VersaStack Solution by Cisco and IBM with IBM DB2, IBM Spectrum Control, and IBM Spectrum Protect

VersaStack Solution by Cisco and IBM with IBM DB2, IBM Spectrum Control, and IBM Spectrum Protect

by Jon Tate, Vadi Bhatt, Sanjeev Naldurgkar, Filip Van Den Neucker, Asher Pemberton
Released February 2016
Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
ISBN: 9780738441351

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Book description

Dynamic organizations want to accelerate growth while reducing costs. To do so, they must speed the deployment of business applications and adapt quickly to any changes in priorities. Organizations require an IT infrastructure to be easy, efficient, and versatile.

The VersaStack solution by Cisco and IBM® can help you accelerate the deployment of your datacenters. It reduces costs by more efficiently managing information and resources while maintaining your ability to adapt to business change.

The VersaStack solution combines the innovation of Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS) Integrated Infrastructure with the efficiency of the IBM Storwize® storage system. The Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure includes the Cisco UCS, Cisco Nexus and Cisco MDS switches, and Cisco UCS Director. The IBM Storwize V7000 storage system enhances virtual environments with its Data Virtualization, IBM Real-time Compression™, and IBM Easy Tier® features. These features deliver extraordinary levels of performance and efficiency.

The VersaStack solution is Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) ready. Your IT team can build, deploy, secure, and maintain applications through a more agile framework. Cisco Intercloud Fabric capabilities help enable the creation of open and highly secure solutions for the hybrid cloud. These solutions accelerate your IT transformation while delivering dramatic improvements in operational efficiency and simplicity.

Cisco and IBM are global leaders in the IT industry. The VersaStack solution gives you the opportunity to take advantage of integrated infrastructure solutions that are targeted at enterprise applications, analytics, and cloud solutions.

The VersaStack solution is backed by Cisco Validated Designs (CVDs) to provide faster delivery of applications, greater IT efficiency, and less risk.

This IBM Redbooks® publication is aimed at experienced storage administrators that are tasked with deploying a VersaStack solution with IBM DB2® High Availability (DB2 HA), IBM Spectrum™ Protect, and IBM Spectrum Control™.

