IBM Tivoli

TS625G: IBM Spectrum Protect 7.1.6 Advanced

Administration, Tuning and Troubleshooting


             Recommended Duration: 5 Days
Skill Level: Advanced
Cost: $5,300 (b/GST)

BM Spectrum Protect, formerly known as IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, is a data backup and recovery solution designed to help you manage your data retention, reduce the cost of storage, and provide appropriate recovery point objectives to meet any service level agreement. IBM Spectrum Protect offers improved efficiency and flexibility through the use of object-based data management, policy driven retention, and an easy to use interface, the Operations Center.

In this advanced-level course, you will streamline your daily operations by implementing new features, such as inline data deduplication, storage pool directory containers, and node replication. You will use the Operations Center and administrative command line to manage multiple Spectrum Protect servers and nodes. The hands-on exercises are performed on two Windows 2012 R2 virtual machines.


Audience


This course is for storage administrators familiar with the daily management of IBM Spectrum Protect/Tivoli Storage Manager.


Prerequisites


Complete TS614G: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager 7.1.1 Implementation and Administration or TS615G: IBM Spectrum Protect 7.1.4 Implementation and Administration prior to attending this course.

Course Agenda


Describe a multi-server Spectrum Protect storage environment
Manage storage pools
Configure a multi-server environment
Improve data protection and recovery with replication
Enable advanced client functions
Protect the Spectrum Protect environment
Use scripting to automate daily processing
Explore monitoring and reporting
Optimize the Spectrum Protect server and client
Troubleshoot common problems


Course Overview


Day 1

  • Unit 1 - Managing a multi-server Spectrum Protect 7.1.6 environment
    • Basic Spectrum Protect concepts
    • Spectrum Protect Operations Center
    • Benefits of a multi-server Spectrum Protect environment
    • The IBM Spectrum Protect storage family
  • Unit 2 - Storage pool managemen
    • Managing storage pool hierarchies
    • Data movement
    • Using policy to determine storage destination
    • Container storage pools
    • Client-side deduplication
    • Inline deduplication

Day 2

  • Unit 3 - Multi-site management
    • Overview of multi-site management
    • Create a server pair
    • Configure servers for multi-site management
  • Unit 4 - Replication and disaster recover
    • Configure replication
    • Configuring automatic client failover
    • Audit and repair damage in a container storage pool
    • Additional disaster recovery methods

Day 3

  • Unit 5 - Client Functions and management
    • Backup and restore overview
    • Journal-based backups
    • Backup group
    • Image/snapshot backups
    • Decommission a client node
  • Unit 6 - Daily maintenance
    • Daily maintenance
    • Daily storage pool maintenance tasks; legacy disk to tape
    • Daily storage pool maintenance tasks; multi-site
    • Database backups

Day 4

  • Unit 7 - Automation and scripting
    • Spectrum Protect SQL queries
    • Macros
    • Server scripts
    • Daily maintenance scripts
  • Unit 8 - Reporting and monitoring
    • Reviewing events and messages
    • Configure Operations Center alerts
    • Client Management Services
    • Creating reports in the Operations Center

Day 5

  • Unit 9 - Tuning the server and client for optimization
    • Performance tuning overview
    • Optimized planning considerationsS
    • Tuning options
    • Server tuning
    • Optimizing the Spectrum Protect database
    • Client tuning
    • Server and client instrumentation
  • Unit 10 - Troubleshooting and recovery
    • Problem determination
    • Database recovery
    • Storage pool recovery
    • Trace functions
    • Reporting an issue
    • Where to find more information