Implementing the IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller with IBM Spectrum Virtualize V7.6

Implementing the IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller with IBM Spectrum Virtualize V7.6

by Jon Tate, Maximilian Hart, Hartmut Lonzer, Tarik Jose Maluf, Libor Miklas, Jon Parkes, Anthony Saine, Lev Sturmer, Marcin Tabinowski
Released June 2016
Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
ISBN: 9780738441573

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Book description

This IBM® Redbooks® publication is a detailed technical guide to the IBM System Storage® SAN Volume Controller (SVC), powered by IBM Spectrum Virtualize™ Version 7.6.

IBM SAN Volume Controller is a virtualization appliance solution, which maps virtualized volumes that are visible to hosts and applications to physical volumes on storage devices. Each server within the storage area network (SAN) has its own set of virtual storage addresses that are mapped to physical addresses. If the physical addresses change, the server continues running by using the same virtual addresses that it had before. Therefore, 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, which enables applications and servers to share storage devices on a network.

Table of contents

  1. Front cover
  2. Notices
    1. Trademarks
  3. IBM Redbooks promotions
  4. Preface
    1. Authors
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    3. Comments welcome
    4. Stay connected to IBM Redbooks
  5. Summary of changes
    1. June 2016, Fifth Edition
  6. Chapter 1. Introduction to storage virtualization
    1. 1.1 Storage virtualization terminology
    2. 1.2 Requirements driving storage virtualization
      1. 1.2.1 Benefits of using IBM Spectrum Virtualize
    3. 1.3 Latest changes and enhancements
    4. 1.4 Summary
  7. Chapter 2. IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller
    1. 2.1 Brief history of IBM SAN Volume Controller
    2. 2.2 IBM SAN Volume Controller architectural overview
      1. 2.2.1 SAN Volume Controller topology
    3. 2.3 SAN Volume Controller terminology
    4. 2.4 SAN Volume Controller components
      1. 2.4.1 Nodes
      2. 2.4.2 I/O Groups
      3. 2.4.3 System
      4. 2.4.4 Stretched system
      5. 2.4.5 MDisks
      6. 2.4.6 Quorum disk
      7. 2.4.7 Disk tier
      8. 2.4.8 Storage pool
      9. 2.4.9 Volumes
      10. 2.4.10 Easy Tier performance function
      11. 2.4.11 Evaluation mode for Easy Tier
      12. 2.4.12 Hosts
      13. 2.4.13 Maximum supported configurations
    5. 2.5 Volume overview
      1. 2.5.1 Image mode volumes
      2. 2.5.2 Managed mode volumes
      3. 2.5.3 Cache mode and cache-disabled volumes
      4. 2.5.4 Mirrored volumes
      5. 2.5.5 Thin-provisioned volumes
      6. 2.5.6 Volume I/O governing
    6. 2.6 HyperSwap
    7. 2.7 Distributed RAID
      1. 2.7.1 Non-distributed array
      2. 2.7.2 Distributed array
      3. 2.7.3 Example of a distributed array
    8. 2.8 Encryption
      1. 2.8.1 General encryption concepts and terms
      2. 2.8.2 Accessing an encrypted system
      3. 2.8.3 Accessing key information on USB flash drives
      4. 2.8.4 Encryption technology
    9. 2.9 iSCSI overview
      1. 2.9.1 Use of IP addresses and Ethernet ports
      2. 2.9.2 iSCSI volume discovery
      3. 2.9.3 iSCSI authentication
      4. 2.9.4 iSCSI multipathing
    10. 2.10 Advanced Copy Services overview
      1. 2.10.1 Synchronous and asynchronous remote copy
      2. 2.10.2 FlashCopy
      3. 2.10.3 Image mode migration and volume mirroring migration
    11. 2.11 SAN Volume Controller clustered system overview
      1. 2.11.1 Quorum disks
      2. 2.11.2 Stretched Cluster
      3. 2.11.3 Cache
      4. 2.11.4 Clustered system management
    12. 2.12 User authentication
      1. 2.12.1 Remote authentication through LDAP
      2. 2.12.2 SAN Volume Controller modified login message
      3. 2.12.3 SAN Volume Controller user names
      4. 2.12.4 SAN Volume Controller superuser
      5. 2.12.5 SAN Volume Controller Service Assistant Tool
      6. 2.12.6 SAN Volume Controller roles and user groups
      7. 2.12.7 SAN Volume Controller local authentication
      8. 2.12.8 SAN Volume Controller remote authentication and single sign-on
