Book description
Corporate workgroups, distributed enterprises, and small to medium-sized companies are increasingly seeking to network and consolidate storage to improve availability, share information, reduce costs, and protect and secure information. These organizations require enterprise-class solutions capable of addressing immediate storage needs cost-effectively, while providing an upgrade path for future requirements. IBM® System Storage® N series storage systems and their software capabilities are designed to meet these requirements.
IBM System Storage N series storage systems offer an excellent solution for a broad range of deployment scenarios. IBM System Storage N series storage systems function as a mulitprotocol storage device that is designed to allow you to simultaneously serve both file and block-level data across a single network. These activities are demanding procedures that, for some solutions, require multiple, separately managed systems. The flexibility of IBM System Storage N series storage systems, however, allows them to address the storage needs of a wide range of organizations, including distributed enterprises and data centers for midrange enterprises. IBM System Storage N series storage systems also support sites with computer and data-intensive enterprise applications, such as database, data warehousing, workgroup collaboration, and messaging.
This IBM® Redbooks® publication explains the software features of the IBM System Storage N series storage systems. This book also covers topics such as installation, setup, and administration of those software features from the IBM System Storage N series storage systems and clients and provides example scenarios.
Table of contents
- Front cover
- Notices
- Preface
- Summary of changes
- Part 1 Introduction
- Chapter 1. Overview
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Chapter 2. Data ONTAP
- 2.1 Data ONTAP for IBM System Storage N series
- 2.2 Data ONTAP overview
- 2.3 Data ONTAP approach
- 2.4 Data ONTAP architecture
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2.5 Data ONTAP 8.1 7-mode
- 2.5.1 New terminology
- 2.5.2 New and changed platform and hardware support
- 2.5.3 Manageability enhancements
- 2.5.4 Storage resource management enhancements
- 2.5.5 High-availability pair enhancements
- 2.5.6 Networking and security protocol enhancements
- 2.5.7 File access protocol enhancements
- 2.5.8 Data protection enhancements
- 2.5.9 Storage efficiency enhancements
- 2.5.10 MultiStore enhancements
- 2.6 Data ONTAP 8.1 upgrades
- 2.7 N series Data Motion
- Chapter 3. Write Anywhere File Layout
- Chapter 4. Aggregates and volumes
- Chapter 5. qtrees
- Chapter 6. FlexClone volumes
- Chapter 7. FlexCache volumes
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Chapter 8. FlexShare
- 8.1 Introduction to FlexShare
- 8.2 FlexShare concept
- 8.3 Benefits of using FlexShare
- 8.4 When to use FlexShare
- 8.5 Supported configurations
- 8.6 Using FlexShare in cluster storage systems
- 8.7 Setting up FlexShare
- 8.8 FlexShare usage examples
- 8.9 FlexShare best practices
- 8.10 FlexShare administration
- 8.11 Understanding FlexShare behavior and troubleshooting
- 8.12 Summary
- Chapter 9. Network configuration
- Chapter 10. MultiStore
- Part 2 Data protection
- Chapter 11. Snapshot
- Chapter 12. SnapRestore
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Chapter 13. SnapMirror
- 13.1 SnapMirror at a glance
- 13.2 Introduction
- 13.3 The three modes of SnapMirror
- 13.4 SnapMirror applications
- 13.5 Synchronous and asynchronous implications
- 13.6 Volume capacity and SnapMirror
- 13.7 Guarantees in a SnapMirror deployment
- 13.8 SnapMirror architecture
- 13.9 Isolating testing from production
- 13.10 Cascading mirrors
- 13.11 Performance impact of synchronous and semi-synchronous modes
- 13.12 CPU impact of synchronous and semi-synchronous modes
- 13.13 Network bandwidth considerations
- 13.14 Replication considerations
- Chapter 14. SnapLock
