IBM Spectrum Storage Professional Certification Program

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1 IBM Spectrum Storage Professional Certification Program Study Guide Series Exam C IBM Certified Solution Advisor - Spectrum Software Defined Infrastructure V5

2 Purpose of Exam Objectives... 3 High-level Exam Objectives... 4 Detailed Exam Objectives... 6 Section 1 - Customer Requirements and Infrastructure... 6 Section 2 - IBM Spectrum Product Capabilities... 9 Section 3 - IBM Spectrum Product Value Propositions Section 4 - Benefits and Use Cases for IBM Spectrum Products Next Steps... 27

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 Systems Storage Software 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 and Infrastructure 1.1 Determine the customer s requirements 1.2 Apply Design Thinking to identify customer organization information. 1.3 Evaluate the customer's storage environment baseline 1.4 Determine customer s Cloud strategy on-premise, hybrid, public cloud Section 2 - IBM Spectrum Product Capabilities 2.1 Identify the strategic and tactical goals for key infrastructure technologies 2.2 Identify the key capabilities of Spectrum Protect including Spectrum Protect Suite for Unified Recovery 2.3 Identify the key capabilities of IBM Spectrum Control 2.4 Identify the key capabilities of IBM Spectrum Control Storage Insights 2.5 Identify the key capabilities of IBM Copy Services Manager 2.6 Identify key capabilities of IBM Spectrum Scale 2.7 Identify the key capabilites of IBM Spectrum Virtualize 2.8 Identify the key capabilites of IBM Spectrum Archive 2.9 Identify the key capabilities of IBM Spectrum Accelerate 2.10 Identify key capabilities of IBM Cloud Object Storage 2.11 Identify the key capabilities of IBM Copy Data Management 2.12 Identify the key capabilities of IBM Spectrum Storage Suite Section 3 - IBM Spectrum Product Value Propositions 3.1 Explain the value propositions of IBM Spectrum Protect 3.2 Explain the value propositions of IBM Spectrum Control 3.3 Explain the value propositions of IBM Spectrum Control Storage Insights 3.4 Explain the value propositions of IBM Copy Services Manager 3.5 Explain the value propositions of IBM Spectrum Scale 3.6 Explain the value propositions of IBM Spectrum Virtualize 3.7 Describe the value proposition of IBM Spectrum Archive 3.8 Explain the value propositions of IBM Spectrum Accelerate 3.9 Explain the value propositions of IBM Cloud Object Storage 3.10 Explain the value propositions of IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management 3.11 Explain the value propositions of IBM Spectrum Storage Suite 3.12 Describe the management capabilities of the IBM Spectrum products 3.13 Recommend and provide publicly accessible resources Section 4 - Benefits and Use Cases for IBM Spectrum Products 4.1 Explain the benefits and use cases for IBM Spectrum Protect 4.2 Describe the benefits and use cases for IBM Spectrum Control 4.3 Explain the benefits and use cases for IBM Spectrum Control Storage Insights. 4.4 Explain the benefits and use cases for IBM Copy Services Manager

5 4.5 Explain the benefits and use cases for IBM Spectrum Scale 4.6 Explain the benefits and use cases for IBM Spectrum Virtualize. 4.7 Explain the benefits and use cases for IBM Spectrum Archive 4.8 Describe the benefits and use cases for IBM Spectrum Accelerate 4.9 Explain the benefits and use cases for IBM Cloud Object Storage Explain the benefits and use cases for IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management 4.11 Explain the benefits and use cases for IBM Spectrum Storage Suite 4.12 Describe the value of the IBM Spectrum family to a customer

