Detailed Course Outline
Unit 1 - Managing a multi-server Spectrum Protect 7.1.6 environment
- Basic Spectrum Protect concepts
- Spectrum Protect Operations Center
- Benefits of a multi-server Spectrum Protect environment
- The IBM Spectrum Protect storage family
Unit 2 - Storage pool management
- Managing storage pool hierarchies
- Data movement
- Using policy to determine storage destination
- Container storage pools
- Client-side deduplication
- Inline deduplication
Unit 3 - Multi-site management
- Overview of multi-site management
- Create a server pair
- Configure servers for multi-site management
Unit 4 - Replication and disaster recovery
- Configure replication
- Configuring 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
- Backup group
- Image/snapshot backups
- Decommission a client node
Unit 6 - Daily maintenance
- Daily maintenance
- Daily storage pool maintenance tasks; legacy disk to tape
- Daily storage pool maintenance tasks; multi-site
- Database backups
Unit 7 - Automation and scripting
- Spectrum Protect SQL queries
- Macros
- Server scripts
- Daily maintenance scripts
Unit 8 - Reporting and monitoring
- Reviewing events and messages
- Configure Operations Center alerts
- Client Management Services
- Creating reports in the Operations Center
Unit 9 - Tuning the server and client for optimization
- Performance tuning overview
- Optimized planning considerations
- Tuning options
- Server tuning
- Optimizing the Spectrum Protect database
- Client tuning
- Server and client instrumentation
Unit 10 - Troubleshooting and recovery
- Problem determination
- Database recovery
- Storage pool recovery
- Trace functions
- Reporting an issue
- Where to find more information