IBM Real Time Compression Appliance Application Integration Guide

IBM Real Time Compression Appliance Application Integration Guide

by Roland Tretau, Misa Miletic, Steven Pemberton, Tom Provost, Teddy Setiawan
Released July 2012
Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
ISBN: None

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Book description

Continuing its commitment to developing and delivering industry-leading storage technologies, IBM® is introducing the IBM Real-time Compression Appliances for NAS, an innovative new storage offering that delivers essential storage efficiency technologies, combined with exceptional ease of use and performance.

In an era when the amount of information, particularly in unstructured files, is exploding, but budgets for storing that information are stagnant, IBM Real-time Compression technology offers a powerful tool for better information management, protection, and access. IBM Real-time Compression can help slow the growth of storage acquisition, reducing storage costs while simplifying both operations and management. It also enables organizations to keep more data available for use rather than storing it offsite or on harder-to-access tape, so they can support improved analytics and decision making.

IBM Real-time Compression Appliances provide online storage optimization through real-time data compression, delivering dramatic cost reduction without performance degradation.

This IBM Redbooks® publication is an easy-to-follow guide that describes how to design solutions successfully using IBM Real-time Compression Appliances (IBM RTCAs). It explains best practices for RTCA solution design, application integration, and practical RTCA use cases. This is a companion book to Introduction to IBM Real-time Compression Appliances, SG24-7953.

