Monitoring the IBM Elastic Storage System

• Unit 1: IBM Elastic Storage System Introduction [25 minutes]
• Topic 1.1 IBM Elastic Storage Server benefits (6 minutes)
• Topic 1.2 IBM Spectrum Scale RAID features (4 minutes)
• Topic 1.3 ESS storage structure and terms (8 minutes)
• Topic 1.4 ESS data protection (5 minutes)
• Unit 2: Define the ESS components [55 minutes]
• Topic 2.1: ESS hardware components (30 minutes)
• Topic 2.2: ESS software components (15 minutes)
• Topic 2.3: ESS networking considerations (8 minutes)
• Unit 3: Monitor the ESS [1 hour, 15 minutes]
• Topic 3.1: Monitor the ESS using the CLI (8 minutes)
• Topic 3.2: Monitor the ESS using the GUI (5 minutes)
• Exercise 3.2: Monitor ESS with CLI/GUI demonstrations (50 minutes)
• Topic 3.3: mmvdisk command (12 minutes)
• Unit 4: IBM Manage ESS file systems and filesets [1 hour, 10  minutes]
• Topic 4.1 Manage ESS file systems (20 minutes)
• Introduction (5 minutes)
• Create file system (5 minutes)
• CLI: Define vdisk stanza file (3 minutes)
• GUI delete: Unmount file system (1 minute)
• CLI delete: Unmount file system (2 minutes)
• CLI expand: Review file system space (2 minutes)
• Summary (1 minute)
• Exercise 4.1: Manage ESS file systems demonstrations (30 minutes)
• Topic 4.2 Manage ESS filesets (9 minutes)
• Introduction (2 minutes)
• Files management tasks (2 minutes)
• GUI custom: Create fileset (1 minute)
• CLI: Create fileset (1 minute)
• GUI: Delete fileset (1 minute)
• CLI: Unlike fileset (1 minute)
• Summary (1 minute)
• Exercise 4.2 Manage ESS filesets demonstrations (12 minutes)
• Unit 5: Manage ESS service support [50 minutes]
• Topic 5.1: Call home support for ESS [6 minutes]
• Topic 5.2: ESS disk replacement procedure [9 minutes]
• Topic 5.3: IBM ESS update procedure [5 minutes]
• Topic 5.4: IBM Service tools for ESS [5 minutes]
• Lab demos are on:
• CLI / GUI Monitoring
• CLI / GUI File System
• CLI / GUI Filesets

This is a base course for individuals who are involved in administering, configuring, upgrading, and monitoring the IBM Elastic Storage Server.

The following courses or equivalent knowledge is recommended prior to this course: 

• Introduction to Storage (SS01G) 

• IBM Spectrum Scale Basic Administration for Linux (H005G)

After completing this course, you should be able to:

• Recall the data protection features used in IBM Elastic Storage Server
• Distinguish between traditional RAID and IBM Spectrum Scale RAID
• Compile the requirements for the IBM Elastic Storage Server solution
• Apply the GUI and CLI to manage an IBM Elastic Storage Server environment•
• Recall the process to create and delete a file system and a fileset in an IBM Elastic Storage Server environment
• Summarize selected service processes to maintain and update the ESS