Implementing the IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller V5.1

Implementing the IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller V5.1

Released March 2010
Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
ISBN: 9780738434032

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Book description

This IBM® Redbooks® publication is a detailed technical guide to the IBM System Storage™ SAN Volume Controller (SVC), a virtualization appliance solution that maps virtualized volumes that are visible to hosts and applications to physical volumes on storage devices. Each server within the SAN has its own set of virtual storage addresses, which are mapped to physical addresses. If the physical addresses change, the server continues running using the same virtual addresses that it had before. This capability means that volumes or storage can be added or moved while the server is still running. The IBM virtualization technology improves the management of information at the "block" level in a network, enabling applications and servers to share storage devices on a network.

This book is intended to allow you to implement the SVC at a 5.1.0 release level with a minimum of effort.

Table of contents

  1. Front cover
  2. Notices
    1. Trademarks
  3. Summary of changes
    1. March 2010, Eighth Edition
  4. Preface
    1. The team who wrote this book
    2. Now you can become a published author, too!
    3. Comments welcome
    4. Stay connected to IBM Redbooks
  5. Chapter 1. Introduction to storage virtualization
    1. 1.1 Storage virtualization
    2. 1.2 User requirements that drive storage virtualization
    3. 1.3 Conclusion
  6. Chapter 2. IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller
    1. 2.1 SVC history
    2. 2.2 Architectural overview
      1. 2.2.1 SVC virtualization concepts
      2. 2.2.2 MDisk overview
      3. 2.2.3 VDisk overview
      4. 2.2.4 Image mode VDisk
      5. 2.2.5 Managed mode VDisk
      6. 2.2.6 Cache mode and cache-disabled VDisks
      7. 2.2.7 Mirrored VDisk
      8. 2.2.8 Space-Efficient VDisks
      9. 2.2.9 VDisk I/O governing
      10. 2.2.10 iSCSI overview
      11. 2.2.11 Usage of IP addresses and Ethernet ports
      12. 2.2.12 iSCSI VDisk discovery
      13. 2.2.13 iSCSI authentication
      14. 2.2.14 iSCSI multipathing
      15. 2.2.15 Advanced Copy Services overview
      16. 2.2.16 FlashCopy
    3. 2.3 SVC cluster overview
      1. 2.3.1 Quorum disks
      2. 2.3.2 I/O Groups
      3. 2.3.3 Cache
      4. 2.3.4 Cluster management
      5. 2.3.5 User authentication
      6. 2.3.6 SVC roles and user groups
      7. 2.3.7 SVC local authentication
      8. 2.3.8 SVC remote authentication and single sign-on
    4. 2.4 SVC hardware overview
      1. 2.4.1 Fibre Channel interfaces
      2. 2.4.2 LAN interfaces
    5. 2.5 Solid-state drives
      1. 2.5.1 Storage bottleneck problem
      2. 2.5.2 Solid-state drive solution
      3. 2.5.3 Solid-state drive market
    6. 2.6 Solid-state drives in the SVC
      1. 2.6.1 Solid-state drive configuration rules
      2. 2.6.2 SVC 5.1 supported hardware list, device driver, and firmware levels
      3. 2.6.3 SVC 4.3.1 features
      4. 2.6.4 New with SVC 5.1
    7. 2.7 Maximum supported configurations
    8. 2.8 Useful SVC links
    9. 2.9 Commonly encountered terms
  7. Chapter 3. Planning and configuration
    1. 3.1 General planning rules
    2. 3.2 Physical planning
      1. 3.2.1 Preparing your uninterruptible power supply unit environment
      2. 3.2.2 Physical rules
      3. 3.2.3 Cable connections
    3. 3.3 Logical planning
      1. 3.3.1 Management IP addressing plan
      2. 3.3.2 SAN zoning and SAN connections
      3. 3.3.3 iSCSI IP addressing plan
      4. 3.3.4 Back-end storage subsystem configuration
      5. 3.3.5 SVC cluster configuration
      6. 3.3.6 Managed Disk Group configuration
      7. 3.3.7 Virtual disk configuration
      8. 3.3.8 Host mapping (LUN masking)
      9. 3.3.9 Advanced Copy Services
      10. 3.3.10 SAN boot support
      11. 3.3.11 Data migration from a non-virtualized storage subsystem
      12. 3.3.12 SVC configuration backup procedure
    4. 3.4 Performance considerations
