Book description
This IBM® Redbooks® publication provides deployment guidelines, workload estimates, and preferred practices for clients who want a proven IBM technology stack for virtualized VMware and Microsoft environments. The result is a Reference Architecture for Virtualized Environments (RAVE) that uses VMware vSphere or Microsoft Hypervisor, IBM System x® or IBM BladeCenter® server, IBM System Networking, and IBM System Storage® N series with Clustered Data ONTAP as a storage foundation. The reference architecture can be used as a foundation to create dynamic cloud solutions and make full use of underlying storage features and functions.
This book provides a blueprint that illustrates how clients can create a virtualized infrastructure and storage cloud to help address current and future data storage business requirements. It explores the solutions that IBM offers to create a storage cloud solution addressing client needs. This book also shows how the Reference Architecture for Virtualized Environments and the extensive experience of IBM in cloud computing, services, proven technologies, and products support a Smart Storage Cloud solution that is designed for your storage optimization efforts.
This book is for anyone who wants to learn how to successfully deploy a virtualized environment. It is also written for anyone who wants to understand how IBM addresses data storage and compute challenges with IBM System Storage N series solutions with IBM servers and networking solutions. This book is suitable for IT architects, business partners, IBM clients, storage solution integrators, and IBM sales representatives.
Table of contents
- Front cover
- Figures
- Tables
- Notices
- Preface
- Part 1 Solution design
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. Architecture and design
- Chapter 3. Introduction to Clustered Data ONTAP 8.2
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Chapter 4. VMware vSphere integration
- 4.1 Introduction to server virtualization
- 4.2 Virtual Storage Console (VSC)
- 4.3 Enabling cloud computing and automation with VSC
- 4.4 Multi protocol capability for datastores
- 4.5 Provisioning and Cloning features for virtual machines
- 4.6 Snapshot technology
- 4.7 Storage configuration
- 4.8 Storage virtual machine (SVM)
- 4.9 Using deduplication or compression with VMware
- 4.10 Further information
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Chapter 5. Microsoft Hyper-V integration
- 5.1 Introduction to storage integration
- 5.2 Introduction to Windows Server 2012 R2
- 5.3 N series integration with Microsoft environments
- 5.4 Multi-protocol support for attaching external storage
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5.5 SnapManager for Hyper-V (SMHV)
- 5.5.1 Capabilities of SMHV
- 5.5.2 Deployment considerations of SMHV
- 5.5.3 Backup operation
- 5.5.4 Distributed Application-Consistent Backup in Windows Server 2012
- 5.5.5 Application-consistent backup: Server Message Block (SMB)
- 5.5.6 Crash-consistent backup
- 5.5.7 SMHV and SnapMirror
- 5.5.8 SMHV integration with SnapVault
- 5.5.9 SMHV integration with OnCommand Workflow Automation 2.1
- 5.6 SnapDrive
- 5.7 Infrastructure automation
- 5.8 Further information
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Chapter 6. Server
- 6.1 Rack and power infrastructure
- 6.2 Host/compute solution classification
- 6.3 Entry x3650 M4 host/compute nodes
- 6.4 Mainstream HS23 host/compute nodes
- 6.5 Mainstream HX5 host/compute nodes
- 6.6 Mainstream or Advanced with Flex System
- 6.7 Management node vCenter server
- 6.8 Active Directory server
- 6.9 Further information
- Chapter 7. Networking
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Chapter 8. Storage
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 Entry portfolio
- 8.3 Mainstream and advanced portfolio
- 8.4 Midrange and enterprise portfolio
- 8.5 HA pair hardware configuration
- 8.6 Snapshots
- 8.7 Flexible volume (FlexVol)
- 8.8 Infinite Volumes
- 8.9 Thin provisioning using FlexVol volumes
- 8.10 FlexClone
- 8.11 Deduplication
- 8.12 Quality of Service (QoS)
- 8.13 Data protection and load sharing
- 8.14 Flash Cache
- 8.15 Virtual Storage Tier
- 8.16 Further information
- Chapter 9. Storage design
- Chapter 10. Common cloud services and deployment models
- Part 2 Deployment
- Chapter 11. Data protection and disaster recovery
- Chapter 12. Easy-step setup guide
- Part 3 Appendixes
- Appendix A. N series Clustered Data ONTAP 8.2 sizing considerations
- Appendix B. Sample configurations
- Related publications
- Back cover
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IBM System x Reference Architecture for Hadoop: IBM InfoSphere BigInsights Reference Architecture
- Introduction
- Business problem and business value
- Reference architecture use
- Requirements
- InfoSphere BigInsights predefined configuration
- InfoSphere BigInsights HBase predefined configuration
- Deployment considerations
- Customizing the predefined configurations
- Predefined configuration bill of materials
- References
- The team who wrote this paper
- Now you can become a published author, too!
- Stay connected to IBM Redbooks
- Notices
Product information
- Title: IBM System Storage N series Reference Architecture for Virtualized Environments
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2014
- Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
- ISBN: None
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