IBM System Storage N series

This IBM® Redbooks® publication explains the basic hardware and software features of the IBM System Storage™ N series. This book also discusses topics such as installation, setup, and administration from the N series storage system and clients and provides example scenarios of some features.

Corporate workgroups, distributed enterprises, and small to medium-sized companies are increasingly seeking to network and consolidate storage to improve availability, share information, reduce costs, and protect and secure information. These organizations require enterprise-class solutions capable of addressing immediate storage needs cost-effectively, while providing an upgrade path for future requirements. Ideally, IT managers would like a maximum degree of flexibility to design the architecture that best supports the requirements of multiple types of data and a broad range of applications. The IBM System Storage N series is designed to meet these requirements.

The System Storage N series offers an excellent solution for a broad range of deployment scenarios. The N series system functions as a that is designed to allow you to simultaneously serve both file and block-level data across a single network. These are demanding procedures that, for some solutions, require multiple, separately managed systems. The flexibility of N series, however, allows it to address the storage needs of a wide range of organizations, including distributed enterprises and data centers for midrange enterprises. N series also supports sites with computer and data-intensive enterprise applications such as database, data warehousing, workgroup collaboration, and messaging.

Chapter 1. Introduction to IBM System Storage N series
Chapter 2. Data ONTAP
Chapter 3. Write Anywhere File Layout
Chapter 4. Snapshot
Chapter 5. Data protection with RAID Double Parity
Chapter 6. Aggregates and volumes
Chapter 7. Multiprotocol data access
Chapter 8. Recovery with SnapRestore
Chapter 9. Flexible volumes
Chapter 10. FlexClone volumes
Chapter 11. FlexCache volumes
Chapter 12. FlexShare
Chapter 13. Enabling rapid recovery with SnapVault
Chapter 14. Data permanence with SnapLock
Chapter 15. SnapDrive
Chapter 16. Operations Manager
Chapter 17. Protection Manager
Chapter 18. FlexScale and the Performance Accelerator Module (PAM)
Chapter 19. Multipathing with the IBM System Storage N series
Chapter 20. SnapMirror
Chapter 21. SyncMirror
Chapter 22. Active/active configuration and management
Chapter 23. Multistore
Chapter 24. Introduction and overview of A-SIS (deduplication)
Chapter 25. MetroCluster
Chapter 26. Ensuring integrity with IBM N series SnapValidator
Chapter 27. Disk sanitization
Chapter 28. Setting up Common Internet File System (CIFS) shares and joining Active Directory
Chapter 29. Network File System (NFS) attachment
Chapter 30. IBM System Storage N series administration
Chapter 31. Pre-installation planning
Chapter 32. Performance monitoring
Chapter 33. AutoSupport Service
Chapter 34. Boot from SAN with IBM System Storage N series
Appendix A. Getting started
Appendix B. Power checklists

Publish Date
29 October 2009

Last Update
04 November 2009

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Author(s)

Alex Osuna is a Project Leader at the International Technical Support Organization, San Jose Center. He has worked in the IT industry for 31 years, including 28 years with IBM. He has extensive experience in software and hardware storage in service, support, planning, early ship programs, performance analysis, education, and published flashes. Alex has also provided pre-sales and post-sales support.

• Alex Osuna

Carlos Alvarez is a Technical Marketing Engineer at NetApp and is currently authoring reference architectures and storage efficiency technical guides.

• Carlos Alvarez

Alexandre F. do Nascimento is an IT Specialist for IBM MTS Brazil, working with implementation and support for IBM System Storage N series, VMware, Microsoft Windows, SAN Switches, and IBM System Storage DS8000 and DS4000 storage systems. He has worked for 10 years with IBM eServer xSeries and IBM System x and BladeCenter servers, Microsoft Windows, and IBM FastT/DS4000 storage systems. His areas of expertise also include IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center (TPC), IBM Director, and Linux. He is an IBM System x Certified Specialist and has a Bachelors of Data Processing degree from Mackenzie University, Brazil.

• Alexandre F. do Nascimento

Jose Hanchi is an IT Specialist with Techline (Technical Sales Support) providing pre-sales technical support to IBM sellers and Business Partners in Latin America on disk systems and the storage area network (SAN) infrastructure. He has been with IBM since 2004 and previously worked with the IBM System Storage ESS/DS8000/DS6000 field defect triage team primarily on open systems analysis.

• Jose Hanchi

Benjamin Lau is a IT Specialist in New Zealand. He has 10 years of experience in the storage field. He holds a Bachelors of Commerce degree from Auckland University. His areas of expertise include data protection and recovery.

• Benjamin Lau

Teddy Setiawan is an IT Specialist for IBM Information Technology Services in Indonesia. He has three years of experience in the IT field providing infrastructure implementation, migration, and support for IBM eServer pSeries, storage systems, and Linux. Teddy holds a Bachelors of Informatics Engineering degree from the Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia.

• Teddy Setiawan

ISBN

0738433616

IBM Form Number
SG24-7129-03

Number of pages
820