IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller and Storwize V7000 Best Practices and Performance Guidelines

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Storage pools and managed disks

This chapter highlights considerations when you are planning storage pools for an IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller or Storwize implementation. It explains various managed disk (MDisk) attributes and provides an overview of the process of adding and removing MDisks from existing storage pools.

This chapter includes the following sections:

•Availability considerations for storage pools

•Selecting storage subsystems

•Selecting the storage pool

•Quorum disk considerations/Storwize

•Tiered storage ...

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