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N Series

Brand: IBM | Category: Storage
Table of contents
  1. front cover
  2. Table Of Contents
  3. Table Of Contents
  4. Table Of Contents
  5. Table Of Contents
  6. Table Of Contents
  7. Table Of Contents
  8. Table Of Contents
  9. Chapter 1. Introduction to IBM System Storage N series
  10. Overview
  11. IBM System Storage N series hardware
  12. Software licensing structure
  13. Entry-level
  14. Data ONTAP 8 supported systems
  15. Chapter 2. Entry-level systems
  16. N3220
  17. N3220 hardware
  18. N3240
  19. N32x0 common information
  20. N3400
  21. N3000 technical specifications at a glance
  22. Chapter 3. Mid-range systems
  23. Common features
  24. Hardware summary
  25. Hardware
  26. IBM N62x0 MetroCluster / gateway models
  27. IBM N62x0 series technical specifications
  28. N62x0 technical specifications at a glance
  29. Chapter 4. High-end systems
  31. Base components
  32. IBM N series N7950T slot configuration rules
  33. N7950T cooling architecture
  34. N7950T guidelines
  35. N7950T SFP+ modules
  36. Chapter 5. Expansion units
  37. Shelf technology overview
  38. Supported EXN3000 drives
  40. Intermix support
  41. Supported EXN3500 drives
  42. Supported EXN4000 drives
  43. Environmental and technical specification
  44. Effect of self-encryption on Data ONTAP features
  45. Chapter 6. Cabling expansions
  46. EXN3000 and EXN3500 disk shelves cabling
  47. SAS shelf interconnects
  48. Top connections
  49. Bottom connections
  50. Connecting the optional ACP cables
  51. EXN4000 disk shelves cabling
  52. Multipath Fibre Channel cabling
  53. Multipath High-Availability cabling
  54. Chapter 7. Highly Available controller pairs
  55. HA pair overview
  56. Characteristics of nodes in an HA pair
  57. Preferred practices for deploying an HA pair
  58. Comparison of HA pair types
  59. HA pair types and requirements
  60. Mirrored HA pairs
  61. Stretched MetroCluster
  62. Fabric-attached MetroCluster
  63. Configuring the HA pair
  64. Configuration variations for standard HA pair configurations
  65. Enabling licenses on the HA pair configuration
  66. Configuring Interface Groups (VIFs)
  67. Setting options and parameters
  68. Testing takeover and giveback
  69. Eliminating single points of failure with HA pair configurations
  70. Managing an HA pair configuration
  71. Halting a node without takeover
  72. Basic HA pair configuration management
  73. HA pair configuration failover basic operations
  74. Chapter 8. MetroCluster
  75. Overview of MetroCluster
  76. Business continuity solutions
  77. Planning Stretch MetroCluster configurations
  78. Cabling Stretch MetroClusters
  79. Fabric Attached MetroCluster
  80. Planning Fabric MetroCluster configurations
  81. Cabling Fabric MetroClusters
  82. Synchronous mirroring with SyncMirror
  83. SyncMirror without MetroCluster
  84. MetroCluster zoning and TI zones
  85. Failure scenarios
  86. MetroCluster host failure
  87. MetroCluster interconnect failure
  88. MetroCluster site failure
  89. MetroCluster site recovery
  90. Chapter 9. FibreBridge 6500N
  91. Description
  92. Administration and management
  93. Background
  94. Chapter 10. Data protection with RAID Double Parity
  95. Advantages of RAID-DP data protection
  96. RAID-DP overview
  97. RAID-DP and double parity
  98. RAID 4 horizontal row parity
  99. Adding RAID-DP double-parity stripes
  100. RAID-DP reconstruction
  101. Protection levels with RAID-DP
  102. Hot spare disks
  103. Chapter 11. Core technologies
  104. Write Anywhere File Layout (WALF)
  105. Disk structure
  106. NVRAM and system memory
  107. Intelligent caching of write requests
  108. NVRAM operation
  109. N series read caching techniques
  110. Introduction of read caching
  111. Chapter 12. Flash Cache
  112. About Flash Cache
  113. Data ONTAP disk read operation
  114. Saving useful data in Flash Cache
  115. Reading data from Flash Cache
  116. Chapter 13. Disk sanitization