    13. 2.13 SAN Volume Controller hardware overview
      1. 2.13.1 Fibre Channel interfaces
      2. 2.13.2 LAN interfaces
      3. 2.13.3 FCoE interfaces
    14. 2.14 Flash drives
      1. 2.14.1 Storage bottleneck problem
      2. 2.14.2 Flash drive solution
      3. 2.14.3 Flash drive market
      4. 2.14.4 Flash drives and IBM SAN Volume Controller
    15. 2.15 What is new with the IBM SAN Volume Controller 7.6
      1. 2.15.1 Withdrawal of the IBM SAN Volume Controller 2145-8xx
      2. 2.15.2 IBM SAN Volume Controller 7.6 supported hardware list, device driver, and firmware levels
      3. 2.15.3 IBM SAN Volume Controller 7.6 new features
    16. 2.16 Useful IBM SAN Volume Controller web links
  8. 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 IP mirroring
      5. 3.3.5 Back-end storage subsystem configuration
      6. 3.3.6 SAN Volume Controller clustered system configuration
      7. 3.3.7 Stretched Cluster configuration
      8. 3.3.8 Storage pool configuration
      9. 3.3.9 Volume configuration
      10. 3.3.10 Host mapping (LUN masking)
      11. 3.3.11 Advanced Copy Services
      12. 3.3.12 SAN boot support
      13. 3.3.13 Data migration from a non-virtualized storage subsystem
      14. 3.3.14 SVC configuration backup procedure
    4. 3.4 Performance considerations
      1. 3.4.1 SAN
      2. 3.4.2 Disk subsystems
      3. 3.4.3 SAN Volume Controller
      4. 3.4.4 IBM Real-time Compression
      5. 3.4.5 Performance monitoring
  9. Chapter 4. Initial configuration
    1. 4.1 Managing the cluster
      1. 4.1.1 Network requirements for IBM SAN Volume Controller
    2. 4.2 Setting up the IBM SAN Volume Controller cluster
      1. 4.2.1 Initiating Cluster on 2145-DH8 SVC models
      2. 4.2.2 SVC 2145-CF8 and 2145-CG8 service windows
      3. 4.2.3 Initiating the cluster from the front window
    3. 4.3 Configuring the graphical user interface
      1. 4.3.1 Completing the Create Cluster wizard
      2. 4.3.2 Post-requisites
    4. 4.4 Secure Shell overview
      1. 4.4.1 Generating public and private SSH key pairs by using PuTTY
      2. 4.4.2 Uploading the SSH public key to the IBM SAN Volume Controller cluster
      3. 4.4.3 Configuring the PuTTY session for the CLI
      4. 4.4.4 Starting the PuTTY CLI session
      5. 4.4.5 Configuring SSH for IBM AIX clients
    5. 4.5 Using Internet Protocol v6
      1. 4.5.1 Migrating a cluster from IPv4 to IPv6
      2. 4.5.2 Migrating a cluster from IPv6 to IPv4
  10. Chapter 5. Host configuration
    1. 5.1 Host attachment overview
    2. 5.2 IBM SAN Volume Controller setup
      1. 5.2.1 Fibre Channel and SAN setup overview
    3. 5.3 Internet Small Computer System Interface
      1. 5.3.1 Initiators and targets
      2. 5.3.2 iSCSI nodes
      3. 5.3.3 iSCSI qualified name
      4. 5.3.4 The iSCSI setup of the IBM SAN Volume Controller and host server
      5. 5.3.5 Volume discovery
      6. 5.3.6 Authentication
      7. 5.3.7 Target failover
      8. 5.3.8 Host failover
    4. 5.4 Microsoft Windows information
      1. 5.4.1 Configuring Windows Server 2008 and 2012 hosts
      2. 5.4.2 Configuring Windows
      3. 5.4.3 Hardware lists, device drivers, HBAs, and firmware levels
      4. 5.4.4 Installing and configuring the host adapter
      5. 5.4.5 Changing the disk timeout on Windows Server
      6. 5.4.6 Installing the SDDDSM multipath driver on Windows
      7. 5.4.7 Attaching SVC volumes to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 and to Windows Server 2012
      8. 5.4.8 Extending a volume
      9. 5.4.9 Removing a disk on Windows
    5. 5.5 Using SVC command-line interface from a Windows host
    6. 5.6 Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy
      1. 5.6.1 Installation overview
      2. 5.6.2 System requirements for the IBM System Storage hardware provider
      3. 5.6.3 Installing the IBM System Storage hardware provider
      4. 5.6.4 Verifying the installation
      5. 5.6.5 Creating free and reserved pools of volumes
      6. 5.6.6 Changing the configuration parameters
    7. 5.7 Specific Linux (on x86/x86_64) information
      1. 5.7.1 Configuring the Linux host
      2. 5.7.2 Configuration information
      3. 5.7.3 Disabling automatic Linux system updates
      4. 5.7.4 Setting queue depth with QLogic HBAs
