Course Overview

This course teaches you navigation, operation, and recovery techniques for the Hardware Management Console (HMC) in the System z environment.

Through lecture and hands-on exercises, you learn setup and operating procedures for the HMC, gain in-depth problem determination skills, practice HMC operations, and utilize recovery capabilities provided by the System z servers.

Virtual Learning

This interactive training can be taken from any location, your office or home and is delivered by a trainer. This training does not have any delegates in the class with the instructor, since all delegates are virtually connected. Virtual delegates do not travel to this course, Global Knowledge will send you all the information needed before the start of the course and you can test the logins.

Course Objectives

After completing this course, you should be able to:

  • Discuss the features and components which comprise IBM mainframes
  • Navigate the HMC workplace using the classic style user interface
  • Navigate the HMC workplace using the tree style user interface
  • Use the HMC to monitor and control the IBM System Z servers
  • Use the HMC to control and manage assigned CPCs and images
  • Access and navigate the support element from the hardware management console to perform problem determination functions

Course Content

Day 1

  • Welcome
  • Unit 1: IBM mainframe server hardware overview
  • Unit 2: Using the HMC Classic style user interface
  • Unit 3: Using the HMC Tree style user interface
  • Unit 4: Using the HMC to monitor System z servers
  • Supporting labs

Day 2

  • Review
  • Unit 5: Activation profiles and operational tasks
  • Unit 6: Single Object Operations: CPC session
  • Supporting labs

Course Overview

This course provides an overview of the PowerVM edition’s features on POWER6 and POWER7 processor-based systems. It explains the new features and benefits of virtualization including processor virtualization, Integrated Virtual Ethernet, Virtual I/O Server, and virtual devices, such as virtual Ethernet, virtual SCSI, and virtual Fibre Channel adapters. Basic and advanced configurations of the Virtual I/O Server and its clients are discussed including various availability options.

Expand your knowledge about PowerVM features that were introduced in Power Systems for AIX I: LPAR Configuration and Planning (AN110) / Power Systems for AIX I: LPAR Configuration and Planning (ILO) (AX110).

This course provides lectures and hands on labs.

Virtual Learning

This interactive training can be taken from any location, your office or home and is delivered by a trainer. This training does not have any delegates in the class with the instructor, since all delegates are virtually connected. Virtual delegates do not travel to this course, Global Knowledge will send you all the information needed before the start of the course and you can test the logins.

Course Objectives

  • Discuss the advantages or value of PowerVM edition’s features
  • Define micro-partitioning and shared processor LPARs
  • Discuss the benefits of simultaneous multithreading
  • Discuss and configure the Integrated Virtual Ethernet (IVE)
  • Install and configure the Virtual I/O Server
  • Configure virtual network devices, such as virtual Ethernet and shared Ethernet adapters
  • Configure virtual SCSI and virtual Fibre Channel storage adapters
  • Configure virtual SCSI target devices on a virtual SCSI adapter
  • Define file-backed storage pools and file-backed virtual optical devices
  • Identify single points of failure in virtualized environments
  • Configure multiple VIO servers for high availability
  • Configure advanced virtual networking options
  • Configure the shared Ethernet adapter failover feature
  • Configure advanced virtual SCSI options
  • Configure MPIO in a VIO server’s client partition
  • Manage the service events, configure call home, add, exchange FRUs, and discuss FSP failover
  • Perform PowerVM (VIOS) Maintenance

Course Content

Day 1

  • Unit 1: Introduction to partitioning
  • Exercise 1: Power System documentation overview
  • Unit 2: Processor virtualization
  • Exercise 2: Processor virtualization configuration

Day 2

  • Unit 3: Integrated Virtual Ethernet
  • Exercise 3: Integrated Virtual Ethernet configuration
  • Unit 4: Virtual Ethernet
  • Exercise 4: Virtual Ethernet Adapter configuration
  • Unit 5 – Topic 1: Virtual I/O Server and virtual devices
  • Exercise 5 – Topic 1: Virtual I/O Server and client partition configuration

Day 3

  • Unit 5 – Topic 2: Virtual I/O Server and virtual devices
  • Exercise 5 – Topic 2: Virtual I/O Server and client partition configuration
  • Unit 6: Virtual network configurations with dual VIOS
  • Exercise 6: Shared Ethernet adapter failover setup

