IBM Spectrum Virtualize and SAN Volume Controller Enhanced Stretched Cluster with VMware

Implementation

This chapter explains how this solution is implemented. It includes the following sections:

•Test environment

•ADX: Application Delivery Controller

•IP networking configuration

•IBM Fibre Channel SAN

•SAN Volume Controller with an enhanced stretched cluster

•SAN Volume Controller volume mirroring

•Read operations

•Write operations

•SAN Volume Controller quorum disk

•Quorum disk requirements and placement

•Automatic SAN Volume Controller quorum disk selection

•Storage allocation to the SAN Volume Controller cluster

•Volume allocation ...