SAN Volume Controller (SVC) Planning and Implementation Workshop

This course is designed to leverage SAN storage connectivity by integrating a layer of intelligence or virtualization, the SAN Volume Controller (SVC) to facilitate storage application data access independence from storage management functions and requirements. The focus is on planning and implementation tasks associated with integrating the SVC into the storage area network.

• Welcome
• Unit 1: Introduction to IBM SAN Volume Controller
• Unit 2: SVC hardware architecture
• Unit 3: SVC planning and zoning requirements
• Unit 4: SVC cluster initialization and user authentication
• Exercise 0: Lab environment overview
• Exercise 1: SVC system initialization
• Exercise 2: SVC system configuration
• Exercise 3: Examine back-end storage system
• Review
• Unit 5: SVC storage provisioning
• Unit 6: SVC host access
• Exercise 4: Storage provisioning
• Exercise 5: Access SVC storage from Windows and AIX
• Unit 7: Spectrum Virtualize advanced features
• Exercise 6: Thin Provisioning and Volume Mirroring
• Exercise 7: Storage access and SDD path selection
• Review
• Unit 8: Spectrum Virtualize data migration
• Exercise 8: SVC data migration
• Exercise 9: Migrate existing data: Migration Wizard
• Exercise 10: Migrate existing data with Import Wizard GUI
• Exercise 11: Migrate existing data with Import Wizard CLI
• Unit 9: Spectrum Virtualize Copy Services
• Review
• Exercise 12: SVC scripting and I/O group modification
• Exercise 13: Real-time Compression and the IBM Comprestimator
• Unit 10: SVC administration management
• Exercise 14: SVC FlashCopy and consistency groups
• Exercise 15: Assign user roles and access
• Class Review and Evaluation