      1. 3.4.1 SAN
      2. 3.4.2 Disk subsystems
      3. 3.4.3 SVC
      4. 3.4.4 Performance monitoring
  8. Chapter 4. SAN Volume Controller initial configuration
    1. 4.1 Managing the cluster
      1. 4.1.1 TCP/IP requirements for SAN Volume Controller
    2. 4.2 Systems Storage Productivity Center overview
      1. 4.2.1 IBM System Storage Productivity Center hardware
      2. 4.2.2 SVC installation planning information for System Storage Productivity Center
      3. 4.2.3 SVC installation planning information for the HMC
    3. 4.3 Setting up the SVC cluster
      1. 4.3.1 Creating the cluster (first time) using the service panel
      2. 4.3.2 Prerequisites
      3. 4.3.3 Initial configuration using the service panel
    4. 4.4 Adding the cluster to the SSPC or the SVC HMC
      1. 4.4.1 Configuring the GUI
    5. 4.5 Secure Shell overview and CIM Agent
      1. 4.5.1 Generating public and private SSH key pairs using PuTTY
      2. 4.5.2 Uploading the SSH public key to the SVC cluster
      3. 4.5.3 Configuring the PuTTY session for the CLI
      4. 4.5.4 Starting the PuTTY CLI session
      5. 4.5.5 Configuring SSH for AIX clients
    6. 4.6 Using IPv6
      1. 4.6.1 Migrating a cluster from IPv4 to IPv6
      2. 4.6.2 Migrating a cluster from IPv6 to IPv4
    7. 4.7 Upgrading the SVC Console software
  9. Chapter 5. Host configuration
    1. 5.1 SVC setup
      1. 5.1.1 Fibre Channel and SAN setup overview
      2. 5.1.2 Port mask
    2. 5.2 iSCSI overview
      1. 5.2.1 Initiators and targets
      2. 5.2.2 Nodes
      3. 5.2.3 IQN
    3. 5.3 VDisk discovery
    4. 5.4 Authentication
    5. 5.5 AIX-specific information
      1. 5.5.1 Configuring the AIX host
      2. 5.5.2 Operating system versions and maintenance levels
      3. 5.5.3 HBAs for IBM System p hosts
      4. 5.5.4 Configuring for fast fail and dynamic tracking
      5. 5.5.5 Subsystem Device Driver (SDD) Path Control Module (SDDPCM)
      6. 5.5.6 Discovering the assigned VDisk using SDD and AIX 5L V5.3
      7. 5.5.7 Using SDD
      8. 5.5.8 Creating and preparing volumes for use with AIX 5L V5.3 and SDD
      9. 5.5.9 Discovering the assigned VDisk using AIX V6.1 and SDDPCM
      10. 5.5.10 Using SDDPCM
      11. 5.5.11 Creating and preparing volumes for use with AIX V6.1 and SDDPCM
      12. 5.5.12 Expanding an AIX volume
      13. 5.5.13 Removing an SVC volume on AIX
      14. 5.5.14 Running SVC commands from an AIX host system
    6. 5.6 Windows-specific information
      1. 5.6.1 Configuring Windows Server 2000, Windows 2003 Server, and Windows Server 2008 hosts
      2. 5.6.2 Configuring Windows
      3. 5.6.3 Hardware lists, device driver, HBAs, and firmware levels
      4. 5.6.4 Host adapter installation and configuration
      5. 5.6.5 Changing the disk timeout on Microsoft Windows Server
      6. 5.6.6 Installing the SDD driver on Windows
      7. 5.6.7 Installing the SDDDSM driver on Windows
    7. 5.7 Discovering assigned VDisks in Windows Server 2000 and Windows 2003 Server
      1. 5.7.1 Extending a Windows Server 2000 or Windows 2003 Server volume
    8. 5.8 Example configuration of attaching an SVC to a Windows Server 2008 host
      1. 5.8.1 Installing SDDDSM on a Windows Server 2008 host
      2. 5.8.2 Installing SDDDSM
      3. 5.8.3 Attaching SVC VDisks to Windows Server 2008
      4. 5.8.4 Extending a Windows Server 2008 volume
      5. 5.8.5 Removing a disk on Windows
    9. 5.9 Using the SVC CLI from a Windows host
    10. 5.10 Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy
      1. 5.10.1 Installation overview
      2. 5.10.2 System requirements for the IBM System Storage hardware provider
      3. 5.10.3 Installing the IBM System Storage hardware provider
      4. 5.10.4 Verifying the installation
      5. 5.10.5 Creating the free and reserved pools of volumes
      6. 5.10.6 Changing the configuration parameters
    11. 5.11 Specific Linux (on Intel) information
      1. 5.11.1 Configuring the Linux host
      2. 5.11.2 Configuration information
      3. 5.11.3 Disabling automatic Linux system updates
      4. 5.11.4 Setting queue depth with QLogic HBAs
      5. 5.11.5 Multipathing in Linux
