IBM FlashSystem Best Practices and Performance Guidelines

Storage pools

This chapter describes considerations for planning storage pools for an IBM FlashSystem implementation. It explains various pool configuration options, including Easy Tier and data reduction pools (DRP). It provides and provides best practices on implementation and an overview of some typical operations with MDisks.

This chapter includes the following sections:

•4.1, “Introduction to pools” on page 102

•4.2, “Storage pool planning considerations” on page 123

•4.3, “Data reduction pools best practices” on page 130

•4.4, “Operations ...