The IBM TotalStorage NAS 100 integration guide / [Roland Tretau, Rok Rebolj, Volker Seidel].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tretau, Roland.

Contributor:

Rebolj, Rok.

Seidel, Volker.

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.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 329 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st 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

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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. The IBM TotalStorage NAS 100 product

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 NAS 100 disk organization

2.4 The IBM TotalStorage NAS Version 2.5 at a glance

Chapter 3. Implementing the IBM TotalStorage NAS 100

3.1 Initial configuration

3.1.1 Methods for setting up the NAS 100 device

3.2 Configuration and administration tools

3.2.1 Universal Manageability Services

3.2.2 Terminal Services

3.2.3 Web GUI interface

3.3 NAS Setup Navigator overview

3.4 Using the Navigator to set up the NAS 100

3.4.1 Basic configuration

3.4.2 Storage configuration and management

3.4.3 Microsoft Services for UNIX

3.4.4 User and security management

3.4.5 Sharing pooled storage.

3.4.6 Completing setup

Chapter 4. Advanced NAS configuration

4.1 Quota management

4.1.1 Disk quotas

4.2 Persistent Storage Manager (PSM)

4.2.1 How PSM works

4.2.2 Creating images with PSM

4.2.3 Configuring PSM

4.2.4 Creating a PSM image

4.2.5 Restoring a Persistent Image

4.2.6 Disaster Recovery with PSM

4.3 Ethernet adapter teaming

4.3.1 Overview of adapter teaming

4.3.2 Load balancing for the configuration

4.4 Uninterrupted Power Supply support

Chapter 5. Systems management for the NAS 100

5.1 IBM Director description

5.2 IBM Director Agent preload on NAS 100 appliance

5.3 Managing the NAS 100 appliance with IBM Director

5.3.1 Discovering the NAS systems

5.3.2 Executing tasks

5.3.3 Grouping systems

5.3.4 Event and action management

5.3.5 Rack Manager

5.3.6 System Availability

5.3.7 Capacity Manager

5.3.8 Usage tips

5.4 How to install IBM NAS Extensions to IBM Director

5.5 Microsoft Multiple Device Manager (MDM)

5.5.1 NAS 100 and MDM

5.5.2 Controller installation on NAS 100 appliance

5.5.3 MDM functions

Chapter 6. Cross platform storage

6.1 File sharing for Windows clients

6.2 Accessing the shares from our Windows clients

6.3 File sharing for UNIX clients

6.4 How to configure Services For UNIX (SFU)

6.4.1 Configuring a cross platform share in a Windows 2000 Domain

6.4.2 Configuring a cross platform share without a Domain Controller

6.4.3 Configuring the shared storage

6.4.4 Mapping the Gateway for NFS share from a Windows client

6.4.5 Accessing the shares from our UNIX clients

6.5 Accessing the shares with the Samba client

6.5.1 Setting up the Samba client on a RedHat Linux 8.0

6.5.2 Mounting a NAS Share into the Linux file system

6.5.3 Using the smbclient program

6.5.4 Samba client configuration on AIX.

6.5.5 Sources and additional information

Chapter 7. Backup, restore, troubleshooting

7.1 The NAS 100 and its native backup solution

7.1.1 NAS 100 backup

7.2 Using PSM with backup software solutions

7.2.1 IBMSNAP utility

7.2.2 Using IBMSNAP with NTBackup

7.2.3 Creating a scheduled NT backup with IBMSNAP

7.2.4 Using IBMSNAP with TSM

7.2.5 Creating a scheduled TSM backup using IBMSNAP

7.3 Troubleshooting

7.3.1 Error messages

7.3.2 Temperature checkout

7.3.3 Identifying problems using LEDs

7.4 Accessing the BIOS

7.4.1 Clearing CMOS data

7.4.2 Preparing to use the remote BIOS setting function

7.4.3 Making changes to the BIOS

7.4.4 Upgrading the BIOS

7.5 Hard drive failure and recovery scenarios

7.5.1 NAS 100 boot behavior in case of a HDD failure

7.5.2 Recovery scenarios

Glossary

Abbreviations and acronyms

Related publications

IBM Redbooks

Other resources

Referenced Web sites

How to get IBM Redbooks

IBM Redbooks collections

Index

Back cover.

Notes:

Digitized and made available by: Books24x7.com.

"February 2003."

"SG24-6913-00."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-322) and index.

OCLC:

80244375