- Chapter 15. SyncMirror
- Chapter 16. MetroCluster
- Part 3 Storage efficiency technology
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Chapter 17. SnapVault
- 17.1 SnapVault at a glance
- 17.2 Business applications of SnapVault
- 17.3 Overview of SnapVault
- 17.4 Benefits of using SnapVault
- 17.5 SnapVault operation
- 17.6 SnapVault backup
- 17.7 SnapVault details
- 17.8 Disaster recovery with SnapVault
- 17.9 Remote solution using SnapVault
- 17.10 Maximum number of concurrent SnapVault targets
- 17.11 Best practices
- 17.12 Summary
- Chapter 18. What storage efficiency is
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Chapter 19. Deduplication
- 19.1 How deduplication works
- 19.2 What deduplication metadata is
- 19.3 Guidelines for using deduplication
- 19.4 Deduplication commands
- 19.5 Performance considerations for deduplication
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19.6 How deduplication works with other features and products
- 19.6.1 Deduplication and Snapshot copies
- 19.6.2 Deduplication and volume SnapMirror
- 19.6.3 Deduplication and qtree SnapMirror
- 19.6.4 Deduplication and SnapVault
- 19.6.5 Deduplication and SnapRestore
- 19.6.6 Deduplication and volume copy
- 19.6.7 Deduplication and FlexClone volumes
- 19.6.8 Deduplication in a High Availability pair
- 19.6.9 Deduplication and VMware
- 19.6.10 Deduplication and MultiStore
- Chapter 20. Compression
- Chapter 21. IBM Real-time Compression Appliance
- Chapter 22. Thin replication using SnapVault and Volume SnapMirror
- Part 4 Storage access protocols
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Chapter 23. CIFS and Active Directory
- 23.1 Supported CIFS versions
- 23.2 Joining the N series CIFS service to Active Directory
- 23.3 Prerequisite steps for Active Directory integration
- 23.4 Selecting a user account
- 23.5 Precreating a computer object
- 23.6 Running the CIFS setup wizard
- 23.7 Troubleshooting the domain joining process
- 23.8 Device discovery
- 23.9 Automatic home shares
- Chapter 24. NFS
- Chapter 25. Multiprotocol data access
- Chapter 26. Fibre Channel
- Chapter 27. FCoE
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Chapter 28. iSCSI
- 28.1 What iSCSI is
- 28.2 How iSCSI nodes are identified
- 28.3 How the storage system checks initiator node names
- 28.4 Default port for iSCSI
- 28.5 What target portal groups are
- 28.6 What iSNS is
- 28.7 What CHAP authentication is
- 28.8 How iSCSI communication sessions work
- 28.9 How iSCSI works with HA pairs
- 28.10 Further information
- Chapter 29. Other protocols
- Part 5 Application and host OS integration
- Chapter 30. SnapDrive
- Chapter 31. SnapManager
- Chapter 32. Snap Creator
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Chapter 33. VMWare vSphere
- 33.1 Server virtualization
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33.2 Benefits of N series with VMware vSphere 5
- 33.2.1 Increased protection with RAID-DP
- 33.2.2 Cloning virtual machines
- 33.2.3 Multiprotocol capability for storing files on iSCSI, SAN, or NFS volumes
- 33.2.4 N series LUNs for VMWare host boot
- 33.2.5 N series LUNs for VMFS datastores
- 33.2.6 Using N series LUNs for Raw Device Mappings
- 33.2.7 Growing VMFS datastores
- 33.2.8 Backup and recovery of virtual infrastructure (SnapVault, Snapshot, SnapMirror)
- 33.3 Virtual Storage Console
- 33.4 Using N series deduplication with VMware
- 33.5 Coupling deduplication and compression
- 33.6 Further reading
- Chapter 34. Consistency groups
- Part 6 Storage management
- Chapter 35. Remote management
- Chapter 36. Command line administration
- Chapter 37. N series System Manager
- Chapter 38. AutoSupport
- Chapter 39. OnCommand
- Related publications
- Back cover
Product information
- Title: IBM System Storage N series Software Guide
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2012
- Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
- ISBN: 9780738437200
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