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Understanding the IBM TotalStorage Open Software Family
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Understanding the IBM TotalStorage Open Software Family

by Roland Tretau, Joe A. Burnett, Norbert Engst, Kazue Okano
June 2004
Intermediate to advanced
342 pages
9h 3m
English
IBM Redbooks
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Chapter 1. Understanding storage concepts 39
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򐂰 To coexist with non virtualized storage on the ...
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