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Preface

Organizations of all sizes face the challenge of managing massive volumes of increasingly valuable data. But storing this data can be costly, and extracting value from the data is becoming more difficult. IT organizations have limited resources but must stay responsive to dynamic environments and act quickly to consolidate, simplify, and optimize their IT infrastructures. The IBM® Storwize® V5000 Gen2 system provides a smarter solution that is affordable, easy to use, and self-optimizing, which enables organizations to overcome these storage challenges.

The Storwize V5000 Gen2 delivers efficient, entry-level configurations that are designed to meet the needs of small and midsize businesses. Designed to provide organizations with the ability to consolidate and share data at an affordable price, the Storwize V5000 Gen2 offers advanced software capabilities that are found in more expensive systems.

This IBM Redbooks® publication is intended for pre-sales and post-sales technical support professionals and storage administrators.

It applies to the Storwize V5030, V5020, and V5010, and to IBM Spectrum Virtualize™ V8.1.

Authors

This book was produced by a team of specialists from around the world working at the International Technical Support Organization, San Jose Center.

	Jon Tate is a Project Manager for IBM System Storage® SAN Solutions at the International Technical Support Organization (ITSO), San Jose Center. Before Jon joined the ITSO in 1999, he worked in the IBM Technical Support Center, providing Level 2 support for IBM storage products. Jon has 32 years of experience in storage software and management, services, and support. He is both an IBM Certified IT Specialist and an IBM SAN Certified Specialist. He is also the UK Chairman of the Storage Networking Industry Association.
	Dharmesh Kamdar has been working in IBM Systems group for over 15 years as a Senior Software Engineer. He works in the Open Systems Lab (OSL), where he focuses on interoperability testing of a range of IBM storage products with various vendor products, including operating systems, clustering solutions, virtualization platforms, volume managers, and file systems.
	Hartmut Lonzer is an OEM Alliance Manager for IBM Storage. Before this position, he was a Client Technical Specialist for IBM Germany. He works in the IBM Germany headquarters in Ehningen. His main focus is on the IBM SAN Volume Controller, IBM Storwize Family, and IBM VersaStack. His experience with the IBM SAN Volume Controller and Storwize products goes back to the beginning of these products. Hartmut has been with IBM in various technical roles for 40 years.
	Gustavo Tinelli Martins is a Storage Technical Leader who works for IBM Global Technology Services® in Brazil. He is also an IBM Certified IT Specialist, member of IBM’s IT Specialist Advisory Board, responsible for evaluating candidates who wish to acquire the title of IBM IT specialist. Gustavo has eight years of professional experience, of which two of those years were dedicated to Customer’s Service Center and the other six years were dedicated to the Storage Service Line. Gustavo is certified in multiple IBM storage technologies and also in other vendor storage products.

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

•James Whitaker

•Catarina Castro

•Martyn Spink

•Djihed Afifi

•Vanessa Howling

IBM Manchester Lab

Thanks to the following authors of the previous edition of this book:

•Catarina Castro

•Uwe Dubberke

•Justin Heather

•Andrew Hickey

•Imran Imtiaz

•Nancy Kinney

•Hartmut Lonzer

•Adam Lyon-Jones

•Saiprasad Prabhakar Parkar

•Edward Seager

•Lee Sirett

•Chris Tapsell

•Paulo Tomiyoshi Takeda

•Dieter Utesch

•Thomas Vogel

•Mikhail Zakharov

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