IBM SSE11G - Monitoring the IBM Elastic Storage Server

Course Outline

Unit 1. Introducing the ESS

· Discuss the benefits for the IBM Elastic Storage Server
· Assess the recoverability features of IBM Spectrum Scale RAID
· Define the IBM Elastic Storage Server storage structure and terms
· Paraphrase how data is protected in the IBM Elastic Storage Server

Unit 2. Defining the ESS components

· Summarize the ESS hardware
· Summarize the ESS software
· Identify the ESS network requirements

Unit 3. Monitoring the ESS

· Illustrate the CLI status commands for ESS hardware and configuration
· Relate how to manage ESS using the GUI

Unit 4. Managing the ESS file system and filesets

· Relate how to manage ESS file systems
· Relate how to manage ESS filesets

Unit 5. Managing the ESS service support

· Summarize the call home support for ESS
· Summarize IBM service tools for ESS

Lab demos are on:

· CLI Monitoring
· GUI Monitoring
· CLI File System
· GUI File System

Objective

After completing this course, you should be able to:

· Relate the data protection features used in IBM Elastic Storage Server
· Distinguish between traditional RAID and IBM Spectrum Scale RAID
· Compile the requirements for the IBM Elastic Storage Server solution
· Apply the GUI and CLI to manage an IBM Elastic Storage Server environment
· Relate the process to create and delete a file system and a fileset in an IBM Elastic Storage Server environment