Introduction to IBM Spectrum Accelerate

This digital course will provide an understanding of IBM Spectrum Accelerate, an important, scale-out, software-defined storage product. It has been written to teach everything from the basics of installing IBM Spectrum Accelerate to performing advanced administrative tasks using it. The course will attempt to clarify the concepts involved in planning, deploying, and implementing IBM Spectrum Accelerate. It will cover the basics of software-defined storage from a technology standpoint as it is today, the product architecture of IBM Spectrum Accelerate, explain its major features and benefits while showing how to implement the solution. It will also cover configurations that an administrator must be aware of by showing multiple use cases. If you are enrolling in a Self Paced Virtual Classroom or Web Based Training course, before you enroll, please review the Self-Paced Virtual Classes and Web-Based Training Classes on our Terms and Conditions page, as well as the system requirements, to ensure that your system meets the minimum requirements for this course. Objective By the end of the course you should be able to: • Demonstrate an understanding of software-defined storage from a technology standpoint • Summarize IBM’s Spectrum range of products and their benefits • Summarize the architecture of IBM Spectrum Accelerate • Deploy IBM Spectrum Accelerate in an existing infrastructure • Demonstrate an ability to access and interact with the graphical and command line interfaces of the product • Summarize the various tasks that can be performed on block storage using IBM Spectrum Accelerate by understanding various use cases • Summarize the procedure for troubleshooting issues related to IBM Spectrum Accelerate