IBM DS8000 Transparent Cloud Tiering (DS8000 Release 9.2)

Connectivity and Network setup for TCT

This chapter discusses the general connectivity and network setup in preparation for TCT. It also addresses recommendation for a high availability configuration.

 

•5.1, “Networking communication overview” on page 44

•5.2, “Host to HMC connection” on page 44

•5.3, “HMC to DS8000 internal server connection” on page 46

•5.4, “DS8000 internal to object storage connection” on page 47

5.1 Networking communication overview

When planning the network connectivity for the tiered storage, you need to consider 3 parts ...