IBM TotalStorage FAStT best practices / [Bertrand Dufrasne ... et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dufrasne, Bertrand.

International Business Machines Corporation. International Technical Support Organization.

Series:

IBM redbooks.

IBM redbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Storage area networks (Computer networks).

Computer storage devices.

Fibre Channel (Standard).

Physical Description:

xxii, 298 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[S.l.] : IBM, International Technical Support Organization, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Front cover

Contents

Figures

Notices

Trademarks

Preface

The team that wrote this redbook

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Comments welcome

Summary of changes

July 2004, First Edition

Part 1 FAStT introduction, planning, configuration, and maintenance

Chapter 1. Introduction to FAStT and SAN

1.1 FAStT features and models

1.2 FAStT Storage Manager

1.2.1 FAStT Storage Manager components

1.2.2 New features introduced in Storage Manager Version 8.4

1.3 Introduction to SAN

1.3.1 SAN components

Chapter 2. FAStT planning tasks

2.1 Planning your SAN

2.2 SAN zoning

2.2.1 Zone types

2.2.2 Zoning configuration

2.3 Physical components and characteristics

2.3.1 Rack considerations

2.3.2 Cables and connectors

2.3.3 Cable management and labeling

2.3.4 Fibre Channel adapters

2.3.5 Planning your storage structure and performance

2.3.6 Logical drives and controller ownership

2.3.7 Segment size

2.3.8 Storage partitioning

2.3.9 Cache parameters

2.3.10 Hot-spare drive

2.3.11 Remote Volume Mirroring

2.4 Additional planning considerations

2.4.1 Planning for systems with LVM: AIX example

2.4.2 Planning for systems without LVM: Windows example

2.4.3 The function of ADT and a multipath driver

2.4.4 ADT alert notification

2.4.5 Failover alert delay

Chapter 3. FAStT configuration tasks

3.1 Preparing the FAStT Storage Server

3.1.1 Network setup of the controllers

3.1.2 Installing and starting the FAStT Storage Manager Client

3.1.3 Updating the controller microcode

3.2 FAStT cabling

3.2.1 FAStT600 cabling configuration

3.2.2 FAStT700/FastT900 cabling configuration

3.2.3 Expansion unit numbering

3.3 Configuring the FAStT Storage Server

3.3.1 Defining hot-spare drives

3.3.2 Creating arrays and logical drives.

3.3.3 Configuring storage partitioning

Chapter 4. FAStT maintenance tasks

4.1 Performance monitoring and tuning

4.1.1 The performance monitor

4.1.2 Tuning cache parameters

4.2 Controlling the performance impact of maintenance tasks

4.2.1 Modification operations

4.2.2 Remote Volume Mirroring operations

4.2.3 VolumeCopy priority rates

4.2.4 FlashCopy operations

4.3 Event monitoring and alerts

4.3.1 FAStT Service Alert

4.4 Saving the subsystem profile

4.5 Upgrades and maintenance

4.5.1 Being up-to-date with your drivers and firmware using My support

4.5.2 Prerequisites for upgrades

4.5.3 Updating FAStT host software

4.5.4 Updating microcode

4.6 Capacity upgrades, system upgrades

4.6.1 Capacity upgrades and increased bandwidth

4.6.2 System upgrade and disk migration procedures

4.6.3 Other considerations when adding expansion enclosures and drives

Part 2 Advanced topics

Chapter 5. Migrating 7133 to FAStT in AIX

5.1 Performance sizing considerations

5.1.1 SSA adapters and FAStT adapters performance comparison

5.2 Sizing a solution based upon the SSA configuration

5.3 Sizing a solution based upon the application IO rates

5.4 Sizing a solution for more performance

5.5 Setting up the FAStT prior to migration

5.5.1 Install FAStT software on the AIX host server

5.6 Performing the migration

5.6.1 Logical Volume Manager

5.6.2 Migration procedure

5.6.3 Mirroring the VG (method 1) illustration

5.6.4 Migrating PVs (method 2) illustration

5.6.5 Other considerations

5.6.6 HACMP considerations

Chapter 6. IBM migration services

6.1 Data migration

