IBM Spectrum Storage Software Professional Certification Program

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1 IBM Spectrum Storage Software Professional Certification Program Study Guide Series Exam C Fundamentals of Applying IBM Spectrum Storage Family Solutions V4

2 Purpose of Exam Objectives... 3 High-level Exam Objectives... 4 Detailed Exam Objectives... 6 Section 1 - Customer Requirements... 6 Section 2 - Infrastructure... 9 Section 3 - Solution Architecture Section 4 - Licensing Next Steps... 26

3 Purpose of Exam Objectives When an exam is being developed, the Subject Matter Experts work together to define the role the certified individual will fill. They define all of the tasks and knowledge that an individual would need to have in order to successfully implement the product. This creates the foundation for the objectives and measurement criteria, which are the basis for the certification exam. The Spectrum Storage Certification item writers use these objectives to develop the questions that they write and which will appear on the exam. It is recommended that you review these objectives. Do you know how to complete the task in the objective? Do you know why that task needs to be done? Do you know what will happen if you do it incorrectly? If you are not familiar with a task, then go through the objective and perform that task in your own environment. Read more information on the task. If there is an objective on a task there is about a 95% chance that you WILL see a question about it on the actual exam. After you have reviewed the objectives and completed your own research, then take the assessment exam. While the assessment exam will not tell you which question you answered incorrectly, it will tell you how you did by section. This will give you a good indication as to whether you are ready to take the actual exam or if you need to further review the materials. Note: This is the high-level list of objectives. As you review these objectives, click for a more detailed level of how to perform the task.

4 High-level Exam Objectives Section 1 - Customer Requirements Given the customer s current solution is not working as desired; determine the customer s requirements so that enough information is obtained to recommend a potential solution. Given a series of meetings with a client, review the business alignment so that the key influencer for this technology decision is identified. Given the customer s information and a dialog with the customer, determine the site configuration and locations so that site/location diagrams can be produced. Given access to the server, storage, and applications teams determine the current practices for protecting and managing the current infrastructure so that Spectrum Storage products can be integrated. Given the customer stakeholders, the technical staff, additional SME support and presentation materials determine the customer current initiatives so that there is a mutual understanding of the customer s needs and the IBM Spectrum Solution capabilities. Section 2 - Infrastructure Given the availability of customer key personnel, describe the storage hardware, networking, operating systems, relational databases, applications and key vendor environments within the customer organization so that a document is produced that properly describes the customer environment. Given the availability of the dependency information and key persons and the customer s procurement process, evaluate the customer's storage environment baseline so that the customer s storage environment is documented for research of compatibility and functionality of non-ibm products making note of any skill gaps during the process. Section 3 - Solution Architecture Given customer information about tape, server, storage and networking environments, identify the strategic and tactical goals for these technologies so the appropriate Spectrum Storage product can be recommended. Given knowledge of the IBM Spectrum Storage products (Protect, Control and Scale) describe the attributes of the products so that the Spectrum Storage products are understood. Given knowledge of Spectrum Protect identify the key capabilities so that the key capabilities of Spectrum Protect are listed. Given in-depth knowledge of the IBM Spectrum Protect Suite, identify the key capabilities so that the key capabilities of the Spectrum Protect Suite can be explained to the customer. Given in-depth knowledge of the Spectrum Control, identify the key capabilities so that the key capabilities of Spectrum Control can be explained to the customer. Given in-depth knowledge of the Spectrum Scale, identify the key capabilities so that the key capabilities of Spectrum Scale can be explained to the