      6. 5.11.6 Creating and preparing the SDD volumes for use
      7. 5.11.7 Using the operating system MPIO
      8. 5.11.8 Creating and preparing MPIO volumes for use
    12. 5.12 VMware configuration information
      1. 5.12.1 Configuring VMware hosts
      2. 5.12.2 Operating system versions and maintenance levels
      3. 5.12.3 Guest operating systems
      4. 5.12.4 HBAs for hosts running VMware
      5. 5.12.5 Multipath solutions supported
      6. 5.12.6 VMware storage and zoning recommendations
      7. 5.12.7 Setting the HBA timeout for failover in VMware
      8. 5.12.8 Multipathing in ESX
      9. 5.12.9 Attaching VMware to VDisks
      10. 5.12.10 VDisk naming in VMware
      11. 5.12.11 Setting the Microsoft guest operating system timeout
      12. 5.12.12 Extending a VMFS volume
      13. 5.12.13 Removing a datastore from an ESX host
    13. 5.13 SUN Solaris support information
      1. 5.13.1 Operating system versions and maintenance levels
      2. 5.13.2 SDD dynamic pathing
    14. 5.14 Hewlett-Packard UNIX configuration information
      1. 5.14.1 Operating system versions and maintenance levels
      2. 5.14.2 Multipath solutions supported
      3. 5.14.3 Co-existence of SDD and PV Links
      4. 5.14.4 Using an SVC VDisk as a cluster lock disk
      5. 5.14.5 Support for HP-UX with greater than eight LUNs
    15. 5.15 Using SDDDSM, SDDPCM, and SDD Web interface
    16. 5.16 Calculating the queue depth
    17. 5.17 Further sources of information
      1. 5.17.1 Publications containing SVC storage subsystem attachment guidelines
  10. Chapter 6. Advanced Copy Services
    1. 6.1 FlashCopy
      1. 6.1.1 Business requirement
      2. 6.1.2 Moving and migrating data
      3. 6.1.3 Backup
      4. 6.1.4 Restore
      5. 6.1.5 Application testing
      6. 6.1.6 SVC FlashCopy features
    2. 6.2 Reverse FlashCopy
      1. 6.2.1 FlashCopy and Tivoli Storage Manager
    3. 6.3 How FlashCopy works
    4. 6.4 Implementing SVC FlashCopy
      1. 6.4.1 FlashCopy mappings
      2. 6.4.2 Multiple Target FlashCopy
      3. 6.4.3 Consistency groups
      4. 6.4.4 FlashCopy indirection layer
      5. 6.4.5 Grains and the FlashCopy bitmap
      6. 6.4.6 Interaction and dependency between Multiple Target FlashCopy mappings
      7. 6.4.7 Summary of the FlashCopy indirection layer algorithm
      8. 6.4.8 Interaction with the cache
      9. 6.4.9 FlashCopy rules
      10. 6.4.10 FlashCopy and image mode disks
      11. 6.4.11 FlashCopy mapping events
      12. 6.4.12 FlashCopy mapping states
      13. 6.4.13 Space-efficient FlashCopy
      14. 6.4.14 Background copy
      15. 6.4.15 Synthesis
      16. 6.4.16 Serialization of I/O by FlashCopy
      17. 6.4.17 Error handling
      18. 6.4.18 Asynchronous notifications
      19. 6.4.19 Interoperation with Metro Mirror and Global Mirror
      20. 6.4.20 Recovering data from FlashCopy
    5. 6.5 Metro Mirror
      1. 6.5.1 Metro Mirror overview
      2. 6.5.2 Remote copy techniques
      3. 6.5.3 SVC Metro Mirror features
      4. 6.5.4 Multiple Cluster Mirroring
      5. 6.5.5 Metro Mirror relationship
      6. 6.5.6 Importance of write ordering
      7. 6.5.7 How Metro Mirror works
      8. 6.5.8 Metro Mirror process
      9. 6.5.9 Methods of synchronization
      10. 6.5.10 State overview
      11. 6.5.11 Detailed states
      12. 6.5.12 Practical use of Metro Mirror
      13. 6.5.13 Valid combinations of FlashCopy and Metro Mirror or Global Mirror functions
      14. 6.5.14 Metro Mirror configuration limits
    6. 6.6 Metro Mirror commands
      1. 6.6.1 Listing available SVC cluster partners
      2. 6.6.2 Creating the SVC cluster partnership
      3. 6.6.3 Creating a Metro Mirror consistency group
      4. 6.6.4 Creating a Metro Mirror relationship
      5. 6.6.5 Changing a Metro Mirror relationship
      6. 6.6.6 Changing a Metro Mirror consistency group
      7. 6.6.7 Starting a Metro Mirror relationship
      8. 6.6.8 Stopping a Metro Mirror relationship
      9. 6.6.9 Starting a Metro Mirror consistency group
      10. 6.6.10 Stopping a Metro Mirror consistency group
      11. 6.6.11 Deleting a Metro Mirror relationship
      12. 6.6.12 Deleting a Metro Mirror consistency group
