Preface
This IBM® Redbooks® publication provides best practice guidance for planning, installing, configuring, and employing the IBM TS7600 ProtecTIER® family of products. It provides the latest best practices for the practical application of ProtecTIER Software Version 3.4. This latest release introduces the new ProtecTIER Enterprise Edition TS7650G DD6 model high performance server. This book also includes information about the revolutionary and patented IBM HyperFactor® deduplication engine, along with other data storage efficiency techniques, such as compression and defragmentation.
The IBM System Storage® TS7650G ProtecTIER Deduplication Gateway and the IBM System Storage TS7620 ProtecTIER Deduplication Appliance Express are disk-based data storage systems: The Virtual Tape Library (VTL) interface is the foundation of ProtecTIER and emulates traditional automated tape libraries.
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Notes:
•ProtecTIER GA Version 3.4 was released with only the Virtual Tape Library (VTL) interface support. File System Interface (FSI) support was added to ProtecTIER PGA 3.4 Version. For details, see the announcement letter:
•ProtecTIER Version 3.4 no longer supports OpenStorage (OST).
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For your existing ProtecTIER solution, this guide provides best practices and suggestions to boost the performance and the effectiveness of data deduplication with regards to your application platforms for your VTL and FSI (systems prior to version 3.4).
When you build a ProtecTIER data deduplication environment, this guide can help IT architects and solution designers plan for the best option and scenario for data deduplication for their environments. This book can help you optimize your deduplication ratio, while reducing the hardware, power and cooling, and management costs.
This Redbooks publication provides expertise that was gained from an IBM ProtecTIER System Client Technical Specialist (CTS), Development, and Quality Assurance teams.
This planning should be done by the Sales Representative or IBM Business Partner, with the help of an IBM System CTS or IBM Solution Architect.
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Note: The following ProtecTIER products are withdrawn; they cannot be directly ordered and are not supported by ProtecTIER v3.4:
•TS7650 ProtecTIER Deduplication Appliance, 3958-AP1.
•TS7610 ProtecTIER Deduplication Appliance Express, 3959-SM1. This product was replaced by the TS7620 ProtecTIER Deduplication Appliance Express, 3959-SM2.
For more information, search at the following web page:
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Authors
This book was produced by a team of specialists from around the world working at the International Technical Support Organization, Poughkeepsie Center.
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Karen Orlando is a Project Leader at the International Technical Support Organization, Tucson Arizona Center. Karen has over 25 years in the IT industry with extensive experience in open systems management, and information, development, and test of IBM hardware and software for storage. She holds a degree in Business Information Systems from the University of Phoenix and is Project Management Professional (PMP), certified since 2005.
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Mara Miranda Bautista is a Level 3 Support Engineer for the ProtecTIER team in Guadalajara, at IBM Mexico Software Lab. Mara has eight years of experience in the storage systems field. She joined IBM in 2011, and has worked with the Level 3 Support team ever since. Mara holds a B.A. in Computer Science from Universidad Autonoma de Baja California in Mexico.
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Emmanuel Barajas Gonzalez has a bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Computer Science and a master’s degree in Information Technologies. He joined IBM in 2008 and has participated in several projects that have involved both Development and Support of IBM products related to massive storage of data for both IBM Mainframe and Open Systems. Emmanuel has been awarded 30 patents for his innovations in many areas of the technology and with different applications. Additionally Emmanuel has worked in on several initiatives related to big data and specifically in Apache Hadoop. He is currently working on DataScience and Machine Learning projects in order to generate new and more efficient implementations of current processes.
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Carlos A. Martinez Vazquez is a Test Engineer at the IBM Mexico Software Lab, where he joined in 2010. With eight years of experience in the Quality Assurance field, he currently works as the Team Lead of the Quality Assurance team in IBM Guadalajara. He began his career at IBM working on ProtecTIER products as a Test Engineer, where he performed testing for Virtual Tape Library (VTL), OpenStorage (OST), File System Interface (FSI), Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), among other ProtecTIER functionalities. After four years on the testing team Carlos moved to Level 3 support where he spent one year, then returned in 2015 to the Quality Assurance team as its team leader. Carlos holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the Universidad de Guadalajara, and he an ISTQB Certified Tester with an Agile testing specialization.
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Thanks to the following people for their contributions to this project:
Eva Balogh, Jiang Wen Cao, Thomas Chandler, Javier A. Guzman Cortazar, Erik Franz, Rosane Goldstein Langnor, Benji Lee, Camilo Augusto Espinosa Martinez, Jesus Arturo Serrano Preciado, James Reichardt, Ren Ting Tong, Mervyn Venter, Ming Yang
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Thanks to the authors of the previous editions of this book.
•Third edition, published August 2014:
Mara Miranda Bautista, Jose Roberto Mosqueda Mejia, Rosane Goldstein Langnor, Karen Orlando,
•Second edition, published May 2013:
Mathias Defiebre, Dan Riedel, Daniel Wendler, Karen Orlando
•First edition, published August 2012:
Mathias Defiebre, Adriana Pellegrini Furnielis, Jane Lau, Libor Miklas, Angela Pholphiboun, Karen Orlando
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