Day 4

  • Unit 7: Virtual SCSI configurations with dual VIOS
  • Exercise 7: Dual VIO servers configuration with MPIO in the client partition
  • Unit 8: N_Port ID Virtualization
  • Exercise 8. Virtual Fibre Channel adapter configuration
  • Unit 9: Migration from Physical to Virtual Storage

Day 5

  • Unit 10: HMC Service Management
  • Exercise 9: Manage Service Events
  • Unit 11: PowerVM advanced systems maintenance
  • Exercise 10: PowerVM system maintenance
  • Exercise 11: (Optional) file-backed virtual disk and virtual media repository configuration

Course Overview

Learn to implement advanced PowerVM features such as Active Memory Sharing, Shared Dedicated Processors, Multiple Shared Processor Pools, N_Port Virtualization, and Remote Live Partition Mobility.

This course focuses on the features that relate to the performance of the POWER6 processor, AIX 6.1, and the special monitoring, configuring, and tuning needs of logical partitions (LPARs). This course does not cover application monitoring and tuning.

You will learn skills to implement, measure, analyze, and tune PowerVM virtualization features for optimal performance on IBM System p servers.

You will also learn about the AIX 6.1 performance analysis and tuning tools that enable an administrator to take advantage of the Micro-Partitioning and other virtualization features of the System p servers.

Hands-on lab exercises reinforce each lecture and give the students practical experience.

Virtual Learning

This interactive training can be taken from any location, your office or home and is delivered by a trainer. This training does not have any delegates in the class with the instructor, since all delegates are virtually connected. Virtual delegates do not travel to this course, Global Knowledge will send you all the information needed before the start of the course and you can test the logins.

Course Objectives

  • Describe the effect of the POWER6 virtualization features on performance and monitoring, such as: Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT), Micro-Partitioning, Multiple Shared Processor Pools (MSPP), shared dedicated capacity, Active Memory Sharing (AMS) and other virtualization features
  • Interpret the outputs of AIX 6.1performance monitoring and tuning tools used to view the impact of SMT, Micro-Partitioning, additional shared processor pool activations and device virtualization. The tools include: vmstat, iostat, sar, topas, trace, curt, mpstat, lparstat, smtctl
  • List various sources of information and support related to AIX 6.1 performance tools, system sizing, system tuning, and AIX 6.1 enhancements and new features
  • Perform a Live Partition Mobility between two different POWER6 servers
  • Describe the New features available with the Virtual I/O Server version 2.1 and version 2.2 such as: N_port ID Virtualization, Heterogeous Multi-threading, Virtual Tape devices, Active Memory sharing
  • Describe and implement the Active Memory Sharing feature

Course Content

Day 1

  • Unit 1 – PowerVM features Review
  • Exercise 1 – Introduction to the Lab environment
  • Unit 2 – Processor Virtualization Tuning
  • Exercise 2 – SMT and Micro-Partitioning

Day 2

  • Exercise 2 – SMT and Micro-Partitioning (con’t)
  • Unit 3 – Shared Dedicated Capacity and Multiple Shared Processor Pools
  • Exercise 3 – Configuring Multiple Shared Processor Pools
  • Unit 4 – Active Memory Sharing
  • Exercise 4 – Configuring Active Memory Sharing

Day 3

  • Exercise 4 – Configuring Active Memory Sharing (con’t)
  • Unit 5 – N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV)
  • Unit 6 – I/O Devices Virtualization Performance and Tuning
  • Exercise 6 – Virtual I/O Server, vSCSI, Virtual Ethernet and shared Ethernet Adapter

Day 4

  • Exercise 6 – Virtual I/O Server, vSCSI, Virtual Ethernet and shared Ethernet Adapter (con’t)
  • Unit 7 – Live Partition Mobility
  • Exercise 7 – Live Partition Mobility implementation
  • Unit 8 -PowerVM Advanced System Maintenance

Day 5

  • Exercise 8 – PowerVM Maintenance
  • Unit 9 – Virtualization Management Tools

Course Overview

This course will get you the skills you need to efficiently manage an IBM Power private cloud environment. Organizations of all kinds use IBM Power servers to run their mission critical applications. In this course, you’ll be introduced to the world of private cloud through hands-on curriculum developed by experts at IBM. The material covers a deep-dive of IBM PowerVC, HMC and NovaLink – the kind you will not find anywhere else. With direct access to our live, cloud-based lab environment, learners can quickly and easily apply the concepts they are learning in a real-world setting. Upon completion of this course, you will earn an IBM digital badge that recognizes your skills and knowledge in this area.