6 Detailed Exam Objectives Section 1 - Customer Requirements and Infrastructure 1.1. Determine the customer s requirements Review the customer s requirementsbusiness continuity (replication, resiliency), scalability, and disaster recovery Determine what the customer is actually trying to do (wish list) Project (what needs to be addressed: new project, expansion, initiative to reduce costs) Capacity needed Compatibility (specific operating system, file systems, applications) Determine future workload support requirements Performance expectations Determine customer urgency (time, dollars) Evaluate customer s current environment Software Hardware Expectations Current performance Projected growth rate Scope of solution (single site, multiple sites, etc.) Existing practices affecting solution Existing disaster recovery practices 1.2. Apply Design Thinking to identify customer organization information Review the company organization chart Identify personnel responsible for the storage hardware, networking, operating systems, relational databases, applications and key vendor environments. (what are they thinking doing feeling in current solution) 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 Hills Artifacts that align our intent across teams Statements of intent written as intended user outcomes Hills tell you where to go, not how to get there.

7 Use simple statements that provide an effective way to tell people what you are going to do for your users, but not how. o Who are your users o o What is the need they are trying to meet And Wow, which is how you ll measure your success Divide the information into relevant business areas Create subdocuments per business area Personas Represent the most common user types Focus on the users wants and needs 1.3. Evaluate the customer's storage environment baseline 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? Evaluate job roles and recommend a training curriculum where required Evaluate the customer's IT processes and technologies for anything inconsistent with Spectrum Storage Determine customer s current cloud strategy 1.4. Determine customer s Cloud strategy on-premise, hybrid, public cloud Determine customer s cloud strategy on-premise, hybrid, public cloud Does the customer desire a cloud component Determine cloud strategy (on-premise, hybrid, public)

8 Determine cloud requirements Performance needed Capacity Cloud host preference Determine if cloud is possible

9 Section 2 - IBM Spectrum Product Capabilities 2.1. Identify the strategic and tactical goals for key infrastructure technologies 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? Determine customer s need for different types of storage tiers Software Defined Infrastructure helps transform a static IT infrastructure into a dynamic resource, workload and data-aware environment Securely integrate mobile services Use data efficiently for analytics services Manage in an always-on world for service predictability 2.2. Identify the key capabilities of Spectrum Protect including Spectrum Protect Suite for Unified Recovery Simplifies data protection, whether data is hosted in physical, virtual, software-defined or cloud environments Provides integration with hardware snapshot technology Provides scalable both client and server side deduplication and replication capabilities Provides broad support for storage media and devices Provides Client side encryption Provides automation capabilities (scheduler; retries; data migration) Provides Site replication Provides Lifecycle Management Provides a wide range of backup, snapshot, archive, recovery, space management, baremachine recovery and disaster-recovery capabilities Helps protect data on systems of all sizes - from a single point of control Supports a broad range of platforms, and integrates with IBM and non- IBM storage array snapshots and has the ability to write data to disk, tape and cloud target devices Provides improved in-line deduplication, a two-tier architecture and a true incremental-forever backup methodology combine to minimize the Spectrum Protect infrastructure requirements and expense required for large data center deployments.

10 A single instance of Spectrum Protect can protect a very scalable 4 to 5PB of deduplicated data Provides application aware backup capabilities Mail Databases Virtual machines LANFree backups ERP Integration with IBM Spectrum Scale 2.3. Identify the key capabilities of IBM Spectrum Control 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 Reports on replicated data Monitor one or more IBM Spectrum Scale clusters Management Dashboards Custom reporting Capacity and performance Health and alerting Near real time and historical reporting Automation Policies Response to threshold violations Provisioning Identify the key capabilities of IBM Spectrum Control Storage Insights Consolidates management for multiple types and brands of on-premises storage from the IBM cloud Uses predictive analytics to gain new insights that can reduce the total cost of storage

