Book description
This IBM® Redbooks® publication provides a basic introduction to the IBM System Storage® N series, virtualization, and VMware. It explains how to use the N series with VMware vSphere 4 environments and the benefits of doing so. Examples are given on how to install and set up VMware ESXi server with the N series.
This edition includes information about the Virtual Storage Console (VSC), which is another N series software product that works with VMware. VSC provides local backup and recovery capability. You have the option to replicate backups to a remote storage system by using SnapMirror relationships. Backups can be performed on individual virtual machines or on datastores with the option of updating the SnapMirror relationship as part of the backup on a per job basis. Similarly, restores can be performed at a data-store level or individual virtual machine level.
IBM System Storage N series in conjunction with VMware vSphere 4 helps complete the virtualization hierarchy by providing both a server and storage virtualization solution. Although this configuration can further assist with other areas of virtualization, networks, and applications, these areas of virtualization are not covered in detail in this book.
Table of contents
- Front cover
- Figures
- Tables
- Examples
- Notices
- Preface
- Summary of changes
- Chapter 1. Introduction to IBM System Storage N series
- Chapter 2. Introduction to virtualization
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Chapter 3. Benefits of N series with VMware vSphere 4.1
- 3.1 Increased protection with RAID-DP
- 3.2 Cloning virtual machines
- 3.3 Multiprotocol capability for storing files on iSCSI, SAN, or NFS volumes
- 3.4 N series LUNs for VMWare host boot
- 3.5 N series LUNs for VMFS datastores
- 3.6 Using N series LUNs for Raw Device Mappings
- 3.7 Growing VMFS datastores
- 3.8 Backup and recovery of virtual infrastructure (SnapVault, Snapshot, SnapMirror)
- 3.9 Using N series deduplication with VMware
- 3.10 Coupling deduplication and compression
- Chapter 4. Planning for an N series and VMware vSphere 4.1
- Chapter 5. Installing the VMware ESXi 4.1 using N series storage
- Chapter 6. Installing and configuring VMware vCenter 4.1
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Chapter 7. Deploying LUNs on N series for VMware vSphere 4.1
- 7.1 Preparing N series LUNs for VMware vSphere
- 7.2 Setting up thin provisioning
- 7.3 Presenting LUNs to an ESXi server over Fibre Channel
- 7.4 Using N series LUNs for Raw Device Mapping
- 7.5 Creating a VMKernel portgroup on VMware vSphere 4.1
- 7.6 Presenting LUNs to VMware ESXi Server over iSCSI protocol
- 7.7 Presenting an iSCSI LUN directly to a virtual machine
- 7.8 NFS volumes on VMware vSphere 4.1
- 7.9 Partition alignment
- 7.10 Advanced guest operating system I/O configurations
- 7.11 Monitoring and management
- 7.12 Storage growth management
- Chapter 8. N series cloning
- Chapter 9. Configuring snapshots
- Chapter 10. Recovery options
- Chapter 11. Backup and recovery to a separate system
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Chapter 12. High availability and disaster recovery
- 12.1 High availability
- 12.2 Disaster recovery options
- 12.3 Setting up disaster recovery
- 12.4 Recovering from a disaster
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12.5 Returning to production
- 12.5.1 Replicating data from disaster recovery to the production site
- 12.5.2 Preventing access and performing a final update
- 12.5.3 Splitting the mirror
- 12.5.4 Re-establishing the mirror from the production to disaster recovery site
- 12.5.5 Configuring VMware hosts and virtual machines on the production site
- 12.6 Disaster recovery testing
- Chapter 13. Deduplication with VMware vSphere 4.1
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Chapter 14. Virtual Storage Console
- 14.1 Introduction to the Virtual Storage Console
- 14.2 Installing the Virtual Storage Console 2.0
- 14.3 Adding storage controllers to the VSC
- 14.4 Optimal storage settings for ESX/ESXi hosts
- 14.5 SnapMirror integration
- 14.6 VSC in an N series MetroCluster environment
- 14.7 Backup and recovery
- 14.8 Provisioning and Cloning
- 14.9 SnapManager for Virtual Infrastructure commands
- 14.10 Scripting
- Appendix A. Hot backup Snapshot script
- Appendix B. Sample scripts for VSC
- Related publications
- Back cover
Product information
- Title: IBM System Storage N series with VMware vSphere 4.1
- Author(s):
- Release date: February 2012
- Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
- ISBN: 9780738436463
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