      5. 5.7.5 Multipathing in Linux
    8. 5.8 VMware configuration information
      1. 5.8.1 Configuring VMware hosts
      2. 5.8.2 Operating system versions and maintenance levels
      3. 5.8.3 HBAs for hosts that are running VMware
      4. 5.8.4 VMware storage and zoning guidance
      5. 5.8.5 Setting the HBA timeout for failover in VMware
      6. 5.8.6 Multipathing in ESX
      7. 5.8.7 Attaching VMware to volumes
      8. 5.8.8 Volume naming in VMware
      9. 5.8.9 Setting the Microsoft guest operating system timeout
      10. 5.8.10 Extending a VMFS volume
      11. 5.8.11 Removing a datastore from an ESX host
    9. 5.9 Using the SDDDSM, SDDPCM, and SDD web interface
    10. 5.10 More information
      1. 5.10.1 IBM SAN Volume Controller storage subsystem attachment guidelines
  11. Chapter 6. Data migration
    1. 6.1 Migration overview
    2. 6.2 Migration operations
      1. 6.2.1 Migrating multiple extents within a storage pool
      2. 6.2.2 Migrating extents off an MDisk that is being deleted
      3. 6.2.3 Migrating a volume between storage pools
      4. 6.2.4 Migrating the volume to image mode
      5. 6.2.5 Non-disruptive Volume Move
      6. 6.2.6 Monitoring the migration progress
    3. 6.3 Functional overview of managed disk migration
      1. 6.3.1 Parallelism
      2. 6.3.2 Error handling
      3. 6.3.3 Migration algorithm
    4. 6.4 Migrating data from image mode volume
      1. 6.4.1 Image mode volume migration concept
      2. 6.4.2 Migration tips
    5. 6.5 Non-disruptive Volume Move
    6. 6.6 Data migration for Windows using the graphical user interface
      1. 6.6.1 Microsoft Windows Server 2008 host connected directly to IBM System Storage DS3400
      2. 6.6.2 Adding SVC between the host system and System Storage DS3400
      3. 6.6.3 Importing the migrated disks into a Windows Server 2008 host
      4. 6.6.4 Adding SVC between host and DS3400 using the CLI
      5. 6.6.5 Migrating volume from managed mode to image mode
      6. 6.6.6 Migrating volume from image mode to image mode
      7. 6.6.7 Removing image mode data from SVC
      8. 6.6.8 Mapping free disks on Windows Server 2008
    7. 6.7 Migrating Linux storage area network disks to SVC disks
      1. 6.7.1 Preparing SVC to virtualize Linux disks
      2. 6.7.2 Moving LUNs to SVC
      3. 6.7.3 Migrating image mode volumes to managed MDisks
      4. 6.7.4 Preparing to migrate from SVC
      5. 6.7.5 Migrating volumes to image mode volumes
      6. 6.7.6 Removing LUNs from SVC
    8. 6.8 Migrating ESX SAN disks to SVC disks
      1. 6.8.1 Preparing SVC to virtualize ESX disks
      2. 6.8.2 Moving LUNs to SVC
      3. 6.8.3 Migrating image mode volumes
      4. 6.8.4 Preparing to migrate SVC
      5. 6.8.5 Migrating the managed volumes to image mode volumes
      6. 6.8.6 Removing LUNs from SVC
    9. 6.9 Migrating IBM AIX SAN disks to SVC volumes
      1. 6.9.1 Preparing SVC to virtualize AIX disks
      2. 6.9.2 Moving LUNs to SVC
      3. 6.9.3 Migrating image mode volumes to volumes
      4. 6.9.4 Preparing to migrate from SVC
      5. 6.9.5 Migrating the managed volumes
      6. 6.9.6 Removing LUNs from SVC
    10. 6.10 Using SVC for storage migration
    11. 6.11 Migrating volumes between pools using the command-line interface
      1. 6.11.1 Migrating data using migratevdisk
      2. 6.11.2 Migrating data using volume mirroring
      3. 6.11.3 Migrating extents using the CLI
    12. 6.12 Migrating volumes to an encrypted pool
      1. 6.12.1 Using Add Volume Copy
      2. 6.12.2 Using the GUI’s Migrate to Another Pool (migratevdisk) command
    13. 6.13 Using volume mirroring and thin-provisioned volumes together
      1. 6.13.1 Zero detect feature
      2. 6.13.2 Volume mirroring with thin-provisioned volumes
  12. Chapter 7. Volume creation and provisioning
    1. 7.1 An Introduction to volumes
    2. 7.2 Create Volumes menu
    3. 7.3 Creating volumes using the Quick Volume Creation
      1. 7.3.1 Creating Basic volumes using Quick Volume Creation
      2. 7.3.2 Creating Mirrored volumes using Quick Volume Creation
    4. 7.4 Mapping a volume to the host
    5. 7.5 Creating Custom volumes using Advanced
      1. 7.5.1 Creating a custom thin-provisioned volume
