Book description
This IBM® Redbooks® publication describes the IBM storage area network (SAN) and IBM Spectrum™ Virtualize, and SAN Volume Controller Enhanced Stretched Cluster configuration when combined with VMware. It describe guidelines, settings, and implementation steps necessary to achieve a satisfactory implementation.
Business continuity and continuous availability of applications are among the top requirements for many organizations today. Advances in virtualization, storage, and networking make enhanced business continuity possible. Information technology solutions can now be designed to manage both planned and unplanned outages, and to take advantage of the flexibility, efficient use of resources, and cost savings that cloud computing offers.
The IBM Enhanced Stretched Cluster design offers significant functions for maintaining business continuity in a VMware environment. You can dynamically move applications across data centers without interruption to those applications.
The live application mobility across data centers relies on these products and technologies:
IBM Spectrum Virtualize and SAN Volume Controller Enhanced
Stretched Cluster Solution
VMware Metro vMotion for live migration of virtual
machines
A Layer 2 IP Network and storage networking infrastructure for
high-performance traffic management
Data center interconnection
Table of contents
- Front cover
- Notices
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. Hardware and software descriptions
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Chapter 3. SAN Volume Controller enhanced stretched cluster architecture
- 3.1 Enhanced stretched cluster overview
- 3.2 Failure domains, sites, and controllers
- 3.3 SAN Volume Controller volume mirroring
- 3.4 SAN Volume Controller enhanced stretched cluster configurations
- 3.5 Fibre Channel settings for distance
- 3.6 SAN Volume Controller I/O operations on mirrored volumes
- 3.7 Enhance stretched cluster three-site DR configuration
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Chapter 4. Implementation
- 4.1 Test environment
- 4.2 ADX: Application Delivery Controller
- 4.3 IP networking configuration
- 4.4 IBM Fibre Channel SAN
- 4.5 SAN Volume Controller with an enhanced stretched cluster
- 4.6 SAN Volume Controller volume mirroring
- 4.7 Read operations
- 4.8 Write operations
- 4.9 SAN Volume Controller quorum disk
- 4.10 Quorum disk requirements and placement
- 4.11 Automatic SAN Volume Controller quorum disk selection
- 4.12 Enhanced stretched cluster configuration
- 4.13 Storage allocation to the SAN Volume Controller cluster
- 4.14 Volume allocation
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Chapter 5. VMware environment
- 5.1 VMware vMSC certification program
- 5.2 VMware configuration checklist
- 5.3 VMware SAN Volume Controller enhanced stretched cluster
- 5.4 VMware vCenter setup
- 5.5 ESXi host installations
- 5.6 VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler
- 5.7 Naming conventions
- 5.8 VMware high availability
- 5.9 VMware vStorage API for Array Integration
- 5.10 vCenter Heartbeat setup
- 5.11 VMware recovery planning
- 5.12 Design comments
- 5.13 Script examples
- Chapter 6. SAN Volume Controller enhanced stretched cluster diagnostic and recovery guidelines
- Related publications
- Back cover
Product information
- Title: IBM Spectrum Virtualize and SAN Volume Controller Enhanced Stretched Cluster with VMware
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2015
- Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
- ISBN: 9780738441108
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