11 Monitors capacity and performance of storage devices from the storage consumers perspective - including application, department and server views Increases capacity forecasting precision using historical growth metrics Offers direct support for most IBM storage, including: flash, file, object, software defined and block solutions Supports reporting on Dell EMC VMAX and VNX, using Dell EMC SMI- S providers Deploys quickly Identify the key capabilities of IBM Copy Services Manager Key Capabilities Provides a central point of control for managing data replication Controls data replication within and between various storage systems Connects to storage systems to enable certain replication features for those systems Guarantees data consistency across multiple storage systems when the Copy Services Manager management server cannot communicate with one or more storage systems using Metro Mirror heartbeat Creates recovery scenarios (failover, failback, and practice volumes) using session types and site awareness 2.6. Identify key capabilities of IBM Spectrum Scale Filesystems can scale to Yottabytes of data Cost savings through the elimination of storage islands, through the reduction in management costs, cost of application downtime, cost of over/under provisioning storage Active File Manager, allows organizations to securely share data across different locations, providing remote access and automated distribution Global name space offers centralized management of file systems for the enterprise GUI interface provides a much more user friendly administration experience Offers policy based storage tiering across multiple vendors and storage technologies: flash to disk to tape to cloud Transparent cloud tiering for Hybrid Cloud support Replicates data to provide highly available storage capability Provides highly available NFS, SMB, and Object protocol support

12 2.7. Identify the key capabilites of IBM Spectrum Virtualize Moves data among virtualized storage systems without disruption for load balancing or asset replacement Improves hybrid cloud and storage deployment flexibility with support for x86 servers Provides consistent management for on-premises and cloud storage regardless of storage type Replicates from on-premises storage to cloud storage using familiar snapshots and remote mirroring Helps improve data security with software-based encryption Enhances storage functions, economics, and flexibility with sophisticated virtualization Manages and protects the huge volumes of data organizations use for bigdata analytics and new cognitive workloads Provides real-time compression, encryption, and Easy Tier Provides Flash support as well as spinning disk Provides consistent disaster recovery across all storage types 2.8. Identify the key capabilites of IBM Spectrum Archive Helps reduce complexity by enabling an icon-based view of the tape data using the OS file manager Reduces restore times and enables optimal utilization of tape resources Features 1:1 mapping of tape cartridges to file folder Shares file data across platforms, similar to using a USB drive Eliminates the need for additional tape management and software to access data Improves efficiency and reduce costs for long-term, tiered storage Significantly lowers total cost of retaining infrequently accessed data over a long retention period Provides cost-effective archiving of digital assets that can be referenced and monetized for years to come Provides the ability to create storage tiers with inexpensive tape rather than costly disk storage Provides a reduction in the high power, cooling, floor space, and administration costs associated with disk storage Provides flexibility in pool-based data management 2.9. Identify the key capabilities of IBM Spectrum Accelerate Key Capabilities.

13 HyperScale capabilities: Integrated management, data mobililty, data protection Native replication Synchronous and Asynchronous Multi-tenancy Quality of Service Quickly deploys a storage array as software Zero performance tuning Hybrid cloud solution VMware, OpenStack SMI-s Integration Management Integrated management dashboards Real-time Performance report Capacity and performance Health and alerting Identify key capabilities of IBM Cloud Object Storage Erasure Codingwith Geo disbursed storage architecture designs that Share Nothing and ensures reliability and stability Scalable namespace mapping with no centralized metadata Highly reliable and available without replication APIs for integration with external management applications Support lazy handling of disk failures Automated network installation Manages all storage from a single pane of glass with zero down time on-premise, in cloud, or both Encryption for data at rest with built-in key management provides government grade security Tolerates even a catastrophic regional outage without down time or intervention Continuous availability architecture Protects against digital and physical breeches Isolation provides additional security in a cloud based deployment Fully managed services for dedicated performance and/or compliance Isolation provides additional security in a cloud based deployment Identify the key capabilities of IBM Copy Data Management Automates creation and use of copy data snapshots, vaults, clones and replicas on existing storage infrastructure Simplifies management and reduces management time while improving reliability Catalogs and tracks volumes, snapshots, virtual machines, data stores and files

14 Supports multi-vendor storage arrays Provides life-cycle management Identify the key capabilities of IBM Spectrum Storage Suite Allows unlimited access to the IBM Spectrum Storage family and IBM Cloud Object Storage software Provides easy to understand and predictable licensing Allows for changing or adding Spectrum family components without raising license costs