5 customer Given in-depth knowledge of the Spectrum Protect, identify the value propositions so that Spectrum Protect can be explained to the customer. Given the understanding of the customer s actual storage requirements, the understanding of IBM Spectrum Control and the need for a proven, scalable, high-performance data and file management solution match the customer s requirements to IBM Spectrum storage solutions so that the customer understands the value of IBM Spectrum Control. Given the understanding of the customer s actual storage requirements, the understanding of Spectrum Scale and the need for a proven, scalable, highperformance data and file management solution match the customer s requirements to Spectrum storage solutions so that the customer understands the value of Spectrum Scale. Given knowledge of the Spectrum Storage suite, describe how Spectrum Archive, Spectrum Accelerate and Spectrum Virtualize work within the suite so that benefits of the entire Spectrum Storage suite are understood. Given knowledge of the benefits of tape, storage virtualization and cloud, describe the benefits to the customer so that the benefits are understood. Given IBM collateral on the competition, and knowledge of Spectrum portfolio, explain how the Spectrum family is a better value to the customer so that the customer understands the Spectrum solution is the best solution. Given knowledge of Spectrum Storage products (Protect, Control and Scale) describe the management capabilities of the Spectrum Storage products so that they are understood. Given a discussion with the perspective stakeholders, recommend and provide publicly accessible resources so another source of familiarity and education can be provided. Section 4 - Licensing Given the Spectrum Control, Spectrum Protect, and Spectrum Scale products explain the license metrics in use so that appropriate decisions can be made. Given knowledge of Spectrum Protect, explain the differing licensing metrics available and their advantages so that the appropriate licensing can be recommended. Given knowledge of the Spectrum Control product, explain the license metrics for capacity based and per storage device licensing so that the appropriate licensing can be recommended. Given knowledge of Spectrum Scale licensing, explain the license metrics for socket based and define server and client licenses so that licensing metrics have been explained.

6 Detailed Exam Objectives Section 1 - Customer Requirements 1.1. Given the customer s current solution is not working as desired; determine the customer s requirements so that enough information is obtained to recommend a potential solution Review the customer s requirements: Performance Capacity Compatibility (specific operating systems, file systems, applications) Project (what needs to be addressed: new project, expansion, initiative to reduce costs) Determine the customer s urgency (time, dollars) Evaluate customer s current environment: Software versions, other software being used or dependent on the solution Available hardware Customer s expectations Projects coming that will increase the pain Customer s projected growth rate Given a series of meetings with a client, review the business alignment so that the key influencer for this technology decision is identified Determine the business alignment. (Siloed as in storage/backup/os/network, or multi-disciplined): Who will decide the financial decisions Who will approve the project Who will use the technology What vendor/technology bias exists Determine who makes the technology decisions within the line of business: the Architect the Storage team lead the Backup team lead the Operations Manager the executive level end users business owner application owner

7 Determine how the decision is made to determine the business drivers and quantify the need: perception of technology cost 1.3. Given the customer s information and a dialog with the customer, determine the site configuration and locations so that site/location diagrams can be produced Review customer supplied information Site configuration: Number of data centers Remote data centers network cloud providers site names Determine if the information is still accurate and relevant Determine if there is new information or plans to change current sites, add new sites and/or cloud services Diagram at a high level the information provided Validate with the customer the diagram and site/location information Publish the diagram(s) and information for future reference Given access to the server, storage, and applications teams determine the current practices for protecting and managing the current infrastructure so that Spectrum Storage products can be integrated Validate the current protection procedures being used How are Virtual Machines being protected How are databases being protected What are processes for protecting unstructured data File level Volume level How are mail servers being protected How are NAS systems being protected Are snapshot or hardware based flashcopy technologies being used Validate Recovery Point Objectives for differing data types Validate Recovery Time Objectives for differing data types Validate current storage resource management procedures Historical trending Performance monitoring Bottleneck determination Storage analytics

8 Capacity monitoring and management Validate how unstructured data is being stored Are Hadoop file systems being used? Is Object Storage being used? Is the unstructured data being replicated? Is there a life cycle policy applied to the data? 1.5. Given the customer stakeholders, the technical staff, additional SME support and presentation materials determine the customer current initiatives so that there is a mutual understanding of the customer s needs and the IBM Spectrum Solution capabilities Identify individuals who can articulate their business needs Determine best method to meet and send out invitations Allow the customer to elaborate on their needs, current situation and their vision going forward Present the Spectrum solution IBM has to offer based on the customer provided information, including the value statement Agree on steps needed to proceed to the next phase