Course Objectives

After completing this course, you should be able to:

  • Summarize IBM PowerVC’s key features and benefits 
  • Perform IBM PowerVC installation and configuration, including upgrading to newer versions 
  • Recognize IBM PowerVC’s hardware and software requirements 
  • Summarize IBM PowerVC’s architecture 
  • Show that you understand cloud computing from a technological standpoint 
  • Summarize the key OpenStack components and their functions 
  • Demonstrate your ability to use and interact with IBM PowerVC’s graphical and command line interfaces 
  • Summarize the concepts of new project creation, users, network configuration, and other cloud-related properties  
  • Summarize the primary administrative tasks that must be completed in an IBM PowerVC environment 
  • Summarize the IBM PowerVM NovaLink architecture 
  • Integrate IBM PowerVC with your existing virtualization environment and IBM PowerVM NovaLink

Course Content

Day 1:

  • Course Administration and Introduction
  • Unit 1: Introduction to IBM PowerVC and OpenStack
  • Unit 2: Planning for IBM PowerVC
  • Unit 3: Installation and Upgrade of IBM PowerVC
  • Exercise period 1 
  • Exercise 1. Verification of Prerequisites 
  • Exercise 2. Installation of IBM PowerVC
  • Exercise 3. Adding Hosts and Virtual Machines to IBM PowerVC

Day 2: 

  • Unit 4: IBM PowerVC User Interfaces   
  • Unit 5: IBM PowerVC Administrative Tasks  
  • Exercise period 2
  • Exercise 4. Using the IBM PowerVC User Interfaces  
  • Exercise 5. IBM PowerVC Administration
  • Exercise 6. Working with OpenStack Projects, Policies and Users

Day 3:

  • Unit 6: Transitioning to Cloud Computing
  • Unit 7: Features of IBM PowerVC
  • Unit 8: Managing Images and Virtual Machines with IBM PowerVC  
  • Exercise period 3
  • Exercise 7. Live and Regular Capture to Create Images and Deploy Templates
  • Exercise 8. Self-service Provisioning with IBM PowerVC
  • Exercise 9. Metering and REST APIs
  • Exercise 10. Stopping and removal of Resources

Day 4:

  • Unit 9: Introduction to IBM PowerVM NovaLink  
  • Unit 10: Planning and Installing IBM PowerVM NovaLink
  • Unit 11: Using IBM PowerVM NovaLink with IBM PowerVC
  • Exercise period 4
  • Exercise 11. (Shared Exercise) Installation of IBM PowerVM NovaLink  
  • Exercise 12. (Shared Exercise) Integration of IBM PowerVC with IBM PowerVM NovaLink
  • Exercise 13. (Shared Exercise) Capture and Deploy using IBM PowerVM NovaLink and IBM PowerVC Upgrade

Course Overview

Learn how to plan for, implement, and manage the ongoing operations of an IBM i. Emphasis is on security, system availability, backup and recovery, system software management, and problem determination. Also, get an introduction to the architecture and terminology of the IBM i.

This course provides lectures and hands on labs.

Virtual Learning

This interactive training can be taken from any location, your office or home and is delivered by a trainer. This training does not have any delegates in the class with the instructor, since all delegates are virtually connected. Virtual delegates do not travel to this course, Global Knowledge will send you all the information needed before the start of the course and you can test the logins.

Course Objectives

After this course participants should be able to:

  • Describe and implement the components of IBM i security, such as user profile, group profile, authorization list, adopted authority and object / resource security
  • Develop a security plan for your Power Systems with IBM i
  • Describe the options to implement security auditing
  • Develop a plan to audit security on your Power Systems with IBM i
  • Describe the IBM i availability products and features and choose the option(s) that best fit your company requirements
  • Describe how to backup and recover user, IBM and full system data on your Power Systems with IBM i
  • Develop a backup and recovery plan for your Power Systems with IBM i
  • Describe the system diagnostics and problem determination procedures available on your Power Systems with IBM i