Table of contents

  1. Figures
  2. Tables
  3. Examples
  4. Notices
    1. Trademarks
  5. Preface
    1. The team who wrote this book
    2. Now you can become a published author, too!
    3. Comments welcome
    4. Stay connected to IBM Redbooks
  6. Part 1: Solution design
    1. Chapter 1: NAS / N series solution design
      1. Introduction to the design examples
      2. N series single node solutions
        1. N series and single RTCA product
        2. N series and single RTCA product, active/passive path
        3. N series and active/passive path, RTCA product HA pair
        4. Active/passive path, RTCA product HA, EtherChannel/LACP bonds
      3. N series dual node solutions
        1. Active/passive RTCA product on LACP bonds
        2. Controller configurations
      4. N series MetroCluster solutions
      5. N series with MultiStore
        1. Considerations for vfilers
        2. Types of configurations
    2. Chapter 2: EMC storage integration
      1. Planning information
      2. IBM RTCA value added benefits
      3. IBM RTCA implementation in EMC NAS environments (1/2)
      4. IBM RTCA implementation in EMC NAS environments (2/2)
        1. The first option
        2. The second option
    3. Chapter 3: Nearline and offline backup solutions
      1. RTCA and SnapVault
        1. Overview of SnapVault
        2. Benefits of using SnapVault with IBM RTCA
      2. Combining RTCA and deduplication
        1. Combining RTCA and IBM ProtecTIER deduplication
        2. RTCA and EMC Data Domain
      3. IBM RTCA and NDMP backup to tape
      4. Conclusion
    4. Chapter 4: VMware vSphere integration
      1. IBM N series and VMware vSphere
        1. vSphere in an N series MetroCluster environment
        2. Integration and redundancy
      2. VMware vSphere and NFS datastores
        1. Increasing the number of NFS datastores
        2. File system security
        3. VMware ESX NFS time-out settings
        4. NFS storage network best practices
      3. VMware vSphere and storage networking
        1. Ethernet storage networking best practices
        2. Virtual LANs (VLANs)
        3. Flow control
        4. Spanning tree protocol
        5. Bridge Protocol Data Unit (BPDU)
        6. Virtual Interfaces
        7. Ethernet switch connectivity
      4. Best practices for using vSphere and RTCA (1/2)
      5. Best practices for using vSphere and RTCA (2/2)
        1. RTCA hardware setup best practices
        2. Storage controller best practices setup
        3. Storage networking best practices
        4. Virtual machine guest file placement
        5. Block alignment with NFS
        6. Considerations regarding deduplication and snapshots
      6. Related documents
    5. Chapter 5: Oracle database application integration
      1. Foundational best practices
      2. Oracle database on Network Attached Storage
        1. Network Attached Storage
      3. Oracle, N series, and RTCA compression comparison
        1. Oracle Advanced Compression
        2. N series / Netapp compression
        3. RTCA compression
        4. Comparison between compression features
      4. New features on Oracle 11g relevant to RTCA
        1. Data segment compression
        2. Oracle compression options
      5. Best practices
        1. Storage network configuration
        2. NFS mount options for Oracle databases
        3. Data ONTAP tuning options
        4. LINUX tuning options
        5. Storage layout configuration
    6. Chapter 6: File serving solutions
      1. Foundations
        1. NAS storage controllers
        2. NAS clients
      2. Common file service requirements
        1. Workload considerations
        2. Compression filters
      3. Planning a CIFS file service
        1. Authentication and authorization
        2. Auto home shares
      4. Planning an NFS file service
      5. Block-mode pass-through
        1. FCP protocol access
        2. iSCSI protocol access
  7. Part 2: Application integration use cases
    1. Chapter 7: VMware vSphere use cases
      1. Test environment setup
      2. Planning for implementation
      3. Preparing the IBM Real-time Compression Appliance
      4. Installing the IBM Real-time Compression Appliance
        1. Installation without IBM RTCA
        2. Connecting the passive path to the IBM RTCA
        3. Switching active and passive path
        4. Connecting the active path to the RTCA
        5. Resetting active paths in the initial state
      5. Turning on compression
      6. Setting up the Compression Accelerator (1/3)
      7. Setting up the Compression Accelerator (2/3)
      8. Setting up the Compression Accelerator (3/3)
        1. Providing root access to the IBM RTCA
        2. Configuring the Compression Accelerator
      9. Our experiences (1/2)
      10. Our experiences (2/2)
        1. No compression
        2. Only deduplication
        3. Turning on compression
        4. Combining compression and deduplication
        5. Conclusion
    2. Chapter 8: Oracle use cases
      1. Implementation for RTCA (1/2)
      2. Implementation for RTCA (2/2)
        1. Defining the test environment
        2. Database population with TPC-H data model
        3. Generated data set
        4. Checking the capacity used for the Oracle database
      3. Using the RTCA product (1/2)
      4. Using the RTCA product (2/2)
        1. Inserting the RTCA product into an existing environment
        2. Enabling compression on the RTCA
        3. Compression accelerator
      5. Recovering data (1/2)
      6. Recovering data (2/2)
        1. Emergency path management
        2. Removing export/share from compression list
    3. Chapter 9: File serving use cases
      1. Setting up a CIFS file service (1/5)
      2. Setting up a CIFS file service (2/5)
      3. Setting up a CIFS file service (3/5)
      4. Setting up a CIFS file service (4/5)
      5. Setting up a CIFS file service (5/5)
        1. Configuring the NAS storage controller
        2. Configuring the RTCA product
        3. Storage compression mode
        4. Compressing new data
        5. Compressing existing data
        6. Enabling NAS deduplication
        7. Compressing automatic home shares
        8. Accessing the compressed data
        9. Calculating the compression ratio
      6. Setting up an NFS file service (1/4)
      7. Setting up an NFS file service (2/4)
      8. Setting up an NFS file service (3/4)
      9. Setting up an NFS file service (4/4)
        1. Configuring the NAS storage controller
        2. Configuring the RTCA product
        3. Storage compression mode
        4. Compressing new data
        5. Compressing existing data
        6. Enabling NAS deduplication
        7. Accessing the compressed data
        8. Calculating the compression ratio
    4. Abbreviations and acronyms
    5. Related publications
      1. IBM Redbooks publications
      2. Other publications
      3. Online resources
      4. Help from IBM
    6. Index (1/2)
    7. Index (2/2)
    8. Back cover

Product information

  • Title: IBM Real Time Compression Appliance Application Integration Guide
  • Author(s): Roland Tretau, Misa Miletic, Steven Pemberton, Tom Provost, Teddy Setiawan
  • Release date: July 2012
  • Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
  • ISBN: None