Preface
The success or failure of businesses often depends on how well organizations use their data assets for competitive advantage. Deeper insights from data require better information technology.
As organizations modernize their IT infrastructure to boost innovation rather than limit it, they need a data storage system that can keep pace with highly virtualized environments, cloud computing, mobile and social systems of engagement, and in-depth, real-time analytics.
Making the correct decision on storage investment is critical. Organizations must have enough storage performance and agility to innovate as they need to implement cloud-based IT services, deploy virtual desktop infrastructure, enhance fraud detection, and use new analytics capabilities. At the same time, future storage investments must lower IT infrastructure costs while helping organizations to derive the greatest possible value from their data assets.
The IBM® FlashSystem V9000 is the premier, fully integrated, Tier 1, all-flash offering from IBM. It has changed the economics of today’s data center by eliminating storage bottlenecks. Its software-defined storage features simplify data management, improve data security, and preserve your investments in storage. The IBM FlashSystem® V9000 SAS expansion enclosures provide new tiering options with read-intensive SSDs or nearline SAS HDDs.
IBM FlashSystem V9000 includes IBM FlashCore® technology and advanced software-defined storage available in one solution in a compact 6U form factor. IBM FlashSystem V9000 improves business application availability. It delivers greater resource utilization so you can get the most from your storage resources, and achieve a simpler, more scalable, and cost-efficient IT Infrastructure.
This IBM Redbooks® publication provides information about IBM FlashSystem V9000 Software V7.7 and introduces the recently announced V7.8. It describes the product architecture, software, hardware, and implementation, and provides hints and tips. It illustrates use cases and independent software vendor (ISV) scenarios that demonstrate real-world solutions, and also provides examples of the benefits gained by integrating the IBM FlashSystem storage into business environments.
Using IBM FlashSystem V9000 software functions, management tools, and interoperability combines the performance of IBM FlashSystem architecture with the advanced functions of software-defined storage to deliver performance, efficiency, and functions that meet the needs of enterprise workloads that demand IBM MicroLatency® response time.
This book offers IBM FlashSystem V9000 scalability concepts and guidelines for planning, installing, and configuring, which can help environments scale up and out to add more flash capacity and expand virtualized systems. Port utilization methodologies are provided to help you maximize the full potential of IBM FlashSystem V9000 performance and low latency in your scalable environment.
This book is intended for pre-sales and post-sales technical support professionals, storage administrators, and anyone who wants to understand how to implement this exciting technology.
IBM Spectrum Control family
The following IBM Spectrum™ Storage family of offerings are described and referenced throughout this book. The IBM Spectrum Family consists of the following products:
•IBM Spectrum Accelerate™ offers grid-scale block storage with rapid deployment that helps speed delivery of data across an enterprise, and adds extreme flexibility to cloud deployments.
For more information about IBM Spectrum Accelerate, see the following web page:
•IBM Spectrum Scale™ is flash-accelerated, industrial strength, highly scalable software-defined storage that enables global shared access to data, with extreme scalability and agility for cloud and analytics.
For more information about IBM Spectrum Scale, see the following web page:
•IBM Spectrum Virtualize™ software is at the heart of IBM SAN Volume Controller and the IBM Storwize® family. It enables these systems to deliver industry-leading virtualization that enhances storage to improve resource utilization and productivity. It also streamlines deployment for a simpler, more responsive, scalable, and cost-efficient IT infrastructure.
For details about IBM Spectrum Virtualize and IBM SAN Volume Controller see the following web page:
•IBM Spectrum Protect™ enables reliable, efficient data protection and resiliency, and advanced data backup and data recovery, for software-defined, virtual, physical, and cloud environments, core applications, and remote facilities.
For more information about IBM Spectrum Protect, see the following web page:
•IBM Spectrum Control™ provides efficient infrastructure management for virtualized, cloud, and software-defined storage to simplify and automate storage provisioning, capacity management, availability monitoring, and reporting.
For more information about IBM Spectrum Control, see the following web page:
•IBM Spectrum Archive™ enables you to automatically move infrequently accessed data from disk to tape to lower costs while retaining ease of use, and without the need for proprietary tape applications.
For more information about IBM Spectrum Archive, see the following web page:
•IBM Spectrum Control Storage Insights enables you to optimize storage environments with analytics-driven insights delivered in the cloud within as little as 30 minutes.
For more information about IBM Spectrum Control Storage Insights, see this web page:
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Note: For details about the entire IBM Spectrum Storage™ family, see this web page:
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Authors
This book was produced by a team of specialists from around the world working at the International Technical Support Organization (ITSO), Poughkeepsie Center.