      13. 6.6.13 Reversing a Metro Mirror relationship
      14. 6.6.14 Reversing a Metro Mirror consistency group
      15. 6.6.15 Background copy
    7. 6.7 Global Mirror overview
      1. 6.7.1 Intracluster Global Mirror
      2. 6.7.2 Intercluster Global Mirror
    8. 6.8 Remote copy techniques
      1. 6.8.1 Asynchronous remote copy
      2. 6.8.2 SVC Global Mirror features
    9. 6.9 Global Mirror relationships
      1. 6.9.1 Global Mirror relationship between primary and secondary VDisks
      2. 6.9.2 Importance of write ordering
      3. 6.9.3 Dependent writes that span multiple VDisks
      4. 6.9.4 Global Mirror consistency groups
    10. 6.10 Global Mirror
      1. 6.10.1 Intercluster communication and zoning
      2. 6.10.2 SVC cluster partnership
      3. 6.10.3 Maintenance of the intercluster link
      4. 6.10.4 Distribution of work among nodes
      5. 6.10.5 Background copy performance
      6. 6.10.6 Space-efficient background copy
    11. 6.11 Global Mirror process
      1. 6.11.1 Methods of synchronization
      2. 6.11.2 State overview
      3. 6.11.3 Detailed states
      4. 6.11.4 Practical use of Global Mirror
      5. 6.11.5 Valid combinations of FlashCopy and Metro Mirror or Global Mirror functions
      6. 6.11.6 Global Mirror configuration limits
    12. 6.12 Global Mirror commands
      1. 6.12.1 Listing the available SVC cluster partners
      2. 6.12.2 Creating an SVC cluster partnership
      3. 6.12.3 Creating a Global Mirror consistency group
      4. 6.12.4 Creating a Global Mirror relationship
      5. 6.12.5 Changing a Global Mirror relationship
      6. 6.12.6 Changing a Global Mirror consistency group
      7. 6.12.7 Starting a Global Mirror relationship
      8. 6.12.8 Stopping a Global Mirror relationship
      9. 6.12.9 Starting a Global Mirror consistency group
      10. 6.12.10 Stopping a Global Mirror consistency group
      11. 6.12.11 Deleting a Global Mirror relationship
      12. 6.12.12 Deleting a Global Mirror consistency group
      13. 6.12.13 Reversing a Global Mirror relationship
      14. 6.12.14 Reversing a Global Mirror consistency group
  11. Chapter 7. SAN Volume Controller operations using the command-line interface
    1. 7.1 Normal operations using CLI
      1. 7.1.1 Command syntax and online help
    2. 7.2 Working with managed disks and disk controller systems
      1. 7.2.1 Viewing disk controller details
      2. 7.2.2 Renaming a controller
      3. 7.2.3 Discovery status
      4. 7.2.4 Discovering MDisks
      5. 7.2.5 Viewing MDisk information
      6. 7.2.6 Renaming an MDisk
      7. 7.2.7 Including an MDisk
      8. 7.2.8 Adding MDisks to a managed disk group
      9. 7.2.9 Showing the Managed Disk Group
      10. 7.2.10 Showing MDisks in an managed disk group
      11. 7.2.11 Working with Managed Disk Groups
      12. 7.2.12 Creating a managed disk group
      13. 7.2.13 Viewing Managed Disk Group information
      14. 7.2.14 Renaming a managed disk group
      15. 7.2.15 Deleting a managed disk group
      16. 7.2.16 Removing MDisks from a managed disk group
    3. 7.3 Working with hosts
      1. 7.3.1 Creating a Fibre Channel-attached host
      2. 7.3.2 Creating an iSCSI-attached host
      3. 7.3.3 Modifying a host
      4. 7.3.4 Deleting a host
      5. 7.3.5 Adding ports to a defined host
      6. 7.3.6 Deleting ports
    4. 7.4 Working with VDisks
      1. 7.4.1 Creating a VDisk
      2. 7.4.2 VDisk information
      3. 7.4.3 Creating a Space-Efficient VDisk
      4. 7.4.4 Creating a VDisk in image mode
      5. 7.4.5 Adding a mirrored VDisk copy
      6. 7.4.6 Splitting a VDisk Copy
      7. 7.4.7 Modifying a VDisk
      8. 7.4.8 I/O governing
      9. 7.4.9 Deleting a VDisk
      10. 7.4.10 Expanding a VDisk
      11. 7.4.11 Assigning a VDisk to a host
      12. 7.4.12 Showing VDisk-to-host mapping
      13. 7.4.13 Deleting a VDisk-to-host mapping
      14. 7.4.14 Migrating a VDisk
      15. 7.4.15 Migrate a VDisk to an image mode VDisk
      16. 7.4.16 Shrinking a VDisk
      17. 7.4.17 Showing a VDisk on an MDisk
      18. 7.4.18 Showing VDisks using a managed disk group
      19. 7.4.19 Showing which MDisks are used by a specific VDisk