      2. 7.5.2 Creating Custom Compressed volumes
      3. 7.5.3 Custom Mirrored Volumes
    6. 7.6 Stretched Volumes
    7. 7.7 HyperSwap and the mkvolume command
      1. 7.7.1 Volume manipulation commands
    8. 7.8 Mapping Volumes to Host
      1. 7.8.1 Mapping newly created volumes to the host using the wizard
    9. 7.9 Discovering volumes on hosts and multipathing
      1. 7.9.1 Windows 2008 Fibre Channel volume attachment
      2. 7.9.2 Windows 2008 iSCSI volume attachment
      3. 7.9.3 VMware ESX Fibre Channel attachment
      4. 7.9.4 VMware ESX iSCSI attachment
  13. Chapter 8. Advanced features for storage efficiency
    1. 8.1 Introduction
    2. 8.2 Easy Tier
      1. 8.2.1 Easy Tier concepts
      2. 8.2.2 SSD arrays and flash MDisks
      3. 8.2.3 Disk tiers
      4. 8.2.4 Easy Tier process
      5. 8.2.5 Easy Tier operating modes
      6. 8.2.6 Implementation considerations
      7. 8.2.7 Modifying the Easy Tier setting
      8. 8.2.8 Monitoring tools
      9. 8.2.9 More information
    3. 8.3 Thin provisioning
      1. 8.3.1 Configuring a thin-provisioned volume
      2. 8.3.2 Performance considerations
      3. 8.3.3 Limitations of virtual capacity
    4. 8.4 Real-time Compression Software
      1. 8.4.1 Common use cases
      2. 8.4.2 Real-time Compression concepts
      3. 8.4.3 Random Access Compression Engine
      4. 8.4.4 Dual RACE component
      5. 8.4.5 The Random Access Compression Engine in the IBM Spectrum Virtualize software stack
      6. 8.4.6 Data write flow
      7. 8.4.7 Data read flow
      8. 8.4.8 Compression of existing data
      9. 8.4.9 Creating compressed volumes
      10. 8.4.10 Comprestimator
  14. Chapter 9. Advanced Copy Services
    1. 9.1 FlashCopy
      1. 9.1.1 Business requirements for FlashCopy
      2. 9.1.2 Backup improvements with FlashCopy
      3. 9.1.3 Restore with FlashCopy
      4. 9.1.4 Moving and migrating data with FlashCopy
      5. 9.1.5 Application testing with FlashCopy
      6. 9.1.6 Host and application considerations to ensure FlashCopy integrity
      7. 9.1.7 FlashCopy attributes
    2. 9.2 Reverse FlashCopy
      1. 9.2.1 FlashCopy and IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager
    3. 9.3 FlashCopy functional overview
    4. 9.4 Implementing FlashCopy
      1. 9.4.1 FlashCopy mappings
      2. 9.4.2 Multiple Target FlashCopy
      3. 9.4.3 Consistency Groups
      4. 9.4.4 FlashCopy indirection layer
      5. 9.4.5 Grains and the FlashCopy bitmap
      6. 9.4.6 Interaction and dependency between multiple target FlashCopy mappings
      7. 9.4.7 Summary of the FlashCopy indirection layer algorithm
      8. 9.4.8 Interaction with the cache
      9. 9.4.9 FlashCopy and image mode volumes
      10. 9.4.10 FlashCopy mapping events
      11. 9.4.11 FlashCopy mapping states
      12. 9.4.12 Thin provisioned FlashCopy
      13. 9.4.13 Background copy
      14. 9.4.14 Serialization of I/O by FlashCopy
      15. 9.4.15 Event handling
      16. 9.4.16 Asynchronous notifications
      17. 9.4.17 Interoperation with Metro Mirror and Global Mirror
      18. 9.4.18 FlashCopy presets
    5. 9.5 Volume mirroring and migration options
    6. 9.6 Native IP replication
      1. 9.6.1 Native IP replication technology
      2. 9.6.2 IBM SVC and Storwize system layers
      3. 9.6.3 IP partnership limitations
      4. 9.6.4 VLAN support
      5. 9.6.5 IP partnership and SVC terminology
      6. 9.6.6 States of IP partnership
      7. 9.6.7 Remote copy groups
      8. 9.6.8 Supported configurations
      9. 9.6.9 Setting up the SVC system IP partnership by using the GUI
    7. 9.7 Remote copy
      1. 9.7.1 Multiple SVC system mirroring
      2. 9.7.2 Importance of write ordering
      3. 9.7.3 Remote copy intercluster communication
      4. 9.7.4 Metro Mirror overview
      5. 9.7.5 Synchronous remote copy
      6. 9.7.6 Metro Mirror features
      7. 9.7.7 Metro Mirror attributes
      8. 9.7.8 Global Mirror
      9. 9.7.9 Asynchronous remote copy
      10. 9.7.10 IBM SVC Global Mirror features
      11. 9.7.11 Using Change Volumes with Global Mirror
      12. 9.7.12 Distribution of work among nodes
      13. 9.7.13 Background copy performance
      14. 9.7.14 Thin-provisioned background copy
      15. 9.7.15 Methods of synchronization
