Book description
Organizations of all sizes are faced with the challenge of managing massive volumes of increasingly valuable data. But storing this data can be costly, and extracting value from the data is becoming more difficult. IT organizations have limited resources but must stay responsive to dynamic environments and act quickly to consolidate, simplify, and optimize their IT infrastructures. The IBM® Storwize® V5000 system provides a smarter solution that is affordable, easy to use, and self-optimizing, which enables organizations to overcome these storage challenges.
Storwize V5000 delivers efficient, entry-level configurations that are specifically designed to meet the needs of small and midsize businesses. Designed to provide organizations with the ability to consolidate and share data at an affordable price, Storwize V5000 offers advanced software capabilities that are usually found in more expensive systems.
This IBM Redbooks® publication is intended for pre-sales and post-sales technical support professionals and storage administrators.
The concepts in this book also relate to the IBM Storwize V3700.
This book was written at a software level of Version 7 Release 4.
Table of contents
- Front cover
- Notices
- IBM Redbooks promotions
- Preface
- Summary of changes
- Chapter 1. Overview of the IBM Storwize V5000 system
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Chapter 2. Initial configuration
- 2.1 Hardware installation planning
- 2.2 SAN configuration planning
- 2.3 FC Direct-attach planning
- 2.4 SAS direct-attach planning
- 2.5 LAN configuration planning
- 2.6 Host configuration planning
- 2.7 Miscellaneous configuration planning
- 2.8 System management
- 2.9 First-time setup
- 2.10 Initial configuration
- Chapter 3. Graphical user interface overview
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Chapter 4. Host configuration
- 4.1 Host attachment overview
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4.2 Preparing the host operating system
- 4.2.1 Windows 2012 R2: Preparing for FC attachment
- 4.2.2 Windows 2012 R2: Preparing for iSCSI attachment
- 4.2.3 Windows 2012 R2: Preparing for SAS attachment
- 4.2.4 VMware ESXi 5.5: Preparing for FC attachment
- 4.2.5 VMware ESXi 5.5: Preparing for iSCSI attachment
- 4.2.6 VMware ESXi 5.5: Preparing for SAS attachment
- 4.3 Configuring hosts in IBM Storwize V5000
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Chapter 5. Volume configuration
- 5.1 Creating volumes in IBM Storwize V5000
- 5.2 Mapping volumes to hosts
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5.3 Discovering mapped volumes from host systems
- 5.3.1 Discovering FC volumes from Windows 2012 R2
- 5.3.2 Discovering iSCSI volumes from Windows 2012 R2
- 5.3.3 Discovering SAS volumes from Windows 2012 R2
- 5.3.4 Discovering FC volumes from VMware ESXi 5.5
- 5.3.5 Discovering iSCSI volumes from VMware ESXi 5.5
- 5.3.6 Discovering SAS volumes from VMware ESXi 5.5
- Chapter 6. Storage migration
- Chapter 7. Storage pools
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Chapter 8. Advanced host and volume administration
- 8.1 Advanced host administration
- 8.2 Adding and deleting host ports
- 8.3 Host mappings overview
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8.4 Advanced volume administration
- 8.4.1 Advanced volume functions
- 8.4.2 Mapping a volume to a host
- 8.4.3 Unmapping volumes from all hosts
- 8.4.4 Viewing which host is mapped to a volume
- 8.4.5 Renaming a volume
- 8.4.6 Shrinking a volume
- 8.4.7 Expanding a volume
- 8.4.8 Migrating a volume to another storage pool
- 8.4.9 Exporting to an image mode volume
- 8.4.10 Deleting a volume
- 8.5 Volume properties
- 8.6 Advanced volume copy functions
- 8.7 Volumes by storage pool
- 8.8 Volumes by host
- Chapter 9. Easy Tier
- Chapter 10. Copy services
- Chapter 11. External storage virtualization
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Chapter 12. RAS, monitoring, and troubleshooting
- 12.1 Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability on the IBM Storwize V5000
- 12.2 IBM Storwize V5000 components
- 12.3 Configuration backup procedure
- 12.4 Updating software
- 12.5 Event log
- 12.6 Collecting support information
- 12.7 Powering on and powering off the IBM Storwize V5000
- 12.8 Tivoli Storage Productivity Center
- 12.9 Using Tivoli Storage Productivity Center to administer and generate reports for an IBM Storwize V5000
- Appendix A. Command-line interface setup and SAN Boot
- Related publications
- Back cover
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IBM System x Reference Architecture for Hadoop: IBM InfoSphere BigInsights Reference Architecture
- Introduction
- Business problem and business value
- Reference architecture use
- Requirements
- InfoSphere BigInsights predefined configuration
- InfoSphere BigInsights HBase predefined configuration
- Deployment considerations
- Customizing the predefined configurations
- Predefined configuration bill of materials
- References
- The team who wrote this paper
- Now you can become a published author, too!
- Stay connected to IBM Redbooks
- Notices
Product information
- Title: Implementing the IBM Storwize V5000
- Author(s):
- Release date: February 2015
- Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
- ISBN: None
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