SAN Volume Controller: Best Practices and Performance Guidelines
by Jon Tate, Deon George, Thorsten Hoss, Ronda Hruby, Ian MacQuarrie, Barry Mellish, Peter Mescher
Chapter 1. SAN fabric
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© Copyright IBM Corp. 2008. All rights reserved. 1 Chapter 1. SAN fabric The IBM SAN Volume Controller ( SVC) has unique SAN fabric configuration requirements that differ from what you might be used to for other storage devices. A quality SAN configuration can go a long way toward a stable, reliable, and scalable SVC installation; conversely, a poor SAN environment can make your SVC experience considerably less pleasant. This chapter will give you the information that you need to tackle this complex topic. As you read this chapter, keep in mind that this is a “ best practices” book based on field experiences. It might be possible ( and supported) to do many of the things advised against here, but we ( the authors) ...
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