Book description
Continuing its commitment to developing and delivering industry-leading storage technologies, IBM® introduces the IBM Storwize® V7000 solution powered by IBM Spectrum™ Virtualize. This innovative storage offering 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 that are typically found only in enterprise-class storage systems, which raises 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 and IBM Spectrum Virtualize™ V8.2.1 system through several examples. This book is aimed at pre-sales and post-sales technical support and marketing and storage administrators. It helps you understand the architecture of the Storwize V7000, how to implement it, and how to take advantage of its industry-leading functions and features.
Table of contents
- Front cover
- Notices
- Preface
- Summary of changes
- Chapter 1. Introduction to storage virtualization
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Chapter 2. System overview
- 2.1 IBM Spectrum Virtualize
- 2.2 Storage virtualization
- 2.3 IBM Storwize V7000 overview
- 2.4 IBM Storwize V7000 hardware
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2.5 IBM Storwize V7000 components
- 2.5.1 Hosts
- 2.5.2 Host cluster
- 2.5.3 Nodes or canisters
- 2.5.4 I/O groups
- 2.5.5 Cache
- 2.5.6 Clustered system
- 2.5.7 HyperSwap
- 2.5.8 Dense expansion drawers
- 2.5.9 Expansion Enclosures
- 2.5.10 RAID
- 2.5.11 Read Intensive Flash Drives
- 2.5.12 Managed disks
- 2.5.13 Quorum disks
- 2.5.14 IP Quorum
- 2.5.15 Storage pool
- 2.5.16 Volumes
- 2.5.17 Easy Tier
- 2.5.18 Encryption
- 2.5.19 iSCSI
- 2.5.20 Real-time Compression
- 2.5.21 Data Reduction Pools
- 2.5.22 Deduplication
- 2.5.23 IP replication
- 2.5.24 IBM Storwize V7000 copy services
- 2.5.25 Synchronous or asynchronous remote copy
- 2.5.26 FlashCopy and Transparent Cloud Tiering
- 2.6 Business continuity
- 2.7 Management and support tools
- 2.8 Useful IBM Storwize V7000 websites
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Chapter 3. Planning
- 3.1 General planning rules
- 3.2 Planning for availability
- 3.3 Connectivity planning
- 3.4 Physical planning
- 3.5 Planning IP connectivity
- 3.6 SAN configuration planning
- 3.7 iSCSI configuration planning
- 3.8 Back-end storage subsystem configuration
- 3.9 Internal storage configuration
- 3.10 Storage pool configuration
- 3.11 Volume configuration
- 3.12 Host attachment planning
- 3.13 Host mapping and LUN masking
- 3.14 NPIV planning
- 3.15 Advanced Copy Services
- 3.16 SAN boot support
- 3.17 Data migration from a non-virtualized storage subsystem
- 3.18 Storwize V7000 configuration backup procedure
- 3.19 Performance considerations
- 3.20 Storage Insights
- Chapter 4. Initial configuration
- Chapter 5. Graphical user interface
- Chapter 6. Storage pools
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Chapter 7. Volumes
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7.1 Introduction to volumes
- 7.1.1 Operations on volumes
- 7.1.2 Volume characteristics
- 7.1.3 I/O operations data flow
- 7.1.4 Managed mode and image mode volumes
- 7.1.5 Striped and sequential volumes
- 7.1.6 Mirrored volumes
- 7.1.7 Volume cache mode
- 7.1.8 Fully allocated and thin-provisioned volumes
- 7.1.9 Compressed volumes
- 7.1.10 Deduplicated volumes
- 7.1.11 Capacity reclamation
- 7.1.12 Virtual volumes
- 7.1.13 Volumes in multi-site topologies
- 7.2 Creating volumes
- 7.3 Creating custom volumes
- 7.4 HyperSwap volumes
- 7.5 I/O throttling
- 7.6 Mapping a volume to a host
- 7.7 Migrating a volume to another storage pool
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7.8 Volume operations by using the CLI
- 7.8.1 Displaying volume information
