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Implementing IBM FlashSystem V9000 AE3

by Detlef Helmbrecht, James Cioffi, Jon Herd, Jeffrey Irving, Christian Karpp, Volker Kiemes, Carsten Larsen, Adrian Orban

April 2018

Intermediate to advanced

262 pages

7h 48m

English

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1.1 IBM FlashSystem V9000 overview1.1.1 Hardware components1.1.2 Power requirements1.1.3 Physical specifications1.2 IBM FlashSystem family1.2.1 Why flash matters1.2.2 Product differentiation1.2.3 The IBM Piece of Mind Initiative1.3 FlashSystem V9000 architecture1.3.1 Overview of architecture1.3.2 IBM FlashSystem V9000 building blocks1.3.3 IBM FlashSystem V9000 expansion enclosures1.3.4 IBM FlashSystem V9000 AE3 storage enclosure1.3.5 Fixed and scalable configurations1.3.6 Scale-up and scale-out solutions1.4 Advanced software features
2.1 General planning introduction2.2 Physical planning2.2.1 Racking considerations2.2.2 Power requirements2.2.3 Network cable connections2.2.4 SAS expansion enclosures2.3 Logical planning2.3.1 Management IP addressing plan2.3.2 SAN zoning and SAN connections2.3.3 Call home option2.3.4 Remote Support Assistance2.3.5 IBM FlashSystem V9000 system configuration2.3.6 EasyTier2.3.7 Volume configuration2.3.8 SAN boot support2.4 License features2.4.1 Encryption feature2.4.2 Compression2.5 IBM FlashSystem V9000 configuration backup procedure
3.1 Overview3.2 Building block for scaling3.2.1 Scaling concepts3.2.2 Scale up for capacity3.2.3 Scale out for performance3.2.4 SAS expansion enclosures intermix3.3 Adding an IBM FlashSystem V9000 AE3 storage enclosure3.4 Adding a second IBM FlashSystem V9000 building block3.5 Adding an IBM FlashSystem V9000 expansion enclosure3.6 Planning3.7 Installing3.8 Operations3.9 Concurrent code load in a scaled-out system
4.1 Installation overview4.1.1 Tasks for the IBM SSR or IBM lab-based services4.1.2 First customer involvement4.2 IBM FlashSystem V9000 physical specifications4.3 Installing the hardware4.4 Connecting the components4.4.1 Connecting the components in a fixed building block4.4.2 Connecting the components in a scalable building block4.4.3 Ethernet cabling4.4.4 Scaling from one to two, three, or four building blocks4.5 Initial customer setup4.5.1 FlashSystem V9000 AE3 Setup Confirmation4.5.2 FlashSystem V9000 AC3 Setup Wizard4.5.3 Configure FlashSystem V9000 AC3 Controllers with AE3 Storage
5.1 Settings menu5.1.1 FlashSystem AE3 storage enclosure settings5.1.2 V9000 control enclosure and internal storage settings5.1.3 Notifications menu5.2 Network menu5.3 Security menu5.3.1 Remote authentication with LDAP5.3.2 Encryption provided by the V9000 control enclosure5.3.3 Encryption provided by the FlashSystem AE3 storage enclosure5.4 System menu5.4.1 V9000 control enclosure and internal storage firmware update5.4.2 FlashSystem 900 AE3 storage firmware update5.4.3 Some rules of thumb apply for V9000 firmware updates5.5 Support menu5.5.1 Remote Support Assistance5.5.2 Support package, V9000 control enclosure support logs5.5.3 Support package, FlashSystem V9000 AE3 storage enclosure support logs5.5.4 PMR creation, FlashSystem V9000 AE3 storage enclosure GUI5.6 GUI preference
6.1 Overview6.1.1 HyperSwap implementations6.2 HyperSwap design6.3 Comparison with Enhanced Stretched Cluster6.3.1 Disaster recovery6.3.2 Consistency Groups6.3.3 HyperSwap restrictions for software version 8.16.4 Planning6.5 Configuration6.5.1 SAN Configuration6.5.2 Defining the sites6.5.3 Control enclosures6.5.4 Configuring the AE3 enclosures and external storage controllers6.5.5 Configuring the IBM FlashSystem V9000 storage enclosures6.5.6 Define quorum device6.5.7 Configuring the hosts6.5.8 Configuring the HyperSwap topology6.5.9 Configuring synchronization rates6.5.10 HyperSwap configuration using the GUI wizard6.5.11 SAN environment for low latency6.5.12 Creating HyperSwap volumes6.5.13 Creating a HyperSwap volume from a basic volume6.5.14 Mapping HyperSwap volumes to a host6.6 Operations6.6.1 Site failure6.6.2 Converting a HyperSwap volume to a basic volume6.6.3 Deleting HyperSwap volumes6.6.4 FlashCopy with HyperSwap volumes6.7 HyperSwap with SAS attached expansion enclosures6.8 Disaster recovery with HyperSwap6.8.1 Using the VDisk that the hosts are currently accessing6.8.2 Going back to the up-to-date copy6.9 Disaster recovery with consistency groups6.10 The overridequorum command6.11 HyperSwap Failure scenarios6.12 Unconfiguring HyperSwap6.12.1 Removing HyperSwap volumes completely6.12.2 Converting to basic volumes, while retaining access through themaster VDisk6.12.3 Converting to basic volumes, while retaining access through theauxiliary VDisk6.12.4 Converting to system topology standard6.13 Summary of interesting object states for HyperSwap6.13.1 The lsvdisk command6.13.2 The lsvdiskcopy command6.13.3 The lsrcrelationship or lsrcconsistgrp commands6.13.4 The lsfcmap command6.14 Naming conventions
7.1 Performance data and statistics gathering7.1.1 IBM FlashSystem V9000 controller performance overview7.1.2 Performance monitoring7.2 Estimating compression savings7.2.1 IBM Comprestimator: Built-in GUI version7.2.2 IBM Comprestimator utility: Host-installed version7.3 Command-line hints7.3.1 Running commands on the IBM FlashSystem V90007.3.2 Creating connections7.3.3 IBM FlashSystem V9000 command-line scripting7.3.4 Sample commands of mirrored VDisks7.3.5 Recover lost superuser password7.3.6 Internal Fibre Channel switch maintenance7.3.7 Back up IBM FlashSystem V9000 configuration7.3.8 Using the IBM FlashSystem V9000 Software Upgrade Test Utility7.3.9 Secure erase of data7.4 Call Home process7.4.1 Call Home details7.4.2 Email alert7.4.3 Inventory7.5 Service support7.5.1 IBM Storage Technical Advisor7.5.2 Enterprise Class Support7.5.3 How an IBM FlashSystem V9000 is entitled for support7.5.4 Providing logs to IBM ECuRep7.5.5 Downloading from IBM Fix Central

A.1 OverviewA.2 Comparison of port utilization methodsA.3 Guidelines: The performance methodA.4 Guidelines: The infrastructure savings methodA.5 Guidelines: Zoning and pathingA.6 SummaryA.7 Supported environments
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