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Christophe Fagiano is a Technical Advisor supporting IBM XIV®, FlashSystem, IBM Scale Out Network Attached Storage (IBM SONAS), and IBM ProtecTIER®. Christophe began his career with IBM in 1991, working in the development of communication controllers, then in Level 3 support. Christophe also worked in developing Power PC chips, with his area of expertise in video and sound interfaces. Other development roles include development of virtualization environments for IBM AIX® and Linux platforms. Christophe works in France.
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Detlef Helmbrecht is an Advanced Technical Skills (ATS) IT Specialist working for the IBM Systems and Technology Group (STG). He works at the European Storage Competence Center (ESCC), Germany. Detlef has over 25 years of experience in IT, performing numerous different roles, including software design, sales, and solution architect. His areas of expertise include high performance computing, disaster recovery (DR), archiving, application tuning, and IBM FlashSystem.
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Jon Herd is an IBM Storage Technical Advisor working for the ESCC, Germany. He covers the United Kingdom (UK) and Ireland, advising customers on a portfolio of IBM storage products, including IBM FlashSystem products. Jon has been with IBM for more than 40 years, and has held various technical roles, including Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)-level support on mainframe servers and technical education development. He holds IBM certifications in Supporting IT Solutions at an expert level, and Actualizing IT Solutions at an experienced level. He is also a certified Member of the British Computer Society (MBCS) Chartered IT Professional (CITP), and a certified Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (MIET).
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Jeffrey Irving is an IBM Storage Technical Advisor supporting multiple storage products. He has more than 30 years of experience in IT. Beginning his career with AT&T Bell Labs testing UNIX operating systems, he moved on to supercomputers, leading several software test teams in the process. Jeff has been with IBM 15 years, specializing in storage virtualization and customer support, and he leads the Technical Advisor team for FlashSystem products. Jeff works in Wisconsin, US.
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Jana Jamsek is an IBM IT specialist in the Storage Advanced Technical Skills (ATS) organization in Europe. Jana is an IBM Storage Systems and IBM i specialist. She has eight years of experience in IBM i, and 16 years of experience in Storage technologies. Jana has a master’s degree in computer science and a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Jana works on complex customer solutions that involve IBM i and IBM Storage Systems; she supports IBM customers in Europe, Middle East, and Africa. Jana is a frequent speaker in conferences and workshops where she presents IBM Storage and IBM Power Systems™ topics. Jana is the author and co-author of several IBM publications, including IBM Redbooks and IBM Redpapers™ publications, and white papers.
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Carsten Larsen is an IBM Certified Senior IT Specialist working for the Technical Services Support organization in IBM Denmark, delivering consultancy services to IBM clients within the storage arena. Carsten joined IBM in 2007, leaving a job at HP where he worked with storage arrays and UNIX for 10 years, holding, among others, the HP certification: Master Certified Systems Engineer (MASE). While working for IBM, Carsten obtained Brocade Certified Fabric Professional (BCFP), Brocade Certified SAN Designer (BCSD), NetApp Certified Data Administrator (NCDA), and NetApp Certified Implementation Engineer (NCIE) certifications. Carsten is the author of several Redbooks publications related to these product certifications.
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Renato Santos is the Storage Technical Advisor for the US Southeast team and he is a Team Leader for Latin America Technical Advisor group, advising customers on the portfolio of IBM storage products, including IBM FlashSystem products. Renato started his IBM career 21 years ago in IBM Brazil where he held several positions such as Senior Service Specialist, IBM Level 1 Storage Support Specialist, XIV certified administrator, IBM ProtecTIER certified Level 3 Support Specialist, Certified Flash System Administrator and Storage Customer Support Manager. Renato is a certified IBM Customer Advocate. He holds an MBA in Executive Management from Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV), Rio de Janeiro, and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Estacio de Sá University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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James Thompson is a Storage Performance Analyst in the IBM Systems organization. He has 17 years of experience supporting the development teams on IBM storage products. James holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Utah State University.
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The project that produced this publication was managed by Marcela Adan, IBM Redbooks Project Leader, ITSO.
Thanks to the following people for their contributions to this project:
Philip Clark, Dave Gimpl, Kim Miller, Alan Willard, Al Watson
IBM Systems, FlashSystem
IBM Systems, FlashSystem
Alex Ainscow , Connor Fawcett, Suri Polisetti, Adam Reid, Rick Welp, John Wilkinson
IBM Systems, Hursley GB, Storage Software
IBM Systems, Hursley GB, Storage Software
Karen Orlando, Christophe Fagiano, Detlef Helmbrecht, Jon Herd, Jeffrey Irving, Brett Kerns, Carsten Larsen, Arne Lehfeldt, Corne Lottering, Alexander Watson
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