- 7.8.2 Creating a volume
- 7.8.3 Creating a thin-provisioned volume
- 7.8.4 Creating a volume in image mode
- 7.8.5 Adding a volume copy
- 7.8.6 Splitting a mirrored volume
- 7.8.7 Modifying a volume
- 7.8.8 Deleting a volume
- 7.8.9 Volume delete protection
- 7.8.10 Expanding a volume
- 7.8.11 HyperSwap volume modification with CLI
- 7.8.12 Mapping a volume to a host
- 7.8.13 Listing volumes mapped to the host
- 7.8.14 Listing hosts mapped to the volume
- 7.8.15 Deleting a volume to host mapping
- 7.8.16 Migrating a volume
- 7.8.17 Migrating a fully managed volume to an image mode volume
- 7.8.18 Shrinking a volume
- 7.8.19 Listing volumes using the MDisk
- 7.8.20 Listing MDisks used by the volume
- 7.8.21 Listing volumes defined in the storage pool
- 7.8.22 Listing storage pools in which a volume has its extents
- 7.8.23 Tracing a volume from a host back to its physical disks
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7.1 Introduction to volumes
- Chapter 8. Hosts
- Chapter 9. Storage migration
- Chapter 10. Advanced features for storage efficiency
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Chapter 11. Advanced Copy Services
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11.1 IBM FlashCopy
- 11.1.1 Business requirements for FlashCopy
- 11.1.2 FlashCopy principles and terminology
- 11.1.3 FlashCopy Mapping
- 11.1.4 Consistency Groups
- 11.1.5 Crash consistent copy and hosts considerations
- 11.1.6 Grains and bitmap - I/O indirection
- 11.1.7 Interaction with cache
- 11.1.8 Background Copy Rate
- 11.1.9 Incremental FlashCopy
- 11.1.10 Starting FlashCopy mappings and Consistency Groups
- 11.1.11 Multiple target FlashCopy
- 11.1.12 Reverse FlashCopy
- 11.1.13 FlashCopy and image mode Volumes
- 11.1.14 FlashCopy mapping events
- 11.1.15 Thin provisioned FlashCopy
- 11.1.16 Serialization of I/O by FlashCopy
- 11.1.17 Event handling
- 11.1.18 Asynchronous notifications
- 11.1.19 Interoperation with Metro Mirror and Global Mirror
- 11.1.20 FlashCopy attributes and limitations
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11.2 Managing FlashCopy by using the GUI
- 11.2.1 FlashCopy presets
- 11.2.2 FlashCopy window
- 11.2.3 Creating a FlashCopy mapping
- 11.2.4 Single-click snapshot
- 11.2.5 Single-click clone
- 11.2.6 Single-click backup
- 11.2.7 Creating a FlashCopy Consistency Group
- 11.2.8 Creating FlashCopy mappings in a Consistency Group
- 11.2.9 Showing related Volumes
- 11.2.10 Moving FlashCopy mappings across Consistency Groups
- 11.2.11 Removing FlashCopy mappings from Consistency Groups
- 11.2.12 Modifying a FlashCopy mapping
- 11.2.13 Renaming FlashCopy mappings
- 11.2.14 Deleting FlashCopy mappings
- 11.2.15 Deleting a FlashCopy Consistency Group
- 11.2.16 Starting FlashCopy mappings
- 11.2.17 Stopping FlashCopy mappings
- 11.2.18 Memory allocation for FlashCopy
- 11.3 Transparent Cloud Tiering
- 11.4 Implementing Transparent Cloud Tiering
- 11.5 Volume mirroring and migration options
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11.6 Remote Copy services
- 11.6.1 IBM Storwize family and SAN Volume Controller system layers
- 11.6.2 Multiple IBM Spectrum Virtualize systems replication
- 11.6.3 Importance of write ordering
- 11.6.4 Remote copy intercluster communication
- 11.6.5 Metro Mirror overview
- 11.6.6 Synchronous remote copy
- 11.6.7 Metro Mirror features
- 11.6.8 Metro Mirror attributes
- 11.6.9 Practical use of Metro Mirror
- 11.6.10 Global Mirror overview
- 11.6.11 Asynchronous remote copy
- 11.6.12 Global Mirror features
- 11.6.13 Using Change Volumes with Global Mirror
- 11.6.14 Distribution of work among nodes