      20. 7.4.20 Showing from which Managed Disk Group a VDisk has its extents
      21. 7.4.21 Showing the host to which the VDisk is mapped
      22. 7.4.22 Showing the VDisk to which the host is mapped
      23. 7.4.23 Tracing a VDisk from a host back to its physical disk
    5. 7.5 Scripting under the CLI for SVC task automation
    6. 7.6 SVC advanced operations using the CLI
      1. 7.6.1 Command syntax
      2. 7.6.2 Organizing on window content
    7. 7.7 Managing the cluster using the CLI
      1. 7.7.1 Viewing cluster properties
      2. 7.7.2 Changing cluster settings
      3. 7.7.3 Cluster authentication
      4. 7.7.4 iSCSI configuration
      5. 7.7.5 Modifying IP addresses
      6. 7.7.6 Supported IP address formats
      7. 7.7.7 Setting the cluster time zone and time
      8. 7.7.8 Start statistics collection
      9. 7.7.9 Stopping a statistics collection
      10. 7.7.10 Status of copy operation
      11. 7.7.11 Shutting down a cluster
    8. 7.8 Nodes
      1. 7.8.1 Viewing node details
      2. 7.8.2 Adding a node
      3. 7.8.3 Renaming a node
      4. 7.8.4 Deleting a node
      5. 7.8.5 Shutting down a node
    9. 7.9 I/O Groups
      1. 7.9.1 Viewing I/O Group details
      2. 7.9.2 Renaming an I/O Group
      3. 7.9.3 Adding and removing hostiogrp
      4. 7.9.4 Listing I/O Groups
    10. 7.10 Managing authentication
      1. 7.10.1 Managing users using the CLI
      2. 7.10.2 Managing user roles and groups
      3. 7.10.3 Changing a user
      4. 7.10.4 Audit log command
    11. 7.11 Managing Copy Services
      1. 7.11.1 FlashCopy operations
      2. 7.11.2 Setting up FlashCopy
      3. 7.11.3 Creating a FlashCopy consistency group
      4. 7.11.4 Creating a FlashCopy mapping
      5. 7.11.5 Preparing (pre-triggering) the FlashCopy mapping
      6. 7.11.6 Preparing (pre-triggering) the FlashCopy consistency group
      7. 7.11.7 Starting (triggering) FlashCopy mappings
      8. 7.11.8 Starting (triggering) FlashCopy consistency group
      9. 7.11.9 Monitoring the FlashCopy progress
      10. 7.11.10 Stopping the FlashCopy mapping
      11. 7.11.11 Stopping the FlashCopy consistency group
      12. 7.11.12 Deleting the FlashCopy mapping
      13. 7.11.13 Deleting the FlashCopy consistency group
      14. 7.11.14 Migrating a VDisk to a Space-Efficient VDisk
      15. 7.11.15 Reverse FlashCopy
      16. 7.11.16 Split-stopping of FlashCopy maps
    12. 7.12 Metro Mirror operation
      1. 7.12.1 Setting up Metro Mirror
      2. 7.12.2 Creating an SVC partnership between ITSO-CLS1 and ITSO-CLS4
      3. 7.12.3 Creating a Metro Mirror consistency group
      4. 7.12.4 Creating the Metro Mirror relationships
      5. 7.12.5 Creating a stand-alone Metro Mirror relationship for MM_App_Pri
      6. 7.12.6 Starting Metro Mirror
      7. 7.12.7 Starting a Metro Mirror consistency group
      8. 7.12.8 Monitoring the background copy progress
      9. 7.12.9 Stopping and restarting Metro Mirror
      10. 7.12.10 Stopping a stand-alone Metro Mirror relationship
      11. 7.12.11 Stopping a Metro Mirror consistency group
      12. 7.12.12 Restarting a Metro Mirror relationship in the Idling state
      13. 7.12.13 Restarting a Metro Mirror consistency group in the Idling state
      14. 7.12.14 Changing copy direction for Metro Mirror
      15. 7.12.15 Switching copy direction for a Metro Mirror relationship
      16. 7.12.16 Switching copy direction for a Metro Mirror consistency group
      17. 7.12.17 Creating an SVC partnership among many clusters
      18. 7.12.18 Star configuration partnership
    13. 7.13 Global Mirror operation
      1. 7.13.1 Setting up Global Mirror
      2. 7.13.2 Creating an SVC partnership between ITSO-CLS1 and ITSO-CLS4
      3. 7.13.3 Changing link tolerance and cluster delay simulation
      4. 7.13.4 Creating a Global Mirror consistency group
      5. 7.13.5 Creating Global Mirror relationships
      6. 7.13.6 Creating the stand-alone Global Mirror relationship for GM_App_Pri
      7. 7.13.7 Starting Global Mirror
      8. 7.13.8 Starting a stand-alone Global Mirror relationship
      9. 7.13.9 Starting a Global Mirror consistency group
      10. 7.13.10 Monitoring background copy progress
