TV944 - IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center 3.3 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 TotalStorage 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 TotalStorage 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 TotalStorage Productivity Center 3.3 in a Windows 2003 environment. Practice administering the entire suite of products including Fabric Manager, Disk Manager, and Data Manager and learn to integrate those components into your storage solution.

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Objectives

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

• Navigate the basic interface for the entire TPC 3.3 suite, including Data, Fabric and Disk
• Discover and Configure CIM/OM agents and storage hardware
• Identify benefits of IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center 3.3
• Configure and administrate IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center 3.3
• Discover and manage a storage area network (SAN) environment using IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center 3.3
• Describe the policy management functions of IBM TPC 3.3 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 3.3 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 3.3 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

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Course outline

1. TPC 3.3 Overview objectives:
   1. Review SAN fundamentals
   2. Explain the benefits and solutions provided by TPC 3.3
   3. Describe the software architecture of TPC 3.3
   4. Explain the features of TPC 3.3
   5. Describe the functions of the Disk Manager
   6. Describe the functions of the Data Manager
   7. Describe the functions of the Fabric Manager
   8. Navigate the basic interface for the entire TPC 3.3 suite, including Data, Fabric and Disk
   9. Discover CIM/OM agents and storage hardware
   10. Perform asset reporting
   11. Use the roll-up reporting feature to consolidate reports across multiple SAN environments
2. TPC for Fabric objectives:
   1. Discover Fabric Information
   2. Navigate the SAN topology
   3. Manage the Topology Viewer
   4. Monitor Switch Performance
   5. Create Fabric and Switch Alerts
   6. Define and Probe Fabric Groups
   7. Determine the Properties, Connections and Sensors of a Switch on the SAN
   8. View Zones and Zone Sets
   9. Generate Switch Performance Reports
3. TPC for Disk objectives:
   1. Discover Supported Devices
   2. Collect Performance Metrics on Supported Devices
   3. Manage Filtering, Launch Task and Notification Events
   4. Allocate and Deallocate Volumes
   5. Assign and Unassign Volumes
   6. Perform Configuration Functions Against the Storage Controllers
   7. Raise Threshold Alerts Based on Performance Statistics
   8. Identify Performance Bottlenecks in Storage Controllers
   9. Define Performance Policies for New Allocations
4. TPC for Data objectives:
   1. Describe the Policy Management Functions of IBM TPC 3.3 for Data
   2. Create Quotas and Constraints
   3. Create Computer, Filesystem, and Directory Alerts
   4. Monitor Computers, Filesystems, Directories, Storage Allocation Pools, Volume Containers, Data Containers, Databases, Users, and OS User Groups
   5. Create scheduled tasks within IBM TPC 3.3 for Data
   6. Define a File Filter to Create a Custom Profile
   7. Create Custom Groups for monitoring Computers, Filesystems, Directories, Storage Allocation Pools, Volume Containers, Data Containers, Databases, Users, and OS User Groups
   8. Use Scripts Within IBM TPC 3.3 for Data
   9. Perform Tracing and Review Logs for Problem Determination
   10. Create and Analyze Reports
   11. Perform Backup Coverage Determination and Reporting
   12. Populate Data and Volume Containers

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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. 

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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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