10.1 Planning steps sequence10.1.1 Get preliminary planning data10.1.2 Determine the system configuration to order10.1.3 Perform the physical hardware planning10.1.4 Define the environment and services needed10.1.5 Plan for system implementation10.1.6 Plan for data migration10.2 Support, limitations, and tools10.3 Storwize V7000 Unified advanced features and functions10.3.1 Licensing for advanced functions10.3.2 Planning guidelines for using Real-time Compression10.3.3 Asynchronous replication10.3.4 Snapshots10.3.5 Information lifecycle management10.3.6 Hierarchical storage management10.3.7 Data backup and recovery: Tivoli Storage Manager or NDMP10.3.8 Antivirus10.3.9 External virtualization of SAN-attached back-end storage10.3.10 Remote Copy Services (for block I/O access only)10.3.11 FlashCopy (block volumes only)10.3.12 General GPFS recommendation10.3.13 GPFS internal synchronous replication, also known as NSD failure groups10.3.14 Manage write-caching options in Storwize V7000 Unified and on client side10.3.15 Redundancy10.4 Checkpoints and considerations for authentication10.4.1 Active Directory (includes Kerberos)10.4.2 Lightweight Directory Access Protocol10.4.3 Samba primary domain controller (NT4 mode)10.4.4 Local authentication10.5 Storage area network considerations10.5.1 Zoning considerations10.6 LAN considerations10.7 Miscellaneous configuration planning10.7.1 Set up local users to manage the Storwize V7000 Unified system10.7.2 Define call home and event notifications10.7.3 Storage pool layout10.7.4 File access protocols that are required for client access10.7.5 Multiple simultaneous exports of same subset of data via different protocols10.8 Physical hardware planning10.8.1 Plan for space and layout10.8.2 Planning for Storwize V7000 Unified environment10.9 System implementation planning10.9.1 Configuration details and settings that are required for setup10.9.2 Configuration options for file access only10.9.3 Configuration options for Block I/O access only10.10 Planning for Data Migration