IBM XIV Administration Deep Dive

IBM XIV Administration Deep Dive Training CourseIBM XIV is a customer proven, high-end disk storage system which can be used in various data center scenarios. This workshop will give you profound insight into operational effectiveness of the XIV system and what you can do to fully utilize it. The technical deep-dive will be assisted by hands-on sessions using a real XIV Gen3 system - starting with user definitions and basic operations to snapshot handling and consistency groups, definition of host and host ports on XIV with LUNs mapping as well as host configuration as XIV host by HAK installation will be discussed both in lecture and intensive lab sessions. Furthermore, you will practice end-to-end mirroring (sync and async) - from the definition right up to fail-over and fail-back by using switch role. Data migration procedures by using a 2nd XIV system will round up the workshop. After completion, you will be able to manage and integrate the XIV into your IT environment.