      16. 9.7.16 Practical use of Metro Mirror
      17. 9.7.17 Practical use of Global Mirror
      18. 9.7.18 Valid combinations of FlashCopy, Metro Mirror, and Global Mirror
      19. 9.7.19 Remote Copy configuration limits
      20. 9.7.20 Remote Copy states and events
    8. 9.8 Remote Copy commands
      1. 9.8.1 Remote Copy process
      2. 9.8.2 Listing available IBM SVC system partners
      3. 9.8.3 Changing the system parameters
      4. 9.8.4 System partnership
      5. 9.8.5 Creating a Metro Mirror/Global Mirror consistency group
      6. 9.8.6 Creating a Metro Mirror/Global Mirror relationship
      7. 9.8.7 Changing Metro Mirror/Global Mirror relationship
      8. 9.8.8 Changing Metro Mirror/Global Mirror consistency group
      9. 9.8.9 Starting Metro Mirror/Global Mirror relationship
      10. 9.8.10 Stopping Metro Mirror/Global Mirror relationship
      11. 9.8.11 Starting Metro Mirror/Global Mirror consistency group
      12. 9.8.12 Stopping Metro Mirror/Global Mirror consistency group
      13. 9.8.13 Deleting Metro Mirror/Global Mirror relationship
      14. 9.8.14 Deleting Metro Mirror/Global Mirror consistency group
      15. 9.8.15 Reversing Metro Mirror/Global Mirror relationship
      16. 9.8.16 Reversing Metro Mirror/Global Mirror consistency group
    9. 9.9 Troubleshooting remote copy
      1. 9.9.1 1920 error
      2. 9.9.2 1720 error
  15. Chapter 10. Operations using the CLI
    1. 10.1 Normal operations using the CLI
      1. 10.1.1 Command syntax and online help
      2. 10.1.2 Organizing on window content
      3. 10.1.3 UNIX commands available in interactive SSH sessions
    2. 10.2 New commands and functions
      1. 10.2.1 The activate and deactivate commands
      2. 10.2.2 The analyzevdisk and analyzevdiskbysystem commands
      3. 10.2.3 The chbanner command
      4. 10.2.4 The chsystemcert command
      5. 10.2.5 The mkdistributedarray command
      6. 10.2.6 The mkimagevolume command
      7. 10.2.7 The mkmetadatavdisk and rmmetadatavdisk commands
      8. 10.2.8 The mkquorumapp command
      9. 10.2.9 The mkvolume and rmvolume commands
      10. 10.2.10 The rmvolumecopy command
    3. 10.3 Working with managed disks and disk controller systems
      1. 10.3.1 Viewing disk controller details
      2. 10.3.2 Renaming a controller
      3. 10.3.3 Discovery status
      4. 10.3.4 Discovering MDisks
      5. 10.3.5 Viewing MDisk information
      6. 10.3.6 Renaming an MDisk
      7. 10.3.7 Including an MDisk
      8. 10.3.8 Adding MDisks to a storage pool
      9. 10.3.9 Showing MDisks in a storage pool
      10. 10.3.10 Working with a storage pool
      11. 10.3.11 Creating a storage pool
      12. 10.3.12 Viewing storage pool information
      13. 10.3.13 Renaming a storage pool
      14. 10.3.14 Deleting a storage pool
      15. 10.3.15 Removing MDisks from a storage pool
    4. 10.4 Working with hosts
      1. 10.4.1 Creating an FC-attached host
      2. 10.4.2 Creating an iSCSI-attached host
      3. 10.4.3 Modifying a host
      4. 10.4.4 Deleting a host
      5. 10.4.5 Adding ports to a defined host
      6. 10.4.6 Deleting ports
    5. 10.5 Working with the Ethernet port for iSCSI
    6. 10.6 Working with volumes
      1. 10.6.1 Creating a volume
      2. 10.6.2 Volume information
      3. 10.6.3 Creating a thin-provisioned volume
      4. 10.6.4 Creating a volume in image mode
      5. 10.6.5 Adding a mirrored volume copy
      6. 10.6.6 Adding a compressed volume copy
      7. 10.6.7 Splitting a mirrored volume
      8. 10.6.8 Modifying a volume
      9. 10.6.9 I/O governing
      10. 10.6.10 Deleting a volume
      11. 10.6.11 Using volume protection
      12. 10.6.12 Expanding a volume
      13. 10.6.13 Assigning a volume to a host
      14. 10.6.14 Showing volumes to host mapping
      15. 10.6.15 Deleting a volume to host mapping
      16. 10.6.16 Migrating a volume
      17. 10.6.17 Migrating a fully managed volume to an image mode volume
      18. 10.6.18 Shrinking a volume
      19. 10.6.19 Showing a volume on an MDisk
      20. 10.6.20 Showing which volumes are using a storage pool
      21. 10.6.21 Showing which MDisks are used by a specific volume
      22. 10.6.22 Showing from which storage pool a volume has its extents
