IBM Spectrum Accelerate Deployment, Usage, and Maintenance

An IBM Redbooks publication

Published 19 July 2017

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ISBN-10: 0738442631
ISBN-13: 9780738442631
IBM Form #: SG24-8267-02
(452 pages)

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Authors: Bertrand Dufrasne, Markus Oscheka, Grant Kabobel, Abilio Oliveira

Abstract

This edition applies to IBM® Spectrum Accelerate V11.5.4.

IBM Spectrum Accelerate™, a member of IBM Spectrum Storage™, is an agile, software-defined storage solution for enterprise and cloud that builds on the customer-proven and mature IBM XIV® storage software. The key characteristic of Spectrum Accelerate is that it can be easily deployed and run on purpose-built or existing hardware that is chosen by the customer.

IBM Spectrum Accelerate enables rapid deployment of high-performance and scalable block data storage infrastructure over commodity hardware on-premises or off-premises.

This IBM Redbooks® publication provides a broad understanding of IBM Spectrum Accelerate. The book introduces Spectrum Accelerate and describes planning and preparation that are essential for a successful deployment of the solution. The deployment is described through a step-by-step approach, by using a graphical user interface (GUI) based method or a simple command-line interface (CLI) based procedure.

Chapters in this book describe the logical configuration of the system, host support and business continuity functions, and migration. Although it makes many references to the XIV storage software, the book also emphasizes where IBM Spectrum Accelerate differs from XIV.

Finally, a substantial portion of the book is dedicated to maintenance and troubleshooting to provide detailed guidance for the customer support personnel.

Table of contents

Chapter 1. Introducing IBM Spectrum Accelerate
Chapter 2. Planning for IBM Spectrum Accelerate
Chapter 3. IBM Spectrum Accelerate command-line deployment
Chapter 4. IBM Spectrum Accelerate XIV GUI-based deployment
Chapter 5. Configuring and Managing IBM Spectrum Accelerate
Chapter 6. Host attachment
Chapter 7. Remote mirroring with IBM Spectrum Accelerate
Chapter 8. Data Migration with IBM Spectrum Accelerate
Chapter 9. Maintenance and upgrades
Chapter 10. Troubleshooting
Appendix A. Spectrum Accelerate events list

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