Tivoli Training : IBM Tivoli Storage Manager 6.3 Implementation and Administration on Windows Servers

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager 6.3 Implementation and Administration on Windows Servers

Tivoli Training Overview

This customized workshop program consists of multiple modules that can be combined to address a specific skill set requirements and areas of interest.

The course covers the following areas:

ITSM Installation & Configuration Implementation Basics

ITSM Basic Administration
ITSM Backup and Recovery
ITSM Automation

Tivoli Training Audience

This course can be customized for system administrators and implementers who are in need of implementing and managing a powerful storage solution - based on the 6.3 release of the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager product.

Tivoli Training Prerequisites

System administrators with 3+ years of experience managing Windows servers and clients. Experience with storage is good but not required.

Tivoli Training Course duration

Since this course can be customized the duration ranges from 3 days to 5 days.

Tivoli Training Course outline

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager overview

ITSM product family
Storage manager overview
Storage manager concepts
Understanding how ITSM works in a corporate network
What's new in 6.3

Installing IBM Tivoli Storage Manager

Components for installation
Installing the server
Installing Tivoli Monitoring
Installing Administration Center

Administrative interfaces and privileges

Tools for managing the ITSM environment on servers
Starting / Stopping the server
Configuring the server in Windows
Configuring Active Directory
Windows cluster environments

Managing storage pools and storage pool volumes

Understanding storage pools and volumes
Setting up storage pool hierarchies
Data Deduplication
Colocation
Monitoring usage
Pool maintenance

Storage media devices

Concepts
Configuring devices in Windows
Managing devices in Windows

Customizing the Tivoli Storage Manager database and recovery log

Overview of the Database and recovery log
Planning for scale
Database backup and restore
Moving the log

Client configuration

Adding client nodes to the server
Client node management
Security
Scheduling operations

Policy management

Planning
Parts of a policy
Creating policies
Retrieval / Updation / Deletion of policies
Backup-archive client functions

Protecting the database and storage pools

Protecting the server
Replication

Automating operations

Support for automation
Scripting
Scheduled operations

Monitoring and event logging

Regular monitoring activities
Methods for monitoring
Monitoring client operations

Problem determination and troubleshooting

Identifying and resolving server problems
Identifying and resolving client problems
Using trace

Performance

Server performance tuning guidelines
Client performance tuning guidelines
Other tuning methods

Minimum Hardware Requirements

Supplied on request only

Minimum Software Requirements

Supplied on request only