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. Chapter 1. Introduction
    1. 1.1 Easy, efficient, and versatile
    2. 1.2 Evolving datacenter requirements
    3. 1.3 Holistic approach
    4. 1.4 Hardware options
    5. 1.5 Related information
  6. Chapter 2. Architecture
  7. Chapter 3. Software revisions and configuration guidelines
    1. 3.1 Software revisions
    2. 3.2 Configuration guidelines
  8. Chapter 4. Planning for an IBM DB2 High Availability Server Failover Cluster implementation
    1. 4.1 Design considerations
      1. 4.1.1 Database workload
      2. 4.1.2 Server virtualization
      3. 4.1.3 Database availability
      4. 4.1.4 Quality of service and network segregation
      5. 4.1.5 Network availability
  9. Chapter 5. Physical infrastructure
    1. 5.1 VersaStack cabling
    2. 5.2 Storage compatibility and interoperability
    3. 5.3 VersaStack system build process
  10. Chapter 6. VersaStack Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches configuration
    1. 6.1 Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches network initial configuration setup
      1. 6.1.1 Configuring Cisco Nexus A
      2. 6.1.2 Configuring Cisco Nexus B
      3. 6.1.3 Enabling the Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switch features and settings
      4. 6.1.4 Creating VLANs for VersaStack traffic
      5. 6.1.5 Configuring the Virtual Port Channel Domain
      6. 6.1.6 Configuring network interfaces for the vPC peer links
      7. 6.1.7 Configuring network interfaces to the Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect
      8. 6.1.8 Linking in to an existing network infrastructure
  11. Chapter 7. IBM Storwize V7000 storage configuration
    1. 7.1 Secure web access to the IBM Storwize V7000 service and management GUI
    2. 7.2 IBM Storwize V7000 initial configuration setup
  12. Chapter 8. Cisco Unified Computing System configuration
    1. 8.1 Performing the initial setup of Cisco UCS 6248 Fabric Interconnect for VersaStack environments
      1. 8.1.1 Cisco UCS 6248 A
      2. 8.1.2 Cisco UCS 6248 B
    2. 8.2 Cisco UCS for IBM Storwize V7000 storage system
      1. 8.2.1 Logging in to Cisco UCS Manager
      2. 8.2.2 Upgrading Cisco UCS Manager software to Version 2.2(3d)
      3. 8.2.3 Adding a block of IP addresses for KVM access
      4. 8.2.4 Adding a block of IPv4 addresses for KVM access
      5. 8.2.5 Synchronizing the Cisco UCS environment to NTP
      6. 8.2.6 Enabling the server and uplink ports
      7. 8.2.7 Enabling Fibre Channel ports
      8. 8.2.8 Creating storage VSANs
      9. 8.2.9 Configuring the FC storage ports
      10. 8.2.10 Configuring the VSAN for the FC storage ports
      11. 8.2.11 Creating WWNN pools
      12. 8.2.12 Creating WWPN pools
      13. 8.2.13 Creating vHBA templates for Fabric A and Fabric B
      14. 8.2.14 Creating the storage connection policy for Fabric-A
      15. 8.2.15 Creating the Storage Connection Policy for Fabric-B
      16. 8.2.16 Acknowledging Cisco UCS chassis and FEX modules
      17. 8.2.17 Creating uplink port channels to Cisco Nexus switches
      18. 8.2.18 Creating MAC address pools
      19. 8.2.19 Creating an UUID suffix pool
      20. 8.2.20 Creating a server pool
      21. 8.2.21 Creating virtual local area networks
      22. 8.2.22 Creating a host firmware package
      23. 8.2.23 Setting jumbo frames in Cisco UCS Fabric
      24. 8.2.24 Creating a local disk configuration policy
      25. 8.2.25 Creating a network control policy for Cisco Discovery Protocol
      26. 8.2.26 Creating a power control policy
      27. 8.2.27 Creating a server pool qualification policy (optional)
      28. 8.2.28 Creating a server BIOS policy
      29. 8.2.29 Creating a vNIC/vHBA placement policy for VM infrastructure hosts
      30. 8.2.30 Updating the default Maintenance Policy
      31. 8.2.31 Creating vNIC templates
      32. 8.2.32 Creating boot policies
      33. 8.2.33 Creating service profile templates
      34. 8.2.34 Creating service profiles
    3. 8.3 Backing up the Cisco UCS Manager configuration
  13. Chapter 9. SAN boot
    1. 9.1 Adding hosts and mapping the boot volumes on the Storwize V7000 system
  14. Chapter 10. VersaStack VMware ESXi 5.5 Update 2 SAN boot installation
    1. 10.1 The Cisco UCS 6200 Fabric Interconnect Cisco UCS Manager
    2. 10.2 Setting up a VMware ESXi installation
      1. 10.2.1 ESXi hosts vm-host-infra-01 and vm-host-infra-02
    3. 10.3 Installing ESXi
      1. 10.3.1 ESXi hosts vm-host-infra-01 and vm-host-infra-02
    4. 10.4 Setting up management networking for ESXi hosts
      1. 10.4.1 ESXi Host vm-host-infra-01
      2. 10.4.2 ESXi Host vm-host-infra-02
    5. 10.5 vSphere setup
      1. 10.5.1 Downloading the VMware vSphere Client and vSphere Remote CLI
    6. 10.6 Setting up VMkernel ports and the virtual switch
      1. 10.6.1 ESXi Host vm-host-infra-01
    7. 10.7 Mapping the required VMFS Datastores
      1. 10.7.1 Mapping the VMFS Datastores to the first host
    8. 10.8 Storage I/O Control
    9. 10.9 VersaStack VMware vCenter 5.5 Update 2
      1. 10.9.1 Installation steps for a simple installation of vCenter Server 5.5
    10. 10.10 Setting up a vCenter Server
      1. 10.10.1 vCenter Server VM
    11. 10.11 Mapping the datastores on the IBM Storwize V7000 second host after enabling the cluster
    12. 10.12 Optional: Adding domain account permissions
  15. Chapter 11. IBM DB2 High Availability server and failover cluster implementation
    1. 11.1 Creating virtual machines
