IBM TS626G - IBM Spectrum Protect 8.1.4 Advanced Administration, Tuning, and Troubleshooting

Course Outline

Unit 1 - The IBM Spectrum Protect 8.1.4 environment

• IBM Spectrum Protect concepts
• Operations Center navigation
• Benefits of a multi-site/multi-server environment
• Secure communications overview
• Documentation

Unit 2 - Storage pool management overview

• Manage storage pool hierarchies
• Data movement in traditional storage pools
• Define policy to determine storage destination
• Container storage pools
• Data deduplication
• Container pool management
• Cloud tiering

Unit 3 - Multi-site/multi-server management

• Overview of multi-site/multi-server management
• Create server pair
• Configure servers for multi-site/multi-server management

Unit 4 - Replication and disaster recovery

• Configure replication
• Configure automatic client failover
• Audit and repair damage in a container storage pool
• Additional disaster recovery methods

Unit 5 - Client functions and management

• Backup and restore overview
• Journal-based backups
• Image/snapshot backups
• Decommissioning a client node
• Automatic client updates with the Operations Center
• DSMCUTIL commands

Unit 6 - Daily maintenance and monitoring

• Daily maintenance overview
• Daily storage pool maintenance tasks; traditional disk to tape
• Daily storage pool maintenance tasks; multi-site/multi-server
• Database backup
• Review events and messages
• Configure Operation Center alerts
• Client Management Services (CMS)
• Create reports in the Operations Center

Unit 7 - Automation and scripting

• IBM Spectrum Protect SQL interface
• Macros
• Server scripts
• Daily maintenance scripts
• IBM Spectrum Protect REST API

Unit 8 - Tuning the server and client for optimization

• Performance tuning overview
• Optimized planning considerations
• Tuning options
• Server tuning
• Optimizing the IBM Spectrum Protect database
• Client tuning
• Server and client instrumentation

Unit 9 - Troubleshooting and recovery

• Problem determination
• Database recovery
• Storage pool recovery
• Trace functions
• Report an issue
• Where to find more information

Unit 10 - IBM Spectrum Protect additional products

• Other products in the IBM Spectrum Protect family
• Overview of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

Objective

After completing this course, you should be able to:

• Describe a multi-server IBM Spectrum Protect storage environment.
• Manage storage containers and traditional storage pools.
• Configure a multi-server environment.
• Improve data protection and recovery with replication.
• Enable advanced client functions.
• Protect and monitor the IBM Spectrum Protect environment.
• Use scripting to automate daily processing.
• Optimize the IBM Spectrum Protect server and client.
• Troubleshoot common problems.
• Describe the other IBM Spectrum Protect family products.