6.2 Piper: IBM hardware-assisted data migration

6.3 What is Piper Lite?

6.3.1 Piper hardware appliance

6.3.2 Piper Migration Director

6.3.3 Piper Migration Surveyor

6.3.4 Data migration process.

Chapter 7. FAStT and HACMP for AIX

7.1 HACMP introduction

7.2 Supported environment

7.2.1 General rules

7.2.2 Configuration limitations

Chapter 8. FAStT and GPFS for AIX

8.1 GPFS introduction

8.2 Supported configurations

Part 3 VMware and FAStT

Chapter 9. Introduction to VMware

9.1 VMware, Inc.

9.2 The IBM and VMware relationship

9.3 VMware ESX Server v2.1 architecture

9.4 VMware ESX Server storage structure: disk virtualization

9.4.1 Local disk usage

9.4.2 SAN disk usage

9.4.3 Disk virtualization with VMFS volumes and .dsk files

9.4.4 The Buslogic and LSI SCSI controllers

9.4.5 The complete picture of ESX and FAStT storage

9.5 FAStT and ESX Server solution considerations

9.5.1 General performance and sizing considerations

9.5.2 Which model of FAStT should be used in a VMware implementation?

9.5.3 FAStT tuning considerations

9.6 IBM eServer BladeCenter and ESX Server

9.6.1 Introduction to the IBM eServer BladeCenter

9.6.2 BladeCenter disk storage

Chapter 10. VMware ESX Server terminology, features, limitations, and tips

10.1 Storage Management: naming conventions and features

10.1.1 Disks and LUNs

10.1.2 Failover paths and failover policies

10.1.3 Adapter bindings

10.1.4 VMFS or raw disks?

10.1.5 Booting from SAN and use of NAS devices

10.1.6 Direct attached storage

10.1.7 FAStT premium features: RVM, FlashCopy, VolumeCopy

10.1.8 Network considerations

Chapter 11. VMware ESX Server storage configurations

11.1 Introduction

11.2 Using redundant paths from the switches to the FAStT

11.2.1 Recommended configuration

11.2.2 Workaround for LUN discovery

11.3 Configurations by implementation

11.3.1 Single HBA with single switch

11.3.2 Multiple HBAs with multiple switches

11.4 Configurations by function.

11.4.1 Independent VMFS volumes

11.4.2 Public VMFS volumes

11.4.3 Clustering

11.5 Zoning options

11.6 BladeCenter specifics

11.6.1 The configuration tested in this redbook

Chapter 12. Installing VMware ESX Server

12.1 Assumptions and requirements

12.2 HBA configuration

12.3 Fibre switch configuration

12.3.1 Single path

12.3.2 Dual path: crossover

12.3.3 Zoning the Qlogic FCSM of a BladeCenter

12.3.4 Considerations for attaching multiple hosts

12.4 FAStT NVSRAM settings

12.5 LUN configuration and storage partitioning

12.5.1 Configurations without LUN sharing

12.5.2 Configurations with LUN sharing

12.6 Verifying the storage setup

12.7 ESX Server installation

12.7.1 Text mode installation of ESX Server (BladeCenter without USB mouse)

12.7.2 Installation of ESX using the Graphical Installer

12.8 Configuring the ESX Server swap file

12.8.1 Swap file: required steps for blade servers with IDE drives

12.8.2 Creating and activating the swap file

12.9 Configuring the virtual network

12.9.1 Configuring the network for all systems except HS20 blade servers

12.9.2 Configuring the virtual network on HS20 blade servers

12.10 ESX Server advanced settings and Qlogic parameters

12.10.1 ESX Server advanced settings

12.10.2 Adjust Qlogic driver parameters

12.11 Planning disk resources and creating VMFS partitions

12.11.1 Considerations and guidelines

12.11.2 Creating VMFS partitions

12.12 Creating virtual machines

12.12.1 Creating the virtual disk resources

12.12.2 Modifying the disk resources as shared drives for clustering

12.13 Guest OS specific settings and remarks

12.13.1 Clustered Windows guest OS settings

12.13.2 Installing MSCS 2003 on a hybrid cluster

Chapter 13. Redundancy by configuration

13.1 Single path configuration.

13.2 Dual path redundant configuration

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Index

Back cover.

Notes:

"September 2004."

"SG24-6363-00."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC:

137342152