IBM DS8000 – Implementation Workshop for System z

You should have completed:

• An Introduction to Data Storage (SS05)
• Fundamentals in Storage Management (SS06)

You should have:

• An understanding of DASD and date sets and how client hosts access data directly or through FICON channels

This course is for system administrators, architects, and storage specialists. Anyone who needs to learn about DS8000 implementation and experiment with them on a real test configuration.

Day 1

Welcome • Unit 1: Concepts and architecture • Unit 2: Concepts of virtualization • Unit 3: DS Command Line Interface • Exercise 0: Lab setup and preliminary instructions • Exercise 1: DS8000 DS CLI: Installation and configuration • Exercise 2: DS8000 DS CLI: DDMs, array sites, arrays, ranks, and extent pools • Exercise 3: DS8000 DS CLI: LCU, CKD volumes, and PAVs

Day 2

• Unit 4: DS8000 Storage Manager GUI • Exercise 4: DS8000 Storage Manager: Arrays, ranks, and extent pools • Exercise 5: DS8000 Storage Manager: LCU, CKD volumes, and PAVs • Exercise 6: DS8000 Storage Manager: I/O ports configuration • Exercise 7: DS8000 Storage Manager: Other functions • Exercise 8: DS8000 Easy Tier: Dynamic volume relocation

Day 3

• Exercise 9: DS8000 Easy Tier: Dynamic pool merge • Unit 5: Host attachment • Unit 6: Performance, tuning, and monitoring • Unit 7: Business continuity