IBM Spectrum Protect 8.1.4 Advanced Administration, Tuning, and Troubleshooting (TS626CZ)

IBM, Spectrum Protect

IBM 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 streamline your daily operations by implementing the latest features, such as inline data deduplication using storage containers, secure communications, and node replication. You use the Operations Center and administrative command line to manage multiple IBM Spectrum Protect servers and nodes.

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Course content:

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  • Unit 1 - The IBM Spectrum Protect 8.1.4 environment
    1. IBM Spectrum Protect concepts
    2. Operations Center navigation
    3. Benefits of a multi-site/multi-server environment
    4. Secure communications overview
    5. Documentation
  • Unit 2 - Storage pool management overview
    1. Manage storage pool hierarchies
    2. Data movement in traditional storage pools
    3. Define policy to determine storage destination
    4. Container storage pools
    5. Data deduplication
    6. Container pool management
    7. Cloud tiering
  • Unit 3 - Multi-site/multi-server management
    1. Overview of multi-site/multi-server management
    2. Create server pair
    3. Configure servers for multi-site/multi-server management
  • Unit 4 - Replication and disaster recovery
    1. Configure replication
    2. Configure automatic client failover
    3. Audit and repair damage in a container storage pool
    4. Additional disaster recovery methods
  • Unit 5 - Client functions and management
    1. Backup and restore overview
    2. Journal-based backups
    3. Image/snapshot backups
    4. Decommissioning a client node
    5. Automatic client updates with the Operations Center
    6. DSMCUTIL commands
  • Unit 6 - Daily maintenance and monitoring
    1. Daily maintenance overview
    2. Daily storage pool maintenance tasks; traditional disk to tape
    3. Daily storage pool maintenance tasks; multi-site/multi-server
    4. Database backup
    5. Review events and messages
    6. Configure Operation Center alerts
    7. Client Management Services (CMS)
    8. Create reports in the Operations Center
  • Unit 7 - Automation and scripting
    1. IBM Spectrum Protect SQL interface
    2. Macros
    3. Server scripts
    4. Daily maintenance scripts
    5. IBM Spectrum Protect REST API
  • Unit 8 - Tuning the server and client for optimization
    1. Performance tuning overview
    2. Optimized planning considerations
    3. Tuning options
    4. Server tuning
    5. Optimizing the IBM Spectrum Protect database
    6. Client tuning
    7. Server and client instrumentation
  • Unit 9 - Troubleshooting and recovery
    1. Problem determination
    2. Database recovery
    3. Storage pool recovery
    4. Trace functions
    5. Report an issue
    6. Where to find more information
  • Unit 10 - IBM Spectrum Protect additional products
    1. Other products in the IBM Spectrum Protect family
    2. Overview of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus
Prerequisites:
Complete IBM Spectrum Protect 8.1.2 - Implementation and Administration (TS616G) prior to attending this course.
Schedule:
5 days (9:00-17:00)
Price per person:
2 680.00 € (3 242.80 € incl. 21% VAT)

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