      23. 10.6.23 Showing the host to which the volume is mapped
      24. 10.6.24 Showing the volume to which the host is mapped
      25. 10.6.25 Tracing a volume from a host back to its physical disk
    7. 10.7 Scripting under the CLI for SAN Volume Controller task automation
      1. 10.7.1 Scripting structure
    8. 10.8 Managing the clustered system by using the CLI
      1. 10.8.1 Viewing clustered system properties
      2. 10.8.2 Changing system settings
      3. 10.8.3 iSCSI configuration
      4. 10.8.4 Modifying IP addresses
      5. 10.8.5 Supported IP address formats
      6. 10.8.6 Using the ping command to diagnose IP configuration problems
      7. 10.8.7 Setting the clustered system time zone and time
      8. 10.8.8 Starting statistics collection
      9. 10.8.9 Determining the status of a copy operation
      10. 10.8.10 Shutting down a clustered system
    9. 10.9 Nodes
      1. 10.9.1 Viewing node details
      2. 10.9.2 Adding a node
      3. 10.9.3 Renaming a node
      4. 10.9.4 Deleting a node
      5. 10.9.5 Shutting down a node
    10. 10.10 I/O Groups
      1. 10.10.1 Viewing I/O Group details
      2. 10.10.2 Renaming an I/O Group
      3. 10.10.3 Adding and removing hostiogrp
      4. 10.10.4 Listing I/O Groups
    11. 10.11 Managing authentication
      1. 10.11.1 Managing users by using the CLI
      2. 10.11.2 Managing user roles and groups
      3. 10.11.3 Changing a user
      4. 10.11.4 Audit log command
    12. 10.12 Managing Copy Services
      1. 10.12.1 FlashCopy operations
      2. 10.12.2 Setting up FlashCopy
      3. 10.12.3 Creating a FlashCopy Consistency Group
      4. 10.12.4 Creating a FlashCopy mapping
      5. 10.12.5 Preparing (pre-triggering) the FlashCopy mapping
      6. 10.12.6 Preparing (pre-triggering) the FlashCopy Consistency Group
      7. 10.12.7 Starting (triggering) FlashCopy mappings
      8. 10.12.8 Starting (triggering) the FlashCopy Consistency Group
      9. 10.12.9 Monitoring the FlashCopy progress
      10. 10.12.10 Stopping the FlashCopy mapping
      11. 10.12.11 Stopping the FlashCopy Consistency Group
      12. 10.12.12 Deleting the FlashCopy mapping
      13. 10.12.13 Deleting the FlashCopy Consistency Group
      14. 10.12.14 Migrating a volume to a thin-provisioned volume
      15. 10.12.15 Reverse FlashCopy
      16. 10.12.16 Split-stopping of FlashCopy maps
    13. 10.13 Metro Mirror operation
      1. 10.13.1 Setting up Metro Mirror
      2. 10.13.2 Creating a SAN Volume Controller partnership between ITSO_SVC_DH8 and ITSO_SVC4
      3. 10.13.3 Creating a Metro Mirror Consistency Group
      4. 10.13.4 Creating the Metro Mirror relationships
      5. 10.13.5 Creating a stand-alone Metro Mirror relationship for MM_App_Pri
      6. 10.13.6 Starting Metro Mirror
      7. 10.13.7 Starting a Metro Mirror Consistency Group
      8. 10.13.8 Monitoring the background copy progress
      9. 10.13.9 Stopping and restarting Metro Mirror
      10. 10.13.10 Stopping a stand-alone Metro Mirror relationship
      11. 10.13.11 Stopping a Metro Mirror Consistency Group
      12. 10.13.12 Restarting a Metro Mirror relationship in the Idling state
      13. 10.13.13 Restarting a Metro Mirror Consistency Group in the Idling state
      14. 10.13.14 Changing the copy direction for Metro Mirror
      15. 10.13.15 Switching the copy direction for a Metro Mirror relationship
      16. 10.13.16 Switching the copy direction for a Metro Mirror Consistency Group
      17. 10.13.17 Creating a SAN Volume Controller partnership among clustered systems
      18. 10.13.18 Star configuration partnership
    14. 10.14 Global Mirror operation
      1. 10.14.1 Setting up Global Mirror
      2. 10.14.2 Creating a SAN Volume Controller partnership between ITSO_SVC_DH8 and ITSO_SVC4
      3. 10.14.3 Changing link tolerance and system delay simulation
      4. 10.14.4 Creating a Global Mirror Consistency Group
      5. 10.14.5 Creating Global Mirror relationships
      6. 10.14.6 Creating the stand-alone Global Mirror relationship for GM_App_Pri
      7. 10.14.7 Starting Global Mirror
      8. 10.14.8 Starting a stand-alone Global Mirror relationship
      9. 10.14.9 Starting a Global Mirror Consistency Group
      10. 10.14.10 Monitoring the background copy progress
