Who should attend
This is a base course for individuals who are involved in the planning, installing, configuring, and upgrading of IBM systems.
Prerequisites
The following course, or equivalent knowledge, is required prior to this course: • Introduction to Storage (SS01G)
Product Description
IBM offers a comprehensive portfolio of SAN switches, storage, software, services and solutions to reliably bring information to people in a cost effective way. IBM provides flexible, scalable and open standards-based business-class and global enterprise-class storage networking solutions for the on demand world. This course provides an overview of storage network and data center networking technology. It reviews SAN concepts, Fibre Channel architecture, SAN topologies, IBM b-type offerings, IBM offerings from Cisco, and SAN over Ethernet architectures, such as iSCSI and FCoE.
Outline
Recommended Agenda
Unit 1 - SAN ConceptsUnit 2 - Fibre ChannelUnit 3 - SAN design and topology
Unit 4 - IBM Fibre Channel b-type switches and directors
Exercise 1 - Switch management overviewExercise 2 - Zone configuration using Web ToolsExercise 3 - Configure a Spectrum Virtualize storage systemExercise 4 - Zone configuration with CLIExercise 5 - SAN Domain FabricsExercise 6 - Boot from SAN
Unit 5 - Cisco MDS Fibre Channel switches and directors
Unit 6 - SAN over Ethernet
Exercise 7 - Cisco MDS basic configurationExercise 8 - Cisco management tool installationExercise 9 - VSAN configurationExercise 10 - Define zone configuration on CiscoExercise 11 - Configuring DS3524 storage deviceExercise 12 - iSCSI configuration