November 2015
Intermediate to advanced
178 pages
4h 47m
English
book
IBM Storwize V7000, Spectrum Virtualize, HyperSwap, and VMware Implementation
by Jon Tate, Angelo Bernasconi, Antonio Rainero, Ole Rasmussen
Overview
IBM® Spectrum Virtualize Software Version 7.5 provides
software-defined storage capabilities across various platforms,
including IBM SAN Volume Controller, IBM Storwize® V7000,
Storwize V7000 (Unified), Storwize V5000, Storwize V3700, and
Storwize V3500. These offerings help clients reduce the
complexities and cost of managing their storage in the following
ways:
Centralizing management of storage volumes to enable
administrators to manage storage volumes from a single
point
Improving utilization of storage capacity with virtual volumes
to enable businesses to tap into previously unused disk
capacity
Avoiding downtime for backups, maintenance, and
upgrades
Performing data migration without disruption to
applications
Enabling all storage devices to be organized into storage pools
from which virtual volumes, whether standard, compressed, or
thin-provisioned, are created with the characteristics that you
want
Delivering automation of storage management with SmartCloud
Virtual Storage Center, IBM Tivoli® Storage Productivity
Center (as applicable by platform), and IBM Tivoli Storage
FlashCopy® Manager (as applicable by platform)
Increasing the performance efficiency of storage pools with IBM
Easy Tier®
Restoring data access quickly with near and remote copy
capabilities across Fibre Channel (FC), Fibre Channel over Ethernet
(FCoE), and IP networks
In this IBM Redbooks® publication, which is aimed at storage
administrators and technical professionals, we describe the IBM
HyperSwap® capability in IBM Spectrum™ Virtualize
Software V7.5. HyperSwap delivers high availability (HA) and
disaster recovery (DR) in one solution and reuses capital
investments to achieve a range of recovery and management options
that are transparent to host operations.
This book describes how you can use HyperSwap with VMware to create an environment that can withstand robust workloads.
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