Kurs informasjon: IBM DS8000 Copy Services for Open Systems

This course covers the copy services functions of the DS8000 hardware in the Open Systems environment. This lab exercise based course covers the basics of the storage replication concepts and the use of the DS Storage Manager (DS GUI), DS Command-Line Interface (DS CLI) and Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication (TPC-R) interfaces. FlashCopy, Metro Mirror, Global Copy and Global Mirror are covered in the course.

The labs exercises for this course are performed using remote access to IBM servers.

There is an Instructor-led online (ILO) version of this course, IBM DS8000 Copy Services for Open System (ILO) (SKF50NO).

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Roadmaps:

• Storage Management in the Open Systems Environment

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This intermediate course is for system administrators, architects, and storage specialists. Anyone who needs to learn about DS8000 Copy Services and experiment with them on a real test configuration.

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You should complete:

• IBM DS8000 Implementation Workshop for Open Systems (SSF00NO)
• or IBM DS8000 Implementation Workshop for Open Systems (ILO) (SKF00NO)
• and be comfortable with the use of the IBM DS Storage Manager or DSCLI interfaces in the labs

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• Describe the storage replication concepts
• Describe the IBM System Storage Copy Services functions
• Use the DS CLI, DS GUI and TPC-R interfaces
• List the steps required to implement Copy Services between two or three sites
• Describe the concepts of FlashCopy, Metro Mirror, Global Copy and Global Mirror
• Describe and perform the failover and failback process to recover from the backup site
• Describe consistency group methodology

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Day 1

Unit 1: Introduction:

• Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery fundamentals
• Business Continuity: IBM offerings
• Storage architecture for Copy Services
• Licensing Copy Services features

Unit 2: Interfaces:

• DS Storage Manager (DS GUI)
• DS Command-Line Interface (DS CLI)
• Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication (TPC-R)

Exercise 1: System verification and preparation

Day 2

Unit 3: FlashCopy

Exercise 2: FlashCopy demonstration

• using DS GUI, DS CLI, and TPC-R

Unit 4: Metro Mirror

Exercise 3: Metro Mirror demonstration

• using DS GUI, DS CLI, and TPC-R

Day 3

Unit 5: Global Copy

Exercise 4: Global Copy demonstration

• using DS GUI, DS CLI, and TPC-R

Unit 6: Global Mirror

Exercise 5: Global Mirror demonstration using TPC-R

Day 4

Unit 7: Metro/Global Mirror

Unit 8: Interoperability, Open Hyperswap

• IBM products and Open Hyperswap

Q and A

Free Lab Sessions

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