15 Section 3 - IBM Spectrum Product Value Propositions 3.1. Explain the value propositions of IBM Spectrum Protect Data reduction Incremental forever (progressive incremental) protection does not require repeated full backups Deduplication reduces the amount of sent and stored to give a lower Total Cost of Ownership solution. No extra license is required for this feature. Inline deduplication is new Native deduplication and compression is considered when licensing, so this can result in a lower backend capacity licensing cost Data remains compressed through the IBM Spectrum Protect storage hierarchy, saving backend capacity Improves the Recovery Point Objective for the capacity of data under management Supports the Aspera FASP protocol for better performance over impaired WAN networks Disaster Recovery Disaster Recovery Manager A dynamic recovery plan template for recovery of the IBM Spectrum Protect environment Site Replication IBM Spectrum Protect provides both nodereplication and container pool replication that improve the D/R posture by electronically vaulting client data on two or more IBM Spectrum Protect servers and storage pools Network Efficiency LAN-free backups-ibm Spectrum Protect for SAN (storage agent) transfers data over the SAN rather than the production LAN; offloads the backplane of the IBM Spectrum Protect server; Provides network efficiencies through deduplication, compression and incremental forever WAN acceleration through ASPERA FASP protocol Encryption options: Client - Data is encrypted using a pass phrase before transmission to the IBM Spectrum Protect Server. Data remains encrypted as it moves through the IBM Spectrum Protect server Server to client Secure Socket Layer (SSL) for encrypting data in flight over the network between the IBM Spectrum Protect client and IBM Spectrum Protect Server or between SP servers allows data deduplication processing Application offload Proxy backup servers are supported for VMware Snapshot backups can be offloaded from IBM Spectrum Snapshot using a proxy server to reduce load on application server

16 Management and reporting IBM 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 3.2. Explain the value propositions of IBM Spectrum Control Provides world class storage resource management Provides improved end-to-end storage visibility Provides simplified administration from a single pane of glass Provides optimization of storage resources Provides automation and storage provisioning Provides analytics for storage tiering Provides performance management Provides monitoring and alerting Provides important insights into cloud, virtualized and software defined storage environments replication management Provides chargeback Addresses the two most significant storage costs: Physical capacity and Storage administration 3.3. Explain the value propositions of IBM Spectrum Control Storage Insights Accurately identifies and categorizes storage assets Monitors capacity and performance from the storage consumers perspective including application, department and server views Increases capacity forecasting precision using historical growth metrics Reclaims unused storage to delay future purchases and improve utilization Optimizes data placement based on historical usage patterns Avoids the upfront cost and complexity of on-premises solutions Provides flexibility with no long-term commitment 3.4. Explain the value propositions of IBM Copy Services Manager Continued support for all existing TPC-R functionality across mainframe and distributed storage devices Stand-alone Installation on all currently supported TPC-R Distributed Platforms with full 64 bit support: Windows, AIX and Linux.

17 Additional Support for new platforms not currently supported by TPC- R: PowerPC Linux and Linux for z Systems Reduced Software footprint for Replication management There is NO need for DB2 or TPC/VSC/Spectrum Control bundle installation, making CSM a small footprint software to manage DR CSM can be installed in less than 10 minutes CSM does not consume unnecessary resources on Standby Server by unused software packages Support for Basic File Registry authentication and centralized LDAP Registry Authentication Support for simple migrations of TPC-R customers to CSM An existing TPC-R repository backup can be easily migrated into a CSM repository during or after the CSM installation RPO monitoring and historical reporting Support for Try And Buy Evaluation License Copy Services Manager controls copy services in storage environments. IBM FlashCopy, Metro Mirror, Global Mirror, and Metro Global Mirror Explain the value propositions of IBM Spectrum Scale Provides world-class file and object storage management Provides extreme scalability Provides Flash accelerated performance Provides automatic policy-based storage tiering with flash, disk, tape, and object storage Reduces storage costs up to 90% Lowers data total cost of ownership Improves security and management efficiency in cloud, big data & analytics environments Provides highly available network service access to storage using NFS, SMB, or Object protocols Provides disaster recovery, data replication, and automatic failover capabilities Integrates with IBM Spectrum Protect to enable an end-to-end backup solution 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 3.6. Explain the value propositions of IBM Spectrum Virtualize

