Course Description

This module focus on advanced cluster features for maintaining high availability in configuration/metadata recovery, system fail-overs and system upgrades.

If you are enrolling in a Self Paced Virtual Classroom or Web Based Training course, before you enroll, please review the Self-Paced Virtual Classes and Web-Based Training Classes on our Terms and Conditions page, as well as the system requirements, to ensure that your system meets the minimum requirements for this course. http://www.ibm.com/training/terms

Learning Journeys that reference this course:

• IBM Storwize

Objectives

Upon completion of this course you should be able to:

Describe the concept of a quorum configuration
Identify the characteristics of the N_Port ID Virtualization
Identify the characteristics of a hot spare/standby node
Describe the concept of node failover
Describe the benefit of performing system upgrade with spare nodes

Audience

This course is for IBM personnel, IBM Business Partners, IT consultants and customers who are assessing and/or planning to deploy IBM System San Volume Controller Storage solutions and are interested in learning more on IBM Spectrum Virtualization.

Prerequisites

IBM Spectrum Virtualize for the IBM SAN Volume Controller (SNV10G)

Content

Quorum devices

N-Port ID Virtualization Book

Hot Spare/Standby nodes Book

Node failover Book

System Upgrades Book

Exercise: System firmware upgrade