This edition applies to IBM® Spectrum Accelerate V11.5.4.

IBM Spectrum Accelerate™, a member of IBM Spectrum Storage™, is an agile, software-defined storage solution for enterprise and cloud that builds on the customer-proven and mature IBM XIV® storage software. The key characteristic of Spectrum Accelerate is that it can be easily deployed and run on purpose-built or existing hardware that is chosen by the customer.

IBM Spectrum Accelerate enables rapid deployment of high-performance and scalable block data storage infrastructure over commodity hardware on-premises or off-premises.

This IBM Redbooks® publication provides a broad understanding of IBM Spectrum Accelerate. The book introduces Spectrum Accelerate and describes planning and preparation that are essential for a successful deployment of the solution. The deployment is described through a step-by-step approach, by using a graphical user interface (GUI) based method or a simple command-line interface (CLI) based procedure.

Chapters in this book describe the logical configuration of the system, host support and business continuity functions, and migration. Although it makes many references to the XIV storage software, the book also emphasizes where IBM Spectrum Accelerate differs from XIV.

Finally, a substantial portion of the book is dedicated to maintenance and troubleshooting to provide detailed guidance for the customer support personnel.

This book was produced by a team working at the International Technical Support Organization, San Jose Center.

Markus Oscheka is an IT Specialist for Proof of Concepts and Benchmarks with the Disk Solution Europe team in Germany. He has worked at IBM for 14 years. He has performed many Proof of Concepts with Copy Services on IBM Spectrum Virtualize™ and IBM Spectrum Storage, and Performance-Benchmarks with IBM Spectrum Virtualize and IBM Spectrum Storage. He has written extensively and acted as project lead for various IBM Redbooks publications. He has spoken at several System Technical Universities. He holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University in Darmstadt.

Bertrand Dufrasne is an IBM Certified Consulting IT Specialist and Project Leader for
IBM System Storage® disk products at the International Technical Support Organization (ITSO), San Jose Center. He has worked at IBM in various IT areas, authored many publications, and developed and taught technical workshops. Before joining the ITSO, he worked for IBM Global Services as an Application Architect. He holds a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering.

Grant Kabobel is a Storage Services and Architect Specialist with IBM US Lab Services. He has 15 years of IT experience, working as a Storage Admin / Engineer at multiple Fortune 500 companies. He has expertise with Brocade and Cisco SAN switches, Storage Data Overwrite, XIV servers, and flash storage.

Abilio Oliveira is an IBM Certified Expert IT Specialist and works as a Client Technical Specialist in Storage at IBM Asia Pacific. He has 22 years of IT experience. He holds a bachelor degree in Computer Science with a Master in Data Information Security. He has expertise in designing storage solutions with OpenStack, IBM XIV Storage System servers, and storage for cloud technologies. He also specializes in Storage Infrastructure Optimization studies.

Thanks also to the following authors of the previous editions:

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

We also want to thank the following people and organizations for their support and involvement:

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Yossi Siles
Ramy Buechler
Iddo Jacobi
Ralf Wohlfarth
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