Implementing An Ibm B Type San With 8 Gbps Directors And Switches

Author : Jon Tate,Uwe Dubberke,Michael Engelbrecht,Shanmuganthan Kumaravel,Jose Rodriguez Ruibal,IBM Redbooks
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
Page : 894 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780738435374

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Implementing an IBM b-type SAN with 8 Gbps Directors and Switches by Jon Tate,Uwe Dubberke,Michael Engelbrecht,Shanmuganthan Kumaravel,Jose Rodriguez Ruibal,IBM Redbooks Pdf

"Do everything that is necessary and absolutely nothing that is not." This IBM® Redbooks® publication, written at a Data Center Fabric Manager v10.1.4 and Fabric Operating System v6.4 level, consolidates critical information while also covering procedures and tasks that you are likely to encounter on a daily basis when implementing an IBM b-type SAN. The products that we describe in this book have more functionality than we can possibly cover in a single book. A storage area network (SAN) is a powerful infrastructure for consolidation, distance solutions, and data sharing. The quality applications that the IBM SAN portfolio provides can help you take full advantage of the benefits of the SAN. In this book, we cover the latest additions to the IBM b-type SAN family and show how you can implement them in an open systems environment. In particular, we focus on the Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP) environment. We address the key concepts that these products bring to the market and, in each case, we provide an overview of the functions that are essential to building a robust SAN environment.

Author : Jon Tate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 862 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic book
ISBN : OCLC:1066497284

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Implementing an IBM B-type SAN with 8 Gbps Directors and Switches by Jon Tate Pdf

Author : Mirza Baig,Liam Dowds,Silviano Gaona,Paulo Neto,Gaston Rius,Megan Gilge,IBM Redbooks
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-05
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780738441825

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Implementing or Migrating to an IBM Gen 5 b-type SAN by Mirza Baig,Liam Dowds,Silviano Gaona,Paulo Neto,Gaston Rius,Megan Gilge,IBM Redbooks Pdf

The IBM® b-type Gen 5 Fibre Channel directors and switches provide reliable, scalable, and secure high-performance foundations for high-density server virtualization, cloud architectures, and next generation flash and SSD storage. They are designed to meet the demands of highly virtualized private cloud storage and data center environments. This IBM Redbooks® publication helps administrators learn how to implement or migrate to an IBM Gen 5 b-type SAN. It provides an overview of the key hardware and software products and explains how to install, monitor, tune, and troubleshoot your storage area network (SAN). Read this publication to learn about fabric design, managing and monitoring your network, key tools such as IBM Network Advisor and Fabric Vision, and troubleshooting.

Author : Jon Tate,Kameswara Bhaskarabhatla,Bruno Garcia Galle,Paulo Neto,IBM Redbooks
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-09
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780738439235

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IBM b-type Gen 5 16 Gbps Switches and Network Advisor by Jon Tate,Kameswara Bhaskarabhatla,Bruno Garcia Galle,Paulo Neto,IBM Redbooks Pdf

IBM® System Storage® Gen 5 fabric backbones are among the industry's most powerful Fibre Channel switching infrastructure offerings. They provide reliable, scalable, and high-performance foundations for mission-critical storage. These fabric backbones also deliver enterprise connectivity options to add support for IBM FICON® connectivity, offering a high-performing and reliable FICON infrastructure with fast and scalable IBM System z® servers. Designed to increase business agility while providing nonstop access to information and reducing infrastructure and administrative costs, Gen 5 Fibre Channel fabric backbones deliver a new level of scalability and advanced capabilities to this robust, reliable, and high-performance technology. Although every network type has unique management requirements, most organizations face similar challenges managing their network environments. These challenges can include minimizing network downtime, reducing operational expenses, managing application service level agreements (SLAs), and providing robust security. Until now, no single tool could address these needs across different network types. To address this issue, the IBM Network Advisor management tool provides comprehensive management for data, storage, and converged networks. This single application can deliver end-to-end visibility and insight across different network types by integrating with Fabric Vision technology; it supports Fibre Channel SANs, including Gen 5 Fibre Channel platforms, IBM FICON, and IBM b-type SAN FCoE networks. In addition, this tool supports comprehensive lifecycle management capabilities across different networks through a simple, seamless user experience. This IBM Redbooks® publication introduces the concepts, architecture, and basic implementation of Gen 5 and IBM Network Advisor. It is aimed at system administrators, and pre- and post-sales support staff.

