This is a 1 hour demo class on IBM flash storage. This covers basic overview of the IBM Flash storage, walk through of my lab of the storage console.
This class touches following topics :
1) Basic architecture of IBM Flash
2) How to monitor the storage device
3) Storage pool : Bascis on creation of storage pool, monitoring the capacity
4) Volume allocations : Throw some light on thick vs thin volumes, how to create volumes and defind the capacity which is needed to allocate.
5) host creations : Show how to create FC vs iscsi host creations
6) flash copy : What is IBM's snapshot vs backup vs clone flash copy concepts, How to create them.
7) replication : metro mirror vs global mirror (sync vs async replication)
8) Basic overview of security features like LDAP, encryption.
9) How to configure syslog, snmp, netcool, ntp, ldap.
10) how to upload support logs.
11) how to upgrade the storage device, what has to be checked regarding the compatibilities etc.