Summary of changes
by Abilio Oliveira, Grant Kabobel, Bertrand Dufrasne, Markus Oscheka
IBM Spectrum Accelerate Deployment, Usage, and Maintenance
- Front cover
- Notices
- Preface
- Summary of changes
- Chapter 1. Introducing IBM Spectrum Accelerate
- Chapter 2. Planning for IBM Spectrum Accelerate
- Chapter 3. IBM Spectrum Accelerate command-line deployment
- Chapter 4. IBM Spectrum Accelerate GUI-based deployment
- Chapter 5. Configuring and Managing IBM Spectrum Accelerate
- Chapter 6. Host attachment
- 6.1 Supported operating systems for iSCSI host attachment
- 6.2 iSCSI connectivity and IBM Spectrum Accelerate
- 6.3 Configuring Spectrum Accelerate iSCSI port connectivity
- 6.4 Host attachment to an IBM Spectrum Accelerate system
- 6.5 Installing and configuring Host Attachment Kit on Windows
- 6.6 Installing the Host Attachment Kit on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- 6.7 IBM Spectrum Accelerate Host-side Accelerator
- 6.7.1 Installing and configuring the IBM Host Attachment Kit with IBM Host-side Accelerate support on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1
- 6.7.2 Migrating older Linux multipath volumes to use Host-side Acceleration
- 6.7.3 Migrating Host-side Acceleration volumes to use older Linux multipathing
- 6.7.4 Disabling IBM Spectrum Accelerate Host-side Acceleration
- 6.8 Using Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager with an IBM Spectrum Accelerate system
- Chapter 7. Remote mirroring with IBM Spectrum Accelerate
- Chapter 8. Data Migration with IBM Spectrum Accelerate
- 8.1 Migration overview
- 8.2 Migrating a volume
- 8.2.1 Initial connection and preparation
- 8.2.2 Performing pre-migration tasks for each migrated host
- 8.2.3 Defining and testing data migration volumes
- 8.2.4 Activating data migration on the migrated volumes
- 8.2.5 Defining the host in IBM Spectrum Accelerate and bringing the host online
- 8.2.6 Completing the data migration on IBM Spectrum Accelerate
- Chapter 9. Maintenance and upgrades
- 9.1 Operations Administrator user category
- 9.2 Concurrent IBM Spectrum Accelerate system upgrade
- 9.3 Adding a module to an IBM Spectrum Accelerate
- 9.4 Concurrent rolling hardware alterations to modules
- 9.5 Disk failure and replacement
- 9.6 SSD failure and replacement
- 9.7 Handling a module failure
- 9.7.1 Case 1: Module failure at the IBM Spectrum Accelerate system software level
- 9.7.2 Case 2: Module failure at VMware level (Virtual Machine is powered off)
- 9.7.3 Case 3: Module failure requiring software replacement
- 9.7.4 Case 4: Module failure requiring hardware replacement
- 9.7.5 Repairing module software or hardware with IBM XIV Management GUI
- Chapter 10. Troubleshooting
- 10.1 Troubleshooting deployment failures
- 10.1.1 Common issues with CLI deployment and XML file
- 10.1.2 Could not find a suitable xiv_local_storage.vmdk (path not found)
- 10.1.3 Creating direct attach disk paths failed
- 10.1.4 VM already exists failure
- 10.1.5 ESXi server cannot be added to cluster
- 10.1.6 Disks not providing SMART status
- 10.1.7 System in Maintenance Mode because of incorrect ESXi version
- 10.2 Collecting system logs from an IBM Spectrum Accelerate system
- 10.3 Collecting VMware support logs
- 10.4 Collecting network switch and router logs
- 10.5 Proactive and remote support
- 10.6 Emergency shutdown by power monitoring system
- 10.7 Handling IBM Spectrum Accelerate events
- 10.1 Troubleshooting deployment failures
- Appendix A. IBM Spectrum Accelerate events list
- Related publications
- Back cover
Summary of changes
This section describes the technical changes that were made in this edition of the book and in previous editions. This edition might also include minor corrections and editorial changes that are not identified.
July 2017, Third Edition
This revision includes the following new and changed information.
New information
•Support for converged infrastructures in 2.1.1, “Converged infrastructures and asymmetric servers support” on page 15 and 3.1.3, “VMware vSphere configuration for converged infrastructure” on page 40.
•Support for Host-side Accelerator in 6.7, “IBM Spectrum Accelerate Host-side Accelerator” on page 152.
Changed information
•New Hardware requirements (in 2.2.1, “Hardware requirements” on page 17)
•Revised deployment instructions in Chapter 3, “IBM Spectrum Accelerate command-line deployment” on page 37 and Chapter 4, “IBM Spectrum Accelerate GUI-based deployment” on page 55
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