IBM SAN Volume Controller Best Practices and Performance Guidelines for IBM Spectrum Virtualize Version 8.4.2

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Planning storage pools

This chapter highlights considerations when you are planning storage pools for an IBM SAN Volume Controller implementation. It explains various pool configuration options, including Easy Tier, data reduction pools (DRPs), and provides best practices on the implementation and an overview of some typical operations with MDisks.

This chapter includes the following topics:

•4.1, “Introduction to pools” on page 100

•4.2, “Storage pool planning considerations” on page 120

•4.3, “Data reduction pool best practices” on page 128 ...

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