With IBM Turbonomic, your cloud investments are smarter, automation is easier, and you can finally realize the promise of agility, elasticity, and speed to market. It is an ideal solution for organizations adopting FinOps! This course takes you in-depth into how the IBM Turbonomic platform interacts with the world's most broadly accepted public cloud technologies, such as AWS, Azure, and GCP. You learn about the cost and feasibility of migrating core applications to the cloud for flexibility and scale. You gain an understanding of IBM Turbonomic support for reserved instances, savings plans as well as committed use discounts. This course describes how IBM Turbonomic optimizes compute, storage, and PaaS services in the cloud for performance and efficiency, increasing ROI and lowering your cloud bill by using only what you need.

To learn the DS8000 storage subsystem and its hardware components and logical structure. You configure the DS8000 storage subsystem using a DS8000 Storage Manager GUI and review the DS CLI interface for scripting configuration functions. You will also perform dynamic data relocation using Easy Tier function. In addition we have a unit on the recently announced product called the DS8900F

IBM FlashSystem V9000 is a comprehensive all-flash enterprise storage solution that delivers the full capabilities of IBM FlashCore technology. FlashSystem V9000 offers a rich set of storage virtualization features designed to improve efficiency, management, scalability and flexibility for any storage environments. FlashSystem V9000 delivers industry-leading value to enterprises along three dimensions: Scalable Performance, Enduring Economics, and Agile Integration.This course focuses on the planning and implementation tasks associated with integrating the FlashSystem V9000 into the storage area network, and facilitate storage application data access independence from storage management functions and requirements.

This course is designed to leverage SAN storage connectivity by integrating a layer of intelligence in virtualization. The SAN Volume Controller (SVC) facilitates storage application data access independence from storage management functions and requirements. This focus is on planning and implementation tasks associated with integrating the SVC into the storage area network.

Enterprise data is growing exponentially. This data explosion is making commonly accepted practices of data management inadequate. Social, mobile, cloud, big data, and analytics are driving an explosion in data volumes and causing new challenges for data protection, disaster recovery, regulatory requirements, and standards for compliance. Data management has become one of the highest priorities of organizations today. The IBM FlashSystem products are designed to help companies improve performance and reduce server sprawl, power consumption, cooling, and floor space requirements. All of this in turn can help clients save money, improve performance, and invest more in innovation. The IBM FlashSystem family can help you take control of your storage, harness existing data, and manage your IT infrastructure in a much more cloud-like fashion. This course will aim to provide the basics of flash storage systems, specifically IBM’s portfolio in this area. Course Basic Instructor-led 8 hours Cost Course code: SSFS1G

Enterprises and organizations 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 Spectrum Scale meets these challenges as a high-performance solution for managing data at scale. This new course covers IBM Spectrum Scale features that enable data-anywhere access that spans storage and locations to accelerate applications across the data center or around the world. Attendees should already know the basics of installing, configuring and managing a Spectrum Scale clustered file system and how to use the installer toolkit.

IBM Storage Protect 8.1.12 is a data backup and recovery solution designed to help you manage your data retention, reduce the cost of storage, and provide appropriate recovery point objectives to meet any service level agreement. IBM Storage Protect offers improved efficiency and flexibility using object-based data management and policy driven retention.

Identify the features and benefits of NetApp® ONTAP® 9 data management software. Understand the architecture and functionality of an ONTAP cluster. Learn the basics of how to configure and manage an ONTAP cluster by using the CLI, NetApp ONTAP System Manager, and NetApp BlueXP™?. 12 TRAINING UNITS | 1 Day Instructor Led Training | Detailed Description (PDF)

This course describes the features and benefits of the NetApp® Cloud Volumes ONTAP® system. The course helps enable you to explain the architecture and functionality of cloud based ONTAP storage. Also, the course introduces basic administration, configuration, and management of the Cloud Volumes ONTAP system that uses NetApp BlueXP™ (formerly NetApp Cloud Manager).

Learn the basic administration tasks of a NetApp® ONTAP® 9.14 cluster. Use the clustershell and NetApp ONTAP System Manager to manage cluster storage and network resources. Discover how to configure basic data protection and data efficiency functions and common cluster maintenance tasks. 36 TRAINING UNITS | 3 Days Instructor Led Training | Detailed Description (PDF)

An ONTAP Administrator configures, manages, and maintains an ONTAP cluster. The Administrator is also responsible for deploying data protection and security mechanisms, and resolving performance issues. This learning path guides you through a collection of instructor-led courses that provide you with hands-on training on ONTAP technologies essential to the role of an ONTAP Administrator. You are encouraged to complete the ONTAP Associate learning path prior to this path.

Explore key concepts and techniques for protecting data on NetApp® ONTAP® based storage systems. Learn about the data protection solutions that are integrated in ONTAP software and examine the tools to manage ONTAP data protection features. In the hands-on exercises, use NetApp ONTAP System Manager and the ONTAP CLI to perform key data protection tasks. This course is updated for ONTAP 9.14.1 software.

