Book description
The IBM® System Storage® Solutions Handbook helps you solve your current and future data storage business requirements to achieve enhanced storage efficiency by design to allow managed cost, capacity of growth, greater mobility, and stronger control over storage performance and management. It describes the current IBM storage products, including IBM FlashSystem™, disk, and tape, and virtualized solutions, such as IBM Storage Cloud, IBM SmartCloud® Virtual Storage Center, and IBM Spectrum™ Storage.
This IBM Redbooks® publication provides overviews and pointers for information about the current IBM System Storage products, showing how IBM delivers the right mix of products for nearly every aspect of business continuance and business efficiency. IBM storage products can help you store, safeguard, retrieve, and share your data.
The following topics are covered:
Part 1 introduces IBM storage solutions. It provides overviews
of the IBM storage solutions, including IBM Spectrum
Storage™, IBM Storage Cloud, IBM SmartCloud Virtual Storage
Center (VSC), and the IBM PureSystems® products.
Part 2 describes the IBM disk and flash products that include
IBM DS Series (entry-level, midrange, and enterprise offerings),
IBM XIV® storage, IBM Storwize® products, and the IBM
FlashSystem offerings.
Part 3 is an overview of the IBM tape drives, IBM tape
automation products, and IBM tape virtualization solutions and
products.
Part 4 describes storage networking infrastructure, switches and
directors to form storage area network (SAN) solutions, and
converged networks and data center networking.
Part 5 describes the IBM storage software portfolio, including
IBM SAN Volume Controller, IBM Tivoli® Storage Manager, Tivoli
Storage Productivity Center, and IBM Security Key Lifecycle
Manager.
Part 6 describes the IBM z/OS® storage management software
and tools.
The appendixes provide information about the High Performance
Storage System (HPSS) and recently withdrawn IBM storage
products.
This book is intended as a reference for basic and comprehensive
information about the IBM Storage products portfolio. It provides a
starting point for establishing your own enterprise storage
environment.
Table of contents
- Front cover
- Notices
- IBM Redbooks promotions
- Preface
- Part 1 IBM storage solutions
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Chapter 1. Introduction to IBM storage
- 1.1 Why IBM storage
- 1.2 Overview of the IBM storage solutions
- 1.3 IBM Spectrum Storage family
- 1.4 IBM Storage Cloud
- 1.5 IBM PureSystems
- 1.6 IBM storage disk systems
- 1.7 IBM tape systems
- 1.8 Storage area networks
- 1.9 Software solutions for IBM storage
- 1.10 High Performance Storage System (HPSS)
- 1.11 Withdrawn products
- Chapter 2. IBM SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center
- Chapter 3. IBM storage cloud solutions
- Chapter 4. IBM PureSystems overview
- Chapter 5. IBM Spectrum Scale
- Part 2 Disk systems
- Chapter 6. Entry-level disk storage
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Chapter 7. Midrange disk systems
- 7.1 IBM Storwize V5000
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7.2 IBM Flex System V7000 Storage Node
- 7.2.1 IBM Flex System V7000 Storage Node features
- 7.2.2 IBM Flex System V7000 Storage Node
- 7.2.3 IBM Flex System V7000 Storage Node capabilities
- 7.2.4 IBM Flex System V7000 Storage Node functions
- 7.2.5 IBM Flex System V7000 Storage Node licensing
- 7.2.6 Supported disk drives
- 7.2.7 IBM Storwize V7000 expansion enclosure
- 7.2.8 SAS cabling requirements
- 7.2.9 IBM Flex System V7000 Storage Node components
- 7.2.10 Management and support tools
- 7.2.11 Additional references for Storwize V7000
- 7.3 IBM Storwize V7000
- 7.4 IBM System Storage DCS3700
-
Chapter 8. Enterprise disk systems
- 8.1 Enterprise disk family overview
- 8.2 DS8000 series
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8.3 IBM DS8870 architecture
- 8.3.1 Frames
- 8.3.2 DS8870 architecture
- 8.3.3 Disk subsystem
- 8.3.4 Power and cooling
- 8.3.5 Management console network
- 8.3.6 DS8000 series products
- 8.3.7 DS8800 management
- 8.3.8 IBM Standby Capacity on Demand offering for the DS8870
- 8.3.9 DS8000 Copy Services
- 8.3.10 DS8000 licensing overview
- 8.3.11 DS8000 supported environments
- 8.3.12 DS8000 series: More information
- 8.4 IBM XIV Storage System
- 8.5 Comparison of enterprise products
- Chapter 9. IBM FlashSystem storage
- Chapter 10. IBM Scale Out Network Attached Storage (SONAS)
- Chapter 11. IBM System Storage N series expansion units
- Part 3 Tape systems
- Chapter 12. IBM tape drives
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Chapter 13. IBM tape automation products
- 13.1 Important IBM tape library features
- 13.2 Overview of available tape libraries
- 13.3 IBM TS2900 Tape Autoloader
- 13.4 IBM TS3100 Tape Library
- 13.5 IBM TS3200 Tape Library
- 13.6 IBM TS3310 Tape Library
- 13.7 IBM TS3500 Tape Library
- 13.8 IBM TS4500 Tape Library
- 13.9 IBM Linear Tape File System (LTFS) software application
