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by James Whitaker, Glen Routley, Libor Miklas, Pawel Brodacki, Erwan Auffret, Jon T
Implementing the IBM Storwize V7000 with IBM Spectrum Virtualize V8.1
- Front cover
- Notices
- Preface
- Summary of changes
- Chapter 1. Introduction to storage virtualization
- Chapter 2. System overview
- 2.1 IBM Spectrum Virtualize
- 2.2 Storage virtualization
- 2.3 IBM Storwize V7000 overview
- 2.4 IBM Storwize V7000 hardware
- 2.5 IBM Storwize V7000 components
- 2.5.1 Hosts
- 2.5.2 Host cluster
- 2.5.3 Nodes or canisters
- 2.5.4 I/O groups
- 2.5.5 Cache
- 2.5.6 Clustered system
- 2.5.7 HyperSwap
- 2.5.8 Dense expansion drawers
- 2.5.9 Expansion Enclosures
- 2.5.10 RAID
- 2.5.11 Read Intensive Flash Drives
- 2.5.12 Managed disks
- 2.5.13 Quorum disks
- 2.5.14 IP Quorum
- 2.5.15 Storage pool
- 2.5.16 Volumes
- 2.5.17 Easy Tier
- 2.5.18 Encryption
- 2.5.19 iSCSI
- 2.5.20 Real-time Compression
- 2.5.21 IP replication
- 2.5.22 IBM Storwize V7000 copy services
- 2.5.23 Synchronous or asynchronous remote copy
- 2.5.24 FlashCopy and Transparent Cloud Tiering
- 2.6 Business continuity
- 2.7 Management and support tools
- 2.8 Useful IBM Storwize V7000 websites
- Chapter 3. Planning
- 3.1 General planning rules
- 3.2 Planning for availability
- 3.3 Connectivity planning
- 3.4 Physical planning
- 3.5 Planning IP connectivity
- 3.6 SAN configuration planning
- 3.7 iSCSI configuration planning
- 3.8 Back-end storage subsystem configuration
- 3.9 Internal storage configuration
- 3.10 Storage pool configuration
- 3.11 Volume configuration
- 3.12 Host attachment planning
- 3.13 Host mapping and LUN masking
- 3.14 NPIV planning
- 3.15 Advanced Copy Services
- 3.16 SAN boot support
- 3.17 Data migration from a non-virtualized storage subsystem
- 3.18 Storwize V7000 configuration backup procedure
- 3.19 Performance considerations
- Chapter 4. Initial configuration
- Chapter 5. Graphical user interface
- Chapter 6. Storage pools
- Chapter 7. Volumes
- 7.1 Introduction to volumes
- 7.2 Create Volumes menu
- 7.3 Creating volumes
- 7.4 Mapping a volume to the host
- 7.5 Creating Custom volumes
- 7.6 HyperSwap and the mkvolume command
- 7.7 Mapping Volumes to Host after volume creation
- 7.8 Migrating a volume to another storage pool
- 7.9 Migrating volumes using the volume copy feature
- 7.10 Volume operations using the CLI
- 7.10.1 Creating a volume
- 7.10.2 Volume information
- 7.10.3 Creating a thin-provisioned volume
- 7.10.4 Creating a volume in image mode
- 7.10.5 Adding a mirrored volume copy
- 7.10.6 Adding a compressed volume copy
- 7.10.7 Splitting a mirrored volume
- 7.10.8 Modifying a volume
- 7.10.9 Deleting a volume
- 7.10.10 Using volume protection
- 7.10.11 Expanding a volume
- 7.10.12 Assigning a volume to a host
- 7.10.13 Showing volume to host mappings
- 7.10.14 Deleting a volume to host mapping
- 7.10.15 Migrating a volume
- 7.10.16 Migrating a fully managed volume to an image mode volume
- 7.10.17 Shrinking a volume
- 7.10.18 Showing a volume on an MDisk
- 7.10.19 Showing which volumes are using a storage pool
- 7.10.20 Showing which MDisks are used by a specific volume
- 7.10.21 Showing from which storage pool a volume has its extents
- 7.10.22 Showing the host to which the volume is mapped
- 7.10.23 Showing the volume to which the host is mapped
- 7.10.24 Tracing a volume from a host back to its physical disk
- 7.11 I/O throttling
- Chapter 8. Hosts
- Chapter 9. Storage migration
- Chapter 10. Advanced features for storage efficiency
