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Enterprises are creating, analyzing and keeping more data than ever before. An organization’s underlying storage must support new-era big data and artificial intelligence workloads along with traditional applications while ensuring security, reliability and high performance. IBM Storage Scale meets these challenges as a high-performance solution for managing data at scale.

 This course is intended for IT professionals tasked with administering a Storage Scale storage cluster consisting of Linux nodes. The course includes information on various Storage Scale features that enable remote access to data that is stored in a cluster file system. This includes: multi-cluster support, clustered NFS, cluster export services (CES) and protocol support (NFS, SMB, and Object), Active File Management (AFM), and AFM-based Asynchronous Disaster Recovery (AFM DR). The features are described in lecture materials and implemented in lab exercises.

 
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What You'll Learn

  • Configure a cluster to allow remote file system access
  • Mount a Storage Scale file system from a remote cluster
  • Implement Active File Management (AFM)
  • Summarize AFM cache modes
  • Describe AFM DR
  • Differentiate AFM and AFM DR
  • Implement AFM DR
  • Describe and implement Clustered NFS (CNFS)
  • Describe the Cluster Export Services (CES) architecture
  • Implement CES protocols (NFS, SMB, and Object)
  • Differentiate CNFS and CES NFS

Who Should Attend

This lecture and exercise-based course is for individuals who want to configure a Spectrum Scale cluster to allow remote data access.
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Prerequisites

Students must already know the basics of installing, configuring and managing a Storage Scale clustered file system. This prerequisite can be met by attending the following courses:

  •  H010DG - IBM Storage Scale Fundamentals
  • H011DG - IBM Storage Scale Administration

Learning Journey

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WEEK 1:

 Unit 1: IBM Storage Scale Remote Data Access Overview [2 hours]

  • Topic/Lesson 1: Describing the Multi-Cluster Architecture
  • Topic/Lesson 2: Configure a cluster environment to allow remote file system access
  • Topic/Lesson 3: Mounting a file system from a home cluster
  • Exercise 1: Configuring multi-cluster file system access
  • Quiz: 30 min

Unit 2:

  • U2V1: AFM Architecture and Summary of AFM Terminology Including Home and Cache Filesets
  • U2V2: Differentiate AFM Cache Modes and Distinguish Application and Gateway Nodes
  • U2V3: Create and Manage an AFM Relationship
  • Exercise 2: Configuring Active File Management (AFM)
  • Quiz/Project: 30 min

 WEEK 2

  • Unit 3:
  • U3V1: AFM DR Architecture and Summary of AFM DR Terminology Including Primary and Secondary Filesets
  • U3V2: Differentiating AFM DR and AFM
  • U3V3: Creating Primary and Secondary Filesets
  • U3V4: Describing the Failover and Failback Procedures
  • Exercise 3: Configuring AFM-based Asynchronous Disaster Recovery (AFM DR)
  • Quiz: 30 min

Unit 4:

  • U4V1: CNFS Architecture and Its Advantages
  • U4V2: Static and Aliased IP Address Configurations
  • U4V3: CNFS Failover Process and Group IDs_Designing Implementing and Managing a CNFS Cluster
  • Exercise 4: Configuring Clustered NFS (CNFS)
  • Quiz: 30 min

 WEEK 3

 Unit 5:

  • U5V1: Cluster Export Services CES
  • U5V2: Open-Source Software and CES Requirements
  • U5V3: IP Addrss Distribution - CES Cluster and Node Status - Implementing a CES Cluster
  • Exercise 5: Configuring Cluster Export Services (CES)
  • Quiz: 30 min

Unit 6: CES NFS protocol support

  • U6V1: Describe and enable the CES NFS protocol service (Slides 3-6)
  • U6V2: Configure and manage CES NFS protocol exports (Slides 7-18)
  • U6V3: Summary of NFS vs. CNFS and configuration (Slides 19-20)
  • Exercise 6: Configuring CES NFS protocol exports
  • Quiz: 30 min

 WEEK 4

 Unit 7: CES SMB protocol support

  • U7V1: Samba and the CES SMB protocol service (Slides 3-6)
  • U7V2: Configure and manage CES SMB protocol shares (Slides 7-10)
  • U7V3: CES SMB configuration steps (Slides 11-16)
  • Exercise 7: Configuring CES SMB protocol shares
  • Quiz: 30 min

 Unit 8: CES object protocol support

  • U8V1: Object storage and addressing concepts (Slides 3-5)
  • U8V2: Introduction to Object storage in Storage Scale (Slides 6-10)
  • U8V3: Configuring Storage Scale object protocol support (Slides 11-15)
  • U8V4: Unified file and object access (Slides 16-21)
  • U8V5: Object multi-region and S3 considerations (Slides 21 - 24)
  • Exercise 8: Configuring CES object protocol storage
  • Quiz/Project: 30 min

 

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