18 Provides virtualization of heterogeneous storage arrays Provides local and remote replication with IBM SVC, Storwize family and FlashSystem V Offers flexibility and scale based on customer workload Includes all SVC/Storwize family external storage functions: compression, encryption, Easy Tier Provides high availability Provides VMware integration, including SRM at no additional charge Provides non-disruptive data migration Business Needs Aligned: Improve storage utilization to reduce business costs Secure data Deploy with agility and flexibility Make data highly available 3.7. Describe the value proposition of IBM Spectrum Archive Uses data stored on low cost tape as easily as disk Optimizes data placement for cost and performance Enables data file sharing without proprietary software Accesses data anywhere, any place, any time, in any format Provides scalable and low cost archiving 3.8. Explain the value propositions of IBM Spectrum Accelerate Rapidly deploy enterprise-scale block storage and hyper-converged infrastructure using readily available x86 servers Deliver enterprise-class capabilities and tuning-free consistent performance to diverse workloads Scale storage management under one pane of glass on-/off-premises across deployment models Protect data with data-at-rest encryption, multi-tenancy, quality of service and disaster-recovery solutions Help cut costs with IBM Spectrum Accelerate family and IBM Spectrum Storage Suite licensing mobility Consume storage flexibly own it, lease it or get it as a service on IBM Cloud 3.9. Explain the value propositions of IBM Cloud Object Storage Provides unmatched flexibility through offering Public, Private, and Hybrid Cloud Object Storage Provides massive Scalability

19 Powerful Simplicity Always On Availability Built-In Security Better Cloud Storage Economics Explain the value propositions of IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management Simplify and reduce management of data while improving reliability Drive high-value use cases such as leveraging hybrid clouds Modernize IT by providing automation, user self-service, and operations based on application programming interfaces without adding hardware Quickly deploy as a virtual machine in less than 15 minutes Increase efficiencies in established processes for data protection, disaster recovery, reporting, analytics, and DevOps Simply and easily create and share copies of all popular database management systems Make available secure multi-tenancy Explain the value propositions of IBM Spectrum Storage Suite Licenses are calculated on the amount of storage capacity you re managing, not the number of software products you re using Run test environments without paying for licenses; Sandbox Improves the way you manage, protect and store data; deploy new storage faster Simplifies the evolution of storage to a software-defined infrastructure supporting cognitive and other new workloads Provides full storage functionality regardless of platform, whether SANbased arrays or software-defined servers Deploys storage software on dedicated storage devices, commodity servers or in the cloud Provides the efficiency of running virtualized compute and storage functions on the same server Leverages existing server resources to avoid the need to buy additional storage hardware Describe the management capabilities of the IBM Spectrum products Web-based console for managing resources, configuration, monitoring and alerting Simplified storage resource oriented reporting that quickly highlight key attributes and trends.

20 The ability to capture longer term data for reports suited for capacity management or executive communication Storage capacity planning and forecasting Command line interface for handling and automating managerial tasks through commands APIs for integration with third-party products License reporting Recommend and provide publicly accessible resources 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 (IBM Spectrum Control as a SaaS offering) Assist in accessing IBM Spectrum Protect on Service Engage Provide Twitter accounts of interest Provide LinkedIn account information for groups of interest Provide information for Facebook groups pertaining to the products of interest Provide User Group information Assist customer in submitting any requests that require IDs or scheduling.