- 10.1 Introduction
- 10.2 EasyTier
- 10.2.1 EasyTier concepts
- 10.2.2 Flash drive arrays and flash MDisks
- 10.2.3 Disk tiers
- 10.2.4 Read Intensive Flash drives and EasyTier
- 10.2.5 EasyTier process
- 10.2.6 EasyTier operating modes
- 10.2.7 Implementation considerations
- 10.2.8 Modifying the EasyTier setting
- 10.2.9 Monitoring tools
- 10.2.10 More information
- 10.3 Thin provisioning
- 10.4 Unmap
- 10.5 Real-time Compression
- 10.5.1 Common use cases
- 10.5.2 Real-time Compression concepts
- 10.5.3 Random Access Compression Engine
- 10.5.4 Dual RACE instances
- 10.5.5 Random Access Compression Engine in IBM Spectrum Virtualize stack
- 10.5.6 Data write flow
- 10.5.7 Data read flow
- 10.5.8 Compression of existing data
- 10.5.9 Configuring compressed volumes
- 10.5.10 Comprestimator
- Chapter 11. Advanced Copy Services
- 11.1 IBM FlashCopy
- 11.1.1 Business requirements for FlashCopy
- 11.1.2 FlashCopy principles and terminology
- 11.1.3 FlashCopy Mapping
- 11.1.4 Consistency Groups
- 11.1.5 Crash consistent copy and hosts considerations
- 11.1.6 Grains and bitmap - I/O indirection
- 11.1.7 Interaction with the cache
- 11.1.8 Background Copy Rate
- 11.1.9 Incremental FlashCopy
- 11.1.10 Starting FlashCopy mappings and Consistency Groups
- 11.1.11 Multiple target FlashCopy
- 11.1.12 Reverse FlashCopy
- 11.1.13 FlashCopy and image mode Volumes
- 11.1.14 FlashCopy mapping events
- 11.1.15 Thin provisioned FlashCopy
- 11.1.16 Serialization of I/O by FlashCopy
- 11.1.17 Event handling
- 11.1.18 Asynchronous notifications
- 11.1.19 Interoperation with Metro Mirror and Global Mirror
- 11.1.20 FlashCopy attributes and limitations
- 11.2 Managing FlashCopy by using the GUI
- 11.2.1 FlashCopy presets
- 11.2.2 FlashCopy window
- 11.2.3 Creating a FlashCopy mapping
- 11.2.4 Single-click snapshot
- 11.2.5 Single-click clone
- 11.2.6 Single-click backup
- 11.2.7 Creating a FlashCopy Consistency Group
- 11.2.8 Creating FlashCopy mappings in a Consistency Group
- 11.2.9 Showing related Volumes
- 11.2.10 Moving FlashCopy mappings across Consistency Groups
- 11.2.11 Removing FlashCopy mappings from Consistency Groups
- 11.2.12 Modifying a FlashCopy mapping
- 11.2.13 Renaming FlashCopy mappings
- 11.2.14 Renaming a Consistency Group
- 11.2.15 Deleting FlashCopy mappings
- 11.2.16 Deleting a FlashCopy Consistency Group
- 11.2.17 Starting FlashCopy mappings
- 11.2.18 Stopping FlashCopy mappings
- 11.2.19 Memory allocation for FlashCopy
- 11.3 Transparent Cloud Tiering
- 11.4 Implementing Transparent Cloud Tiering
- 11.5 Volume mirroring and migration options
- 11.6 Remote Copy
- 11.6.1 IBM SAN Volume Controller and Storwize System Layers
- 11.6.2 Multiple IBM Spectrum Virtualize systems replication
- 11.6.3 Importance of write ordering
- 11.6.4 Remote copy intercluster communication
- 11.6.5 Metro Mirror overview
- 11.6.6 Synchronous remote copy
- 11.6.7 Metro Mirror features
- 11.6.8 Metro Mirror attributes
- 11.6.9 Practical use of Metro Mirror
- 11.6.10 Global Mirror overview
- 11.6.11 Asynchronous remote copy
- 11.6.12 Global Mirror features
- 11.6.13 Using Change Volumes with Global Mirror
- 11.6.14 Distribution of work among nodes
- 11.6.15 Background copy performance
- 11.6.16 Thin-provisioned background copy
- 11.6.17 Methods of synchronization
- 11.6.18 Practical use of Global Mirror
- 11.6.19 Spectrum Virtualize HyperSwap topology
- 11.6.20 Consistency Protection for GM/MM
- 11.6.21 Valid combinations of FlashCopy, Metro Mirror, and Global Mirror
- 11.6.22 Remote Copy configuration limits