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Chapter 14. IBM tape virtualization products
- 14.1 Introduction to tape virtualization
- 14.2 Concept of data deduplication
- 14.3 IBM System Storage TS7600 ProtecTIER systems
- 14.4 TS7650G ProtecTIER Deduplication Gateway
- 14.5 TS7620 ProtecTIER Deduplication Appliance Express
- 14.6 ProtecTIER Manager
- 14.7 ProtecTIER Native Replication
- 14.8 IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700
- 14.9 IBM Data Facility Storage Management Subsystem
- 14.10 More information
- Chapter 15. Complementary products for tape storage
- Part 4 Storage networking
- Chapter 16. Introduction to storage networking
- Chapter 17. Storage area network products
- Chapter 18. Converged networks and data center networking
- Part 5 IBM storage software
- Chapter 19. IBM storage virtualization
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Chapter 20. IBM SAN Volume Controller
- 20.1 IBM SAN Volume Controller: Overview
- 20.2 New features
- 20.3 SAN Volume Controller architecture
- 20.4 SAN Volume Controller virtualization
- 20.5 SAN Volume Controller iSCSI host attachment
- 20.6 SAN Volume Controller software licensing
- 20.7 SAN Volume Controller solutions
- 20.8 SAN Volume Controller compatibility
- 20.9 SAN Volume Controller commonly used terms
- 20.10 More information
-
Chapter 21. Tivoli Storage Manager overview
- 21.1 Tivoli Storage Manager overview
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21.2 Tivoli Storage Manager architecture
- 21.2.1 Tivoli Storage Manager architectural components
- 21.2.2 How client data is stored
- 21.2.3 How the server manages storage
- 21.2.4 Tivoli Storage Manager backup and archive concepts
- 21.2.5 Progressive incremental backups
- 21.2.6 Tivoli Monitoring for Tivoli Storage Manager
- 21.2.7 Tivoli Storage Manager Administration Center
- 21.2.8 Tivoli Storage Manager API
- 21.2.9 Tivoli Storage Manager security
- 21.3 Tivoli Storage Manager family of products
- 21.4 Tivoli Storage Manager and tape vaulting
- 21.5 More information
-
Chapter 22. IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center
- 22.1 Product overview
- 22.2 Tivoli Storage Productivity Center V5.2 and V5.2.4
- 22.3 Tivoli Storage Productivity Center new features, functions, and enhancements
- 22.4 Tivoli Storage Productivity Center V5.2.4 summary
-
22.5 Web-based GUI enhancements
- 22.5.1 Add resources for monitoring
- 22.5.2 Monitoring the performance of resources in the web-based GUI
- 22.5.3 Cloud configuration in the web-based GUI
- 22.5.4 Provisioning in the web-based GUI
- 22.5.5 Identifying hotspots in the web-based GUI
- 22.5.6 Retiering volumes in the web-based GUI
- 22.5.7 Balancing pools in the web-based GUI
- 22.5.8 Transforming storage in the web-based GUI
- 22.5.9 Managing data collection jobs in the web-based GUI
- 22.5.10 Reports in the web-based GUI
- 22.5.11 Tivoli Storage Productivity Center maintenance
- 22.5.12 Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Cinder driver
- 22.5.13 Help function
- 22.6 Installation changes
- 22.7 VMware
- 22.8 Agentless Server Management
- 22.9 Cognos reporting
- 22.10 Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication
- 22.11 Performance management reporting
- 22.12 Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Service Management Connect
- Chapter 23. IBM Security Key Lifecycle Manager
- Part 6 IBM z/OS storage management
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Chapter 24. Data management with IBM DFSMS V2.1
- 24.1 DFSMS highlights
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24.2 DFSMSdfp enhancements
- 24.2.1 VSAM RLS enhancements
- 24.2.2 VSAM non-RLS enhancements
- 24.2.3 z/OS catalog modifications
- 24.2.4 BAM enhancements
- 24.2.5 PDSE enhancements
- 24.2.6 Extended address volume enhancements
- 24.2.7 OAM enhancements
- 24.2.8 z/OS file system enhancements
- 24.2.9 Direct access device space management (DADSM) common VTOC access facility (CVAF)/DEVICE enhancements
- 24.2.10 System Data Mover enhancements
- 24.2.11 SMS/ISMF enhancements
- 24.3 DFSMS components and enhancements
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Chapter 25. IBM z/OS storage management tools
- 25.1 IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for Storage on z/OS V5.3
- 25.2 IBM DB2 Cloning Tool V3.1
- 25.3 IBM Tivoli Advanced Catalog Management for z/OS 2.6
- 25.4 IBM Tivoli Advanced Backup and Recovery V2.4
- 25.5 IBM Tivoli Advanced Audit for DFSMShsm V2.5
- 25.6 IBM Tivoli Automated Tape Allocation Manager V3.3
- 25.7 IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS V3.3
- Appendix A. High Performance Storage System (HPSS)
- Appendix B. Withdrawn products
- Related publications
- Back cover
Product information
- Title: IBM System Storage Solutions Handbook
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2015
- Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
- ISBN: 9780738440705
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