IBM AN18G - AIX Storage Management

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

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