      11. 7.13.11 Stopping and restarting Global Mirror
      12. 7.13.12 Stopping a stand-alone Global Mirror relationship
      13. 7.13.13 Stopping a Global Mirror consistency group
      14. 7.13.14 Restarting a Global Mirror relationship in the Idling state
      15. 7.13.15 Restarting a Global Mirror consistency group in the Idling state
      16. 7.13.16 Changing direction for Global Mirror
      17. 7.13.17 Switching copy direction for a Global Mirror relationship
      18. 7.13.18 Switching copy direction for a Global Mirror consistency group
    14. 7.14 Service and maintenance
      1. 7.14.1 Upgrading software
      2. 7.14.2 Running maintenance procedures
      3. 7.14.3 Setting up SNMP notification
      4. 7.14.4 Set syslog event notification
      5. 7.14.5 Configuring error notification using an e-mail server
      6. 7.14.6 Analyzing the error log
      7. 7.14.7 License settings
      8. 7.14.8 Listing dumps
      9. 7.14.9 Backing up the SVC cluster configuration
      10. 7.14.10 Restoring the SVC cluster configuration
      11. 7.14.11 Deleting configuration backup
    15. 7.15 SAN troubleshooting and data collection
    16. 7.16 T3 recovery process
  12. Chapter 8. SAN Volume Controller operations using the GUI
    1. 8.1 SVC normal operations using the GUI
      1. 8.1.1 Organizing on window content
      2. 8.1.2 Documentation
      3. 8.1.3 Help
      4. 8.1.4 General housekeeping
      5. 8.1.5 Viewing progress
    2. 8.2 Working with managed disks
      1. 8.2.1 Viewing disk controller details
      2. 8.2.2 Renaming a disk controller
      3. 8.2.3 Discovery status
      4. 8.2.4 Managed disks
      5. 8.2.5 MDisk information
      6. 8.2.6 Renaming an MDisk
      7. 8.2.7 Discovering MDisks
      8. 8.2.8 Including an MDisk
      9. 8.2.9 Showing a VDisk using a certain MDisk
    3. 8.3 Working with Managed Disk Groups
      1. 8.3.1 Viewing MDisk group information
      2. 8.3.2 Creating MDGs
      3. 8.3.3 Renaming a managed disk group
      4. 8.3.4 Deleting a managed disk group
      5. 8.3.5 Adding MDisks
      6. 8.3.6 Removing MDisks
      7. 8.3.7 Displaying MDisks
      8. 8.3.8 Showing MDisks in this group
      9. 8.3.9 Showing the VDisks that are associated with an MDisk group
    4. 8.4 Working with hosts
      1. 8.4.1 Host information
      2. 8.4.2 Creating a host
      3. 8.4.3 Fibre Channel-attached hosts
      4. 8.4.4 iSCSI-attached hosts
      5. 8.4.5 Modifying a host
      6. 8.4.6 Deleting a host
      7. 8.4.7 Adding ports
      8. 8.4.8 Deleting ports
    5. 8.5 Working with VDisks
      1. 8.5.1 Using the Viewing VDisks using MDisk window
      2. 8.5.2 VDisk information
      3. 8.5.3 Creating a VDisk
      4. 8.5.4 Creating a Space-Efficient VDisk with autoexpand
      5. 8.5.5 Deleting a VDisk
      6. 8.5.6 Deleting a VDisk-to-host mapping
      7. 8.5.7 Expanding a VDisk
      8. 8.5.8 Assigning a VDisk to a host
      9. 8.5.9 Modifying a VDisk
      10. 8.5.10 Migrating a VDisk
      11. 8.5.11 Migrating a VDisk to an image mode VDisk
      12. 8.5.12 Creating a VDisk Mirror from an existing VDisk
      13. 8.5.13 Creating a mirrored VDisk
      14. 8.5.14 Creating a VDisk in image mode
      15. 8.5.15 Creating an image mode mirrored VDisk
      16. 8.5.16 Migrating to a Space-Efficient VDisk using VDisk Mirroring
      17. 8.5.17 Deleting a VDisk copy from a VDisk mirror
      18. 8.5.18 Splitting a VDisk copy
      19. 8.5.19 Shrinking a VDisk
      20. 8.5.20 Showing the MDisks that are used by a VDisk
      21. 8.5.21 Showing the MDG to which a VDisk belongs
      22. 8.5.22 Showing the host to which the VDisk is mapped
      23. 8.5.23 Showing capacity information
      24. 8.5.24 Showing VDisks mapped to a particular host
      25. 8.5.25 Deleting VDisks from a host
    6. 8.6 Working with solid-state drives
      1. 8.6.1 Solid-state drive introduction
    7. 8.7 SVC advanced operations using the GUI
      1. 8.7.1 Organizing on window content
    8. 8.8 Managing the cluster using the GUI
      1. 8.8.1 Viewing cluster properties
      2. 8.8.2 Modifying IP addresses
      3. 8.8.3 Starting the statistics collection
      4. 8.8.4 Stopping the statistics collection