      11. 10.14.11 Stopping and restarting Global Mirror
      12. 10.14.12 Stopping a stand-alone Global Mirror relationship
      13. 10.14.13 Stopping a Global Mirror Consistency Group
      14. 10.14.14 Restarting a Global Mirror relationship in the Idling state
      15. 10.14.15 Restarting a Global Mirror Consistency Group in the Idling state
      16. 10.14.16 Changing the direction for Global Mirror
      17. 10.14.17 Switching the copy direction for a Global Mirror relationship
      18. 10.14.18 Switching the copy direction for a Global Mirror Consistency Group
      19. 10.14.19 Changing a Global Mirror relationship to the cycling mode
      20. 10.14.20 Creating the thin-provisioned Change Volumes
      21. 10.14.21 Stopping the stand-alone remote copy relationship
      22. 10.14.22 Setting the cycling mode on the stand-alone remote copy relationship
      23. 10.14.23 Setting the Change Volume on the master volume
      24. 10.14.24 Setting the Change Volume on the auxiliary volume
      25. 10.14.25 Starting the stand-alone relationship in the cycling mode
      26. 10.14.26 Stopping the Consistency Group to change the cycling mode
      27. 10.14.27 Setting the cycling mode on the Consistency Group
      28. 10.14.28 Setting the Change Volume on the master volume relationships of the Consistency Group
      29. 10.14.29 Setting the Change Volumes on the auxiliary volumes
      30. 10.14.30 Starting the Consistency Group CG_W2K3_GM in the cycling mode
    15. 10.15 Service and maintenance
      1. 10.15.1 Upgrading software
      2. 10.15.2 Running the maintenance procedures
    16. 10.16 SAN troubleshooting and data collection
    17. 10.17 Recover system procedure
  16. Chapter 11. Operations using the GUI
    1. 11.1 Normal SVC operations using GUI
      1. 11.1.1 Introduction to the GUI
      2. 11.1.2 Content view organization
      3. 11.1.3 Help
    2. 11.2 Monitoring menu
      1. 11.2.1 System overview
      2. 11.2.2 System details
      3. 11.2.3 Events
      4. 11.2.4 Performance
    3. 11.3 Working with external disk controllers
      1. 11.3.1 Viewing the disk controller details
      2. 11.3.2 Renaming a disk controller
      3. 11.3.3 Discovering Storage from the external pane
    4. 11.4 Working with storage pools
      1. 11.4.1 Viewing storage pool information
      2. 11.4.2 Creating storage pools
      3. 11.4.3 Renaming a storage pool
      4. 11.4.4 Deleting a storage pool
    5. 11.5 Working with managed disks
      1. 11.5.1 MDisk information
      2. 11.5.2 Renaming an MDisk
      3. 11.5.3 Discovering MDisks
      4. 11.5.4 Assigning MDisks to a storage pool
      5. 11.5.5 Unassigning MDisks from a storage pool
    6. 11.6 Migration
    7. 11.7 Working with hosts
      1. 11.7.1 Host information
      2. 11.7.2 Adding a host
      3. 11.7.3 Renaming a host
      4. 11.7.4 Deleting a host
      5. 11.7.5 Creating or modifying volume mapping
      6. 11.7.6 Deleting a host mapping
      7. 11.7.7 Deleting all host mappings
    8. 11.8 Working with volumes
      1. 11.8.1 Volume information
      2. 11.8.2 Creating a volume
      3. 11.8.3 Renaming a volume
      4. 11.8.4 Deleting a volume
      5. 11.8.5 Deleting a host mapping
      6. 11.8.6 Deleting all host mappings for a volume
      7. 11.8.7 Shrinking a volume
      8. 11.8.8 Expanding a volume
      9. 11.8.9 Migrating a volume
      10. 11.8.10 Adding mirrored copy of existing volume
      11. 11.8.11 Deleting volume copy
      12. 11.8.12 Splitting a volume copy
      13. 11.8.13 Validating volume copies
      14. 11.8.14 Creating a volume in image mode
      15. 11.8.15 Migrating a volume to an image mode volume
      16. 11.8.16 Creating an image mode mirrored volume
    9. 11.9 Copy Services and managing FlashCopy
      1. 11.9.1 Creating a FlashCopy mapping
      2. 11.9.2 Single-click snapshot
      3. 11.9.3 Single-click clone
      4. 11.9.4 Single-click backup
      5. 11.9.5 Creating a FlashCopy Consistency Group
      6. 11.9.6 Creating FlashCopy mappings in a Consistency Group
      7. 11.9.7 Showing related volumes
      8. 11.9.8 Moving a FlashCopy mapping to a Consistency Group
      9. 11.9.9 Removing a FlashCopy mapping from a Consistency Group
      10. 11.9.10 Modifying a FlashCopy mapping