9 Section 2 - Infrastructure 2.1. Given the availability of customer key personnel, describe the storage hardware, networking, operating systems, relational databases, applications and key vendor environments within the customer organization so that a document is produced that properly describes the customer environment Review the company organization chart Identify personnel responsible for the storage hardware, networking, operating systems, relational databases, applications and key vendor environments Obtain IP network and SAN topology diagrams of key areas Obtain storage subsystem diagrams Obtain operating systems, databases and application diagrams or lists Collate information into a new document that describes the customer environment Divide the information into relevant business areas Create subdocuments per business area Given the availability of the dependency information and key persons and the customer s procurement process, evaluate the customer's storage environment baseline so that the customer s storage environment is documented for research of compatibility and functionality of non-ibm products making note of any skill gaps during the process Identify and interview required key personnel to analyze and document the customer's current environment as it relates to storage and management criteria Research the following via support matrices and best practice documents for compatibility issues Analyze the current storage architecture information Verify compatibility of current server and disk storage system information Verify number of locations, local and remote Verify compatibility of network infrastructure Determine the effect of the customer s procurement process on the sales cycle Does the budget include funding this year? Determine the effect of the customer s procurement process on the technical side Is there a requirement for multiple vendors to submit information: RFQ, RFP, RFI? Is there a requirement for a proof of concept or demo?

10 Evaluate job roles and recommend a training curriculum where required Evaluate the customer's IT processes and technologies for anything inconsistent with Spectrum Storage.

11 Section 3 - Solution Architecture 3.1. Given customer information about tape, server, storage and networking environments, identify the strategic and tactical goals for these technologies so the appropriate Spectrum Storage product can be recommended Determine the server virtualization strategy: Is virtualization a strategic direction? Are virtual servers adequately protected? How are the development/test areas being maintained? Determine the client s storage virtualization strategy: Do they have a technical objection to virtualization? Validate the client s long term retention requirements Long term data on tape saves money Determine the client s receptiveness to cloud What are the business goals for cloud technology? 3.2. Given knowledge of the IBM Spectrum Storage products (Protect, Control and Scale) describe the attributes of the products so that the Spectrum Storage products are understood Describe the main attributes of the IBM Spectrum products used in the solution architecture and highlight any specific attribute that addresses a particular customer requirement Spectrum Protect-Data protection for a wide variety of operating systems, database applications, and virtualized environments. Integration with hardware snapshot technology Spectrum Control-Management of storage resources such as block storage, file storage, and related resources such as storage area networks and servers, and virtualized environments Spectrum Scale-Highly scale-able file storage capable of accommodating new storage types like big data and object storage. Single namespace file system capable of spanning multiple sites and the cloud Given knowledge of Spectrum Protect identify the key capabilities so that the key capabilities of Spectrum Protect are listed Key capabilities of IBM Spectrum Protect Data protection for a wide variety of operating systems, database applications, and virtualized environments Integration with hardware snapshot technology Scale-able deduplication and replication capabilities.

12 Broad support for storage media and devices Client side encryption Automation capabilities (scheduler; retries; data migration) Node replication Lifecycle Management Given in-depth knowledge of the IBM Spectrum Protect Suite, identify the key capabilities so that the key capabilities of the Spectrum Protect Suite can be explained to the customer Single part number capacity based offering Multiple data protectors included Database Online backup of SQL and Oracle databases provides data protection with no downtime for the database Mail Online backup of Domino and Exchange mail servers provides data protection with no server downtime ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) Online backup of SAP and SAP HANA servers provides data protection with no server downtime SAN (Storage Area Networks) Backups across the SAN and not the LAN, LAN-Free backup Space Management Hierarchical management of Linux and UNIX file systems, moves data to Spectrum Protect server leaving stub file in place VE (Virtual Environments) Image level backup of VMWare, HyperV and KVM providing file level recovery, image level recovery, or volume level recovery FlashCopy Manager Integrates with storage hardware flashcopy to provide application aware snapshots for Mail, Database, and application servers Enables RPO to be set by application Extended Edition Large Library support, NAS NDMP backup capabilities Disaster Recovery Manager Node Replication

