IBM TotalStorage NAS integration guide / Roland Tretau et al.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tretau, Roland.

Contributor:

International Business Machines Corporation. International Technical Support Organization.

Series:

IBM redbooks.

IBM redbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer storage devices.

Storage area networks (Computer networks).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (698 p.)

Edition:

3rd ed.

Place of Publication:

San Jose, CA : IBM International Technical Support Organization, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Front cover

Contents

Figures

Tables

Examples

Notices

Trademarks

Preface

The team that wrote this redbook

Notice

Comments welcome

Summary of changes

March 2003, Third Edition

Part 1 Network Attached Storage concepts and hardware

Chapter 1. The main concept behind Network Attached Storage

1.1 How this book is organized

1.2 Local Area Networks

1.3 Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model

1.3.1 Device driver and hardware layer

1.3.2 Internet Protocol layer

1.3.3 TCP layer

1.3.4 Application layer

1.3.5 Protocol suites

1.4 File systems and I/O

1.4.1 Network file system protocols

1.4.2 Understanding I/O

1.5 Network Attached Storage (NAS)

1.5.1 File servers

1.5.2 Network appliances

1.5.3 NAS uses File I/O

1.5.4 NAS benefits

1.5.5 Other NAS considerations

1.5.6 Total cost of ownership

1.6 Industry standards

1.6.1 Storage Networking Industry Association

1.6.2 Internet Engineering Task Force

Chapter 2. IBM TotalStorage NAS products

2.1 IBM TotalStorage NAS features and benefits

2.1.1 Included software

2.1.2 Preloaded and optional software

2.1.3 Limitations of the Windows Powered OS

2.1.4 IBM Advanced Appliance Configuration Utility Tool

2.2 IBM TotalStorage Network Attached Storage 100

2.3 IBM TotalStorage Network Attached Storage 200

2.4 IBM TotalStorage Network Attached Storage 300

2.5 IBM TotalStorage NAS Release 2.5

2.5.1 IBM TotalStorage NAS 200 Version 2.5

2.5.2 IBM TotalStorage NAS 300 Version 2.5

2.5.3 IBM TotalStorage NAS Version 2.5 at a glance

2.5.4 IBM TotalStorage NAS 200 Model 25T (5194-25T) Version 2.5

2.5.5 IBM TotalStorage NAS Gateway 300 HW Version 2.5

2.6 IBM TotalStorage NAS Release 2.7

Part 2 Implementing the NAS appliance in your network

Chapter 3. Connecting to the NAS appliance.

