This course is designed to provide you with the information and skills required to use the IBM zEnterprise Unified Resource Manager (zManager) tasks to create the virtual server environment used by an ensemble configuration. The course will discuss all the elements that are used by Unified Resource Manager for creating and managing virtual servers. These include, zBX components, HMC usage to create an ensemble and perform Unified Resource Manager tasks, creating virtual networks (VLANs), assigning storage to Hypervisors and virtual servers, creating and modifying virtual server definitions. The course will use a combination of lecture topics and labs to describe and implement a virtual server using Unified Resource Manager. Units in this course are: Introducing the zEnterprise System HMC usage and management Unified Resource Manager storage concepts and implementation Unified Resource Manager network concepts and implementation Unified Resource Manager virtual server concepts and implementation Unified Resource Manager HMC operational tasks Performance management: Workloads, monitoring and reporting z/BX optimizers and appliances Labs will include: HMC ensemble navigation. Verifying z/OS ensemble enablement Auditing an ensemble configuration (zBX Blades). (Optional) Auditing the ensemble configuration (zVM Linux) Removing ensemble resources: Networking, storage and virtual servers (Blades only) Provisioning virtual server resources (Blades only) Installing AIX from NIM server Operational tasks (Optional) zVM VSwitches and VNICs (Optional) New workloads and performance policies