13 3.5. Given in-depth knowledge of the Spectrum Control, identify the key capabilities so that the keycapabilities of Spectrum Control can be explained to the customer Key Capabilities A single console for managing all types of data on disk, flash, file and object storage systems Simplified visual admin tools including an advanced web-based user interface, VMware vcentertm plug-in &Cognos Business Intelligence with pre-designed reports Analytics-driven tiered storage optimization reporting that makes recommendations for movement of data to the most cost-effective tier End-to-end visualization Can be offered as SaaS-Spectrum Control Storage Insights Management Dashboards Custom reporting Capacity and performance Health and alerting Near real time and historical reporting Automation Policies Response to threshold violations Provisioning Given in-depth knowledge of the Spectrum Scale, identify the key capabilities so that the keycapabilities of Spectrum Scale can be explained to the customer Discover the customer s pain Is the customer s NAS environment constantly running out of space? Is the customer experiencing management pain trying to rebalance capacity and performance to apps? Is the customer under budget constraints buying hardware they don t need? Can t allocate performance to apps that need it Run-away growth Are they experiencing application downtime due to file system growth? Are they unable to successfully complete backups due to too much data? Do they have trouble sharing data across different locations?

14 Describe the capabilities of Spectrum Scale Spectrum Scale s node based file servers can scale to enormous performance and capacity Spectrum Scale based filesystems can survive failures of many components without incurring data loss and while remaining available Cost savings through the elimination of storage islands, through the reduction in management costs, cost of application downtime, cost of over/under provisioning storage Through Active File Manager, Spectrum Scale lets organizations securely share data across different branches and locations, providing remote access and automated distribution getting maximum value from data organization-wide Global name space to offer centralized management of file systems for the enterprise Offers policy based storage tiering across multiple vendors and storage technologies: flash to disk to tape Given in-depth knowledge of the Spectrum Protect, identify the value propositions so that Spectrum Protect can be explained to the customer Describe the architecture Two tier application Client sends data to be protected to the Spectrum Protect Server Server - Owns the storage device capacity that is assigned to pools where data is managed for the lifecycle using an automated policy engine Protected data can be replicated from site to site for Disaster Recovery and electronic vaulting Describe the protection available by data type Filesystem protection Incremental protection sends only new or changed data since last session Volume level protection entire volume protected and restored helps meet aggressive RPO/RTO File level protection Specific files are protected for efficient network and storage utilization Full backup All object within scope of the data protection job, may provide a faster RTO Incremental protection saves network and storage resources by transferring only new or changed data

15 Backup sets all data for a protected client for a point in time using a minimal number of self describing volumes NDMP-protect file storage volumes on network attached storage using the V3 and V4 NDMP standards Database protection Hot backups online, with transaction logs stored at the end of the session Vendor approved utilities RMAN, Backint, Mail protection Hot backups (Exchange, Domino) with logging options Mailbox level restores (Exchange) Individual item restores (Exchange) Server level restore Virtual systems Supports VMware and Microsoft HyperV backups Vendor approved APIs - VMware API for Data Protection, Microsoft VSS Multi threaded data protection improves throughput Instant restore capability decreases RTO Individual file restore available using a snapshot mounted from the Spectrum Protect storage pool Applications/Integration For use with Enterprise Content Manager applications in compliance mode, use the Systems Storage Archive Manager license ERP - Vendor approved utilities RMAN, Backint to synchronize in-flight transactions for recoverability Sharepoint OEM product from DocAve uses TSM APIs for protection of MS Sharepoint farms TBMR OEM product form Cristie uses TSM APIs for bare metal restore of physical and virtual servers Big Data Netezzanzbackup, nz_backup Cloud IBM Multi Cloud Gateway (not yet ) will allow TSM to store or manage data on cloud platforms Valuable features of Spectrum Protect Data reduction Deduplication reduces the amount of sent and stored to give a lower TCO solution. No extra license is required for this feature Native deduplication is considered when licensing, so this can result in a lower SUR-BE licensing cost Compression - reduces the amount of data sent and stored using client side resources