      5. 8.8.5 Metro Mirror and Global Mirror
      6. 8.8.6 iSCSI
      7. 8.8.7 Setting the cluster time and configuring the Network Time Protocol server
      8. 8.8.8 Shutting down a cluster
    9. 8.9 Manage authentication
      1. 8.9.1 Modify current user
      2. 8.9.2 Creating a user
      3. 8.9.3 Modifying a user role
      4. 8.9.4 Deleting a user role
      5. 8.9.5 User groups
      6. 8.9.6 Cluster password
      7. 8.9.7 Remote authentication
    10. 8.10 Working with nodes using the GUI
      1. 8.10.1 I/O Groups
      2. 8.10.2 Renaming an I/O Group
      3. 8.10.3 Adding nodes to the cluster
      4. 8.10.4 Configuring iSCSI ports
    11. 8.11 Managing Copy Services
    12. 8.12 FlashCopy operations using the GUI
    13. 8.13 Creating a FlashCopy consistency group
      1. 8.13.1 Creating a FlashCopy mapping
      2. 8.13.2 Preparing (pre-triggering) the FlashCopy
      3. 8.13.3 Starting (triggering) FlashCopy mappings
      4. 8.13.4 Starting (triggering) a FlashCopy consistency group
      5. 8.13.5 Monitoring the FlashCopy progress
      6. 8.13.6 Stopping the FlashCopy consistency group
      7. 8.13.7 Deleting the FlashCopy mapping
      8. 8.13.8 Deleting the FlashCopy consistency group
      9. 8.13.9 Migrating between a fully allocated VDisk and a Space-Efficient VDisk
      10. 8.13.10 Reversing and splitting a FlashCopy mapping
    14. 8.14 Metro Mirror operations
      1. 8.14.1 Cluster partnership
      2. 8.14.2 Setting up Metro Mirror
      3. 8.14.3 Creating the SVC partnership between ITSO-CLS1 and ITSO-CLS2
      4. 8.14.4 Creating a Metro Mirror consistency group
      5. 8.14.5 Creating Metro Mirror relationships for MM_DB_Pri and MM_DBLog_Pri
      6. 8.14.6 Creating a stand-alone Metro Mirror relationship for MM_App_Pri
      7. 8.14.7 Starting Metro Mirror
      8. 8.14.8 Starting a stand-alone Metro Mirror relationship
      9. 8.14.9 Starting a Metro Mirror consistency group
      10. 8.14.10 Monitoring background copy progress
      11. 8.14.11 Stopping and restarting Metro Mirror
      12. 8.14.12 Stopping a stand-alone Metro Mirror relationship
      13. 8.14.13 Stopping a Metro Mirror consistency group
      14. 8.14.14 Restarting a Metro Mirror relationship in the Idling state
      15. 8.14.15 Restarting a Metro Mirror consistency group in the Idling state
      16. 8.14.16 Changing copy direction for Metro Mirror
      17. 8.14.17 Switching copy direction for a Metro Mirror consistency group
      18. 8.14.18 Switching the copy direction for a Metro Mirror relationship
    15. 8.15 Global Mirror operations
      1. 8.15.1 Setting up Global Mirror
      2. 8.15.2 Creating an SVC partnership between ITSO-CLS1 and ITSO-CLS2
      3. 8.15.3 Global Mirror link tolerance and delay simulations
      4. 8.15.4 Creating a Global Mirror consistency group
      5. 8.15.5 Creating Global Mirror relationships for GM_DB_Pri and GM_DBLog_Pri
      6. 8.15.6 Creating the stand-alone Global Mirror relationship for GM_App_Pri
      7. 8.15.7 Starting Global Mirror
      8. 8.15.8 Starting a stand-alone Global Mirror relationship
      9. 8.15.9 Starting a Global Mirror consistency group
      10. 8.15.10 Monitoring background copy progress
      11. 8.15.11 Stopping and restarting Global Mirror
      12. 8.15.12 Stopping a stand-alone Global Mirror relationship
      13. 8.15.13 Stopping a Global Mirror consistency group
      14. 8.15.14 Restarting a Global Mirror relationship in the Idling state
      15. 8.15.15 Restarting a Global Mirror consistency group in the Idling state
      16. 8.15.16 Changing copy direction for Global Mirror
      17. 8.15.17 Switching copy direction for a Global Mirror consistency group
    16. 8.16 Service and maintenance
    17. 8.17 Upgrading software
      1. 8.17.1 Package numbering and version
      2. 8.17.2 Upgrade status utility
      3. 8.17.3 Precautions before upgrade
      4. 8.17.4 SVC software upgrade test utility
      5. 8.17.5 Upgrade procedure
      6. 8.17.6 Running maintenance procedures
      7. 8.17.7 Setting up error notification
      8. 8.17.8 Setting syslog event notification
      9. 8.17.9 Set e-mail features
