Digital Badge Program Power Systems

This credential earner has completed instructor-led learning for understanding how LPAR works and the functions provided by the HMC. Topics include: IBM i Access Family of products; Access Client Solutions; different types of security implementation - to control acccess; security control via system values, user and group profiles, authorization lists, and adopted authority; creating a basic CL program; GUI tools in RDP (RSE and LPEX); and using Management Central.

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Successfully complete the following IBM Instructor-Led course: Advanced System Operator Workshop for IBM i - Code: AS27G

This credential earner has completed instructor-led learning for understanding the features & functions supported by Backup Recovery and Media Services (BRMS) - an integrated and comprehensive tool for managing backup, recovery, archive, and retrieval operations for a single Power system with IBM i or multiple systems with IBM i at a site or across a BRMS Network. Topics cover how to perform supported functions when using a 5250 emulation session, the System i Navigator, or IBM Navigator for i.

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Successfully complete the following IBM Instructor-Led course: BRMS for IBM i, Including Cloud Storage Solutions for i - Code: AS28G

This credential earner has completed instructor-led learning for understanding of how to balance the workload on the IBM i system to ensure optimum performance. Topics include: how to manage workloads, measure system performance, and tune the operating system to meet processing requirements; and controlling workload and tuning system performance.

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Successfully complete the following IBM Instructor-Led course: IBM i Performance Tuning - I: IBM i Structure, Tailoring and Basic Tuning - Code: OL23G

This credential earner has completed instructor-led learning for understanding the techniques of performance analysis and capacity planning on systems and partitions running IBM i, and how IBM i operates and interfaces with applications. Topics include how to better manage performance and capacity on systems and partitions running IBM i.

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Successfully complete the following IBM Instructor-Led course: IBM i Performance Tuning - II: Advanced Analysis and Capacity Tuning - Code: OL66G

This credential earner has completed instructor-led learning to help students prepare to take the exam to attain the IBM Certified Specialist – Power Systems Scale-Up Technical Sales certification. Topics include: POWER9 Processor-based Systems; PowerVM - Processor Virtualization, Processor Configurations, Memory Configurations, Network Virtualization, Network Configurations, Virtual Storage Configurations, Live Partition Mobility & Simplified Remote Restart, Live Partition Mobility; IBM Tools.

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Successfully complete the following IBM Instructor-Led course: IBM Power Systems Scale-Up Technical Sales Certification Preparation Workshop - Code: AN097G

This credential earner has completed instructor-led learning for understanding the concepts and implementation details of PowerHA SystemMirror for Linux on IBM Power Systems servers. Skills covered included the basics of the product’s architecture, prerequisites, the planning necessary for implementation, the configuration and customization steps to produce a highly available cluster, the administration of the cluster, and the Smart Assists that are available.

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Successfully complete the following IBM Instructor-Led course: IBM PowerHA for Linux: Installation and Customization - Code: LX080G

This credential earner has completed instructor-led learning for PowerVC, gaining expertise in its features, architecture, and OpenStack components. They can install, configure, and manage PowerVC, understand cloud tech, and perform admin tasks. Proficient in graphical and command-line interfaces, they integrate PowerVC with PowerVM NovaLink and existing virtualization environments.

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Attendance and successful completion of QZC30G IBM PowerVC Workshop instructor-led training course

This credential earner has completed instructor-led learning for understanding how to implement and manage a Kubernetes-based Platform as a Service (PaaS) environment based on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on Power Systems. This includes basic admin and configuration of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform within a POWER processor-based server configured with IBM PowerVC. Topics cover using the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform to work with images, applications, and manage a cluster.

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Successfully complete the following IBM Instructor-Led course: Implementing Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on Power Systems - Code: QZC42G

This credential earner has completed instructor-led learning for understanding the concepts and configuration details when implementing PowerVM Live Partition Mobility on POWER6 and POWER7 processor-based servers. Topics include: the requirements of Live Partition Mobility; how to configure HMCs, Virtual I/O Servers, and partitions in preparation for performing active and inactive migrations; how to configure a lab environment; and how to perform Live Partition Mobility operations.

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Successfully complete the following IBM Instructor-Led course: Implementing PowerVM Live Partition Mobility - Code: AN33G

This credential earner has completed instructor-led learning for understanding how to implement and manage the IBM VM Recovery Manager – HA (VMR-HA) product. Topics cover: intro to High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR); understanding the requirements and planning for implementing VMR-HA; installing and configuring VMR-HA; testing the capabilities of VMR-HA at the VM and application level; and hands-on labs for students to install, configure, test, and maintain VMR-HA environments.

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Successfully complete the following IBM Instructor-Led course: Implementing VM Recovery Manager - HA - Code: AN6AG

This credential earner has completed instructor-led learning for understanding how to implement advanced IBM PowerVM features such as Active Memory Sharing, Active Memory Expansion, shared dedicated processors & multiple shared processor pools. Topics cover skills to implement, measure, analyze & tune PowerVM virtualization features for optimal performance on IBM Power Systems servers; AIX performance analysis & tuning tools to take advantage of shared processors & other virtualization features.

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Successfully complete the following IBM Instructor-Led course: Power Systems for AIX - Virtualization II: Advanced PowerVM and Performance - Code: AN31G

This credential earner has completed instructor-led learning for understanding the basic administrative tasks associated with Linux Servers hosted on Power Systems servers. This includes installation, command line operations, system administration, device management, IBM tools, and system recovery.

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Successfully complete the following IBM Instructor-Led course: Power Systems Running Linux: Server Administration - Code: LX071G

This credential earner has completed instructor-led learning for understanding managing storage in a Linux on Power environment. IBM Power Systems provide a large variety of storage options and combining these options with Linux storage management techniques is a critical skill required by today’s system administrator. This course provides students with an opportunity to work with Power Systems storage devices, focusing on those skill sets needed to manage these devices on Linux Servers.

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Successfully complete the following IBM Instructor-Led course: Power Systems Running Linux: Storage Management - Code: LX072G

This credential earner has completed instructor-led training on IBM PowerHA Administration, demonstrating proficiency in configuring and managing PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX. They possess knowledge and skills in high availability concepts, PowerHA components, cluster configuration, resource group management, and basic troubleshooting. Additionally, they have mastered the use of monitoring tools and commands for cluster status and maintenance tasks.

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Attendance and successful completion of AN61G PowerHA SystemMirror 7 Planning, Implementation, Customization and Basic Administration instructor-led training course

This credential earner has completed instructor-led learning for understanding operating system-based virtualization provided by Docker. Through hands-on exercises, topics covered include Docker problem determination; managing a Docker configuration; Docker remote architecture; installing and configuring Docker registries; and performing user operations with images and containers.

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Successfully complete the following IBM Instructor-Led course: Advanced Docker for Power Systems - Code: LX062G

This credential earner has completed instructor-led learning for understanding the concepts involved in planning, deploying and implementing Ansible, Chef and Puppet, and how to integrate these tools with IBM Cloud PowerVC Manager. They are able to perform basic installation to advanced administrative tasks with these DevOps tools. The earner has also gained skills about the product architectures of these tools, their benefits, and how to implement these tools to fit customer needs.

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Successfully complete the following IBM Instructor-Led course: DevOps with Private Cloud on IBM Power Systems: Learn Ansible, Chef, and Puppet - Code: QZC50G