SAN Volume Controller (SVC) V6 Planning and Implementation Workshop Training  

• Introducing the SAN Volume Controller
  • Storage provisioning with the SAN Volume Controller
  • SAN Volume Controller clustering environment

• SVC Cluster Setup and Storage Provisioning
  • SVC physical environment and management interfaces
  • Storage systems and LUN assignments to SVC
  • Cluster creation and storage provisioning
  • Additional functions: Quorum disks, expand/shrink volumes, back-end MDisk pathing, SSDs and RAID

• Labs:
  • SVC cluster creation
  • SVC cluster and GUI/CLI access setup
  • Identify back-end storage to the SVC cluster
  • Create storage pools
  • Create host objects and assign volumes

Day 2

• Fabric Zoning and iSCSI Connectivity
  • Host to SVC volume access infrastructure
  • Fibre Channel host to SVC SAN fabric zoning
  • iSCSI host to SVC IP Connectivity

• Thin Provisioning and Volume Copy
  • Thin provisioned volumes
  • Volume Mirroring

• Labs:
  • Access storage from Windows and AIX
  • Thin provisioning and Volume Mirroring
  • Data access and SDD path selection
  • Access storage from iSCSI host

Day 3

• Data Migration
  • Pool Migration
  • Migration Wizards (Import, Migration, Export)
  • MDisk removal
  • Storage system replacement

• Copy Services-FlashCopy/Remote Copy
  • FlashCopy
  • Metro/Global Mirroring introduction

• Labs
  • Pool migration
  • Migration Import Wizard
  • FlashCopy and Consistency Groups

Day 4

• Managing the SVC Environment
  • Logging and diagnostics
  • Code upgrades and node replacement
  • SVC configuration backup

• Labs
  • Expand volume size
  • Change volume I/O Group and SVC scripting
  • Manage user roles