarize the advanced system management strategies to maintain storage efficiency, enhance storage performance and reliability.

• Employ data migration strategies to the virtualized Storwize V7000 system environment.

• Implement Copy Services strategies to managed Storwize V7000 system environment remotely

• Employ administration operations to maintain system ability.

Agenda

Day 1

Welcome

Unit 1: Introduction to IBM Storwize V7000 Unit 2: Storwize V7000 hardware architecture Unit 3: Storwize V7000 planning and zoning requirements Unit 4: Storwize V7000 system initialization and user authentication Unit 5: Storwize V7000 storage provisioning Exercise 1: Storwize V7000 system initialization Exercise 2: Storwize V7000 system configuration Exercise 3: Configure user authentication Exercise 4: Provision internal storage Exercise 5: Examine external storage resources

Day 2

    

Review Unit 6: Storwize V7000 host and volume allocation Unit 7: Spectrum Virtualize advanced features Exercise 6: Managing external storage resources Exercise 7: Host definitions and volume allocations Exercise 8: Access storage from Windows and AIX Exercise 9: Hybrid pools and Easy Tier Exercise10: Access Storwize V7000 through iSCSI host

    

Day 3

Review

Unit 8: Spectrum Virtualize data migration Unit 9: Spectrum Virtualize Copy Services: FlashCopy Unit 10: Spectrum Virtualize Copy Services: Remote Copy Exercise 11: Volume dependencies and tier migration Exercise 12: Reconfigure internal storage: RAID options Exercise 13: Thin provisioning and volume mirroring Exercise 14: Migrate existing data: Import Wizard

Day 4

Review

Unit 11: Storwize V7000 administration management Exercise 15: Copy Services: FlashCopy and consistency groups Exercise 16: User roles and access Exercise 17: Migrate existing data: Migration Wizard Exercise 18: Easy Tier and STAT analysis Class review and evaluation

Audience

This intermediate course is for individuals who assess or plan to deploy the IBM Storwize V7000 and leverage storage network virtualization solutions.

Skill Level

Intermediate

Labs? 💻

Yes

Keywords

SAN; V7000; SSE1G; SSE1; Storwize; SDI; virtualization

Prerequisites

You should have completed:

• Introduction to Storage (SS01G)
• Storage Area Networking Fundamentals (SN71G)

or equivalent knowledge

You should:

• Have a basic understanding of concepts associated with open systems, disk storage systems, and I/O operations.

Enrollment

https://www.ibm.com/training/course/SSE1G

Errata

None specified.

Follow-on Courses

None