    2. 11.2 Installing Windows Server 2012 R2
    3. 11.3 Preparing the virtual machines for clustering
      1. 11.3.1 Renaming and assigning IP addresses to network adapters
      2. 11.3.2 Enabling jumbo frames for CSV traffic
      3. 11.3.3 Configuring the network adapters binding order
      4. 11.3.4 Installing Windows updates and adding roles and features
      5. 11.3.5 Adding Raw Device Mapping disks to the first virtual machine node
      6. 11.3.6 Adding Raw Device Mapping disks to the second virtual machine node
      7. 11.3.7 Preparing the disks for cluster use
    4. 11.4 Installing a Windows Server Failover Cluster
      1. 11.4.1 Installing a DB2 Server Failover Cluster
    5. 11.5 Modifying the vSphere High Availability and Distributed Resource Scheduler settings for the Windows Server Failover Cluster virtual machines
      1. 11.5.1 Creating anti-affinity rules
      2. 11.5.2 Enabling strict enforcement of anti-affinity rules
      3. 11.5.3 Setting the Distributed Resource Scheduler automation level for clustered virtual machines
      4. 11.5.4 Using vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler groups and VM-Host affinity rules with clustered virtual machines
    6. 11.6 Installing DB2
    7. 11.7 Installing DB2 Data Studio Client
    8. 11.8 Deploying the DB2 GSDB sample database
    9. 11.9 Configuring DB2 High Availability
      1. 11.9.1 Connecting to the DB2 instance with the Data Studio Client
      2. 11.9.2 Configuring the database transaction logging
      3. 11.9.3 Configuring the HADR setup
  16. Chapter 12. IBM Spectrum Control integration
    1. 12.1 Spectrum Control overview
    2. 12.2 Storage hypervisor
    3. 12.3 IBM SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center component model
      1. 12.3.1 Storage management
      2. 12.3.2 Storage virtualization
      3. 12.3.3 Application-aware data protection
    4. 12.4 IBM SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center features
      1. 12.4.1 Efficient by design
      2. 12.4.2 Self-optimizing
      3. 12.4.3 Cloud agility
    5. 12.5 IBM SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center interfaces
      1. 12.5.1 VMware
    6. 12.6 IBM SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center offerings
      1. 12.6.1 License model overview
      2. 12.6.2 VSC for Storwize Family license
    7. 12.7 VersaStack: Spectrum Control
      1. 12.7.1 Tivoli Productivity Center Virtual Storage Edition installation
      2. 12.7.2 Integrating the Storwize V7000 storage system with Spectrum Control
      3. 12.7.3 Monitoring and alerting
    8. 12.8 Advanced Analytics
      1. 12.8.1 Cloud Configuration
      2. 12.8.2 Provisioning
      3. 12.8.3 Integrating servers and virtual machines
      4. 12.8.4 Reporting for departments and applications
    9. 12.9 Resources
  17. Chapter 13. IBM Spectrum Protect integration
    1. 13.1 IBM Spectrum Protect Suite for Unified Recovery overview
      1. 13.1.1 IBM Spectrum Software Defined Storage Suite
      2. 13.1.2 IBM Spectrum Protect Suite for Unified Recovery
      3. 13.1.3 Licensing metrics
    2. 13.2 IBM Spectrum Protect implementation
      1. 13.2.1 Architectural overview
      2. 13.2.2 Guest support for virtual machines and virtualization
      3. 13.2.3 Blueprints
      4. 13.2.4 Multi-site setup
      5. 13.2.5 Summary
    3. 13.3 Protecting the VMware infrastructure
      1. 13.3.1 Deploying IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments
      2. 13.3.2 Storwize V7000 FlashCopy mapping
      3. 13.3.3 Protecting VMware data
      4. 13.3.4 Summary
    4. 13.4 Protecting the DB2 HADR virtual machines
      1. 13.4.1 Using IBM Spectrum Protect to back up DB2 data
      2. 13.4.2 DB2 quiescing commands
    5. 13.5 Using IBM Spectrum Protect Advanced Protection and Recovery Technologies
      1. 13.5.1 Progressive incremental backups
      2. 13.5.2 Data deduplication
      3. 13.5.3 Node replication with automated failover
    6. 13.6 Monitoring and managing the IBM Spectrum Protect environment
      1. 13.6.1 Data Protection for VMware
      2. 13.6.2 IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center
      3. 13.6.3 Reporting and monitoring for IBM Spectrum Protect
  18. Chapter 14. General performance
    1. 14.1 IBM Easy Tier
    2. 14.2 Autotier
    3. 14.3 General performance metrics
      1. 14.3.1 B200 M4
      2. 14.3.2 VIC 1340
      3. 14.3.3 Storwize V7000 storage system
  19. Chapter 15. General validation
    1. 15.1 Validation scenarios
    2. 15.2 Storwize V7000 failover validation
      1. 15.2.1 Unexpected Fibre Channel cable failure
      2. 15.2.2 Unexpected node failure
    3. 15.3 Cisco Nexus devices
      1. 15.3.1 vPC peer switch failure validation
    4. 15.4 Cisco UCS service profile
      1. 15.4.1 Service profile migration validation
  20. Appendix A. Windows Active Directory and running configurations
    1. Building Windows Active Directory Server virtual machines
    2. Nexus 9000 running configuration
  21. Related publications
    1. IBM Redbooks
    2. Other resources
    3. Online resources
    4. Help from IBM
  22. Back cover

Product information

  • Title: VersaStack Solution by Cisco and IBM with IBM DB2, IBM Spectrum Control, and IBM Spectrum Protect
  • Author(s): Jon Tate, Vadi Bhatt, Sanjeev Naldurgkar, Filip Van Den Neucker, Asher Pemberton
  • Release date: February 2016
  • Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
  • ISBN: 9780738441351