Part 2 Planning and installation
by Roland Wolf, Christian Ryan, Andreas Reinhardt, Jean Iyabi, Geno DeCarlo, Jeff C
IBM DS8880 Architecture and Implementation (Release 8.1)
- Front cover
- Notices
- IBM Redbooks promotions
- Preface
- Summary of changes
- Part 1 Concepts and architecture
- Chapter 1. Introduction to the IBM DS8880
- Chapter 2. IBM DS8880 hardware components and architecture
- Chapter 3. Reliability, availability, and serviceability on the IBM DS8880
- Chapter 4. Virtualization concepts
- Chapter 5. DS8000 Copy Services overview
- Chapter 6. Designed for performance
- 6.1 DS8880 hardware: Performance characteristics
- 6.2 Software performance: Synergy items
- 6.3 Performance considerations for disk drives
- 6.4 DS8000 superior caching algorithms
- 6.5 Performance considerations for logical configurations
- 6.6 I/O Priority Manager
- 6.7 IBM Easy Tier
- 6.8 Host performance and sizing considerations
- Part 2 Planning and installation
- Chapter 7. IBM DS8880 physical planning and installation
- 7.1 Considerations before the installation: Planning for growth
- 7.2 Planning for the physical installation
- 7.2.1 Delivery and staging area
- 7.2.2 Floor type and loading
- 7.2.3 Overhead cabling features
- 7.2.4 Room space and service clearance
- 7.2.5 Power requirements and operating environment
- 7.2.6 Host interface and cables
- 7.2.7 Host adapter Fibre Channel specifics for open environments
- 7.2.8 FICON specifics on z/OS environment
- 7.2.9 Preferred practice for host adapters
- 7.2.10 WWNN and WWPN determination
- 7.3 Network connectivity planning
- 7.3.1 Hardware Management Console and network access
- 7.3.2 IBM Spectrum Control
- 7.3.3 Data storage command-line interface
- 7.3.4 Remote support connection (embedded AOS)
- 7.3.5 Storage area network connection
- 7.3.6 Key manager servers for encryption
- 7.3.7 Lightweight Directory Access Protocol server for single sign-on
- 7.4 Remote Mirror and Copy connectivity
- 7.5 Disk capacity considerations
- Chapter 8. IBM DS8880 Management Console planning and setup
- Chapter 9. IBM DS8880 features and licensed functions
- Part 3 Storage configuration
- Chapter 10. Configuration flow
- Chapter 11. DS8880 Storage Management GUI
- 11.1 Introduction
- 11.2 DS8000 Storage Management GUI: Getting started
- 11.3 System configuration overview
- 11.4 Logical configuration overview
- 11.5 Logical configuration for fixed-block volumes
- 11.6 Logical configuration for count key data volumes
- 11.7 Monitoring system health
- 11.8 Performance monitoring
- 11.9 Fibre Channel error rate statistics
- 11.10 Accessing the previous DS GUI
- Chapter 12. Configuration with the data storage command-line interface
- 12.1 DS command-line interface overview
- 12.1.1 Supported operating systems for the DS CLI
- 12.1.2 Installation hints and tips
- 12.1.3 Installing the DSCLI on a Windows 10 system
- 12.1.4 DS CLI version
- 12.1.5 User accounts
- 12.1.6 User management by using the DS CLI
- 12.1.7 DS CLI profile
- 12.1.8 Configuring the DS CLI to use a second HMC
- 12.1.9 Command structure
- 12.1.10 Using the DS CLI application
- 12.1.11 Return codes
- 12.1.12 User assistance
- 12.2 I/O port configuration
- 12.3 DS8880 storage configuration for fixed-block volumes
- 12.4 DS8880 storage configuration for the CKD volumes
- 12.5 Metrics with DS CLI
- 12.6 Private network security commands
- 12.7 Copy Services commands
- 12.8 Further information
- 12.1 DS command-line interface overview
- Part 4 Maintenance and upgrades
- Chapter 13. Licensed machine code
- Chapter 14. Monitoring with Simple Network Management Protocol
- Chapter 15. Remote support
- Related publications
- Back cover
Planning and installation
This part of the book describes the installation planning process for the IBM DS8880.
This part contains the following chapters:
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