- 11.6.23 Remote Copy states and events
- 11.7 Remote Copy commands
- 11.7.1 Remote Copy process
- 11.7.2 Listing available system partners
- 11.7.3 Changing the system parameters
- 11.7.4 System partnership
- 11.7.5 Creating a Metro Mirror/Global Mirror consistency group
- 11.7.6 Creating a Metro Mirror/Global Mirror relationship
- 11.7.7 Changing Metro Mirror/Global Mirror relationship
- 11.7.8 Changing Metro Mirror/Global Mirror consistency group
- 11.7.9 Starting Metro Mirror/Global Mirror relationship
- 11.7.10 Stopping Metro Mirror/Global Mirror relationship
- 11.7.11 Starting Metro Mirror/Global Mirror consistency group
- 11.7.12 Stopping Metro Mirror/Global Mirror consistency group
- 11.7.13 Deleting Metro Mirror/Global Mirror relationship
- 11.7.14 Deleting Metro Mirror/Global Mirror consistency group
- 11.7.15 Reversing Metro Mirror/Global Mirror relationship
- 11.7.16 Reversing Metro Mirror/Global Mirror consistency group
- 11.8 Native IP replication
- 11.9 Managing Remote Copy by using the GUI
- 11.9.1 Creating Fibre Channel partnership
- 11.9.2 Creating remote copy relationships
- 11.9.3 Creating Consistency Group
- 11.9.4 Renaming remote copy relationships
- 11.9.5 Renaming a remote copy consistency group
- 11.9.6 Moving stand-alone remote copy relationships to Consistency Group
- 11.9.7 Removing remote copy relationships from Consistency Group
- 11.9.8 Starting remote copy relationships
- 11.9.9 Starting a remote copy Consistency Group
- 11.9.10 Switching a relationship copy direction
- 11.9.11 Switching a Consistency Group direction
- 11.9.12 Stopping remote copy relationships
- 11.9.13 Stopping a Consistency Group
- 11.9.14 Deleting remote copy relationships
- 11.9.15 Deleting a Consistency Group
- 11.10 Remote Copy memory allocation
- 11.11 Troubleshooting remote copy
- 11.1 IBM FlashCopy
- Chapter 12. Encryption
- 12.1 Planning for encryption
- 12.2 Defining encryption of data at-rest
- 12.3 Activating encryption
- 12.4 Enabling encryption
- 12.5 Configuring additional providers
- 12.6 Migrating between providers
- 12.7 Recovering from a provider loss
- 12.8 Using encryption
- 12.9 Rekeying an encryption-enabled system
- 12.10 Migrating between key providers
- 12.11 Disabling encryption
- Chapter 13. RAS, monitoring, and troubleshooting
- 13.1 Reliability, availability, and serviceability
- 13.2 Shutting down IBM Storwize V7000
- 13.3 Configuration backup
- 13.4 Software update
- 13.5 Health Checker feature
- 13.6 Troubleshooting and fix procedures
- 13.7 Monitoring
- 13.8 Audit log
- 13.9 Collecting support information using the GUI and the CLI
- 13.10 Service Assistant Tool
- Appendix A. Performance data and statistics gathering
- Appendix B. CLI setup
- Appendix C. Terminology
- Related publications
- Back cover
Summary of changes
This section describes the technical changes 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.
Summary of Changes
for SG24-7933-06
for Implementing the IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller with IBM Spectrum Virtualize V8.1
as created or updated on February 22, 2018.
for SG24-7933-06
for Implementing the IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller with IBM Spectrum Virtualize V8.1
as created or updated on February 22, 2018.
February 2018, Seventh Edition
This revision includes the following new and changed information.
New information
•Add new look GUI
•Hot Spare node
•RAS line items
Changed information
•Added new GUI windows throughout
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