3.1 General planning rules3.1.1 Basic planning flow3.2 Planning for availability3.3 Connectivity planning3.4 Physical planning3.4.1 Cabling3.5 Planning IP connectivity3.5.1 Firewall planning3.6 SAN configuration planning3.6.1 Physical topology3.6.2 Zoning3.6.3 Storwize V7000 cluster system zone3.6.4 Back-end storage zones3.6.5 Host zones3.6.6 Zoning considerations for Metro Mirror and Global Mirror3.6.7 Port designation recommendations3.6.8 Port masking3.7 iSCSI configuration planning3.7.1 iSCSI protocol3.7.2 Topology and IP addressing3.7.3 General recommendation3.7.4 iSCSI Extensions for RDMA (iSER)3.7.5 iSCSI back-end storage attachment3.8 Back-end storage subsystem configuration3.9 Internal storage configuration3.10 Storage pool configuration3.10.1 The storage pool and Storwize V7000 cache relationship3.11 Volume configuration3.11.1 Planning for image mode volumes3.11.2 Planning for thin-provisioned volumes3.12 Host attachment planning3.12.1 Queue depth3.12.2 Offloaded data transfer3.13 Host mapping and LUN masking3.13.1 Planning for large deployments3.14 NPIV planning3.15 Advanced Copy Services3.15.1 FlashCopy guidelines3.15.2 Combining FlashCopy and Metro Mirror or Global Mirror3.15.3 Planning for Metro Mirror and Global Mirror3.16 SAN boot support3.17 Data migration from a non-virtualized storage subsystem3.18 Storwize V7000 configuration backup procedure3.19 Performance considerations3.19.1 SAN3.19.2 Back-end storage subsystems3.19.3 Storwize V70003.19.4 IBM Real-time Compression3.19.5 Performance monitoring3.20 Storage Insights3.20.1 Architecture, security, and data collection3.20.2 Customer Dashboard