Course Content

  • Class administration and introductions
  • IBM i overview and concepts
  • Management central overview
  • Security concepts and overview
  • System values
  • User security
  • Resource security
  • Security auditing
  • Designing security
  • IBM i availability overview
  • Disk management
  • Backup and recovery strategy using Save/Restore
  • Journal management
  • Commitment control overview
  • Backup and recovery planning
  • Problem determination
  • Overview of Systems Director Navigator for i
  • Introduction to BRMS

Course Overview

This course will help the student to better understand the techniques of performance analysis and capacity planning on systems and partitions running IBM i, and to develop an appreciation of how IBM i operates and interfaces with applications. The student will build skills to better manage performance and capacity on systems and partitions running IBM i. In this course we will explain IBM i concepts, including the Technology Independent Machine Interface (TIMI), main storage pools, auxiliary storage pools, management of jobs, threads, tasks, job run-time structure, performance monitoring, data collection, and analysis of performance data. This 4-day course includes hands-on activities using performance data from IBM i systems to help the student appreciate the concepts discussed.

This course is designed for those running Power Systems on IBM i. While it includes i 7.1 content, it is suitable for those currently using prior versions of IBM i. First we will focus on teaching the performance management process, the performance considerations of key hardware components and virtualization options, and tuning options to help optimize performance. During these lectures, students should gain an appreciation of the unique storage management and work management components in the IBM i architecture, and how these components need to be managed for optimal performance. Then the class focus on the tools and techniques to monitor, analyze, and plan for performance of IBM i systems and partitions. The primary analysis tool that will be used is the Performance Data Investigator (PDI) which is included with IBM Systems Director Navigator for i. PDI is also used with IBM Systems Workload Estimator (WLE) for capacity planning activities.

Virtual Learning

This interactive training can be taken from any location, your office or home and is delivered by a trainer. This training does not have any delegates in the class with the instructor, since all delegates are virtually connected. Virtual delegates do not travel to this course, Global Knowledge will send you all the information needed before the start of the course and you can test the logins.

Course Objectives

  • Acquire the skills to better manage performance on systems running IBM i.
  • Enhance your knowledge of IBM i storage management, job/thread/task management, and the use of performance data collection, monitoring and analysis tools to better manage IBM i work.
  • Learn how to manage the latest virtualization and logical partitioning features of Power Systems for optimal performance.
  • Learn the latest tools and methodologies in i6.1 and i7.1 to manage and analyze system and application performance.
  • Get hands-on experience with Performance Data Investigator in Systems Director Navigator for i, and tools such as Job Watcher and Disk Watcher through hands-on lab exercises.
  • Learn how to use Performance Data Investigator, IBM Workload Estimator and other performance tools to perform sizing and capacity planning on Power Systems.
  • Learn methodologies for identifying and selecting appropriate performance data when planning upgrades and other capacity planning tasks.

Course Content

  • Performance management process
  • IBM Power Systems performance considerations
  • Components of performance
  • Disk performance considerations
  • Logical partition performance considerations
  • Work management review and tuning options
  • Real-time monitoring
  • Collection Services: Data collection
  • Performance Data Investigator overview
  • Investigating data: Collection Services
  • Performance Tools reports and graphs
  • Capacity planning
  • Collection Services data files
  • Run-time (run/wait) analysis
  • Advanced Performance Analysis Investigating with Disk Watcher and Job Watcher

Course Overview

This course provides instruction on HPE BladeSystem administration and management. The portfolio overview ensures an understanding of components, configurations, and solutions. The course also covers resources and administration related to retired HPE c-Class BladeSystem products.

Course Objectives

After completing this module, students should

be able to:

• Explain the functional architecture of the HPE

BladeSystem c-Class environment

• Identify the management infrastructure

(Insight Display, Onboard Administrator)

• Review the HPE BladeSystem c-Class

retired portfolio and equipment capabilities

• Review system requirements for power and

cooling

• Identify high-level functionalities of HPE

ProLiant Generation 10 Plus (Gen10+)

servers

• Describe the HPE BladeSystem c-Class

interconnect module architecture

• Explain the HPE Virtual Connect

management tools (Virtual Connect

Manager, HPE OneView)

• Show familiarity with HPE BladeSystem

scripting

• Explain how to update the firmware on an

HPE BladeSystem

Course Content

HPE BladeSystem Administration | HE646S

Course Overview

This 5-day course is an introduction to SQL, relational database principles, and the HP NonStop™ SQL/MX product and serves as a prerequisite to more advanced NonStop SQL/MX courses. Hands-on lab sessions provide practical experience with generating SQL/MX queries to access data and creating database objects (catalogs, tables, indexes, views, and constraints).

