Audience

End-user storage Administrators with a focus on using the TPSSM storage management software to configure and maintain their IS4000 and IS4500 storage systems.

Pre-requisites

An understanding of RAID technology, basic storage area network (SAN) terminology, Fibre Channel topology and operating systems such as Linux and Windows.

Course Description

This course is designed for pre-sales partner personnel and business partners. The course covers both hardware and storage management software. Delegates will have the opportunity to install and configure the storage systems and map luns to Windows and Linux operating systems. Delegates will use the management software to configure, tune, maintain and troubleshoot the storage system. Premium Features such as Storage Partitioning, SnapCopy and Remote Volume Mirroring will be covered.

Course objectives

• At the end of the course the delegate will be able to:-
• Describe the basic functions of the TPSSM Storage Manager
• Configure a storage system into arrays and logical drives
• Dynamically modify logical drives using the dynamic features:
• Dynamic RAID Migration
• Dynamic Capacity Expansion
• Dynamic Volume Expansion
• Dynamic Segment Size Migration
• Create storage partitions and map logical drives to hosts
• Use SnapCopy and Volume Copy
• Create Remote Volume Mirror logical drives
• List the factors that influence storage system performance
• List the performance data presented by the performance monitor
• Describe the purpose of each diagnostic tool in the storage management software

Equipment requirements

1 storage system per 2 delegates

Format
Instructor-led (lecture/lab)