16 Data remains compressed through the Spectrum Protect storage hierarchy, saving backend capacity Incremental forever (progressive incremental) protection does not require repeated full backups Less data duplication less storage required Improves the RPO for the capacity of data under management Disaster Recovery Disaster Recovery Manager A dynamic recovery plan template for recovery of the Spectrum Protect environment Node Replication Spectrum Protect node replication improves the D/R posture by electronically vaulting client data on two or more Spectrum Protect servers Network Efficiency LAN-free backups-spectrum Protect for SAN (storage agent) transfers data over the SAN rather than the production LAN; offloads the backplane of the Spectrum Protect server Encryption options: Client - Data is encrypted using a pass phrase before transmission to the Spectrum Protect Server. Data remains encrypted as it moves through the SP server Server to client Secure Socket Layer (SSL) for encrypting data in flight over the network between the SP client and SP Server or between SP servers allows data deduplication processing Application offload Proxy backup servers are supported for VMware Snapshot backups can be offloaded from Spectrum Snapshot using a proxy server to reduce load on application server Management and reporting Spectrum Protect Operations Center is easy to learn and use for daily operations Command line interface is powerful and quick for experienced administrators TSM Monitoring and Reporting with Cognos, IBM Tivoli Monitoring and Data Warehouse for custom and long term reporting License flexibility: TSM Basic Edition Smaller environments with backup to disk or a tape library device with <4 tape drives and < 40 slots

17 TSM Extended Edition Includes Disaster Recovery manager and large library support > 4 drives and 40 slots PVU Processor based license of TSM Spectrum Protect SUR Entry level Bundle of family products for up to 100 TB Back End (storage pool) and 2 Spectrum Protect servers Spectrum Protect SUR Bundle of family products using Back End (storage pool) capacity favors processor intense environments Spectrum Protect SUR Bundle of family products using Front End (filesystem) capacity favors environments with many servers to protect where PVU counting is a pain, where there is big data backups, longer retentions or other vendors dedup appliances Spectrum Protect SUR Archive-existing Spectrum Protect customers who utilize the file level archive functionality for long term retention (using tape) Given the understanding of the customer s actual storage requirements, the understanding of IBM Spectrum Control and the need for a proven, scalable, high-performance data and file management solution match the customer s requirements to IBM Spectrum storage solutions so that the customer understands the value of IBM Spectrum Control IBM Spectrum Control provides World class storage resource management Improved end-to-end storage visibility Simplified administration from a single pane of glass Optimization of storage resources Automation Analytics Performance management Monitoring and alerting important insights into cloud, virtualized and software defined storage environments replication management IBM Spectrum Control addresses the two most significant storage costs: Physical capacity Storage administration 3.9. Given the understanding of the customer s actual storage requirements, the understanding of Spectrum Scale and the need for a proven, scalable, high-performance data and file management solution

18 match the customer s requirements to Spectrum storage solutions so that the customer understands the value of Spectrum Scale IBM Spectrum Scale provides world-class storage management extreme scalability, flash accelerated performance, and automatic policy-based storage tiering from flash through disk to tape, reducing storage costs up to 90% improving security and management efficiency in cloud, big data & analytics environments IBM Spectrum Scale is part of IBM s market-leading Software Defined Storage family and is available as: A Software-only solution: An integrated IBM Elastic Storage Server solution A Cloud service Given knowledge of the Spectrum Storage suite, describe how Spectrum Archive, Spectrum Accelerate and Spectrum Virtualize work within the suite so that benefits of the entire Spectrum Storage suite are understood Spectrum Virtualize works with Spectrum Control to to identify optimal placement of data based on performance and capacity trends Spectrum Accelerate can be used in the Cloud strategy., including backups to the Cloud.It provides capacity for Spectrum Protect and Spectrum Scale and can be monitored by Spectrum Control Spectrum Archive Enterprise Edition works with Spectrum Scale to give organizations an easy way to use cost-effective IBM tape drives and libraries within a tiered storage infrastructure. By using tape libraries instead of disks for Tier 2 and Tier 3 data storage data that is stored for long-term retention Given knowledge of the benefits of tape, storage virtualization and cloud, describe the benefits to the customer so that the benefits are understood Describe the value of tape Lowest cost per terabyte over time Non-volatile Easily vaulted Mature technology

