TotalStorage DS8000: Technical Class

Course Overview

Discuss installation and maintenance of the IBM TotalStorage DS6000 and DS8000 in an open systems environment.

Learn about the high level design of the IBM TotalStorage DS6000 series and IBM TotalStorage DS800 series and identify the installation and customization tasks that are necessary to install and exploit the technology. Explore the components ofthe IBM TotalStorage DS8000 and DS6000 including,the Storage Management Console (SMC), IBM TotalStorage Disk Systems Storage Manager (DS Storage Manager) software and the terminology of the IBM TotalStorage DS6000 and DS8000 including, Disk Drive Modules (DDM), array site, array, rank, extent pool and logical volume.

Learn how to install, cable and configure the DS6000 and DS8000 systems using the IBM TotalStorage DS Storage Manager Graphical User Interface (GUI) and the IBM TotalStorage DS Command-Line Interface (DS CLI).

Audience

This is an intermediate course for storage administrators,systems programmers, IBM System Engineers (SE), and support groups responsible for installation and maintenance of the DS6000 and DS8000 in the open systems environment.

Skills Gained

After completing this course, you should be able to:

• Describe the hardware components of the IBM TotalStorage DS6000/DS8000
• Describe the architecture of the IBM TotalStorage DS6000/DS8000
• Describe the hardware installation and cabling of the DS6000/DS8000
• Describe the DSCLI interface installation and setup
• Describe the DSCLI interface commands and how to use them
• Describe the DS Storage Management GUI interface installation and setup
• Describe the DS Storage Management GUI and how to use the panels to configure the DS6000 subsystem for Open Systems hosts
• Describe the zSeries Host Attachment considerations for the DS6000/DS8000
• Describe the use of the SM GUI and DSCLI for Copy Services
• Describe how to access target volumes in Open Systems hosts
• Describe the use of scripts and additional programs for managing Copy Services
• Describe the high-level management interfaces for DS6000
• Describe maintenance and support of the DS6000
• Describe the customer maintenance and CRU replacement procedures

Prerequisistes

• SN70 Introduction to Storage Area Networks
• SS05 Introduction to Data Storage Systems
• An understanding of zSeries storage and open system operating systems

Course Outline

• DS6000 and DS8000: overview
• DS8000 hardware architecture and Reliability, Availability, Serviceability (RAS)
• DS8000 LPAR
• DS8000 Management Console
• DS6000 hardware architecture and RAS
• Virtualization and logical configuration
• DS Storage Manager Graphical User Interface (GUI)
• DS Storage Manager GUI lab
• DS CLI
• DS Storage Manager CLI lab
• Open systems specifications
• Copy services
• Performances
• DS Storage Manager GUI and CLI lab

TotalStorage DS8000: Technical Class / IBM-DS8000 (IBM-DS8000GB)