- 11.6.15 Background copy performance
- 11.6.16 Thin-provisioned background copy
- 11.6.17 Methods of synchronization
- 11.6.18 Practical use of Global Mirror
- 11.6.19 IBM Spectrum Virtualize HyperSwap topology
- 11.6.20 Consistency Protection for Global Mirror and Metro Mirror
- 11.6.21 Valid combinations of FlashCopy, Metro Mirror, and Global Mirror
- 11.6.22 Remote Copy configuration limits
- 11.6.23 Remote Copy states and events
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11.7 Remote Copy commands
- 11.7.1 Remote Copy process
- 11.7.2 Listing available system partners
- 11.7.3 Changing the system parameters
- 11.7.4 System partnership
- 11.7.5 Creating a Metro Mirror/Global Mirror consistency group
- 11.7.6 Creating a Metro Mirror/Global Mirror relationship
- 11.7.7 Changing Metro Mirror/Global Mirror relationship
- 11.7.8 Changing Metro Mirror/Global Mirror consistency group
- 11.7.9 Starting Metro Mirror/Global Mirror relationship
- 11.7.10 Stopping Metro Mirror/Global Mirror relationship
- 11.7.11 Starting Metro Mirror/Global Mirror consistency group
- 11.7.12 Stopping Metro Mirror/Global Mirror consistency group
- 11.7.13 Deleting Metro Mirror/Global Mirror relationship
- 11.7.14 Deleting Metro Mirror/Global Mirror consistency group
- 11.7.15 Reversing Metro Mirror/Global Mirror relationship
- 11.7.16 Reversing Metro Mirror/Global Mirror consistency group
- 11.8 Native IP replication
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11.9 Managing Remote Copy by using the GUI
- 11.9.1 Creating Fibre Channel partnership
- 11.9.2 Creating remote copy relationships
- 11.9.3 Creating Consistency Group
- 11.9.4 Renaming remote copy relationships
- 11.9.5 Renaming a remote copy consistency group
- 11.9.6 Moving stand-alone remote copy relationships to Consistency Group
- 11.9.7 Removing remote copy relationships from Consistency Group
- 11.9.8 Starting remote copy relationships
- 11.9.9 Starting a remote copy Consistency Group
- 11.9.10 Switching a relationship copy direction
- 11.9.11 Switching a Consistency Group direction
- 11.9.12 Stopping remote copy relationships
- 11.9.13 Stopping a Consistency Group
- 11.9.14 Deleting remote copy relationships
- 11.9.15 Deleting a Consistency Group
- 11.10 Remote Copy memory allocation
- 11.11 Troubleshooting remote copy
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11.1 IBM FlashCopy
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Chapter 12. Encryption
- 12.1 Planning for encryption
- 12.2 Defining encryption of data at-rest
- 12.3 Activating encryption
- 12.4 Enabling encryption
- 12.5 Configuring more providers
- 12.6 Migrating between providers
- 12.7 Recovering from a provider loss
- 12.8 Using encryption
- 12.9 Rekeying an encryption-enabled system
- 12.10 Disabling encryption
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Chapter 13. RAS, monitoring, and troubleshooting
- 13.1 Reliability, availability, and serviceability
- 13.2 Shutting down IBM Storwize V7000
- 13.3 Configuration backup
- 13.4 Software update
- 13.5 Health checker feature
- 13.6 Troubleshooting and fix procedures
- 13.7 Monitoring
- 13.8 Audit log
- 13.9 Collecting support information by using the GUI and CLI
- 13.10 Service Assistant Tool
- Appendix A. Performance data and statistics gathering
- Appendix B. CLI setup
- Appendix C. Terminology
- Related publications
- Back cover
Product information
- Title: Implementing the IBM Storwize V7000 with IBM Spectrum Virtualize V8.2.1
- Author(s):
- Release date: November 2019
- Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
- ISBN: 9780738457772
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