IBM Real-time Compression in IBM SAN Volume Controller and IBM Storwize V7000

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Planning

This chapter describes planning guidelines that contribute to successful solution design. It addresses the requirements for configuring real-time compression and the best candidate data sets for using compression in IBM Storwize V7000 and IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC).

This chapter includes the following sections:

•Candidate data sets for compression

•Requirements

•Comprestimator

•General guidelines

•Generic volumes that are created from reused extents

4.1 Candidate data sets for compression

There are common workloads that are good candidates ...

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