      10. 8.17.10 Analyzing the error log
      11. 8.17.11 License settings
      12. 8.17.12 Viewing the license settings log
      13. 8.17.13 Dumping the cluster configuration
      14. 8.17.14 Listing dumps
      15. 8.17.15 Setting up a quorum disk
    18. 8.18 Backing up the SVC configuration
      1. 8.18.1 Backup procedure
      2. 8.18.2 Saving the SVC configuration
      3. 8.18.3 Restoring the SVC configuration
      4. 8.18.4 Deleting the configuration backup files
      5. 8.18.5 Fabrics
      6. 8.18.6 Common Information Model object manager log configuration
  13. Chapter 9. Data migration
    1. 9.1 Migration overview
    2. 9.2 Migration operations
      1. 9.2.1 Migrating multiple extents (within an MDG)
      2. 9.2.2 Migrating extents off of an MDisk that is being deleted
      3. 9.2.3 Migrating a VDisk between MDGs
      4. 9.2.4 Migrating the VDisk to image mode
      5. 9.2.5 Migrating a VDisk between I/O Groups
      6. 9.2.6 Monitoring the migration progress
    3. 9.3 Functional overview of migration
      1. 9.3.1 Parallelism
      2. 9.3.2 Error handling
      3. 9.3.3 Migration algorithm
    4. 9.4 Migrating data from an image mode VDisk
      1. 9.4.1 Image mode VDisk migration concept
      2. 9.4.2 Migration tips
    5. 9.5 Data migration for Windows using the SVC GUI
      1. 9.5.1 Windows Server 2008 host system connected directly to the DS4700
      2. 9.5.2 Adding the SVC between the host system and the DS4700
      3. 9.5.3 Putting the migrated disks onto an online Windows Server 2008 host
      4. 9.5.4 Migrating the VDisk from image mode to managed mode
      5. 9.5.5 Migrating the VDisk from managed mode to image mode
      6. 9.5.6 Migrating the VDisk from image mode to image mode
      7. 9.5.7 Free the data from the SVC
      8. 9.5.8 Put the free disks online on Windows Server 2008
    6. 9.6 Migrating Linux SAN disks to SVC disks
      1. 9.6.1 Connecting the SVC to your SAN fabric
      2. 9.6.2 Preparing your SVC to virtualize disks
      3. 9.6.3 Move the LUNs to the SVC
      4. 9.6.4 Migrate the image mode VDisks to managed MDisks
      5. 9.6.5 Preparing to migrate from the SVC
      6. 9.6.6 Migrate the VDisks to image mode VDisks
      7. 9.6.7 Removing the LUNs from the SVC
    7. 9.7 Migrating ESX SAN disks to SVC disks
      1. 9.7.1 Connecting the SVC to your SAN fabric
      2. 9.7.2 Preparing your SVC to virtualize disks
      3. 9.7.3 Move the LUNs to the SVC
      4. 9.7.4 Migrating the image mode VDisks
      5. 9.7.5 Preparing to migrate from the SVC
      6. 9.7.6 Migrating the managed VDisks to image mode VDisks
      7. 9.7.7 Remove the LUNs from the SVC
    8. 9.8 Migrating AIX SAN disks to SVC disks
      1. 9.8.1 Connecting the SVC to your SAN fabric
      2. 9.8.2 Preparing your SVC to virtualize disks
      3. 9.8.3 Moving the LUNs to the SVC
      4. 9.8.4 Migrating image mode VDisks to VDisks
      5. 9.8.5 Preparing to migrate from the SVC
      6. 9.8.6 Migrating the managed VDisks
      7. 9.8.7 Removing the LUNs from the SVC
    9. 9.9 Using SVC for storage migration
    10. 9.10 Using VDisk Mirroring and Space-Efficient VDisks together
      1. 9.10.1 Zero detect feature
      2. 9.10.2 VDisk Mirroring With Space-Efficient VDisks
      3. 9.10.3 Metro Mirror and Space-Efficient VDisk
  14. Appendix A. Scripting
    1. Scripting structure
    2. Automated virtual disk creation
    3. SVC tree
    4. Scripting alternatives
  15. Appendix B. Node replacement
    1. Replacing nodes nondisruptively
    2. Expanding an existing SVC cluster
    3. Moving VDisks to a new I/O Group
    4. Replacing nodes disruptively (rezoning the SAN)
  16. Appendix C. Performance data and statistics gathering
    1. SVC performance overview
    2. Performance monitoring
  17. Related publications
    1. IBM Redbooks publications
    2. Other publications
    3. Online resources
    4. How to get IBM Redbooks publications
    5. Help from IBM
  18. Back cover

Product information

  • Title: Implementing the IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller V5.1
  • Author(s):
  • Release date: March 2010
  • Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
  • ISBN: 9780738434032