21 Section 4 - Benefits and Use Cases for IBM Spectrum Products 4.1. Explain the benefits and use cases for IBM Spectrum Protect Benefits: Provides enterprise level backup and recovery services Provides data protection efficiency through in-line deduplication, and with progressive incremental architecture Provides data protection simplicity through centralized operations, and virtual environments integration Provides data protection scalability, one server protects up to 4-5 PB of data, or 1 PB deduped data Provides data recoverability for entire enterprise, application aware (including Exchange, SQL, Oracle, ERP) and disaster recovery simulation plan Provides data protection everywhere: on-prem, off-prem, on the cloud, or hybrid Use cases IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environment IBM Spectrum Protect on the Cloud IBM Spectrum Protect for data reduction (deduplication) IBM Spectrum Protect for Disaster Recovery IBM Spectrum Protect with Spectrum Scale / ESS for data lake IBM Spectrum Protect with Cloud Object Storage for long-term cold archival Multi-site replication with node and storage pool replication 4.2. Describe the benefits and use cases for IBM Spectrum Control Benefits Helps reduce storage and administrative tasks Simplifies storage management and deployment Provides deep understanding of storage and data usage Enables capacity planning and performance management Pin-point trouble spots in any area Automated hot-spot analysis and data movement to alleviate hot spots Use cases Policy based automated storage provisioning Monitor heterogeneous block storage Optimize storage across heterogeneous block storage Performance, capacity, and throughput threshold alerting Single user interface to manage the performance, health, and capacity utilization of storage without agents

22 4.3. Explain the benefits and use cases for IBM Spectrum Control Storage Insights Benefits Avoid the upfront cost and complexity of on-premises solutions Preview capabilities with a 30-day no-cost trial offer Cloud delivery model with a capacity based license Paid as a subscription - OpEx rather than CapEx Deploy advanced reporting and analytic capabilities quickly and easily Use cases Reclaim unused storage to delay future purchases and improve utilization Optimize data placement based on historical usage patterns 4.4. Explain the benefits and use cases for IBM Copy Services Manager Benefits Plan for replication when provisioning storage Keep data on multiple related volumes consistent across storage systems if there is a planned or unplanned outage Monitor and track replication operations Automate the mapping of source volumes to target volumes Use Cases Implement MetroMirror, FlashCopy, and Global Mirror on DS800 and SAN platforms Test disaster recovery without interfering in daily operations Advanced disaster recovery with failover/failback 4.5. Explain the benefits and use cases for IBM Spectrum Scale Benefits: Meets the needs of data-intensive applications including Content repositories Technical computing Big data analysis Simplifies administration via the graphical user interface Integration with IBM Spectrum Control to monitor multiple IBM Spectrum Scale installations Provides low latency access to data anywhere in the world via Active File Management (AFM) High-performance scale-out storage for unified file/object storage

23 Use Case: Target Workloads Big Data Analytics (Archive and analyze in place) Storage platform for database platforms and data warehousing Highly available multi-protocol environments like NFS, SMB, and Swift object storage Mixed content repositories High performance/technical computing Flash acceleration, including metadata Local caching of SSD drives Private/Hybrid Cloud Unified tiered storage via native file, object & Hadoop Intelligent data placement via tiered storage via policy rules End-to-end data reliability, availability, and integrity through replication and disaster recovery Integration with IBM Spectrum Protect for backup Native file encryption with data at rest 4.6. Explain the benefits and use cases for IBM Spectrum Virtualize Enables software-defined storage in your physical infrastructure to improve data value, security and simplicity Improves hybrid cloud and storage deployment flexibility Provides consistent management for on-premises and cloud storage regardless of storage type Replicates from on-premises storage to cloud storage using snapshots and remote mirroring Helps improve data security with software-based encryption Enhances storage functions, economics and flexibility with sophisticated virtualization Manages and protects the huge volumes of data organizations use for bigdata analytics and new cognitive workloads Moves data among virtualized storage systems without disruption for load balancing or asset replacement 4.7. Explain the benefits and use cases for IBM Spectrum Archive Describe benefits of Spectrum Archive Seamless file access in continuous name space File level write and read caching with disk staging area Policy based movement from disk to tape Load balancing and high availability in multi-node clusters

