AIX Storage Management

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Duration: 16 Hours

Course Content

This storage management course focuses primarily on how AIX interacts with Fibre Channel physical and virtual storage devices. Along with this general view, you will look at common operational issues such as performance and problem solving from the perspective of an AIX administrator.

This course uses a combination of instructor lectures and machine exercises to provide the student with practical background knowledge regarding the topics covered.

Course Objective

On completion of this course, students should be able to:

Describe common interaction of AIX within a Fibre Channel (FC) environment
Interpret AIX boot strategies using SAN
Select key FC related performance characteristics to monitor
Use AIX commands for performance monitoring
Manage Virtual I/O Server FC devices
Initialize virtual FC resources
Define basic strategy for FC problem determination under AIX
Provide suggested solutions to common FC SAN problems under AIX

Day 1
Unit 1: AIX in a SAN environment
Exercise 1: Introduction to the lab environment
Unit 2: AIX MPIO device management
Exercise 2: MPIO operations

Day 2
Unit 3: Virtual IO Server
Exercise 3: Virtual IO Server
Unit 4: Disk operations
Exercise 4: Disk operations
Unit 5: SAN boot and problem determination
Exercise 5: SAN boot and problem

Prerequisites

Students must have basic AIX system administration experience and this prerequisite may be met by attending the following course and its prerequisites:

AN12G Power Systems for AIX II AIX Implementation and Administration or
AN14G AIX Jumpstart for Unix Professionals

Note: Students who are planning to be Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) administrators should take the following courses instead of this course to get more indepth virtual FC and VIOS content. This course is for AIX Administrators who need to understand using physical and virtual FC devices when using AIX.

AN30G Power Systems for AIX - PowerVM I: Implementing Virtualization
AN31G Power Systems for AIX - Virtualization II: Advanced PowerVM and Performance

Who Should Attend

This intermediate course is intended for persons who manage AIX servers that utilize SAN-backed storage and who would like to know how to manage Fibre Channel attached devices to AIX and Virtual I/O Servers.. The audience for this training includes AIX technical support individuals, system administrators, and system architects.

Course Outline

AIX concepts and commands in a SAN environment
AIX physical and virtual storage device management
AIX boot strategies using SAN
Storage server concepts and terminology
Storage manager functions
SAN fabric design elements
SAN addressing
Switches and zoning
Using the Virtual I/O Server for Fibre Channel devices
SAN Performance Monitoring Considerations
FC problem determination process

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