      11. 11.9.11 Renaming FlashCopy mapping
      12. 11.9.12 Renaming Consistency Group
      13. 11.9.13 Deleting FlashCopy mapping
      14. 11.9.14 Deleting FlashCopy Consistency Group
      15. 11.9.15 Starting FlashCopy process
      16. 11.9.16 Stopping FlashCopy process
    10. 11.10 Copy Services: Managing Remote copy
      1. 11.10.1 System partnership
      2. 11.10.2 Creating Fibre Channel partnership
      3. 11.10.3 Creating IP-based partnership
      4. 11.10.4 Creating stand-alone remote copy relationships
      5. 11.10.5 Creating Consistency Group
      6. 11.10.6 Renaming Consistency Group
      7. 11.10.7 Renaming remote copy relationship
      8. 11.10.8 Moving stand-alone remote copy relationship to Consistency Group
      9. 11.10.9 Removing remote copy relationship from Consistency Group
      10. 11.10.10 Starting remote copy relationship
      11. 11.10.11 Starting remote copy Consistency Group
      12. 11.10.12 Switching copy direction
      13. 11.10.13 Switching the copy direction for a Consistency Group
      14. 11.10.14 Stopping a remote copy relationship
      15. 11.10.15 Stopping Consistency Group
      16. 11.10.16 Deleting stand-alone remote copy relationships
      17. 11.10.17 Deleting Consistency Group
    11. 11.11 Managing SVC clustered system from GUI
      1. 11.11.1 System status information
      2. 11.11.2 View I/O Groups and their associated nodes
      3. 11.11.3 View SVC clustered system properties
      4. 11.11.4 Renaming SVC clustered system
      5. 11.11.5 Renaming site information of the nodes
      6. 11.11.6 Rename a node
      7. 11.11.7 Shutting down SVC clustered system
    12. 11.12 Upgrading software
      1. 11.12.1 Updating system software
      2. 11.12.2 Update drive software
    13. 11.13 Managing I/O Groups
    14. 11.14 Managing nodes
      1. 11.14.1 Viewing node properties
      2. 11.14.2 Renaming a node
      3. 11.14.3 Adding node to SVC system
      4. 11.14.4 Removing node from SVC clustered system
    15. 11.15 Troubleshooting
      1. 11.15.1 Events pane
      2. 11.15.2 Event log
      3. 11.15.3 Support pane
    16. 11.16 User management
      1. 11.16.1 Creating a user
      2. 11.16.2 Modifying the user properties
      3. 11.16.3 Removing a user password
      4. 11.16.4 Removing a user SSH public key
      5. 11.16.5 Deleting a user
      6. 11.16.6 Creating a user group
      7. 11.16.7 Modifying the user group properties
      8. 11.16.8 Deleting a user group
      9. 11.16.9 Audit log information
    17. 11.17 Configuration
      1. 11.17.1 Configuring the network
      2. 11.17.2 iSCSI configuration
      3. 11.17.3 Fibre Channel information
      4. 11.17.4 Event notifications
      5. 11.17.5 Email notifications
      6. 11.17.6 SNMP notifications
      7. 11.17.7 System options
      8. 11.17.8 Upgrading IBM Spectrum Virtualize software
    18. 11.18 VMware Virtual Volumes
      1. 11.18.1 Resources
      2. 11.18.2 Setting GUI preferences
  17. Appendix A. Performance data and statistics gathering
    1. SAN Volume Controller performance overview
    2. Performance monitoring
  18. Appendix B. Terminology
    1. Commonly encountered terms
  19. Appendix C. Stretched Cluster
    1. Stretched Cluster overview
    2. Common terms used in Stretched Cluster Configurations
    3. Stretched Cluster deployment planning
    4. Enhanced Stretched Cluster
    5. Standard and Enhanced Stretched Cluster comparison
    6. Enhanced Stretched Cluster comparison with HyperSwap
    7. Non-ISL Stretched Cluster configuration
    8. Inter-switch link configuration
    9. FCIP configuration
    10. Bandwidth reduction and planning
    11. Technical guidelines and publications
  20. Related publications
    1. IBM Redbooks
    2. Other resources
    3. Referenced websites
    4. Help from IBM
  21. Back cover

Product information

  • Title: Implementing the IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller with IBM Spectrum Virtualize V7.6
  • Author(s): Jon Tate, Maximilian Hart, Hartmut Lonzer, Tarik Jose Maluf, Libor Miklas, Jon Parkes, Anthony Saine, Lev Sturmer, Marcin Tabinowski
  • Release date: June 2016
  • Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
  • ISBN: 9780738441573