  117. Data ONTAP disk sanitization
  118. Technology drivers
  119. Data ONTAP sanitization operation
  120. Disk Sanitization with encrypted disks
  121. Chapter 14. Designing an N series solution
  122. Primary issues that affect planning
  123. Capacity requirements
  124. Other effects of Snapshot
  125. Processor utilization
  126. Application considerations
  127. Backup servers
  128. Resiliency to failure
  129. Summary
  130. Chapter 15. Preparation and installation
  131. Installation prerequisites
  132. Configuration worksheet
  133. Initial hardware setup
  134. Troubleshooting if the system does not boot
  135. Chapter 16. Basic N series administration
  136. Administration methods
  137. N series System Manager
  138. Starting the IBM System Storage N series storage system
  139. Rebooting the system
  140. Chapter 17. Host Utilities Kits
  141. What Host Utilities Kits are
  142. Functions provided by Host Utilities
  143. Preparation
  144. Running the Host Utilities installation program
  145. Host configuration settings
  146. Overview of settings used by the Host Utilities
  147. Setting up LUNs
  148. About mapping LUNs for Windows clusters
  149. Chapter 18. Boot from SAN
  151. Configure SAN boot for IBM System x servers
  152. Preferred practices
  153. Basics of the boot process
  154. Configuring SAN booting before installing Windows or Linux systems
  155. Windows 2003 Enterprise SP2 installation
  156. Windows 2008 Enterprise installation
  157. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 installation
  158. red hat enterprise linux
  159. Boot from SAN and other protocols
  160. Chapter 19. Host multipathing
  162. Multipathing software options
  163. Native multipathing solution
  164. Part 4. Performing upgrades
  165. System NDU
  166. System NDU hardware requirements
  167. Prerequisites for a system NDU
  168. Steps for major version upgrades NDU in NAS and SAN environments
  169. System commands compatibility
  170. Upgrading the shelf firmware
  171. Upgrading the AT-FCX shelf firmware during system reboot
  172. Upgrading the disk firmware non-disruptively
  173. ACP firmware NDU
  174. RLM firmware NDU
  175. Chapter 21. Hardware and software upgrades
  176. Hardware upgrades
  177. Upgrading a storage controller head
  178. Upgrading to Data ONTAP 7.3
  179. Upgrading to Data ONTAP 8.1
  180. Part 5. Appendixes
  181. getting started
  182. Preinstallation planning
  183. Start with the hardware
  184. Power on N series
  185. Data ONTAP update
  186. Obtaining the Data ONTAP software from the IBM NAS website
  187. Installing Data ONTAP system files
  188. Downloading Data ONTAP to the storage system
  189. Setting up the network using console
  190. Changing the IP address
  191. Setting up the DNS
  192. operating environment
  193. N3000 entry-level systems
  194. Appendix B. Operating environment
  195. N6000 mid-range systems
  196. N6240
  197. N6270
  198. N7950T
  199. EXN3000
  200. EXN4000
  201. N series to NetApp model reference
  202. Related publications
  203. Other publications
  204. Index
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N Series

Brand: IBM | Category: Storage
Table of contents
  1. front cover
  2. Table Of Contents
  3. Table Of Contents
  4. Table Of Contents
  5. Table Of Contents
  6. Table Of Contents
  7. Table Of Contents
  8. Table Of Contents
  9. Chapter 1. Introduction to IBM System Storage N series
  10. Overview
  11. IBM System Storage N series hardware
  12. Software licensing structure
  13. Entry-level
  14. Data ONTAP 8 supported systems
  16. N32x0 common features
  17. N3150 model details
  18. N3220 model details
  19. N3240 model details
  20. N3240 hardware
  21. N3000 technical specifications
  23. Functions and features common to all models
  24. N62x0 model details
  25. IBM N62x0 MetroCluster and gateway models
  26. N62x0 technical specifications
  28. Hardware summary
  29. Controller module components
  30. I/O expansion module components
  31. IBM N7x50T configuration rules
