iSeries (AS/400) Recovery and Availability Management

Introduction

This course is designed for business continuity planners ­ complete tour of iSeries availability and recovery options and how to employ them for your own backup and recovery plan.

What you will learn

On completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Describe the Availability and Recovery options of the IBM System i - (AS/400).
• State which of these options are most suitable to your own situation.
• Plan and implement a suitable Availability and Recovery strategy.
  
  

Who should attend

This course is suitable for senior operators, system administrators and data processing managers who have responsibility for recovery and availability, and for staff involved in disaster recovery planning.

Pre-requisites

Delegates need some experience of iSeries Operations. This can be gained from either the iSeries OPERATIONS course with further experience, or the iSeries SYSTEM FACILITIES course.

Course content

• Save/restore facilities
• Save While Active
• Journaling
• Access Path Journaling
• System Maintained Access Path Journaling (SMAPP)
• Auxiliary Storage Pools
• Checksum
• Device Parity Protection (DPP or 'RAID')
• Mirroring
• Uninterruptable Power Supplies (UPS) and Battery Backup

Materials

A course manual with supporting documentation is provided, there are practical exercises associated with most aspects of the theory sessions.

Schedule - Dates on Request