IBM Storwize V7000 Unified Implementation Workshop

IBM Storwize V7000 Unified is a virtualized storage system designed to consolidate block and file workloads into a single storage system for simplicity of management, reduced cost, highly scalable capacity, performance and high availability. IBM Storwize V7000 Unified Storage also offers improved efficiency and flexibility through built-in solid state drive (SSD) optimization, thin provisioning and non-disruptive migration of data from existing storage. The system can virtualize and reuse existing disk systems offering a greater potential return on investment. The course will focus on planning and implementation of integrating the Storwize V7000 Unified system into a network environment. Both file and block level protocols will be covered with the focus on provisioning storage to network hosts via NFS, CIFS, HTTP and FTP.

• Welcome
• Unit 1- Introduction to the IBM Storwize V7000 Unified and EZsetup
• Unit 2 - File Management and ILM (Part 1)
• Demo Inittool and System Build
• Labs: GUI Access and EZsetup, GUI and CLI administration and examining system setup
• Unit 2 - File Management and ILM (Part 2)
• Unit 3 - Enclosures and RAID arrays
• Labs: Single pool file systems and CIFS access, migration ILM file systems
• Unit 4 - Block-level functions, external storage and zoning, Easy tier
• Unit 5 - Data Protection and Resiliency
• Labs - Snapshots and data recovery, adding external storage pools
• Unit 6 - Unified System Administration
• Labs - Create custom file systems, asynchronous replication