Kursbeskrivning: IBM zEnterprise System: Using zManager to Provision Virtual Servers

This course is designed to provide you with the information and skills required to use the IBM zEnterprise Unified Resource Manager (zManager) tasks to create the virtual server environment used by an ensemble configuration.

The course will discuss all the elements that are used by Unified Resource Manager for creating and managing virtual servers. These include, zBX components, HMC usage to create an ensemble and perform Unified Resource Manager tasks, creating virtual networks (VLANs), assigning storage to Hypervisors and virtual servers, creating and modifying virtual server definitions.

The course will use a combination of lecture topics and labs to describe and implement a virtual server using Unified Resource Manager.

Units in this course are:

• Introducing the zEnterprise System
• HMC usage and management
• Unified Resource Manager storage concepts and implementation
• Unified Resource Manager network concepts and implementation
• Unified Resource Manager virtual server concepts and implementation
• Unified Resource Manager HMC operational tasks
• Performance management: Workloads, monitoring and reporting
• z/BX optimizers and appliances

Labs will include:

• HMC ensemble navigation.
• Verifying z/OS ensemble enablement
• Auditing an ensemble configuration (zBX Blades).
• (Optional) Auditing the ensemble configuration (zVM Linux)
• Removing ensemble resources: Networking, storage and virtual servers (Blades only)
• Provisioning virtual server resources (Blades only)
• Installing AIX from NIM server
• Operational tasks (Optional) zVM VSwitches and VNICs
• (Optional) New workloads and performance policies

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Roadmaps:

• z/OS and System z

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This basic course is for technical individuals directly involved in the installation and support of creating and managing virtual servers using Unified Resource Manager. This could include technical personal in networking, storage and System z system programmers.

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Since the audience could potentially cross many different IT profession skill sets, such as, mainframe system administrators, system programmers, distributed system administrators, networking and storage administrators and professions, there is no required prerequisites.

However, you should have a working knowledge and experience in your selected field. This could include working experience in one or more of the following areas:

• System z architecture
• z/OS
• z/VM
• PowerVM, Power Systems
• Storage administration for mainframe or distributed systems
• Network administration

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Please refer to the course overview.

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Unit 1: Introducing the zEnterprise System

• zEnterprise System introduction
• zEnterprise BladeCenter Extension hardware
• Ensembles and ensemble networking requirements
• Hypervisor and virtual server basics

This unit describes the three major components of the zEnterprise System and their purpose. It describes the purpose of the zManager, the management suites available for ensemble management, the purpose and use of the zEnterprise BladeCenter Extension (zBX), the zBX functional components, connectivity requirements, ensemble networking requirements and describes basic hypervisor and virtual server concepts.

Unit 2: HMC usage and management

• Creating the ensemble: HMC usage
• HMC user requirements to perform zManager functions and tasks
• HMC navigation examples to perform zManager tasks

This unit describes the role the HMC performs in an zEnterprise ensemble configuration. HMC requirements and user ID requirements to perform zManager tasks will be explained, tree style navigation examples and tips will be identified to perform zManager tasks will be given.

Unit 3: zManager storage concepts and implementation

• zManager storage concepts
• zManager storage implementation

This unit describes the storage types, usage and concepts that is used in the zEnterprise System and supported with zManager. Storage types used for z/VM and Power blades will be explained, storage definition process, exporting and importing storage access lists will be detailed, and zManager task roles and tasks required to add storage to hypervisor and virtual servers will be demonstrated using various examples.

Unit 4: zManager network concepts and implementation

• zManager networking concepts
• zManager network implementation

This unit describes virtual networking concepts that apply to ensemble and zManager tasks. It discusses step by step zManager tasks to create, configure, and verify virtual networks and zBX TOR switch ports used by the IEDN.

Unit 5: zManager virtual server concepts and implementation

• zManager virtual server concepts
• zManager virtual server implementation

This unit describes basic concepts for virtual servers and their hypervisor as supported by zManager. It explains the required information and documentation that should be available prior to performing zManager tasks to create virtual servers.

The unit provides a detailed step by step process using zManager tasks to create and modify the virtual server definitions, mount virtual media, and identify other tasks that can be part of a new virtual server installation.

Unit 6: zManager HMC operational tasks

• Operational management tasks
• Energy management tasks

This unit describes the available HMC tasks that can be used du