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 deal with Linux running on an IBM Power system.This course provides students with an opportunity to work with Power Systems storage devices, expanding on those skill sets needed to manage Red Hat.
Prerequisites
Students attending this course should have a basic background in systems administration and/or troubleshooting.
Duration
2 days.
Course Objectives
This course is designed to expand on Red Hat administration skills with IBM Power Systems, in the area of storage devices. IBM Power Systems provide a large variety of storage options, and combining these options with Red Hat storage management techniques is a critical skill required by today’s system administrator.
After completing this course, students should be able to:
- Describe storage options for Red Hat v7.2 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 Red Hat host
Course Content
Day 1
Unit 1: Welcome, Introduction to Power storage (PowerVM, VIOS)
Exercise 1: Navigating the lab environment
Unit 2: Device naming and FileSystem management
Exercise 2: Managing devices
Day 2
Unit 3: SAN attached devices and MultiPath IO
Exercise 3: Multipath IO
Unit 4: Logical Volume Management
Exercise 4: LVM operations