This 5 day training is based on the IBM Spectrum Scale training courses H005G (IBM Spectrum Scale Basic Administration for Linux and AIX - 3 days) and H008G (IBM Spectrum Scale Remote Data Access - 3 days)

All materials are based on Version 5.1 and/or V5.2 of Storage Scale.

Day 1

• Welcome and course overview
• Unit 1 - IBM Spectrum Scale overview
• Exercise 1 - Cluster node preparation
• Unit 2 - Installation and cluster configuration

Day 2

• Exercise 2 - Installation and cluster configuration
• Unit 3 - Cluster management
• Exercise 3 - Cluster management and configuration

Day 3

• Unit 4 - Information Lifecycle Management (ILM)
• Exercise 4 - Storage pools, file sets, and policies
• Unit 5 - High availability and cluster data backups
• Exercise 5 - Replication and snapshots
• Unit 6 – Migration Scenarios (V5 Fixes, Migrations to V6)
• Unit 7 - Describe and set up GUI interface
• Exercise 7 – Setup the V5 GUI

Day 4

• Unit 8 - Describe IBM Spectrum Scale multi-cluster (H008G Unit 1)
• Exercise 8 – Setup remote mounts
• Unit 9 - Cluster Export Service (CES) Overview (H008G Unit 5)
• Exercise 9 – Install CES
• Unit 10 - Describe CES Network File System (NFS) (H008G Unit 6)
• Exercise 10 – Use CES Exports for NFS shares
• Unit 11 - Describe CES (SMB or CIFS) Protocol (H008G Unit 7)
• Exercise 11 – Use CES Exports for SMB shares
• Unit 12 – Discuss different Authorization possibilities

Day 5

• Unit 13 - Describe AFM (home and cache features) (H008G Unit 2) - List the various Active File Management (AFM) modes
• Unit 14 - create and manage an AFM relationship
• Unit 15 - Define and introduce asynchronous disaster recovery (DR) (H008G Unit 3)
• If time permits – answer questions an go into cluster health and monitoring