IBM Flash Storage Fundamentals

The IBM FlashSystem products are designed to help companies improve performance and reduce server sprawl, power consumption, cooling, and floor space requirements.

The IBM FlashSystem family can help you take control of your storage, harness existing data, and manage your IT infrastructure in a much more cloud-like fashion.

This course will aim to provide the basics of flash storage systems, specifically IBM’s portfolio in this area. This course is a lecture only class.

You should have a basic understanding of concepts associated with open systems disk storage systems and I/O operations.

You can follow this fundamental course Introduction to Storage - (SS01G)

• Demonstrate an understanding of flash storage from a technology standpoint
• Summarize the benefits of IBM FlashCore technology
• Recognize all the flash storage products from IBM and their benefits
• Summarize the architecture of IBM FlashSystem products and Spectrum Virtualize
• Demonstrate an ability to access and interact with the graphical interface of an IBM Spectrum Virtualize FlashSystem
• Summarize the various use cases of each of the FlashSystem products

This beginner course is for personnel who are assessing and planning to deploy flash storage and solutions.

• Unit 1: Flash storage fundamentals: An overview
• Unit 2: Introduction to flash storage
• Unit 3: Flash storage portfolio
• Unit 4: IBM FlashSystem family
• Unit 5: IBM FlashSystem solutions