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Publish Date
12 March 2009
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Author(s)
- Bertrand Dufrasne
- Brett Allison
- John Barnes
- Jean Iyabi
- Rajesh Jeyapaul
- Peter Kimmel
- Chuck Laing
- Anderson Ferreira Nobre
- Rene Oehme
- Gero Schmidt
- Paulus Usong
Bertrand Dufrasne is an IBM Certified Consulting I/T Specialist and Project Leader for System Storage disk products at the International Technical Support Organization, San Jose Center. He has worked at IBM in various I/T areas. Bertrand has written many IBM Redbooks publications and has also developed and taught technical workshops. Before joining the ITSO, he worked for IBM Global Services as an Application Architect in the retail, banking, telecommunication, and healthcare industries. He holds a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from the Polytechnic Faculty of Mons (Belgium).
Brett Allison has performed distributed systems performance-related work since 1997, including performance analysis of J2EE applications, UNIX/Windows NT systems, and SAN Storage technologies. He is currently the storage performance and capacity technical focal point for IBM Global Services Technology Delivery. He has designed and developed tools, processes, and service offerings to support storage performance and capacity. He has spoken at a number of conferences and is the author of several White Papers on performance.
John Barnes is a Senior IT Specialist in IBM Global Services in the UK. John started his IBM career 30 years ago as a Large Systems hardware CE. After an assignment to the UK Hardware Support Centre, he moved to a career in Availability Management. John then joined the UK Storage and SAN Services Team in 2000, specializing in IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server (ESS) and SAN implementations. He now works in the UK STG Storage Services team, specializing in DS8000 and SAN implementations, including SAN Volume Controller (SVC) and Copy Services.
Jean Iyabi is an active member of the IBM ESCC (European Storage Competence Center) in Mainz, Germany since 2001. As a Product Field Engineer, he acted as last level support for High End storage disk. Jean has extensive experience in DS8000 support and focuses on Host Attachment (System z), Extended Copy Services Functions, and Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex (GDPS). He was assigned for two years as the EMEA field support interface with the DS8000 development and test teams in Tucson, AZ. He holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Applied Sciences of Wiesbaden (Germany).
Rajesh Jeyapaul is an AIX Development Support Specialist in IBM India. He has nine years of experience in AIX, specializing in investigating the performance impact of processes running in AIX. Currently, he is leading a technical team responsible for providing Development support to various AIX components. He holds a Masters Degree in Software Systems from the University of BITS, India, and an MBA from University of MKU, India. His areas of expertise include System p, AIX, and High-Availability Cluster Multi-Processing (HACMP).
Peter Kimmel is an IT Specialist and the ATS team lead of the Enterprise Disk Performance team at the European Storage Competence Center in Mainz, Germany. He joined IBM Storage in 1999 and since then worked with SSA, VSS, the various ESS generations, and DS8000/DS6000. He has been involved in all Early Shipment Programs (ESPs), early installs for the Copy Services rollouts, and has co-authored several DS8000 IBM Redbooks publications so far. Peter holds a Diploma (MSc) degree in Physics from the University of Kaiserslautern.
Chuck Laing is a Senior IT Architect and Master Certified IT Specialist with The Open Group. He is also an IBM Certified IT Specialist, specializing in IBM Enterprise Class and Midrange Disk Storage Systems/Configuration Management in the Americas ITD. He has co-authored eight previous IBM Redbooks publications about the IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server and the DS8000/6000. He holds a degree in Computer Science. He has worked at IBM for over ten years. Before joining IBM, Chuck was a hardware CE on UNIX systems for ten years and taught Computer Science at Midland College for six and a half years in Midland, Texas.
Anderson Ferreira Nobre is a Certified IT Specialist and Certified Advanced Technical Expert - IBM System p5 in Strategic Outsourcing in Hortolandia (Brazil). He has 10 years of experience with UNIX (mainly with AIX). He was assigned to the UNIX team in 2005 to plan, manage, and support the UNIX, SAN, and Storage environments for IBM Outsourcing clients.
Rene Oehme is an IBM Certified Specialist for High-End Disk Solutions, working for the Germany and CEMAAS Hardware Support Center in Mainz, Germany. Rene has more than six years of experience in IBM hardware support, including Storage Subsystems, SAN, and Tape Solutions, as well as System p and System z. Currently, he provides support for clients and service representatives with High End Disk Subsystems, such as the DS8000, DS6000, and ESS. His main focus is Open Systems attachment of High-End Disk Subsystems, including AIX, Windows, Linux, and VMware. He holds a degree in Information Technology from the University of Cooperative Education (BA) Stuttgart.
Gero Schmidt is an IT Specialist in the IBM ATS technical sales support organization in Germany. He joined IBM in 2001 working at the European Storage Competence Center (ESCC) in Mainz, providing technical support for a broad range of IBM storage products (SSA, ESS, DS4000, DS6000, and DS8000) in Open Systems environments with a primary focus on storage subsystem performance. During his seven years of experience with IBM storage products, he participated in various beta test programs for ESS 800 and especially in the product rollout and beta test program for the DS6000/DS8000 series. He holds a degree in Physics (Dipl.-Phys.) from the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany.
Paulus Usong started his IBM career in Indonesia decades ago. He rejoined IBM at the Santa Teresa Lab (now known as the Silicon Valley Lab). In 1995, he joined the Advanced Technical Support group in San Jose. Currently, he is a Certified Consulting I/T Specialist and his main responsibilities are handling mainframe DASD performance critical situations and performing Disk Magic study and remote copy sizing for clients who want to implement the IBM solution for their disaster recovery system.
ISBN
0738432695
IBM Form Number
SG24-7146-01