Author : Karen Orlando,Detlef Helmbrecht,Jon Herd,Carsten Larsen,Matt Levan,IBM Redbooks
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-09
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780738440798

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Implementing IBM FlashSystem 840 by Karen Orlando,Detlef Helmbrecht,Jon Herd,Carsten Larsen,Matt Levan,IBM Redbooks Pdf

Almost all technological components in the data center are getting faster: central processing units, networks, storage area networks (SANs), and memory. All of them have improved their speed by a minimum of 10X; some of them by 100X, for example, data networks. However, spinning disk performance has only increased by 1.2 times. IBM® FlashSystemTM 840 version 1.3 closes this gap. The FlashSystem 840 is optimized for the data center to enable organizations of all sizes to strategically harness the value of stored data. It provides flexible capacity and extreme performance for the most demanding applications, including virtualized or bare-metal online transaction processing (OLTP) and online analytical processing (OLAP) databases, virtual desktop infrastructures (VDI), technical computing applications, and cloud environments. The system accelerates response times with IBM MicroLatency® access times as low as 90 μs write latency and 135 μs read latency to enable faster decision making. The introduction of a low capacity 1 TB flash module allows the FlashSystem 840 to be configured in capacity points as low as 2 TB in protected RAID 5 mode. Coupled with 10 GB iSCSI, the FlashSystem is positioned to bring extreme performance to small and medium-sized businesses (SMB) and growth markets. Implementing the IBM FlashSystem® 840 provides value that goes beyond those benefits that are seen on disk-based arrays. These benefits include better user experience, server and application consolidation, development cycle reduction, application scalability, data center footprint savings, and improved price performance economics. This IBM Redbooks® publication discusses IBM FlashSystem 840 version 1.3. It provides in-depth knowledge of the product architecture, software and hardware, its implementation, and hints and tips. Also illustrated are use cases that show real-world solutions for tiering, flash-only, and preferred read, as well as examples of the benefits gained by integrating the FlashSystem storage into business environments. Also described are product integration scenarios running the IBM FlashSystem 840 with the IBM SAN Volume Controller, and the IBM Storwize® family of products such V7000, V5000, and the V3700, as well as considerations when integrating with the IBM FlashSystem 840. The preferred practice guidance is provided for your FlashSystem environment with IBM 16 Gbps b-type products and features, focusing on Fibre Channel design. This book is intended for pre-sales and post-sales technical support professionals and storage administrators, and for anyone who wants to understand and learn how to implement this exciting technology.

Author : Karen Orlando,Ingo Dimmer,Detlef Helmbrecht,Jon Herd,Carsten Larsen,Matt Levan,IBM Redbooks
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-12
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780738442259

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Implementing IBM FlashSystem 900 by Karen Orlando,Ingo Dimmer,Detlef Helmbrecht,Jon Herd,Carsten Larsen,Matt Levan,IBM Redbooks Pdf

Today's global organizations depend on being able to unlock business insights from massive volumes of data. Now, with IBM® FlashSystem 900, powered by IBM FlashCoreTM technology, they can make faster decisions based on real-time insights and unleash the power of the most demanding applications, including online transaction processing (OLTP) and analytics databases, virtual desktop infrastructures (VDIs), technical computing applications, and cloud environments. This IBM Redbooks® publication introduces clients to the IBM FlashSystem® 900. It provides in-depth knowledge of the product architecture, software and hardware, implementation, and hints and tips. Also illustrated are use cases that show real-world solutions for tiering, flash-only, and preferred-read, and also examples of the benefits gained by integrating the FlashSystem storage into business environments. This book is intended for pre-sales and post-sales technical support professionals and storage administrators, and for anyone who wants to understand how to implement this new and exciting technology. This book describes the following offerings of the IBM SpectrumTM Storage family: IBM Spectrum StorageTM IBM Spectrum ControlTM IBM Spectrum VirtualizeTM IBM Spectrum ScaleTM IBM Spectrum AccelerateTM

Author : Li Cao,José Cortés,Mark Detrick,Steve Guendert,Michael Mettler,Lukasz Razmuk,Megan Gilge,IBM Redbooks
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-09
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780738455983