  32. N7x50T cooling architecture
  33. N7x50T SFP+ modules
  34. N7000T technical specifications
  35. Shelf technology overview
  36. Supported EXN3000 drives
  39. Expansion unit EXN3500
  41. Intermix support
  42. Environmental and technical specification
  43. SED overview
  44. Key management
  45. Expansion unit technical specifications
  46. EXN3000 and EXN3500 disk shelves cabling
  47. SAS shelf interconnects
  48. Top connections
  49. Bottom connections
  50. Connecting the optional ACP cables
  51. EXN4000 disk shelves cabling
  52. Non-multipath Fibre Channel cabling
  53. Multipath Fibre Channel cabling
  54. Multipath HA cabling
  55. HA pair overview
  56. Characteristics of nodes in an HA pair
  57. Preferred practices for deploying an HA pair
  58. HA pair types and requirements
  59. Mirrored HA pairs
  60. Stretched MetroCluster
  61. Fabric-attached MetroCluster
  62. Configuring the HA pair
  63. Configuration variations for standard HA pair configurations
  64. Enabling licenses on the HA pair configuration
  65. Configuring interfaces for takeover
  66. Setting options and parameters
  67. Testing takeover and giveback
  68. Eliminating single points of failure with HA pair configurations
  69. Managing an HA pair configuration
  70. Halting a node without takeover
  71. Basic HA pair configuration management
  72. HA pair configuration failover basic operations
  73. Overview of MetroCluster
  74. Business continuity solutions
  75. Planning Stretch MetroCluster configurations
  76. Cabling Stretch MetroClusters
  77. Fabric Attached MetroCluster
  78. Planning Fabric MetroCluster configurations
  79. Cabling Fabric MetroClusters
  80. Synchronous mirroring with SyncMirror
  81. SyncMirror without MetroCluster
  82. MetroCluster zoning and TI zones
  83. Failure scenarios
  84. MetroCluster host failure
  85. MetroCluster interconnect failure
  86. MetroCluster site failure
  87. MetroCluster site recovery
  88. FibreBridge 6500N
  89. Administration and management
  90. Stretch MetroCluster with SAS shelves and SAS cables
  91. Installing a new system with SAS disk shelves by using SAS optical cables
  92. Replacing SAS cables in a multipath HA configuration
  93. Hot-adding an SAS disk shelf by using SAS optical cables
  94. Replacing FibreBridge and SAS copper cables with SAS optical cables
  95. Background
  96. Chapter 10. Data protection with RAID Double Parity
  97. Single-parity RAID using larger disks
  98. RAID-DP overview
  99. RAID-DP and double parity
  100. Internal structure of RAID-DP
  101. Adding RAID-DP double-parity stripes
  102. RAID-DP reconstruction
  103. Protection levels with RAID-DP
  104. Hot spare disks
  105. Write Anywhere File Layout
  106. Disk structure
  107. NVRAM and system memory
  108. Intelligent caching of write requests
  109. NVRAM operation
  110. N series read caching techniques
  111. About Flash Cache
  112. Data ONTAP disk read operation
  113. Saving useful data in Flash Cache
  114. Reading data from Flash Cache
  115. Data ONTAP disk sanitization
  116. Technology drivers
  117. Data ONTAP sanitization operation
  118. Disk Sanitization with encrypted disks
  119. Primary issues that affect planning
  120. Other effects of Snapshot
  121. Capacity overhead versus performance
  122. Application considerations
  123. Backup servers
  124. Resiliency to failure
  125. Summary
  126. Installation prerequisites
  127. Configuration worksheet
  128. Initial hardware setup
  129. Troubleshooting if the system does not boot
  130. Administration methods
  131. N series System Manager
  132. Starting the IBM System Storage N series storage system
  133. Rebooting the system
  134. host utilities kits
  135. Host Utilities Kits
  136. Host Utilities functions
  137. Preparation
  138. Running the Host Utilities installation program
  139. Host configuration settings
  140. Host Utilities registry and parameters settings
  141. Setting up LUNs
  142. Mapping LUNs for Windows clusters
  143. Accessing LUNs on hosts
