IBM LX072G - Power Systems Running Linux: Storage Management

Course Outline

DAY 1

Unit 1: Welcome, Introduction to Power storage (PowerVM, VIOS)

Exercise 1: Navigating the lab environment

Unit 2: Device naming and File System management

Exercise 2: Managing devices

DAY 2

Unit 3: SAN attached devices and MultiPath IO

Exercise 3: Multipath IO

Unit 4: Logical Volume Management

Objective

After completing this course, you should be able to:

• Describe storage options for Linux distributions running in a Power Systems environment
• Interpret storage configuration data
• Implement storage devices with PowerVM
  
  • VIOS
  • Fibre Channel
  • iSCSI
• Differentiate native Linux and hardware RAID solutions
• Validate configuration options

Design solutions for attaching storage resources to a Linux on Power host