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IBM SAN42B-R Extension Switch and IBM b-type Gen 6 Extension Blade in Distance Replication Configurations (Disk and Tape) by Li Cao,José Cortés,Mark Detrick,Steve Guendert,Michael Mettler,Lukasz Razmuk,Megan Gilge,IBM Redbooks Pdf

This IBM® RedpaperTM publication helps network and storage administrators understand how to implement the IBM SAN42B-R Extension Switch and the IBM b-type Gen 6 Extension Blade for distance replication. It provides an overview of the IBM System Storage® SAN42B-R extension switch hardware and software features, describes the extension architecture, shows example implementations, and explains how to troubleshoot your extension products. IBM b-type extension products provide long-distance replication of your data for business continuity by using disaster recovery (BC/DR). This paper provides an overview of extension, detailed information about IBM b-type extension technologies and products, preferred topologies, example implementations with FCIP and TS7760/7700 Grid IP Extension, monitoring, and troubleshooting.

Author : Detlef Helmbrecht,Jim Cioffi,David Gimpl,Jon Herd,Christian Karpp,Katja Kratt,Eike Schenk,IBM Redbooks
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-12
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780738457598

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Implementing IBM FlashSystem 900 Model AE3 by Detlef Helmbrecht,Jim Cioffi,David Gimpl,Jon Herd,Christian Karpp,Katja Kratt,Eike Schenk,IBM Redbooks Pdf

Today's global organizations depend on being able to unlock business insights from massive volumes of data. Now, with IBM® FlashSystem 900 Model AE3 that is powered by IBM FlashCore® technology, they can make faster decisions that are based on real-time insights. They also can unleash the power of the most demanding applications, including online transaction processing (OLTP) and analytics databases, virtual desktop infrastructures (VDIs), technical computing applications, and cloud environments. This IBM Redbooks® publication introduces clients to the IBM FlashSystem® 900 Model AE3. It provides in-depth knowledge of the product architecture, software and hardware, implementation, and hints and tips. Also presented are use cases that show real-world solutions for tiering, flash-only, and preferred-read. Examples of the benefits that are gained by integrating the FlashSystem storage into business environments also are described. This book is intended for pre-sales and post-sales technical support professionals and storage administrators, and anyone who wants to understand how to implement this new and exciting technology.

Author : Jon Tate,Andrew Beattie,Christian Burns,Torben Jensen,Libor Miklas,IBM Redbooks
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-22
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780738440071

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IBM SAN Volume Controller 2145-DH8 Introduction and Implementation by Jon Tate,Andrew Beattie,Christian Burns,Torben Jensen,Libor Miklas,IBM Redbooks Pdf

Data is the new currency of business, the most critical asset of the modern organization. In fact, enterprises that can gain business insights from their data are twice as likely to outperform their competitors; yet, 72 percent of them have not started or are only planning big data activities. In addition, organizations often spend too much money and time managing where their data is stored. The average firm purchases 24% more storage every year, but uses less than half of the capacity it already has. A member of the IBM® Storwize® family, IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) Data Platform is a storage virtualization system that enables a single point of control for storage resources to help support improved business application availability and greater resource utilization. The objective is to manage storage resources in your IT infrastructure and to make sure they are used to the advantage of your business, and do it quickly, efficiently, and in real time, while avoiding increases in administrative costs. Virtualizing storage with SVC Data Platform helps make new and existing storage more effective. SVC Data Platform includes many functions traditionally deployed separately in disk systems. By including these in a virtualization system, SVC Data Platform standardizes functions across virtualized storage for greater flexibility and potentially lower costs. SVC Data Platform functions benefit all virtualized storage. For example, IBM Easy Tier® optimizes use of flash storage. And IBM Real-time CompressionTM enhances efficiency even further by enabling the storage of up to five times as much active primary data in the same physical disk space. Finally, high-performance thin provisioning helps automate provisioning. These benefits can help extend the useful life of existing storage assets, reducing costs. Integrating these functions into SVC Data Platform also means that they are designed to operate smoothly together, reducing management effort. In this IBM Redbooks® publication, we discuss the latest features and functions of the SVC 2145-DH8 and software version 7.3, implementation, architectural improvements, and Easy Tier.

