Course Content
The course includes information on the Spectrum Scale installer toolkit, installer GUI, cluster upgrade scenarios, cluster health monitoring, cluster performance data collection and monitoring, management GUI, file system encryption, cluster security, and call home features. Many of the features are described in lecture materials and implemented in lab exercises.
Who should attend
This lecture and exercise-based course is for individuals who want to expand their knowledge of Spectrum Scale advanced installation and management capabilities.
Prerequisites
You should have taken:
- IBM Spectrum Scale Basic Administration for Linux (H005G)
Course Objectives
After completing this course, you should be able to:
- Use advanced installer tools to install Spectrum Scale
- Upgrade a cluster to a newer level of Spectrum Scale
- Monitor cluster health
- Configure cluster performance data collection
- Monitor cluster performance
- Configure cluster security options
- Encrypt file system data
- Configure the Spectrum Scale call home feature
Outline: IBM Storage Scale Advanced Administration for Linux (H006G)
Migrating to IBM Spectrum Scale 5.0
Spectrum Scale 5.0 GUI
Multi-cluster
Clustered NFS
Cluster Export Services for multi-protocol support
SMB Protocol Support
NFS Support in CES; Ganesha overview/performance
Active File Management
AFM-Based Disaster Recovery (DR) and Asynchronous DR
Planning LTFS and GPFS environment for data archiving
File Placement Optimizer
IBM GPFS-FPO and integration with GPFS Hadoop connector
IBM Spectrum Scale Call Home
Monitoring and performance tuning
Flash Cache metadata migration