IBM Storage hardware Redbooks

04 October 2024, Redbooks

In today's digital age, downtime is not an option. Businesses rely on constant access to critical data to maintain productivity and ensure customer satisfaction. IBM® Storage Virtualize offers functionalities to safeguard your data against various threats. Policy-based replication and policy-based HA (policy-based-HA) protect against site failures by automatically failing over to a secondary ...

03 October 2024, Redbooks

The IBM TS7700 features a functional enhancement that allows for the TS7700 to act as an object store for IBM DS8000® Transparent Cloud Tiering with IBM DS8000, DFSMShsm (HSM), and native DFSMSdss (DSS). This function can be used to move data sets directly from DS8000 to TS7700. This IBM Redpaper publication provides a functional overview of the features, provides client value information, and ...

25 September 2024, Redpaper

Metro disaster recovery (DR) provides two-way synchronous data replication between IBM® Fusion HCI clusters installed at two sites. In the event of a site disaster, applications can be failed over to the second site. The replication between the sites is synchronous, hence, the Metro DR solution is only available for metropolitan distance data centers with 40 milliseconds latency or less. This ...

09 September 2024, Redbooks

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) ...

21 August 2024, Draft Redbooks

This IBM® Redbooks® publication covers IBM TS7700 R5.4 and R5.4 PGA1. The IBM TS7700 is part of a family of IBM Enterprise tape products. This book is intended for system architects and storage administrators who want to integrate their storage systems for optimal operation. Building on over 25 years of experience, the R5.4 release includes many features that enable improved performance, ...

20 August 2024, Redbooks

This IBM® Redbooks® publication describes the concepts, architecture, and implementation of the IBM Storage DS8900F family. The book provides reference information to assist readers who need to plan for, install, and configure the DS8900F systems. This edition applies to DS8900F systems with IBM Storage DS8000® Licensed Machine Code (LMC) 7.9.30 (bundle version 89.30.xx.x), referred to as Release ...

18 August 2024, Draft Redpaper

Building on 25 years of virtual tape experience, the IBM® TS7700 (IBM TS7760 and TS7770) now can store virtual tape volumes in object storage. This IBM Redpaper publication helps you set up and configure the cloud object storage support for IBM Cloud® Object Storage or Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). The TS7700 supported offloading to physical tape for over two decades. Using a TS7700 ...

15 August 2024, Redbooks

This IBM® Redbooks® publication presents a general introduction to the latest (current) IBM® tape and tape library technologies. Featured tape technologies include the IBM LTO Ultrium and Enterprise 3592 tape drives, and their implementation in IBM tape libraries. This 19th edition includes information about the latest IBM Linear Tape-Open (LTO) Ultrium 9 tape drive, IBM Diamondback tape ...

30 July 2024, Redbooks

This IBM Redbooks® publication is focused on the IBM b-type SAN Extension platforms and their deployment within IBM® Storage Solutions. IBM b-type SAN Extension platforms provide long-distance storage data transport over Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP), IBM FICON® over IP, or IP Extension (IPEX) protocols. The content within this book provides the reader an extensive look at the IBM b-type SAN ...

23 July 2024, Draft Redpaper

This IBM® Redpaper® Product Guide describes the IBM Storage FlashSystem® 9500 solution, which is a next-generation IBM Storage FlashSystem control enclosure. Combining advanced flash technology with NVMe and IBM FlashCore, IBM Storage FlashSystem 9500 delivers exceptional performance, reliability, and availability. Designed to withstand cyberattacks, this solution is essential for ...