Author : Jon Tate,Shanmuganthan Kumaravel,Jose Rodriguez Ruibal,IBM Redbooks
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-11
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780738435329

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IBM System Storage b-type Multiprotocol Routing: An Introduction and Implementation by Jon Tate,Shanmuganthan Kumaravel,Jose Rodriguez Ruibal,IBM Redbooks Pdf

The rapid spread and adoption of production storage area networks (SANs) has fueled the need for multiprotocol routers. The routers provide improved scalability, security, and manageability by enabling devices in separate SAN fabrics to communicate without merging fabrics into a single, large SAN fabric. This capability enables clients to initially deploy separate SAN solutions at the departmental and data center levels. Then, clients can consolidate these separate solutions into large enterprise SAN solutions as their experience and requirements grow and change. Alternatively, multiprotocol routers can help to connect existing enterprise SANs for a variety of reasons. For instance, the introduction of Small Computer System Interface over IP (iSCSI) provides for the connection of low-end, low-cost hosts to enterprise SANs. The use of an Internet Protocol (IP) in the Fibre Channel (FC) environment provides for resource consolidation and disaster recovery planning over long distances. And the use of FC-FC routing services provides connectivity between two or more fabrics without having to merge them into a single SAN. This IBM® Redbooks® publication targets storage network administrators, system designers, architects, and IT professionals who sell, design, or administer SANs. It introduces you to products, concepts, and technology in the IBM System StorageTM SAN Routing portfolio, which is based on Brocade products and technology. This book shows the features of these products and examples of how you can deploy and use them.

Author : Jon Tate,Angelo Bernasconi,Torben Jensen,Ian MacQuarrie,Ole Rasmussen,Matthew Robinson,Steven Tong,IBM Redbooks
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-28
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780738438139

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IBM SAN and SVC Stretched Cluster and VMware Solution Implementation by Jon Tate,Angelo Bernasconi,Torben Jensen,Ian MacQuarrie,Ole Rasmussen,Matthew Robinson,Steven Tong,IBM Redbooks Pdf

This IBM® Redbooks® publication describes the IBM Storage Area Network and IBM SAN Volume Controller Stretched Cluster solution when combined with VMware. We describe guidelines, settings, and implementation steps necessary to achieve a satisfactory implementation. Business continuity and continuous application availability are among the top requirements for many organizations today. Advances in virtualization, storage, and networking have made enhanced business continuity possible. Information technology solutions can now be designed to manage both planned and unplanned outages, and the flexibility and cost efficiencies available from cloud computing models. IBM has designed a solution that offers significant functionality for maintaining business continuity in a VMware environment. This functionality provides the capability to dynamically move applications across data centers without interruption to those applications. The live application mobility across data centers relies on these products and technology: The industry-proven VMware Metro vMotion IBM System Storage® SAN Volume Controller Stretched Cluster solution A Layer 2 IP Network and storage networking infrastructure for high performance traffic management DC interconnect

Author : Jon Tate,Morten Dannemand,Nancy Kinney,Massimo Rosati,Lev Sturmer,IBM Redbooks
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780738440262

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Implementing the IBM Storwize V7000 Gen2 by Jon Tate,Morten Dannemand,Nancy Kinney,Massimo Rosati,Lev Sturmer,IBM Redbooks Pdf

Data is the new currency of business, the most critical asset of the modern organization. In fact, enterprises that can gain business insights from their data are twice as likely to outperform their competitors. Nevertheless, 72% of them have not started, or are only planning, big data activities. In addition, organizations often spend too much money and time managing where their data is stored. The average firm purchases 24% more storage every year, but uses less than half of the capacity that it already has. The IBM® Storwize® family, including the IBM SAN Volume Controller Data Platform, is a storage virtualization system that enables a single point of control for storage resources. This functionality helps support improved business application availability and greater resource use. The following list describes the business objectives of this system: To manage storage resources in your information technology (IT) infrastructure To make sure that those resources are used to the advantage of your business To do it quickly, efficiently, and in real time, while avoiding increases in administrative costs Virtualizing storage with Storwize helps make new and existing storage more effective. Storwize includes many functions traditionally deployed separately in disk systems. By including these functions in a virtualization system, Storwize standardizes them across virtualized storage for greater flexibility and potentially lower costs. Storwize functions benefit all virtualized storage. For example, IBM Easy Tier® optimizes use of flash memory. In addition, IBM Real-time CompressionTM enhances efficiency even further by enabling the storage of up to five times as much active primary data in the same physical disk space. Finally, high-performance thin provisioning helps automate provisioning. These benefits can help extend the useful life of existing storage assets, reducing costs. Integrating these functions into Storwize also means that they are designed to operate smoothly together, reducing management effort. This IBM Redbooks® publication provides information about the latest features and functions of the Storwize V7000 Gen2 and software version 7.3 implementation, architectural improvements, and Easy Tier.

