IBM Cloud Object Storage – Implementation and Administration (GST11G) – Outline

Detailed Course Outline

o Day 1

Course Administration and Introduction  Unit 1: Introduction  

No Exercises

Unit 2: Planning and Architecture  

Exercise 1: Logging on to the console systemExercise 2: Testing IP connectivity in the lab environment

Unit 3: Installation and Initial Configuration

Exercise 1: Configuring the ManagerExercise 2: Configuring the AccesserExercise 4: Accessing the system web user interface and accessing helpExercise 5: Performing the initial configuration of the systemExercise 6: Approving new devicesExercise 7: Creating a Storage PoolExercise 8: Creating a VaultExercise 9: Creating an Access PoolExercise 10: Creating a UserExercise 11: Granting access to a VaultExercise 12: Testing writing to a VaultExercise 13: Testing reading to a Vault

o Day 2

Unit 4: Administration and Maintenance

Exercise 1: Backing up the ManagerExercise 2: Restoring the ManagerExercise 3: Upgrading the Manager  Exercise 4: Upgrading Accessers and SlicestorsExercise 5: Changing the Web User Interface and timezone preferencesExercise 6: Updating error and warning thresholds on individual SlicestorsExercise 7: Validating the upgrade

Unit 5: Monitoring and Troubleshooting

Exercise 1: Simulating the loss of a disk driveExercise 2: Generating dataExercise 3: Reviewing the device summary and monitoring open incidents  Exercise 4: Searching the event consoleExercise 5: Exploring Manager graphsExercise 6: Resuming a disk driveExercise 7: Monitoring the rebuilder processExercise 8: Reviewing the Vault Summary and other Reports

Unit 6: Spectrum Protect Integration

Exercise 1: Configuring a Vault and Vault TemplateExercise 2: Setting the Vault Template as the default for your systemExercise 3: Configuring the Spectrum Protect UserExercise 4: Configuring the Spectrum Protect Storage PoolExercise 5: Configuring the default storage pool for the standard management classExercise 6: Testing Spectrum Protect with Object StorageExercise 7: Reviewing storage used, compression and reduplication rates