19 Longer shelf life Faster streaming performance Works in LAN-free environments Describe the value of storage virtualization Portability Migration with no down time Storage pooling Commoditizes disk Improves performance Enables cloud delivery Reduced operating expenses Describe the value of Cloud Faster recovery Less headcount to manage the environment Moves infrastructure costs from capital expenditures to operating expenditures Benefits of the economies of scale Revenue generator Software as a Service Given IBM collateral on the competition, and knowledge of Spectrum portfolio, explain how the Spectrum family is a better value to the customer so that the customer understands the Spectrum solution is the best solution Review collateral on competition Competitor s Web sites Other sites Take note when the competition is mentioned by the customer Do they use any product names or terms that are related to competitive products? Master server, Media Server, CommCell, Synthetic backups.veeam, DPE, Timefinder, SolarWinds, etc Are they wearing another vendor s shirt to the meeting, or displaying other swag with a non-ibm logo? Recognize architectural limitations that the customer may see with the competition Netbackup uses master servers and media servers, scalability is costly Avamar cannot store data on tape for cost efficient storage or offsite portability Avamar is appliance based, not able to do LAN-Free data transfer or data protection offloaded form the ESX server Recognize the hidden costs of a competitive solution Scalability

20 Extra capacity for Data Domain means buying another DD appliance or growing in pairs, this can be over 1 Million Additional media servers can be 3-4x more servers than used in a Spectrum Protect environment to protect the same data Licensing Veeam licensing by ESX core can be very expensive Why the Spectrum family Key on our strong points, longevity and don t disparage the competition Spectrum Protect is more efficient at storing data, has less TCO (per Butterfly studies by IBM presented at Edge) Synergy - Spectrum Protect + Spectrum Scale is a powerful door opener for using Scale for additional customer workloads Given knowledge of Spectrum Storage products (Protect, Control and Scale) describe the management capabilities of the Spectrum Storage products so that they are understood Describe the management capabilities of the IBM Spectrum Storage products: Web-based console for managing resources, configuration, and alerting Simplified storage resource oriented reporting that quickly highlight key attributes and trends. T The ability to capture longer term data for reports suited for capacity management or executive communication Storage capacity planning Command line interface for handling managerial tasks through commands APIs for integration with third-party products Given a discussion with the perspective stakeholders, recommend and provide publicly accessible resources so another source of familiarity and education can be provided Identify interested stakeholders and decision makers Determine best method to provide the material of interest Provide links that meet the criteria of the product of interest Recommend applicable YouTube videos Assist in accessing IBM Demo Central/EVDP Assist in accessing Service Engage for Storage Insights (Spectrum Control as a SaaS offering) Assist in accessing Spectrum Protect on Service Engage.

21 Assist in accessing Skytap, a cloud environment available to IBMers and business partners Provide Twitter accounts of interest Provide LinkedIn account information for groups of interest Provide information for Facebook groups pertaining to the products of interest Assist customer in submitting any requests that require IDs or scheduling.

22 Section 4 - Licensing 4.1. Given the Spectrum Control, Spectrum Protect, and Spectrum Scale products explain the license metrics in use so that appropriate decisions can be made Explain Capacity Based Usable TB of storage being managed (Spectrum Control) Per managed TB for Spectrum Protect backend Per TB being backed up for Spectrum Protect front end Explain Per Storage Device Per storage device for Spectrum Control (entry to midrange storage) Number of controllers or expansion enclosures being managed Explain Per Server Per server being backed up, including Spectrum Protect Server, for Spectrum Protect Explain Processor Value Units Number of cores and model type of processor and number of sockets determine PVU per core for Spectrum Protect Subcapacity licensing available with PVU license Explain Per Socket Number of sockets in nodes of Spectrum Control cluster Per Client Device Spectrum Protect used for Workstations, laptops, notebooks, desktop type of systems Not for servers, only for Clients as defined Given knowledge of Spectrum Protect, explain the differing licensing metrics available and their advantages so that the appropriate licensing can be recommended Capacity Based Capacity of data being backed up (front end) For smaller users that won t exceed the 100TB limitation For customers that require many versions of protected data to be kept for longer periods of time Includes Suite components Entry has limitations of 2 TSM servers and 100 TB s Capacity of data being managed by Spectrum Protect server primary storage pools (backend) Entry has limitations of 100 TB being managed and 2 TSM servers

