TS102 - IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center 4.1 Administration and Operation

Table of Contents:

• Course Description 
• Objectives 
• Course Outline 
• Who Will Benefit From This Course 
• Required Skills/Knowledge 
• Recommended Courses 

Course description

IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center is a comprehensive solution for managing storage capacity, availability, events, performance, and assets in an enterprise environment. Automated user-defined policies can detect potential problems and make adjustments based on user criteria. IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center is a key component in the information life cycle management solution. This course comprises over 50 percent hands-on lab exercises that reinforce the instructor-based lectures. Instructor lecture and demonstrations focus on daily administration and operation, report generation and analysis, and policy management. Students are assigned a unique server to administer IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center 4.1 in a Windows 2003 environment. Practice administering the entire suite of products including Fabric Manager, Disk Manager and Data Manager with an overview of Replication Manager and learn to integrate those components into your storage solution.

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Objectives

IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center provides a set of tools for managing storage capacity, availability, events, performance and assets in an enterprise environment. Automated policies can detect potential problems and make adjustments based on the criteria that you define. IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center is a key component in the information lifecycle management solution.

Upon completion of this training, you will be able to perform the following tasks:

• Navigate the basic interface for the TPC 4.1 suite, including Data, Fabric, Replication and Disk
• Discover and Configure CIM/OM agents and storage hardware
• Identify benefits of IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center 4.1
• Configure and administer IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center 4.1
• Discover and manage a storage area network (SAN) environment using IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center 4.1
• Describe the policy management functions of IBM TPC 4.1 for Data
• Create quotas and constraints
• Create computer, filesystem, and directory alerts
• Monitor computers, filesystems, directories, storage allocation pools, volume containers, data containers
• Monitor databases, users, and OS user groups
• Create scheduled tasks within IBM TPC 4.1 for Data
• Define a file filter to create a custom profile
• Create custom groups for monitoring computers, filesystems, directories, storage allocation pools
• Create custom groups for databases, users, and OS user groups
• Create and use scripts within IBM TPC 4.1 for Data
• Perform tracing and review logs for problem determination
• Perform backup coverage determination and reporting
• Navigate the SAN topology and manage the topology viewer
• Monitor fibre switch performance and generate switch performance reports
• Define and probe fabric groups and create fabric and switch alerts
• Determine the properties, connections and sensors of a switch on the SAN
• Identify fabric zones and zone sets
• Collect performance metrics on supported disk devices
• Configure storage subsystem alert notification
• Allocate, deallocate, assign and unassign volumes
• Perform configuration functions against the storage controllers
• Raise threshold alerts based on performance statistics
• Install Replication Manager licenses
• Configure and initiate Flash Copy on an SVC using Replication Manager

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Course outline

 TPC 4.1 Overview objectives:

• Review SAN fundamentals
• Explain the benefits and solutions provided by TPC 4.1
• Describe the software architecture of TPC 4.1
• Explain the features of TPC 4.1
• Describe the functions of the Disk Manager
• Describe the functions of the Data Manager
• Describe the functions of the Fabric Manager
• Navigate the basic interface for the entire TPC 4.1 suite, including Data, Fabric and Disk
• Discover CIM/OM agents and storage hardware
• Perform asset reporting
• Use the roll-up reporting feature to consolidate reports across multiple SAN environments

Fabric Manager Objectives:

• Discover Fabric Information
• Navigate the SAN topology
• Manage the Topology Viewer
• Monitor Switch Performance
• Create Fabric and Switch Alerts
• Define and Probe Fabric Groups
• Determine the Properties, Connections and Sensors of a Switch on the SAN
• View Zones and Zone Sets

Generate Switch Performance Reports Disk Manager Objectives:

• Discover Supported Devices
• Collect Performance Metrics on Supported Devices
• Manage Filtering, Launch Task and Notification Events
• Allocate and Deallocate Volumes
• Assign and Unassign Volumes
• Perform Configuration Functions Against the Storage Controllers
• Raise Threshold Alerts Based on Performance Statistics
• Identify Performance Bottlenecks in Storage Controllers

Define Performance Policies for New Allocations TPC for Data objectives:

• Describe the Policy Management Functions of IBM TPC 4.1 for Data
• Create Quotas and Constraints
• Create Computer, Filesystem, and Directory Alerts
• Monitor Computers, Filesystems, Directories, Storage Allocation Pools, Volume Containers, Data Containers, Databases, Users, and OS User Groups
• Create scheduled tasks within IBM TPC 4.1 for Data
• Define a File Filter to Create a Custom Profile
• Create Custom Groups for monitoring Computers, Filesystems, Directories, Storage Allocation Pools, Volume Containers, Data Containers, Databases, Users, and OS User Groups
• Use Scripts Within IBM TPC 4.1 for Data
• Perform Tracing and Review Logs for Problem Determination
• Create and Analyze Reports
• Perform Backup Coverage Determination and Reporting

Populate Data and Volume Containers Replication Manager Objectives:

• Add a storage subsystem to the replication manager environment
• Configure a flash copy session
• Define a standby server

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Who will benefit from this course

This course is intended for System Administrators who are responsible for all aspects of storage management in a SAN environment. This course is considered to be an intermediate level course.

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Required skills/knowledge

• Basic understanding of Storage Administration
• Basic understanding of Storage Area Networks and SAN fabric Familiarity with the IBM ESS (Enterprise Storage Server)
• Familiarity with the IBM Disk Storage family (DS4000/DS6000/DS8000 series)

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Recommended courses

None

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