IBM Software-Defined Storage Guide

IBM Software-Defined Storage Guide

by Larry Coyne, Joe Dain, Eric Forestier, Patrizia Guaitani, Robert Haas, Christopher D. Maestas, Antoine Maille, Tony Pearson, Brian Sherman, Christopher Vollmar
Released July 2018
Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
ISBN: 9780738457055

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Book description

Today, new business models in the marketplace coexist with traditional ones and their well-established IT architectures. They generate new business needs and new IT requirements that can only be satisfied by new service models and new technological approaches. These changes are reshaping traditional IT concepts.

Cloud in its three main variants (Public, Hybrid, and Private) represents the major and most viable answer to those IT requirements, and software-defined infrastructure (SDI) is its major technological enabler.

IBM® technology, with its rich and complete set of storage hardware and software products, supports SDI both in an open standard framework and in other vendors' environments. IBM services are able to deliver solutions to the customers with their extensive knowledge of the topic and the experiences gained in partnership with clients.

This IBM Redpaper™ publication focuses on software-defined storage (SDS) and IBM Storage Systems product offerings for software-defined environments (SDEs). It also provides use case examples across various industries that cover different client needs, proposed solutions, and results. This paper can help you to understand current organizational capabilities and challenges, and to identify specific business objectives to be achieved by implementing an SDS solution in your enterprise.

Table of contents

  1. Front cover
  2. Notices
    1. Trademarks
  3. Preface
    1. Authors
    2. Now you can become a published author, too
    3. Comments welcome
    4. Stay connected to IBM Redbooks
  4. Chapter 1. Why software-defined storage
    1. 1.1 Introduction to software-defined architecture
    2. 1.2 Introduction to software-defined storage
    3. 1.3 Introduction to Cognitive Storage Management
  5. Chapter 2. Software-defined storage
    1. 2.1 Introduction to SDS
    2. 2.2 SDS overview
      1. 2.2.1 SDS supports emerging as well as traditional IT consumption models
      2. 2.2.2 Required SDS capabilities
      3. 2.2.3 SDS Functions
    3. 2.3 SDS Data-access protocols
      1. 2.3.1 Block I/O
      2. 2.3.2 File I/O
      3. 2.3.3 Object Storage
    4. 2.4 SDS reference architecture
    5. 2.5 Ransomware Considerations
  6. Chapter 3. IBM SDS product offerings
    1. 3.1 SDS architecture
      1. 3.1.1 SDS control plane
      2. 3.1.2 SDS data plane
    2. 3.2 IBM Spectrum Connect
      1. 3.2.1 VMware integration
      2. 3.2.2 PowerShell
      3. 3.2.3 Containers and Kubernetes
    3. 3.3 IBM Spectrum Control
      1. 3.3.1 Key capabilities
      2. 3.3.2 Benefits
      3. 3.3.3 IBM Data and Storage Management Solutions features
      4. 3.3.4 IBM Spectrum Control Standard Edition
      5. 3.3.5 IBM Spectrum Control Advanced Edition
    4. 3.4 IBM Virtual Storage Center
    5. 3.5 IBM Storage Insights
      1. 3.5.1 IBM Storage Insights
      2. 3.5.2 IBM Storage Insights Pro
    6. 3.6 IBM Copy Services Manager
    7. 3.7 IBM Spectrum Protect
      1. 3.7.1 Key capabilities
      2. 3.7.2 Benefits
      3. 3.7.3 Backup and recovery
      4. 3.7.4 Tool set
      5. 3.7.5 IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center
      6. 3.7.6 IBM Spectrum Protect cloud architectures
      7. 3.7.7 Cloud Tiering
      8. 3.7.8 IBM Spectrum Protect Plus
      9. 3.7.9 IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments
    8. 3.8 IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot
    9. 3.9 IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management
    10. 3.10 Block, file, and object storage
      1. 3.10.1 Block storage
      2. 3.10.2 File storage
      3. 3.10.3 Object storage
    11. 3.11 IBM Block Storage solutions
      1. 3.11.1 IBM Spectrum Virtualize
      2. 3.11.2 IBM Spectrum Access Blueprint
      3. 3.11.3 IBM Spectrum Accelerate
      4. 3.11.4 IBM XIV Storage System Gen3
      5. 3.11.5 IBM FlashSystem A9000 and A9000R
    12. 3.12 IBM File Storage solutions
      1. 3.12.1 IBM Spectrum Scale
      2. 3.12.2 IBM Spectrum NAS
      3. 3.12.3 IBM Spectrum Archive
    13. 3.13 IBM Object Storage solutions
      1. 3.13.1 IBM Cloud Object Storage
    14. 3.14 IBM storage support of OpenStack components
      1. 3.14.1 Cinder
      2. 3.14.2 Swift
      3. 3.14.3 Manila
      4. 3.14.4 IBM SDS products that include interfaces to OpenStack component
  7. Chapter 4. IBM Storage Systems for SDS
    1. 4.1 Integration with SDS
    2. 4.2 IBM FlashSystem family
      1. 4.2.1 FlashSystem benefits
      2. 4.2.2 IBM FlashCore technology
      3. 4.2.3 FlashSystem 900
      4. 4.2.4 IBM FlashSystem V9000
      5. 4.2.5 IBM FlashSystem A9000/A9000R
    3. 4.3 IBM TS4500 and TS3500 tape libraries
      1. 4.3.1 TS4500 tape library
      2. 4.3.2 TS3500 tape library
    4. 4.4 IBM DS8880
    5. 4.5 IBM Storwize family
      1. 4.5.1 Storwize V5000 Gen2 and V5000F Gen2
      2. 4.5.2 Storwize V7000 Gen2+ and V7000F Gen2+
      3. 4.5.3 IBM SAN Volume Controller as an SDS appliance
      4. 4.5.4 Ongoing IBM contributions to OpenStack Cinder for the Storwize family
    6. 4.6 IBM Elastic Storage Server
    7. 4.7 VersaStack for Hybrid Cloud
  8. Chapter 5. Use cases
    1. 5.1 Secure file and object storage for backups
    2. 5.2 Hybrid Cloud telecommunications storage optimization project
    3. 5.3 Government sector transformation to private cloud
    4. 5.4 Cloud service provider use case with SAP HANA
    5. 5.5 Media and entertainment company Hybrid Cloud
    6. 5.6 Life sciences and genomics
    7. 5.7 Oil and gas solutions
    8. 5.8 Automobile analytics with Hortonworks
    9. 5.9 Ensuring an insurance company’s SAS Grid performance
  9. Chapter 6. Next steps
  10. Related publications
    1. IBM Redbooks
    2. Online resources
    3. Help from IBM
  11. Back cover

Product information

  • Title: IBM Software-Defined Storage Guide
  • Author(s): Larry Coyne, Joe Dain, Eric Forestier, Patrizia Guaitani, Robert Haas, Christopher D. Maestas, Antoine Maille, Tony Pearson, Brian Sherman, Christopher Vollmar
  • Release date: July 2018
  • Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
  • ISBN: 9780738457055