23 Decreases license requirements for customers using deduplication within Spectrum Protect Includes Suite components Suite Archive For existing Spectrum Protect Suite users that currently use Spectrum Protect archive functionality and store archived data to tape Lower cost per TB than Suite Suite for PRotectier Uses the fully licensed capacity of IBM s Protectier storage system Includes Suite bundled products Capacity Based are Suite bundled offerings Multiple data protection products included Mail, Database, ERP, Space Management, Virtual Environments, FlashCopy, SAN Extended Edition allows for NDMP backups, Large Library support, includes Disaster Recovery Module Per Server (Spectrum Protect Entry) Total number of servers being protected plus Spectrum Protect server Smaller environments where customers can use enterprise data protection capabilities at a lower per server price Limitations of Windows, Linux, Linux on Power, up to 2 TSM servers and a maximum of 50 servers of which 5 can be ESX hosts Per Processor Value Unit Advantages where only a few servers are being backed up with a significant amount of data. Audio, video, Allows for subcapacity licensing of just VM s being backed up in place of entire physical server Based on number of cores and types of processors in servers being protected plus Spectrum Protect server Per Client Device Only used for workstations, laptops, notebooks, desktops, kiosks. Not for servers Given knowledge of the Spectrum Control product, explain the license metrics for capacity based and per storage device licensing so that the appropriate licensing can be recommended Capacity Based

24 he storage managed is the total allocated size of all volumes managed by the program. Usable TB of SAN storage being managed Used in large enterprises with enterprise class disk systems or where small capacity drives are in use Per Storage Device Spectrum Control Select per managed storage device (entry to midrange storage) SupportsIBM System Storage DS3000, DS4000 and DS5000, IBM Storwize V3500, IBM Storwize V3700, IBM Storwize V5000, IBM Storwize V7000, IBM FlashSystem, IBM XIV Storage System, and thirdparty storage devices A storage enclosure (a storage device), managed by Spectrum Control, is defined as an independently powered, channel attached device that stores data on magnetic disks or solid state drives, such as disk controllers and their respective expansion units, each constituting separate enclosures. Therefore, an enclosure can be either the main controller housing disk (or solid-state) drives or the expansion chassis that house additional disk (or solid-state) drives for the purpose of expanding the total capacity of the storage system Used with supported storage that use high density enclosures and high capacity disk drives where more it can be more cost effective than per TB charge Given knowledge of Spectrum Scale licensing, explain the license metrics for socket based and define server and client licenses so that licensing metrics have been explained Socket Based license Socket is a unit of measure by which the program can be licensed. A socket is electronic circuitry that accepts a processor chip. A server is a physical computer that is comprised of processing units, memory, and input/output capabilities that executes requested procedures, commands, or applications for one or more users or client devices. Where racks, blade enclosures, or other similar equipment is being employed, each separable physical device (for example, a blade or a rack-mounted device) that has the required components is considered itself a separate server. A virtual server is either a virtual computer created by partitioning the resources available to a physical server or the unpartitioned

25 physical server. Licensee must obtain entitlements for each socket on the virtual servers made available to the program. Note: GPFS licenses are only required for sockets which are populated, and are enabled for use by GPFS Server License (minimum 2 for redundancy) The IBM Spectrum Scale Server license permits the licensed virtual server to perform IBM Spectrum Scale management functions such as cluster configuration manager, quorum node, manager node, and Network Shared Disk (NSD) server. In addition, the IBM Spectrum Scale Server license permits the licensed virtual server to share IBM Spectrum Scale data directly through any application, service protocol or method such as Network File System (NFS), Common Internet File System (CIFS), File Transfer Protocol (FTP), Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), or OpenStack Swift Client License Computers which are directly attached to storage and meet all of the following criteria only require an IBM Spectrum Scale client license: Do not perform IBM Spectrum Scale NSD server functions Are not defined to the IBM Spectrum Scale cluster as NSD servers Do not perform IBM Spectrum Scale cluster management functions Do not share IBM Spectrum Scale data directly through any application, service protocol or method (other than specified in the question How do I determine whether a server license or a client license is required when running IBM Spectrum Scale VMs in a virtualized environment?) Do not access an IBM Spectrum Scale FPO filesystem.