This course focuses on the deployment of NetApp® SnapCenter® Server 4.4. You learn how to install, monitor, and manage SnapCenter Server. The course also discusses installation and use of licenses and role-based access control. You learn how to prepare hosts, install SnapCenter Plug-ins, and connect to NetApp ONTAP® AFF and FAS storage systems. You also review backup and restore of Windows file system data and the configuration of SnapMirror® and SnapVault® relationships for use with SnapCenter software. The course materials include an exercise workbook that serves as an on-the-job reference guide. 36 TRAINING UNITS | 3 Days Instructor Led Training | Detailed Description (PDF)

In this workshop course, you learn how to connect Windows® and Linux® hosts via Fibre Channel (FC) and iSCSI protocols to NetApp® SANs. Instructor Led Training | Detailed Description (PDF)

Explore block-level protocols, including FC, FCoE, iSCSI, NVMe over FCoE (NVMe/FC), and NVMe over TCP (NVMe/TCP), on Microsoft Windows Server, Linux, and VMware ESXi host operating systems. Examine how to administer, configure, and manage NetApp® ONTAP® data management software for a SAN environment. This course focuses on ONTAP 9 functionality and includes lectures and hands-on exercises.

In this course, you increase your proficiency as a NetApp® ONTAP® software engineer by learning how to troubleshoot ONTAP environments. Specifically, you learn how to troubleshoot the management component, scale-out networking, NAS protocols (NFS), and SAN protocols. From lectures, demonstrations, and active exercises, you learn how to isolate issues, verify configurations, view logs, view trace messages, and use event management system messages for troubleshooting. 48 TRAINING UNITS | 4 Days Instructor Led Training | Detailed Description (PDF)

This course is designed for those who are new to Nutanix and want a feature-focused introduction to AOS Storage, our scale-out storage technology, and Prism, our multicloud management interface. In Nutanix Hybrid Cloud Fundamentals (NHCF), you’ll dive into Nutanix centralized management capabilities, with an emphasis on quickly getting hands-on with the Nutanix platform. This introductory course starts by discussing key Nutanix products and cluster-related concepts. Using the Prism Central and Prism Element unified control plane, you will learn how to monitor cluster health and performance, manage software versions, create and manage VMs, and perform basic management tasks on hardware, storage, and networks.

If you already have experience administering a Nutanix environment, this course will extend, deepen and broaden your knowledge as you grow in your career as a Nutanix administrator. In Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Administration (ECA), you’ll focus on Prism Central. This course provides a comprehensive look at Nutanix centralized management capabilities and allows you to explore the wide variety of features that are available in this web console.

This course teaches you the administrative skills needed to install, configure, manage, and upgrade three different Nutanix Unified Storage products: Nutanix Volumes: Learn how Nutanix Volumes provides block storage for your VMs or physical hosts using the iSCSI protocol, with the same simplicity as virtualized workloads, consolidating infrastructure into a single unified platform. Nutanix Files: Set up and manage Nutanix Files, a software-defined, scale-out file storage solution that provides Server Message Block (SMB) and Network File System (NFS) file services to clients. Nutanix Objects: Learn how easy it is to use Nutanix Objects, a software-defined, scale-out object storage solution that provides a scalable repository for unstructured data.

The Nutanix Kubernetes Platform Administration (NKPA) course teaches you how to deploy, configure, and manage the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP), a fully turnkey solution built on pure upstream Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) conformant Kubernetes.

This course teaches you the skills needed to install, configure, operate, and manage Nutanix X-Play and Nutanix Calm (renamed to Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) Self-Service). In this course, you will explore a number of subjects including: How to perform codeless task automation using X-Play and its actions gallery, plays, and playbooks What Nutanix Calm is, how to install and configure it, and how to use the Marketplace to launch blueprints and runbooks How to create single- and multi-VM blueprints, and how to publish them to the Marketplace for consumption How to manage an application How to identify issues with Nutanix Calm and X-Play

This course teaches you the skills needed to design, install, configure, and manage an End-User Computing (EUC) solution on Nutanix. In this course, you will explore several EUC-focused subjects including: Considerations when planning an EUC implementation, how to choose between Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS), and the options available when designing your EUC solution. Nutanix technologies that support an EUC deployment, including Flow Network Security, which provides increased security for desktops, and Files Storage, an integrated file server solution. Configuring and operating EUC environments, including using third-party solutions, working with profile stores, and creating and optimizing gold images. Optimizing and troubleshooting an EUC environment, including best practices, viewing utilization metrics, and troubleshooting various common issues.

The Nutanix Multicloud Infrastructure Design (NMCID) course is designed to give you a technical deep dive into Nutanix design methodology, which has been used to consistently deliver business-critical solutions to the most demanding customers. This four-day course will prepare you to engage with enterprise customers and design Nutanix Hybrid Multicloud solutions that deliver real business value. It focused on Nutanix's methodology for designing multi-hypervisor solutions capable of supporting enterprise-class applications according to clearly defined SLAs. A key component of this course is the Nutanix Validated Design (NVD). NVDs use robust validation to simplify the process of architecting and deploying solutions. They detail the design decisions that support the deployment of scalable, resilient, and secure solutions. This course will teach you how to use an NVD, in conjunction with validated business requirements, to design a custom solution that follows Nutanix best practices.