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Performance and Best Practices Guide for IBM Storage FlashSystem and IBM SAN Volume Controller (for IBM Storage Virtualize 8.6)

An IBM Redbooks publication

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Published on 09 September 2024, updated 30 October 2024

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ISBN-10: 0738461644
ISBN-13: 9780738461649
IBM Form #: SG24-8543-00


Authors: Bernhard Albrecht, Christian Schroeder, Denis Olshanskiy, Hartmut Lonzer, John Nycz, Jon Herd, Konrad Trojok, Nils Olsson, Patrik Groß, Rene Wuellenweber, Sergey Kubin, Vasfi Gucer and Vineet Sharma

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Abstract

This IBM® Redbooks® publication captures several best practices and describes the performance gains that can be achieved by implementing the IBM Storage FlashSystem® and IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) products running IBM Storage Virtualize 8.6. These practices are based on field experience.

This book highlights configuration guidelines and best practices for the storage area network (SAN) topology, clustered system, back-end storage, storage pools and managed disks (MDisks), volumes, Remote Copy services, and hosts.

This book is intended for experienced storage, SAN, IBM Storage FlashSystem, and SVC administrators and technicians. Understanding this book requires advanced knowledge of these environments.

This book is focused on IBM Storage FlashSystem and SVC systems that run IBM Storage Virtualize 8.6. Most configuration principles and best practices that are described in the book are still applicable for systems that cannot be upgraded to version 8.6, but some features are not available.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1.Introduction and system overview

Chapter 2. Storage area network guidelines

Chapter 3. Storage back end

Chapter 4. Storage pools

Chapter 5. Volumes

Chapter 6. Copy services

Chapter 7. Ensuring business continuity

Chapter 8. Hosts

Chapter 9. Implementing a storage monitoring system

Chapter 10. Maintaining an IBM Storage Virtualize infrastructure

Chapter 11. Troubleshooting and diagnostics

Appendix A. IBM i considerations

 

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