As IBM® Scale Out Network Attached Storage (SONAS) is adopted, it is important to provide information about planning, installation, and daily administration. This IBM Redbooks® publication also describes leading tuning practices information gained by those who implement and support SONAS.

These preferred practices are based on hands-on experience from the field. Monitoring of the SONAS system is included. This IBM Redbooks publication provides information about IBM SONAS features and function at the 1.5.1 level.

This book is the companion to the IBM SONAS Implementation Guide, SG24-7962 IBM Redbooks publication. It is intended for readers who have implemented SONAS and are responsible for daily administration and monitoring.

This book was produced by a team of specialists from around the world working at the International Technical Support Organization (ITSO), Tucson Center.

Balazs Benyovszky is a Storage Technical Specialist working for IBM Systems and Technology Group (STG) in Hungary. He is responsible for IBM System Storage® presales technical support within STG. Balazs has worked for IBM since 2004 in various divisions. He worked for IBM Innovation Center for five years as a Technical Consultant on Storage and IBM Power Systems™ in the virtualization technical field. He graduated from the Technical University of Budapest in Budapest, Hungary.

David Denny is a Solutions Architect with Storage Solutions Engineering under IBM STG. David has over 20 years of experience in the information technology (IT) field, ranging from systems administration to enterprise storage architect. David’s focus is the SONAS and IBM XIV® product lines, and he is the lead corporate resource for data migrations with XIV. Before joining IBM, David was a Lead Architect of the Enterprise storage area network (SAN) for the Department of Defense Disaster Recovery Program at the Pentagon following the events of September 11, 2001. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree as well a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from Lynchburg College.

Mary Lovelace was a Consulting IT Specialist at the ITSO. She has more than 20 years of experience with IBM in large systems, storage, and storage networking product education; system engineering and consultancy; and systems support. Mary wrote many Redbooks publications about IBM SONAS, IBM Tivoli® Storage Productivity Center, Tivoli Storage Manager, and IBM z/OS® storage products.

John Sing is an Executive IT Consultant with IBM STG, with 30 years in the IT industry. John is a world-recognized IBM expert, speaker, and strategist in the areas of large SONAS, big data and modern analytics, IT strategy and planning, and IT high availability (HA) and business continuity. Since 2001, John has been an integral member of the IBM System Storage worldwide planning and support organizations. He brings his field experience in large-scale IT from 18 years in IBM sales, marketing, and engineering. His experience includes four years in overseas growth markets, IBM Hong Kong S.A.R. of the PRC, and IBM China from 1994 to 1998. Returning to the US in 1998, John joined the IBM Enterprise Storage Server® Planning team for Peer-to-Peer Remote Copy (PPRC), Extended Remote Copy (XRC, now known as IBM z/OS Global Mirror), and IBM FlashCopy®. He was the marketing manager for these products. In 2002, he began working in business continuity and IT strategy and planning. In 2009, John took on an additional role as an IBM Storage Strategist and Technical Lead in the IBM SONAS, big data, and cloud storage arenas.

Shradha Nayak Thakare is a Staff Software Engineer working with IBM India Software Labs in Pune, India. She holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science engineering and has eight years of experience. She has worked in the storage domain, with expertise in Scale out File Service (SoFS) and SONAS. She currently works as a Level-3 developer for SONAS, and also assists many client engagements for SONAS. Shradha is interested in storage products and cloud storage. She is currently focusing on SONAS authentication and authorization, assisting clients to set them up correctly. Shradha is also interested in social media and social networking tools and methodologies.

Thanks to the following people for their contributions to this project:

Karen Orlando
ITSO, Tucson Center

Jason Avenshine
Christian Ambach
Pratap Banthia
Tom Bish
Tom Beglin
Dave Bennin
Mathias Dietz
Mark Doumas
Greg Kishi
Doug Ledden
Andreas Luengen
Thomas Luther
Todd Neville
Chuck Quinn
Fred Stock
Mark Taylor
Renu Tewari
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