3.1 First steps

3.2 Assigning IP address to the appliance with IAACU

3.2.1 Universal Manageability Services

3.3 Connecting to the appliance

3.3.1 Using Terminal Services

3.3.2 Getting access with Internet Explorer

3.4 NAS Setup Navigator overview

Chapter 4. Implementing the IBM TotalStorage NAS 100

4.1 Initial configuration

4.1.1 Methods for setting up the NAS 100 device

4.2 Using the Navigator to set up the NAS 100

4.2.1 Basic configuration

4.2.2 Storage configuration and management

4.2.3 Microsoft Services for UNIX

4.2.4 User and security management

4.2.5 Sharing pooled storage

4.2.6 Completing setup

4.3 Ethernet adapter teaming

4.3.1 Overview of adapter teaming

4.3.2 Load balancing for the configuration

Chapter 5. Implementing the IBM TotalStorage NAS 200

5.1 Using the Navigator to set up the NAS 200

5.1.1 Basic configuration

5.1.2 Configuring the storage

5.1.3 Creating arrays and logical drives

5.2 Managing disks using ServeRAID Manager

5.2.1 Creating arrays

5.2.2 Creating and logical drives

Chapter 6. Implementing the IBM TotalStorage NAS 300

6.1 Using the Navigator to set up the NAS 300

6.1.1 Basic configuration

6.1.2 Configuring the storage

6.1.3 Preparing the Cluster nodes

6.1.4 Configure Active Directory integration

6.1.5 Cluster configuration and setup

6.2 Defining arrays and logical drives on the NAS 300

6.3 Setting up Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS)

Chapter 7. User and security management

7.1 Active Directory, NT 4 Domains, and Workgroups

7.2 UNIX NIS integration

Part 3 Advanced IBM TotalStorage NAS topics

Chapter 8. Advanced NAS configuration

8.1 Quota management and WQuinn StorageCeNTral

8.1.1 Disk quotas

8.1.2 Directory quotas

8.2 File screening

8.2.1 Storage Reports.

8.3 Dynamic storage expansion on IBM NAS

8.3.1 Tools for dynamic storage expansion

8.3.2 Increasing volume size for a NAS 200 disk

8.3.3 Increasing volume size for a NAS 300 shared disk

8.4 Double-Take

8.4.1 Description of Double-Take

8.4.2 Double-Take features

8.4.3 Double-Take operations

8.4.4 Double-Take Installation

8.4.5 Setting up Double-Take

8.4.6 Creating a mirror

8.5 Persistent Storage Manager (PSM)

8.5.1 How PSM works

8.5.2 Creating images with PSM

8.5.3 Configuring PSM

8.5.4 Creating a PSM image

8.5.5 Restoring a Persistent Image

8.5.6 Disaster Recovery with PSM

8.5.7 Special considerations for PSM in a clustered environment

8.6 Additional tools

8.6.1 IBM World Wide Name utility

8.6.2 IBM FAStT Management Suite Java

8.6.3 IBMSNAP

8.7 Uninterrupted Power Supply support

Chapter 9. Systems management for NAS

9.1 Description of IBM Director

9.2 Hardware aspects of systems management

9.3 IBM Director preloaded on NAS devices

9.4 Using IBM Director on a NAS appliance

9.4.1 Discovering NAS systems

9.4.2 Executing tasks

9.4.3 Grouping systems

9.4.4 Event and action management

9.4.5 Rack Manager

9.4.6 System Availability

9.4.7 Capacity Manager

9.4.8 Cluster Systems Management (CSM)

9.4.9 ServeRAID Manager

9.4.10 Usage tips for the NAS 100

9.5 How to install IBM NAS Extensions to IBM Director

9.6 Microsoft Multiple Device Manager (MDM)

9.6.1 NAS 100 and MDM

9.6.2 Controller installation on NAS 100 appliance

9.6.3 MDM functions

Chapter 10. Cross platform storage

10.1 File sharing for Windows clients

10.1.1 CIFS file sharing in a non-clustered environment

10.1.2 CIFS file sharing in a clustered environment

10.2 Accessing the shares from our Windows clients

10.3 File sharing for UNIX clients.

10.3.1 NFS file sharing for non-clustered environments

10.3.2 NFS file sharing for clustered environments

10.4 How to configure Services for UNIX (SFU)

10.4.1 Configuring a cross platform share in a Windows 2000 Domain

10.4.2 Configuring cross platform share without a Domain Controller

10.4.3 Configuring the shared storage

10.4.4 Mapping the Gateway for NFS share from a Windows client

10.4.5 Accessing the shares from our UNIX clients

10.5 Accessing the shares with the Samba client

10.5.1 Setting up the Samba client on a RedHat Linux 8.0

10.5.2 Mounting a NAS Share into the Linux file system

10.5.3 Using the smbclient program

10.5.4 Samba client configuration on AIX

10.5.5 Sources and additional information

Chapter 11. Backup considerations

11.1 NAS 200 and 300 and their native backup solution

11.1.1 NAS 200 and 300 backup

11.2 Using PSM with backup software solutions

11.2.1 IBMSNAP utility

11.2.2 Using IBMSNAP with NTBackup

11.2.3 Creating a scheduled NT backup with IBMSNAP

11.2.4 Using IBMSNAP with TSM

11.2.5 Creating a scheduled TSM backup using IBMSNAP

Chapter 12. NAS recovery procedures

12.1 Recovering the NAS 100

12.1.1 NAS 100 boot behavior in case of an HDD failure

12.1.2 Recovery scenarios

12.2 Recovering the NAS 200

12.2.1 Using the Recovery CD

12.2.2 Using the maintenance disk partition

12.3 Recovering the NAS 300

Chapter 13. Microsoft Active Directory and IBM TotalStorage NAS

13.1 Introduction to Active Directory (AD)

13.1.1 Benefits

13.1.2 Active Directory and Domain Name Service (DNS)

13.1.3 Domain controllers

13.2 Active Directory architecture

13.2.1 Objects, schemas, and publishing

13.2.2 Sites

13.2.3 Domains

13.2.4 Organizational Units (OUs)

13.3 Interoperability

13.3.1 Lightweight Directory Access Protocol.

13.3.2 Kerberos

13.4 Active Directory design

13.4.1 Domain design

13.4.2 Organizational Unit design

13.5 Design considerations for IBM TotalStorage NAS

13.5.1 Placement of the NAS devices

13.5.2 Authentication

13.5.3 Administration delegation

13.6 Bringing it all together - best practice

13.7 Further reading

Part 4 IBM TotalStorage NAS solutions

Chapter 14. Solutions for Windows based applications

14.1 Microsoft SQL Server 2000 on IBM NAS

14.1.1 Installation

14.1.2 Creating a shared folder

14.1.3 Creating a database manually using a Query Analyzer

14.1.4 Creating a database using Microsoft SQL Enterprise Manager

14.1.5 Migrating a database from local disk to IBM NAS

14.1.6 Defining a backup device on IBM NAS

14.2 Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 on NAS

14.2.1 Pre-installation procedure

14.2.2 NAS storage setup

14.2.3 Installing Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5

14.2.4 Moving the files to the NAS Appliance

14.3 DB2 UDB 7.1 on NAS

14.3.1 Installation

14.3.2 DB2 UDB 7.1 object on NAS

14.3.3 Connecting to the EXAMPLE database

14.4 Lotus Domino on NAS

14.4.1 Getting connected to the NAS box

14.4.2 Installing Lotus Domino

14.5 SAS on NAS

14.5.1 What is SAS?

14.5.2 The SAS solution scenario

14.5.3 SAS installation

14.5.4 Connecting SAS to the database

14.5.5 Querying SAS and getting the graph

Chapter 15. Solutions for UNIX based applications

15.1 AIX NFS mount procedure

15.2 Implementing DB2 UDB V7.1 on AIX 4.3.3

15.3 Implementing DB2 UDB V7.1 on RedHat Linux V7.1

15.4 Implementing Oracle V8.1.7 on AIX 4.3.3

Part 5 Appendixes

Appendix A. Ethernet adapter teaming

Intel adapters

Alacritech Quad-Port 10/100 Ethernet Adapter

Appendix B. NAS 100 troubleshooting and BIOS access

Troubleshooting

Error messages.

Temperature checkout.

Notes:

"March 2003."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC:

647470012