IBM FlashSystem 9200 and 9100 Best Practices and Performance Guidelines

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Hosts

This chapter describes the guidelines on how to configure host systems on IBM FlashSystem 9100 by following several preferred practices. A host system is a computer that is connected to the switch through a Fibre Channel (FC), iSCSI and iSCSI Extensions over RDMA (iSER).

Characteristics of the host play an important role in tuning, troubleshooting and performance of your IBM FlashSystem 9100. Consider the following areas for performance:

•The use of multipathing and bandwidth (physical capability of SAN)

•Understanding how your host performs ...

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