24 Data exchange on LTFS tape using import and export functions Fast import of file name space from LTFS tapes without reading data Data protection through multiple copies on tape and rebuild capabilities Built-on support for tape reclamation and reconciliation Easy administration and management Explain use cases for Spectrum Archive Archiving: Archiving large volumes of data, retain data for long periods of time, use policy based migration to tape Backup: Backupdata to LTFS EE filesystem, immediate migration to tape, easy data access and restore Tiered storage: Use tape for infrequently accessed files using policy based placement and migration Data exchange: Exchange large volumes of data and provide access via global name space Describe the benefits and use cases for IBM Spectrum Accelerate Benefits: Consistent performance with massive parallelism, inherently-tuned data distribution, distributed cache and quality of service; ability to extend cache with flash Self-healing that minimizes the rebuild process by rebuilding only actual data Vmware integration via Vmware storage APIs Advanced monitoring: network monitoring; disk performance tracking/reporting; data center monitoring; shared monitoring for some components; data and graphical reports on input/output (I/O), usage and trends Use case: Provide grid redundancy to maintain two copies of data Repurpose hypervisors into storage arrays Manage multiple devices using hyperscale manager Connect branch offices or MSP using a combination of XIV or Accelerate as one single management Hybrid cloud 4.9. Explain the benefits and use cases for IBM Cloud Object Storage Benefits Scalability that offers a single storage system and namespace versus an ever-increasing number of limited capacity storage silos

25 Security features include a wide range of capabilities designed to help meet security requirements Reliability and availability characteristics of the system are configurable to best suit the customer s requirements Manageability that helps enable storage administrators to handle large storage capacity Flexibility of a defined storage solution that does not require specific or proprietary hardware Use Cases Content repository Private Cloud Storage-as-a Service (STaaS) Enterprise collaboration Active archive Nearline storage or alternative to tape Extend IBM Spectrum Scale file system Explain the benefits and use cases for IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management Benefits Drive high-value use cases such as leveraging hybrid clouds Modernize IT by providing automation, user self-service and operations based on application programming interfaces (APIs) without adding hardware Deploy as a virtual machine Use Cases Automated copy management DevOps Next- generation data protection and disaster recovery Automated test and development Leverage hybrid cloud compute Explain the benefits and use cases for IBM Spectrum Storage Suite Benefits: Support business growth and changing requirements Simplified financial planning Enable rapid testing and deployment of new business solutions Analytics-driven data management to reduce costs Optimized data protection to reduce backup costs Fast data retention that reduces total cost of ownership for active archive data Virtualization of mixed block environments to increase data storage

26 Enterprise block storage for deployed in minutes instead of months High-performance, highly scalable storage software Flexible, scalable, and simple object storage with geodispersed enterprise availability and security Use cases: On-premise, hybrid cloud, and public cloud implementations Backup and archiving of enterprise environments Providing one central interface for mixed storage environments Provide high performance computing with scalable storage environment Optimize and better manage comprehensive enterprise environment Comprehensive storage platform for efficient management of big data and analytics environments Describe the value of the IBM Spectrum family to a customer Single integrated family of products to manage, provision, protect, and monitor all aspects of storage Increased infrastructure agility while decreasing Total Cost of Ownership Works with commodityas well as enterprise storage The foundation of software defined storage Manage block, file, and object storage under single set of management tools

27 Next Steps 1. Take the IBM Certified Solution Advisor - Spectrum Software Defined Infrastructure V5 assessment test. 2. If you pass the assessment exam, visit pearsonvue.com/ibm to schedule your testing sessions. Use the promotion code sysmidguide to receive 20% off. 3. If you failed the assessment exam, review how you did by section. Focus attention on the sections where you need improvement. Keep in mind that you can take the assessment exam as many times as you would like ($10 per exam), however, you will still receive the same questions only in a different order.