Book description
Continuing its commitment to developing and delivering industry-leading storage technologies, IBM® is introducing the IBM Real-time Compression Appliances for NAS, an innovative new storage offering that delivers essential storage efficiency technologies, combined with exceptional ease of use and performance.
In an era when the amount of information, particularly in unstructured files, is exploding, but budgets for storing that information are stagnant, IBM Real-time Compression technology offers a powerful tool for better information management, protection, and access.
IBM Real-time Compression can help slow the growth of storage acquisition, reducing storage costs while simplifying both operations and management. It also enables organizations to keep more data available for use rather than storing it offsite or on harder-to-access tape, so they can support improved analytics and decision making.
IBM Real-time Compression Appliances provide on-line storage optimization through real-time data compression, delivering dramatic cost reduction without performance degradation.
This IBM Redbooks® publication is an easy-to-follow guide that describes how to design solutions successfully using IBM Real-time Compression Appliances (IBM RTCAs). It provides practical installation examples, ease of use, remote management, high availability, and administration techniques. Furthermore, it explains best practices for RTCA solution design, application integration, and practical RTCA use cases.
Table of contents
- Front cover
- Figures
- Tables
- Examples
- Notices
- Preface
- Summary of changes
- Part 1 Introduction
- Chapter 1. The industry requirement for compression
- Chapter 2. Compression technology discussed
- Chapter 3. Introduction to RTCA design
- Chapter 4. Hardware and software components
- Chapter 5. What is new in RTCA v3.8
- Part 2 Implementation planning
- Chapter 6. Implementation planning
- Chapter 7. Performance considerations
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Chapter 8. Interaction with native NAS, host OS, and application features
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8.1 Interaction with native N series features
- 8.1.1 NAS system resources and limitations
- 8.1.2 Thin provisioning
- 8.1.3 NAS deduplication
- 8.1.4 NAS compression
- 8.1.5 Snapshot copies
- 8.1.6 SnapRestore
- 8.1.7 FlexClone
- 8.1.8 SnapVault backup
- 8.1.9 SnapMirror replication
- 8.1.10 MetroCluster configuration
- 8.1.11 Volume copy
- 8.1.12 NDMP copy
- 8.1.13 Access by other file protocols
- 8.2 Interaction with native host OS features
- 8.3 Interaction with native application features
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8.1 Interaction with native N series features
- Chapter 9. Deploying Real-time Compression Appliances
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Chapter 10. Administration
- 10.1 Working with the IBM Real-time Compression Appliance
- 10.2 Configuring storage and compression filters
- 10.3 Configuring the Compression Accelerator
- 10.4 Capacity advisor
- 10.5 High availability concepts
- 10.6 Monitoring the compression appliance
- 10.7 Configuring SNMP
- 10.8 Configuring LDAP
- 10.9 Miscellaneous tasks
- 10.10 Maintaining the compression appliances
- 10.11 Software installation or upgrade
- 10.12 Configuring system options
- 10.13 Diagnosing problems
- 10.14 Recovering files when appliance is unavailable
- Part 3 Best practices
- Chapter 11. NAS / N series solution design
- Chapter 12. EMC storage integration
- Chapter 13. Nearline and offline backup solutions
- Chapter 14. VMware vSphere integration
- Chapter 15. Oracle database application integration
- Chapter 16. File serving solutions
- Part 4 Use cases
- Chapter 17. VMware vSphere use cases
- Chapter 18. Oracle use cases
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Chapter 19. File serving use cases
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19.1 Setting up a CIFS file service
- 19.1.1 Configuring the NAS storage controller
- 19.1.2 Configuring the RTCA product
- 19.1.3 Storage compression mode
- 19.1.4 Compressing new data
- 19.1.5 Compressing existing data
- 19.1.6 Enabling NAS deduplication
- 19.1.7 Compressing automatic home shares
- 19.1.8 Accessing the compressed data
- 19.1.9 Calculating the compression ratio
- 19.2 Setting up an NFS file service
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19.1 Setting up a CIFS file service
- Appendix A. Troubleshooting
- Related publications
- Back cover
Product information
- Title: Introduction to IBM Real-time Compression Appliances
- Author(s):
- Release date: January 2012
- Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
- ISBN: 0738436380
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