Cours: GDPS / PPRC Concepts and implementation

This 5.0 day workshop course provides you with the overall umbrella concepts and background knowledge to help you plan, install, customize, administer and operate GDPS/PPRC.

Hands-on lab exercises are used to reinforce the concepts and information presented during the course lectures.

Schémas de filière:

• z/OS - Système : Formation avancée – Parallel Sysplex / GDPS

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Hands-on Labs comprise approximately 50% of the workshop to reinforce lecture material presented.

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This workshop is intended for attendees :

• who provide storage management, z/OS system and Sysplex support,
• Automation specialists and those persons with operations/production control responsibilities at GDPS/PPRC or GDPS/PPRC HyperSwap Manager enterprises.
• Infrastructure architects with requisite background knowledge can also benefit.

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Attention: This workshop is restricted to employees of enterprises with an existing, valid GDPS/PPRC or GDPS/PPRC HyperSwap Manager license.

Attendees should have a good working knowledge in one of the following areas :

• Storage and/or remote copy administration/management
• z/OS and Sysplex management
• Automation

In addition to the above background skill requirements, attendees are expected to have read "GDPS - An Introduction to Concepts and Capabilities", available as a Redpiece at URL:

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/pdfs/sg246374.pdf

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At the completion of this workshop the student should be able to:

Understand the basic terminology and concepts relating to high availability, disaster recovery and GDPS.

Perform GDPS-related tasks under the guidance and supervision of GDPS-experienced, subject matter experts in your organization

Note: The objective of the workshop is to provide "generalist" GDPS skills as opposed to highly specialized GDPS skills for different subject matter areas (such as operations, automation and so on).

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• GDPS/PPRC concepts and overview
• PPRC overview and TSO operation (including lab)
• GDPS/PPRC configuration definition and basic operation (including lab)
• GDPS/PPRC installation and customization (including lab)
• GDPS/PPRC Freeze function concepts (including lab)
• GDPS/PPRC Sysplex Resource Management concepts and operation (including lab)
• GDPS/PPRC System and server management capability and operation (including lab)
• GDPS/PPRC Planned action script coding and execution (including lab)
• GDPS/PPRC Takeover actions scripts (including lab)
• GDPS/PPRC Planned and unplanned HyperSwap implementation (including labs)
• GDPS/PPRC FlashCopy exploitation (including labs)
• GDPS/PPRC HyperSwap Manager overview and differences

Optional (on a time-available basis):

• GDPS/PPRC Multiplatform Resiliency for System z
• GDPS/PPRC Open LUN management (including lab)

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This class runs 5.0 full days starting Monday morning BUT ENDING FRIDAY AFTERNOON around 1 pm. Students should make travel and living arrangements accordingly.

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