SAN Volume Controller (SVC) V6 Planning and Implementation Workshop

Individuals who are assessing and/or planning to deploy storage network virtualization solutions.

• Create an implementation task list to integrate the SVC solution into the storage network fabric
• Establish or update zoning policies to enable the SVC to control storage device access and facilitate storage provisioning to host servers
• Utilize SVC user interfaces to manage the networked storage environment, assign storage to servers, migrate data, replicate data across storage systems, and monitor storage access activities
• Assess issues related to coexistence between the SVC and native disk storage access across host servers Migrate existing data to the virtualized SVC environment
• Use interfaces provided by the Subsystem Device Driver (SDD) to monitor and manage SDD multi-path I/O access and path management
• Implement point-in-time copies across the SVC cluster using FlashCopy GUI presets

You should complete:

• Introduction to Storage Networking (SN70GB)
• Or have equivalent experience
• And understand the basic concepts of open systems disk storage systems and I/O operations

Day 1

• 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