Detailed Course Outline
Unit 1 - The IBM Spectrum Protect 8.1.4 environment
- IBM Spectrum Protect concepts
- Operations Center navigation
- Benefits of a multi-site/multi-server environment
- Secure communications overview
- Documentation
Unit 2 - Storage pool management overview
- Manage storage pool hierarchies
- Data movement in traditional storage pools
- Define policy to determine storage destination
- Container storage pools
- Data deduplication
- Container pool management
- Cloud tiering
Unit 3 - Multi-site/multi-server management
- Overview of multi-site/multi-server management
- Create server pair
- Configure servers for multi-site/multi-server management
Unit 4 - Replication and disaster recovery
- Configure replication
- Configure automatic client failover
- Audit and repair damage in a container storage pool
- Additional disaster recovery methods
Unit 5 - Client functions and management
- Backup and restore overview
- Journal-based backups
- Image/snapshot backups
- Decommissioning a client node
- Automatic client updates with the Operations Center
- DSMCUTIL commands
Unit 6 - Daily maintenance and monitoring
- Daily maintenance overview
- Daily storage pool maintenance tasks; traditional disk to tape
- Daily storage pool maintenance tasks; multi-site/multi-server
- Database backup
- Review events and messages
- Configure Operation Center alerts
- Client Management Services (CMS)
- Create reports in the Operations Center
Unit 7 - Automation and scripting
- IBM Spectrum Protect SQL interface
- Macros
- Server scripts
- Daily maintenance scripts
- IBM Spectrum Protect REST API
Unit 8 - Tuning the server and client for optimization
- Performance tuning overview
- Optimized planning considerations
- Tuning options
- Server tuning
- Optimizing the IBM Spectrum Protect database
- Client tuning
- Server and client instrumentation
Unit 9 - Troubleshooting and recovery
- Problem determination
- Database recovery
- Storage pool recovery
- Trace functions
- Report an issue
- Where to find more information
Unit 10 - IBM Spectrum Protect additional products
- Other products in the IBM Spectrum Protect family
- Overview of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus