Book description
Continuing its commitment to developing and delivering industry-leading storage technologies, IBM® introduces the IBM Storwize® V7000, an innovative new storage offering that delivers essential storage efficiency technologies and exceptional ease of use and performance, all integrated into a compact, modular design that is offered at a competitive, midrange price.
IBM Storwize V7000 incorporates some of the top IBM technologies typically found only in enterprise-class storage systems, raising the standard for storage efficiency in midrange disk systems. This cutting-edge storage system extends the comprehensive storage portfolio from IBM and can help change the way organizations address the ongoing information explosion.
This IBM Redbooks® publication introduces the features and functions of the IBM Storwize V7000 through several examples. This book is aimed at pre- and post-sales technical support and marketing, storage administrators, and will help you understand the architecture of the Storwize V7000, how to implement it, and take advantage of the industry leading functions and features.
Table of contents
- Front cover
- Contents (1/2)
- Contents (2/2)
- Notices
- Preface
- Summary of changes
- Chapter 1. Overview of the IBM Storwize V7000 system
- Chapter 2. Initial configuration
- Chapter 3. Graphical user interface overview
- Chapter 4. Host configuration
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Chapter 5. Basic volume configuration
- 5.1 Provisioning storage from IBM Storwize V7000 and making it available to the host
- 5.2 Mapping a volume to the host
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5.3 Discovering the volumes from the host and specifying multipath settings
- 5.3.1 Windows 2008 Fibre Channel volume attachment
- 5.3.2 Windows 2008 iSCSI volume attachment (1/2)
- 5.3.2 Windows 2008 iSCSI volume attachment (2/2)
- 5.3.3 VMware ESX Fibre Channel attachment (1/2)
- 5.3.3 VMware ESX Fibre Channel attachment (2/2)
- 5.3.4 VMware ESX iSCSI attachment (1/3)
- 5.3.4 VMware ESX iSCSI attachment (2/3)
- 5.3.4 VMware ESX iSCSI attachment (3/3)
- Chapter 6. Migration wizard
- Chapter 7. Storage pools
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Chapter 8. Advanced host and volume administration
- 8.1 Advanced host administration
- 8.2 Adding and deleting host ports
- 8.3 Host mappings overview
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8.4 Advanced volume administration
- 8.4.1 Advanced volume functions
- 8.4.2 Mapping a volume to a host
- 8.4.3 Unmapping volumes from all hosts
- 8.4.4 Viewing a host mapped to a volume
- 8.4.5 Renaming a volume
- 8.4.6 Shrinking a volume
- 8.4.7 Expanding a volume
- 8.4.8 Migrating a volume to another storage pool
- 8.4.9 Exporting to an image mode volume
- 8.4.10 Deleting a volume
- 8.5 Volume properties
- 8.6 Advanced volume copy functions
- 8.7 Volumes by storage pool
- 8.8 Volumes by host
- Chapter 9. External storage virtualization
- Chapter 10. Easy Tier
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Chapter 11. Copy services
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11.1 FlashCopy
- 11.1.1 Business requirements for FlashCopy
- 11.1.2 FlashCopy functional overview (1/2)
- 11.1.2 FlashCopy functional overview (2/2)
- 11.1.3 Planning for FlashCopy
- 11.1.4 Managing FlashCopy using the GUI (1/2)
- 11.1.4 Managing FlashCopy using the GUI (2/2)
- 11.1.5 Managing FlashCopy mapping (1/6)
- 11.1.5 Managing FlashCopy mapping (2/6)
- 11.1.5 Managing FlashCopy mapping (3/6)
- 11.1.5 Managing FlashCopy mapping (4/6)
- 11.1.5 Managing FlashCopy mapping (5/6)
- 11.1.5 Managing FlashCopy mapping (6/6)
- 11.2 Volume mirroring and migration options
- 11.3 Remote Copy
- 11.4 Troubleshooting Remote Copy
- 11.5 Managing Remote Copy using the GUI
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11.1 FlashCopy
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Chapter 12. IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center
- 12.1 Tivoli Storage Productivity Center overview
- 12.2 Tivoli Storage Productivity Center architecture
- 12.3 Preparing Windows to install Tivoli Storage Productivity Center
- 12.4 Installing Tivoli Storage Productivity Center components (1/2)
- 12.4 Installing Tivoli Storage Productivity Center components (2/2)
- 12.5 Connecting Tivoli Storage Productivity Center to an IBM Storwize V7000 system (1/2)
- 12.5 Connecting Tivoli Storage Productivity Center to an IBM Storwize V7000 system (2/2)
- 12.6 Administering and reporting an IBM Storwize V7000 system through Tivoli Storage Productivity Center
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Chapter 13. RAS, monitoring, and troubleshooting for an IBM Storwize V7000 system
- 13.1 Reliability, availability, and serviceability on the IBM Storwize V7000 system
- 13.2 Configuration backup procedure
- 13.3 Software upgrade (1/2)
- 13.3 Software upgrade (2/2)
- 13.4 Critical Fix Notification feature
- 13.5 Monitoring host paths to the IBM Storwize V7000 system
- 13.6 Monitoring overview
- 13.7 Manipulating the event log and recommended actions grid
- 13.8 Recommended Actions menu: Details (1/3)
- 13.8 Recommended Actions menu: Details (2/3)
- 13.8 Recommended Actions menu: Details (3/3)
- 13.9 Audit Log tab
- 13.10 Collecting support information
- 13.11 Shutting down an IBM Storwize V7000 system
- Appendix A. CLI setup and SAN Boot
- Related publications
- Index (1/4)
- Index (2/4)
- Index (3/4)
- Index (4/4)
- Back cover
Product information
- Title: Implementing the IBM Storwize V7000
- Author(s):
- Release date: May 2011
- Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
- ISBN: 9780738435572
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