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IBM FlashSystem and VMware Implementation and Best Practices Guide

Author Duane Bolland , Jordan Fincher , David Green , Vasfi Gucer , Warren Hawkins , Ibrahim
Release Date: 2021/07/01
ISBN: 9780738459813
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This IBM® Redbooks® publication details the configuration and best practices for using IBM's FlashSystem family of storage products within a VMware environment. This book was published in 2021 and specifically addresses Spectrum Virtualize Version 8.4 with VMware vSphere Version 7.0.

Topics illustrate planning, configuring, operations, and preferred practices that include integration of FlashSystem storage systems with the VMware vCloud suite of applications:

- vSphere Web Client (VWC)
- vStorage APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA)
- vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI)
- Site Recovery Manager (SRM)
- vSphere Metro Storage Cluster (vMSC)

This book is intended for presales consulting engineers, sales engineers, and IBM clients who want to deploy IBM FlashSystem® storage systems in virtualized data centers that are based on VMware vSphere.

Table of Contents

  1. Front cover
  2. Figures
  3. Tables
  4. Examples
  5. Notices
    1. Trademarks
  6. Preface
    1. Authors
    2. Now you can become a published author, too!
    3. Comments welcome
    4. Stay connected to IBM Redbooks
  7. Chapter 1. Introduction
    1. 1.1 IBM and VMware
    2. 1.2 Overview of IBM Spectrum Virtualize and IBM FlashSystem
    3. 1.2.1 IBM Spectrum Virtualize
    4. 1.2.2 IBM FlashSystem
    5. 1.2.3 Key IBM Spectrum Virtualize terminology
    6. 1.3 Overview of IBM FlashSystem with VMware
  8. Chapter 2. Host and storage connectivity
    1. 2.1 Test environment implementation
    2. 2.1.1 FlashSystem host clusters
    3. 2.1.2 Use cases for implementing throttles
    4. 2.1.3 Data reduction pools
    5. 2.2 Host connectivity protocols
    6. 2.2.1 iSCSI
    7. 2.2.2 iSER
    8. 2.2.3 FC-NVMe
    9. 2.2.4 SCSI Fibre-Channel
    10. 2.3 Multi-path considerations
    11. 2.3.1 Path selection policies
    12. 2.3.2 Zoning considerations
  9. Chapter 3. Storage consumption
    1. 3.1 Datastore types
    2. 3.1.1 vSphere Virtual Machine File System
    3. 3.1.2 Raw Device Mappings
    4. 3.1.3 vSphere Virtual Volumes
    5. 3.2 VMware vSphere Storage APIs Array Integration (VAAI)
    6. 3.2.1 Atomic Test and Set / SCSI Compare and Write
    7. 3.2.2 Extended copy - XCOPY
    8. 3.2.3 WRITE_SAME
    9. 3.2.4 SCSI UNMAP command
  10. Chapter 4. Integration with VMware using IBM Spectrum Connect
    1. 4.1 Overview of IBM Spectrum Connect
    2. 4.1.1 Supported cloud interfaces
    3. 4.1.2 Installation considerations
    4. 4.1.3 Download and Installation of IBM Spectrum Connect
    5. 4.1.4 Initial configuration
    6. 4.1.5 Registering a Storage System into IBM Spectrum Connect
    7. 4.2 Understanding Storage Spaces and Storage Services
    8. 4.2.1 Creating Storage Services
    9. 4.2.2 Allocating capacity to Storage Services
    10. 4.2.3 Delegating Storage Services to vCenter
    11. 4.3 vSphere Virtual Volumes
    12. 4.3.1 Virtual Volumes overview
    13. 4.3.2 Configuring IBM Spectrum Virtualize to support vVols
    14. 4.3.3 Configuring IBM Spectrum Connect
    15. 4.3.4 Configuring VMware vSphere vCenter
    16. 4.3.5 Creating a vVol datastore
    17. 4.4 Best practice considerations and troubleshooting
    18. 4.4.1 Protecting the Spectrum Connect server
    19. 4.4.2 Viewing the relationships between vVol and VM
    20. 4.4.3 Mirroring the utility volume
    21. 4.4.4 Performing an upgrade on a storage system with vVols enabled
    22. 4.4.5 Understanding audit log entries
    23. 4.4.6 Spectrum Virtualize GUI
    24. 4.4.7 Metadata vdisk
    25. 4.4.8 Enable Debug in Spectrum Connect
    26. 4.4.9 Certificates
    27. 4.4.10 Prerequisites, limitations and restrictions
    28. 4.5 IBM Storage Enhancements for VMware vSphere Web Client
    29. 4.5.1 Installation of the vSphere plugin
    30. 4.5.2 Provisioning storage from within vCenter
    31. 4.5.3 Using the IBM Storage Enhancements vSphere plugin
    32. 4.5.4 Viewing additional storage information from within vSphere Client
    33. 4.6 Performing additional storage volume management tasks
    34. 4.6.1 Considerations
    35. 4.7 IBM Storage Plug-in for VMware vRealize Orchestrator
    36. 4.7.1 Configuring Spectrum Connect for vRealize Orchestrator
    37. 4.7.2 Using vRealize Automation and vRealize Orchestrator
    38. 4.8 IBM Storage Management Pack for VMware vRealize Operations Manager
    39. 4.8.1 Configuring Spectrum Connect for vRealize Operations Manager
    40. 4.8.2 Installing Management Pack in vRealize Operations Manager
  11. Chapter 5. VMware and Spectrum Virtualize multi-site guidelines
    1. 5.1 Copy Services overview
    2. 5.1.1 FlashCopy
    3. 5.1.2 Metro Mirror
    4. 5.1.3 Global Mirror
    5. 5.1.4 Remote copy consistency groups
    6. 5.1.5 VMware Site Recovery Manager
    7. 5.1.6 Storage Replication Adapter
    8. 5.2 Storage Replication Adapter with VMware Site Recovery Manager
    9. 5.2.1 Storage replication adapter planning
    10. 5.2.2 Storage Replication Adapter for VMware installation
    11. 5.2.3 Storage Replication Adapter configuration and usage guide
    12. 5.3 IBM HyperSwap with VMware vSphere Metro Storage Cluster
    13. 5.3.1 IBM HyperSwap
    14. 5.3.2 VMware vSphere Metro Storage Cluster
    15. 5.3.3 IBM HyperSwap with VMware vSphere Metro Storage
  12. Chapter 6. Troubleshooting
    1. 6.1 Collecting data for support
    2. 6.1.1 Data Collection Guidelines for SVC and FlashSystems
    3. 6.1.2 Data collection guidelines for VMware ESXi
    4. 6.1.3 Data collection guidelines for VMware Site Recovery Manager
    5. 6.1.4 Data collection guidelines for IBM Spectrum Connect (VASA/vVol)
    6. 6.2 Common support cases
    7. 6.2.1 Storage loss of access
    8. 6.2.2 VMware migrate task failures
  13. Related publications
    1. IBM Redbooks
    2. Online resources
    3. Help from IBM
  14. Back cover
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