Audience

This advanced course is for IT professionals tasked with administering a Spectrum Scale system.

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Prerequisites

Student should have taken: H005G: IBM Spectrum Scale Basic Administration for Linux.

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Course Agenda

	Migrate a GPFS 3.5 cluster to IBM Spectrum Scale 4.2
	Migrate an IBM Spectrum Scale 4.1 cluster to 4.2
	Describe and set up GUI interface
	Execute performance collection infrastructure
	Describe the IBM Spectrum Scale multi-cluster functionality, how to remote mount file systems, and the security configuration in a multi-cluster environment
	Describe, install, and configure Clustered Network File System (cNFS)
	Define, deploy, debug, and log Cluster Export Service (CES)
	Describe multi-protocol support
	Describe the Server Message Block (SMB) Protocol family and clients; solve and monitor SMB recovery scenarios; troubleshoot SMB
	Manage Ganesha default configuration change/list
	Manage exports in CES Network File System (NFS) and debug CES NFS
	Describe home and cache features
	List the various Active File Management (AFM) modes; create and manage an AFM relationship
	Define and introduce asynchronous disaster recovery (DR)
	List the recovery point objectives (RPOs) and failover options
	Describe the Spectrum Scale Disaster Recovery Architecture
	Describe the Linear Tape File System (LTFS) Enterprise Edition (EE) Introduction
	Describe the GPFS policy driven storage management
	Describe the HSM archival solution with LTFS EE
	Define how to create a file placement optimization (FPO) pool
	Describe using Spectrum Scale with Hadoop
	Identity the scenarios in which GPFS-FPO is applicable
	Define Share Nothing Architecture
	Describe the design and architecture of the Call Home feature and describe its functionality
	List the usage/advanced usage of the Call Home feature
	Describe GPFS Performance parameters and GPFS tuning considerations
	Monitor a GPFS cluster
	Describe flash cache capabilities
	Move metadata to flash cache

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Course Overview

Day 1

• Migrating to IBM Spectrum Scale 4.2
• Spectrum Scale 4.2 GUI
• Multi-cluster
• Clustered NFS
• Cluster Export Services for multi-protocol support

Day 2

• SMB Protocol Support
• NFS Support in CES; Ganesha overview/performance
• Active File Management
• AFM-Based Disaster Recovery (DR) and Asynchronous DR
• Planning LTFS and GPFS environment for data archiving

Day 3

• File Placement Optimizer
• IBM GPFS-FPO and integration with GPFS Hadoop connector
• IBM Spectrum Scale Call Home
• Monitoring and performance tuning
• Flash Cache metadata migration