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Course description: Implementing Power Infrastructure for Cloud

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Course code 1SP00 Skill level Intermediate
Duration 3.0 days Delivery type Classroom
(Hands-on labs)
Course type Public or Private on-site    
Public price USD $2,750.00 plus tax    

This course provides working knowledge on how to quickly investigate and deploy a cloud platform on a IBM Power Systems hardware. You will learn about the foundational components that create the cloud environment and how to configure them. Also, this course introduces SmartCloud Entry and IBM Systems Director 6.3. This course uses a combination of instructor lectures and machine exercises to provide you with practical background knowledge regarding the topics covered.

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Training Paths that reference this course are:

  • Entry Cloud: Power

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Special note

IBM Education Advantage Program Eligibility:

  • Yes - Education Pack - online account

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Audience

This intermediate course is for anyone responsible for implementing and managing a virtualized dynamic infrastructure on POWER Systems and is interested in configuring or learning about the POWER Cloud foundation components.

The audience for this training includes the following:

  • POWER technical support individuals
  • POWER system administrators
  • POWER system engineers
  • POWER system architects

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Prerequisites

Those attending this course are expected to have AIX, PowerVM, IBM Systems Director, Storage knowledge and basic Cloud knowledge. These skills can be obtained by attending the following courses or gained from equivalent experience:

  • IBMTT courses on AIX, PowerVM, NIM, and IBM System Directory:
    • Power Systems for AIX Virtualization I: Implementing Virtualization (AN300)
    • PowerVM Virtual I/O Server Configuration (ILO) (AT630)
    • IBM Systems Director 6.2 for Power Systems I: Installation and Management (AN940)
    • AIX Network Installation Manager (NIM): Concepts and Configuration (AN220)
  • Storage courses:
    • IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center Workshop (SN85)
  • Cloud courses:
    • Introduction to Cloud Computing Architecture (1SM00)

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Skills taught

  • Describe the components to build a cloud foundation on IBM Power
  • Explain how to implement a cloud foundation on IBM Power
  • Explain and configure various cloud components on IBM Power:
    • IBM Systems Director
    • IBM Systems Director VMControl plug-in
    • IBM Systems Director Storage Control plug-in
  • Describe the integration of the storage environment with IBM Systems Director
  • Perform selected tasks utilizing various cloud components to create and deploy:
    • Virtual servers
    • Virtual appliances
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