• Importance of high-performance storage for critical workloads
• Introduction to IBM DS8000
• Industry use cases in banking, telecom, and cloud
• Course objectives and learning roadmap
• RAID and data protection
• Storage architectures and protocols
• Performance and scalability
• Best practices
• Hardware and software architecture
• Controllers, cache, and drives
• High availability and redundancy
• Storage virtualization
• Governance
• Deployment and setup
• Initial validation
• Licensing
• Troubleshooting
• Thin provisioning
• Capacity planning
• Performance optimization
• Best practices
• Host configuration
• Multipathing
• Monitoring
• Optimization
• Metro and Global Mirror
• Backup and restore
• Disaster recovery
• Governance
• Role-based access
• Audit and compliance
• Data protection
• Governance







