Book description
Continuing its commitment to developing and delivering industry-leading storage technologies, IBM® introduces the IBM Storwize® V7000 solution, an innovative 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.
The IBM Storwize V7000 solution 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 system through several examples. This book is aimed at pre-sales 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
- Notices
- IBM Redbooks promotions
- Preface
- Summary of changes
- Chapter 1. IBM Storwize V7000 system overview
- Chapter 2. IBM Storwize V7000 Initial configuration
- Chapter 3. Graphical user interface
- Chapter 4. Host configuration
- Chapter 5. Basic volume configuration
- 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 Creating a volume
- 8.4.3 Mapping volume to a host
- 8.4.4 Unmapping volumes from all hosts
- 8.4.5 Viewing a host mapped to a volume
- 8.4.6 Duplicating a volume
- 8.4.7 Renaming a volume
- 8.4.8 Shrinking a volume
- 8.4.9 Expanding a volume
- 8.4.10 Migrating a volume to another storage pool
- 8.4.11 Exporting to an image mode volume
- 8.4.12 Deleting a volume
- 8.4.13 Protecting volume on deletion
- 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
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Chapter 10. Advanced features for storage efficiency
- 10.1 Introduction
- 10.2 Easy Tier
- 10.3 Thin provisioning
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10.4 Real-time Compression Software
- 10.4.1 Common use cases
- 10.4.2 Real-time Compression concepts
- 10.4.3 Random Access Compression Engine
- 10.4.4 Random Access Compression Engine in Storwize V7000 software stack
- 10.4.5 Data write flow
- 10.4.6 Data read flow
- 10.4.7 Compression of existing data
- 10.4.8 Configuring compressed volumes
- 10.4.9 Storwize V7000 Generation 2 software and hardware updates related toReal-time Compression
- 10.4.10 Software enhancements
- 10.4.11 Hardware updates
- 10.4.12 Dual RACE engine
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Chapter 11. Advanced Copy Services
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11.1 FlashCopy
- 11.1.1 Business requirements for FlashCopy
- 11.1.2 Back up improvements with FlashCopy
- 11.1.3 Restore with FlashCopy
- 11.1.4 Moving and migrating data with FlashCopy
- 11.1.5 Application testing with FlashCopy
- 11.1.6 Host and application considerations to ensure FlashCopy integrity
- 11.1.7 FlashCopy attributes
- 11.2 Reverse FlashCopy
- 11.3 FlashCopy functional overview
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11.4 Implementing Storwize V7000 FlashCopy
- 11.4.1 FlashCopy mappings
- 11.4.2 Multiple Target FlashCopy
- 11.4.3 Consistency Groups
- 11.4.4 FlashCopy indirection layer
- 11.4.5 Grains and the FlashCopy bitmap
- 11.4.6 Interaction and dependency between Multiple Target FlashCopy mappings
- 11.4.7 Summary of the FlashCopy indirection layer algorithm
- 11.4.8 Interaction with the cache
- 11.4.9 FlashCopy and image mode volumes
- 11.4.10 FlashCopy mapping events
- 11.4.11 FlashCopy mapping states
- 11.4.12 Thin-provisioned FlashCopy
- 11.4.13 Background copy
- 11.4.14 Synthesis
- 11.4.15 Serialization of I/O by FlashCopy
- 11.4.16 Event handling
- 11.4.17 Asynchronous notifications
- 11.4.18 Interoperation with Metro Mirror and Global Mirror
- 11.4.19 FlashCopy presets
- 11.5 Volume mirroring and migration options
- 11.6 Native IP replication
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11.7 Remote Copy
- 11.7.1 Multiple Storwize V7000 System Mirroring
- 11.7.2 Importance of write ordering
- 11.7.3 Remote copy intercluster communication
- 11.7.4 Metro Mirror overview
- 11.7.5 Synchronous remote copy
- 11.7.6 Metro Mirror features
- 11.7.7 Metro Mirror attributes
- 11.7.8 Global Mirror
- 11.7.9 Asynchronous remote copy
- 11.7.10 Storwize V7000 Global Mirror features
- 11.7.11 Using Change Volumes with Global Mirror
- 11.7.12 Distribution of work among nodes
- 11.7.13 Background copy performance
- 11.7.14 Thin-provisioned background copy
- 11.7.15 Methods of synchronization
- 11.7.16 Practical use of Metro Mirror
- 11.7.17 Practical use of Global Mirror
- 11.7.18 Valid combinations of FlashCopy, Metro Mirror, and Global Mirror
- 11.7.19 Remote Copy configuration limits
- 11.7.20 Remote Copy states and events
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11.8 Remote Copy commands
- 11.8.1 Remote Copy process
- 11.8.2 Listing available Storwize V7000 system partners
- 11.8.3 Changing the system parameters
- 11.8.4 Storwize V7000 system partnership
- 11.8.5 Creating an MM/GM Consistency Group
- 11.8.6 Creating an MM/GM relationship
- 11.8.7 Changing an MM/GM relationship
- 11.8.8 Changing an MM/GM Consistency Group
- 11.8.9 Starting an MM/GM relationship
- 11.8.10 Stopping an MM/GM relationship
- 11.8.11 Starting an MM/GM Consistency Group
- 11.8.12 Stopping an MM/GM Consistency Group
- 11.8.13 Deleting an MM/GM relationship
- 11.8.14 Deleting an MM/GM Consistency Group
- 11.8.15 Reversing an MM/GM relationship
- 11.8.16 Reversing an MM/GM Consistency Group
- 11.9 Troubleshooting remote copy
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11.1 FlashCopy
- Chapter 12. Encryption
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Chapter 13. RAS, monitoring, and troubleshooting
- 13.1 Reliability, availability, and serviceability
- 13.2 Configuration backup
- 13.3 Software upgrade
- 13.4 Critical Fix Notification feature
- 13.5 Monitoring host paths to IBM Storwize V7000
- 13.6 Troubleshooting and fix procedures
- 13.7 Monitoring
- 13.8 Audit log
- 13.9 Collecting support information
- 13.10 Shutting down IBM Storwize V7000
- Appendix A. CLI setup and SAN Boot
- Related publications
- Back cover
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IBM System x Reference Architecture for Hadoop: IBM InfoSphere BigInsights Reference Architecture
- Introduction
- Business problem and business value
- Reference architecture use
- Requirements
- InfoSphere BigInsights predefined configuration
- InfoSphere BigInsights HBase predefined configuration
- Deployment considerations
- Customizing the predefined configurations
- Predefined configuration bill of materials
- References
- The team who wrote this paper
- Now you can become a published author, too!
- Stay connected to IBM Redbooks
- Notices
Product information
- Title: Implementing the IBM Storwize V7000 V7.4
- Author(s):
- Release date: March 2015
- Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
- ISBN: 9780738440477
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