Course Objectives

  • Describe relational database concepts and terminology
  • Describe the HP NonStop™ SQL/MX processes and objects
  • Start a mxci session and use ANSI names SQL/MX database objects
  • Describe the basic process to write queries and the tools to evaluate the query performance
  • Use the mxci SELECT statement and predicates to retrieve data from single tables
  • List the types of functions supported in SQL/MX
  • Retrieve data from:
  • multiple tables using joins and union operations
  • from derived tables using query expressions
  • using subqueries
  • Create a SQL/MX database (Catalog, Schema,Tables, Indexes, Views and Constraints)
  • Modify data in a table using SQL/MX INSERT,UPDATE, and DELETE statements
  • Describe the SQL/MX access options and isolation levels
  • Describe SQL/MX database management functions

Course Overview

This course is designed to teach you how to use the Hardware Configuration Definition (HCD) of z/OS to create an I/O configuration and dynamically alter the I/O configuration.

Virtual Learning

This interactive training can be taken from any location, your office or home and is delivered by a trainer. This training does not have any delegates in the class with the instructor, since all delegates are virtually connected. Virtual delegates do not travel to this course, Global Knowledge will send you all the information needed before the start of the course and you can test the logins.

Course Objectives

After this course participants should be able to:

  • Describe new zSeries processor technology
  • Code new zSeries processors (z990 to z10)
  • Code ESCON channels and ESCON CTCs
  • Code FICON channels and FICON CTCs
  • Code Coupling Facilities (CF) and CF links
  • Code cascaded FICON Director
  • Create an IODF work file on a z processor from scratch
  • Use CHPID mapping tool to create a validated work IODF
  • Use work IODF and create a production IODF
  • Perform Dynamic I/O changes on a real z/OS system
  • Build a LOADxx parmlib member for initial program load (IPL)
  • View configuration graphically
  • Create appropriate configuration reports

Course Content

Day 1

  • (00:30) Welcome
  • (01:00) Unit 1: HCD introduction
  • (00:30) Unit 2: IOCP and MVSCP macro review
  • (00:30) Unit 3: HCD dialog
  • (01:00) Unit 4: LPAR and logical control units
  • (02:00) Unit 5: ESCON Directors
  • (00:15) Unit 6: OSAs, HiperSockets, and routers
  • (00:30) Exercise 1: Overview of lab environment
  • (00:45) Exercise 2: HCD familiarity

Day 2

  • (00:30) Unit 7: Review of zSeries hardware
  • (01:30) Unit 8: z990, z9, z10, and HCD
  • (01:00) Unit 9: FICON, FICON CTCs, and FICON directors
  • (03:00) Exercise 3: Coding a zSeries 2094
  • (06:00) Exercise 4: Add ESCON directors to your configuration
  • (00:30) Exercise 5: Add FICON directors to your configuration (optional)

Day 3

  • (01:00) Unit 10: Planning and migration
  • (01:00) Unit 11: IPL and LOADxx member
  • (00:45) Unit 12: Dynamic I/O reconfiguration
  • (00:30) Exercise 6: Incremental migration from IOCP deck (optional)
  • (00:30) Exercise 7: Building a LOADxx member
  • (01:00) Exercise 8: Perform dynamic I/O

Day 4

  • (01:00) Unit 13: z10 HCD and using CMT
  • (01:00) Unit 14: ESCON CTCs for sysplex
  • (00:45) Unit 15: HCD and parallel sysplex
  • (00:45) Exercise 9: Coding a 2097 using the CMT
  • (00:30) Exercise 10: Coding CFs and CF links including z10 CIB links
  • (00:20) Exercise 11: Coding sysplex CTCs (optional)

Course Overview

This course is for C, TAL, and pTAL developers. Learn how to use the Guardian Application Program Interface (API) to obtain operating system services including interprocess communication, process creation, Enscribe file access, and more. This course is 60 percent lecture and 40 percent handson labs using HPE NonStop servers

Course Objectives

At the conclusion of this course you should be

able to:

• Code for interprocess communication

• Develop applications that access Enscribe

files

• Handle terminal input and output

• Identify different types of system messages

• Create and manage new processes

• Available timing facilities

• Know how nowait I/O can be used to

improve application performance

Course Content

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