Book description
Abstract
This edition applies to IBM® Spectrum Accelerate V11.5.4.
IBM Spectrum Accelerate™, a member of IBM Spectrum Storage™, is an agile, software-defined storage solution for enterprise and cloud that builds on the customer-proven and mature IBM XIV® storage software. The key characteristic of Spectrum Accelerate is that it can be easily deployed and run on purpose-built or existing hardware that is chosen by the customer.
IBM Spectrum Accelerate enables rapid deployment of high-performance and scalable block data storage infrastructure over commodity hardware on-premises or off-premises.
This IBM Redbooks® publication provides a broad understanding of IBM Spectrum Accelerate. The book introduces Spectrum Accelerate and describes planning and preparation that are essential for a successful deployment of the solution. The deployment is described through a step-by-step approach, by using a graphical user interface (GUI) based method or a simple command-line interface (CLI) based procedure.
Chapters in this book describe the logical configuration of the system, host support and business continuity functions, and migration. Although it makes many references to the XIV storage software, the book also emphasizes where IBM Spectrum Accelerate differs from XIV.
Finally, a substantial portion of the book is dedicated to maintenance and troubleshooting to provide detailed guidance for the customer support personnel.
Table of contents
- Front cover
- Notices
- Preface
- Summary of changes
- Chapter 1. Introducing IBM Spectrum Accelerate
- Chapter 2. Planning for IBM Spectrum Accelerate
- Chapter 3. IBM Spectrum Accelerate command-line deployment
- Chapter 4. IBM Spectrum Accelerate GUI-based deployment
- Chapter 5. Configuring and Managing IBM Spectrum Accelerate
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Chapter 6. Host attachment
- 6.1 Supported operating systems for iSCSI host attachment
- 6.2 iSCSI connectivity and IBM Spectrum Accelerate
- 6.3 Configuring Spectrum Accelerate iSCSI port connectivity
- 6.4 Host attachment to an IBM Spectrum Accelerate system
- 6.5 Installing and configuring Host Attachment Kit on Windows
- 6.6 Installing the Host Attachment Kit on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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6.7 IBM Spectrum Accelerate Host-side Accelerator
- 6.7.1 Installing and configuring the IBM Host Attachment Kit with IBM Host-side Accelerate support on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1
- 6.7.2 Migrating older Linux multipath volumes to use Host-side Acceleration
- 6.7.3 Migrating Host-side Acceleration volumes to use older Linux multipathing
- 6.7.4 Disabling IBM Spectrum Accelerate Host-side Acceleration
- 6.8 Using Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager with an IBM Spectrum Accelerate system
- Chapter 7. Remote mirroring with IBM Spectrum Accelerate
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Chapter 8. Data Migration with IBM Spectrum Accelerate
- 8.1 Migration overview
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8.2 Migrating a volume
- 8.2.1 Initial connection and preparation
- 8.2.2 Performing pre-migration tasks for each migrated host
- 8.2.3 Defining and testing data migration volumes
- 8.2.4 Activating data migration on the migrated volumes
- 8.2.5 Defining the host in IBM Spectrum Accelerate and bringing the host online
- 8.2.6 Completing the data migration on IBM Spectrum Accelerate
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Chapter 9. Maintenance and upgrades
- 9.1 Operations Administrator user category
- 9.2 Concurrent IBM Spectrum Accelerate system upgrade
- 9.3 Adding a module to an IBM Spectrum Accelerate
- 9.4 Concurrent rolling hardware alterations to modules
- 9.5 Disk failure and replacement
- 9.6 SSD failure and replacement
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9.7 Handling a module failure
- 9.7.1 Case 1: Module failure at the IBM Spectrum Accelerate system software level
- 9.7.2 Case 2: Module failure at VMware level (Virtual Machine is powered off)
- 9.7.3 Case 3: Module failure requiring software replacement
- 9.7.4 Case 4: Module failure requiring hardware replacement
- 9.7.5 Repairing module software or hardware with IBM XIV Management GUI
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Chapter 10. Troubleshooting
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10.1 Troubleshooting deployment failures
- 10.1.1 Common issues with CLI deployment and XML file
- 10.1.2 Could not find a suitable xiv_local_storage.vmdk (path not found)
- 10.1.3 Creating direct attach disk paths failed
- 10.1.4 VM already exists failure
- 10.1.5 ESXi server cannot be added to cluster
- 10.1.6 Disks not providing SMART status
- 10.1.7 System in Maintenance Mode because of incorrect ESXi version
- 10.2 Collecting system logs from an IBM Spectrum Accelerate system
- 10.3 Collecting VMware support logs
- 10.4 Collecting network switch and router logs
- 10.5 Proactive and remote support
- 10.6 Emergency shutdown by power monitoring system
- 10.7 Handling IBM Spectrum Accelerate events
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10.1 Troubleshooting deployment failures
- Appendix A. IBM Spectrum Accelerate events list
- Related publications
- Back cover
Product information
- Title: IBM Spectrum Accelerate Deployment, Usage, and Maintenance
- Author(s):
- Release date: July 2017
- Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
- ISBN: 9780738442631
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