LX072G - Power Systems Running Linux: Storage Management

Overview

Duration: 2 days

This course is designed to provide the students with what they need to know when managing storage in a Linux on Power environment. IBM Power Systems provide a large variety of storage options and combining these options with Linux storage management techniques is a critical skill required by today's system administrator.

This course provides students with an opportunity to work with Power Systems storage devices, focusing on those skill sets needed to manage these devices on Linux Servers.

Objectives

After completing this course, you should be able to:

Describe storage options for Linux distributions running in a Power Systems environment
Interpret storage configuration data
Implement storage devices with PowerVM
VIOS
Fibre Channel
iSCSI
Differentiate native Linux and hardware RAID solutions
Validate configuration options
Design solutions for attaching storage resources to a Linux on Power host

Content

DAY 1

Unit 1: Welcome, Introduction to Power storage (PowerVM, VIOS)
Exercise 1: Navigating the lab environment
Unit 2: Device naming and File System management
Exercise 2: Managing devices

DAY 2

Unit 3: SAN attached devices and MultiPath IO
Exercise 3: Multipath IO
Unit 4: Logical Volume Management

Audience

The audiences for this training include Power systems support personnel, Linux technical support individuals, Linux developers, Linux system administrators, system architects and engineers that may work with Linux running on an IBM Power system.