Author : Sangam Racherla,Delmar Demarchi,Scott Dybas,Bobby Stark,Mansoor Syed,IBM Redbooks
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780738437064

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SAN Boot Implementation and Best Practices Guide for IBM System Storage by Sangam Racherla,Delmar Demarchi,Scott Dybas,Bobby Stark,Mansoor Syed,IBM Redbooks Pdf

Booting servers from a storage area network (SAN) is being used increasingly in complex data center environments today, due to its significant benefits over the traditional method of booting from local disks. SAN Boot enables organizations to maximize consolidation of their IT resources, minimize their equipment costs, and realize the considerable management benefits of centralizing the boot process. In SAN Boot, you can deploy diskless servers in an environment where the boot disk is located on (often RAID-capable) storage connected to the SAN. The server (initiator) communicates with the storage device (target) through the SAN using the Fibre Channel host bus adapter (HBA). The system downtime is greatly minimized in case a critical component such as a processor, memory, or host bus adapter fails and needs to be replaced. The system administrator needs to swap only the hardware and reconfigure the HBA's BIOS, switch zoning, and host-port definitions on the storage server. The system image still exists on the logical drive, therefore the server is fully operational after the hardware swap and configuration change is completed. This IBM® Redbooks® publication can help you with the SAN Boot implementation. We present various SAN Boot scenarios using IBM System Storage® products that include DS5000, DS8000®, XIV®, and SVC. The operating systems that are covered include Windows 2008, Red Hat Linux, SUSE Linux, and VMware.

Author : Jon Tate,Angelo Bernasconi,Antonio Rainero,Ole Rasmussen,IBM Redbooks
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-19
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780738441108

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IBM Spectrum Virtualize and SAN Volume Controller Enhanced Stretched Cluster with VMware by Jon Tate,Angelo Bernasconi,Antonio Rainero,Ole Rasmussen,IBM Redbooks Pdf

This IBM® Redbooks® publication describes the IBM storage area network (SAN) and IBM SpectrumTM Virtualize, and SAN Volume Controller Enhanced Stretched Cluster configuration when combined with VMware. It describe guidelines, settings, and implementation steps necessary to achieve a satisfactory implementation. Business continuity and continuous availability of applications are among the top requirements for many organizations today. Advances in virtualization, storage, and networking make enhanced business continuity possible. Information technology solutions can now be designed to manage both planned and unplanned outages, and to take advantage of the flexibility, efficient use of resources, and cost savings that cloud computing offers. The IBM Enhanced Stretched Cluster design offers significant functions for maintaining business continuity in a VMware environment. You can dynamically move applications across data centers without interruption to those applications. The live application mobility across data centers relies on these products and technologies: IBM Spectrum Virtualize and SAN Volume Controller Enhanced Stretched Cluster Solution VMware Metro vMotion for live migration of virtual machines A Layer 2 IP Network and storage networking infrastructure for high-performance traffic management Data center interconnection

Author : Jon Tate,Shivendra Ashish,Kameswara Bhaskarabhatla,Huang Chen,William Genovese,IBM Redbooks
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-18
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780738438504

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IBM SAN Volume Controller Stretched Cluster with PowerVM and PowerHA by Jon Tate,Shivendra Ashish,Kameswara Bhaskarabhatla,Huang Chen,William Genovese,IBM Redbooks Pdf

This IBM® Redbooks® publication describes the IBM Storage Area Network and IBM SAN Volume Controller Stretched Cluster solution when combined with PowerVM® and PowerHA®. We describe guidelines, settings, and the implementation steps that are necessary to achieve a successful implementation. This book is for administrators who are familiar with the SAN, IBM SAN Volume Controller, and IBM PowerVM and PowerHA Systems.