  145. Configuring SAN boot for IBM System x servers
  146. Preferred practices
  147. Basics of the boot process
  148. Configuring SAN booting before installing Windows or Linux systems
  149. Windows 2003 Enterprise SP2 installation
  150. Windows 2008 Enterprise installation
  151. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 installation
  152. Boot from SAN and other protocols
  154. Multipathing software options
  155. Native multipathing solution
  156. Chapter 20. Designing for nondisruptive upgrades
  157. System NDU
  158. Supported Data ONTAP upgrades
  159. System NDU hardware requirements
  160. Prerequisites for a system NDU
  161. Steps for major version upgrades NDU in NAS and SAN environments
  162. System commands compatibility
  163. Types of shelf controller module firmware NDUs supported
  164. Upgrading the AT-FCX shelf firmware during system reboot
  165. Overview of disk firmware NDU
  166. ACP firmware NDU
  167. Upgrading ACP firmware manually
  168. Hardware upgrades
  169. Upgrading a storage controller head
  170. Upgrading to Data ONTAP 7.3
  171. Upgrading to Data ONTAP 8.1
  172. Part 5. Appendixes
  173. getting started
  174. Preinstallation planning
  175. Appendix A. Getting started
  176. Start with the hardware
  177. Power on N series
  178. Updating Data ONTAP
  179. Obtaining the Data ONTAP software from the IBM NAS website
  180. Installing Data ONTAP system files
  181. Downloading Data ONTAP to the storage system
  182. Setting up the network using console
  183. Changing the IP address
  184. Setting up the DNS
  185. operating environment
  186. N3000 entry-level systems
  187. Appendix B. Operating environment
  188. N6000 mid-range systems
  189. N6240
  190. N6270
  191. N series expansion shelves
  192. EXN3500
  193. EXN4000
  194. Related publications
  195. Other publications
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N Series

Brand: IBM | Category: Gateway
Table of contents
  1. Table Of Contents
  2. Table Of Contents
  3. Chapter 1 Implementation Overview
  4. Expanding your virtual storage pool with native disk shelves
  5. Usage scenarios for native disk shelves with gateways
  6. General requirements to use native disk shelves with the gateway
  7. Supported disk types and disk shelves
  8. Understanding storage provided by native disk shelves
  9. Chapter 2 Planning for Using Disk Shelves with a Gateway
  10. Comparing how Data ONTAP functions work with disks and array LUNs
  11. Considerations when planning storage requirements
  12. Guidelines for creating aggregates
  13. Considerations when planning for the root volume
  14. Guidelines for gateway port usage
  15. Limits on a gateway using both disks and array LUNs
  16. Chapter 3 Installing a New Gateway with Disks
  17. Factory default setup of a gateway with disk shelves
  18. Installing a gateway with disk shelves
  19. Chapter 4 Adding a New Disk Shelf to a Gateway
  20. General requirements when adding a disk shelf
  21. Overview of adding a new disk shelf
  22. Chapter 5 Moving a Disk Shelf to a Gateway
  23. Planning for moving a disk shelf
  24. Tasks to perform before disconnecting the shelf
  25. Process overview for physically moving the disk shelf
  26. Optional configuration after moving the disk shelf
  27. Moving a disk shelf that is installed on a gateway
  28. Chapter 6 Managing a System with Disks and Array LUNs
  29. Identifying disk and array LUN information in command output
  30. Assigning disks and array LUNs to the gateway
  31. Appendix A Configuring Gateway Ports as Initiators
  32. Appendix B Setting up and Managing Multipath Storage
  33. Description of Multipath Storage
  34. Gateway specific requirements for Multipath Storage
  35. Setup overview—Multipath Storage on an HA pair
  36. Configuring the gateway environment variable for Multipath Storage
  37. Appendix C Troubleshooting Configurations with Disks
  38. Common problems
  39. Error messages
  40. Reinstalling the system
  41. Index
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