Practical Guide for SAN with pSeries

Practical Guide for SAN with pSeries provides a single source of the information you will need to build your own SAN fabric,
with easy-to-follow instructions and ample illustrations. To allow quick access to the information readers may need, the contents of this redbook have been arranged in three parts:

- Planning
- Implementation
- Problem determination

With this handbook format, both planners and practitioners in SAN area will find it a useful addition to their technical library. This redbook was written with a specific aim.

A few SAN redbook were already published in the past but the information specific to IBM pSeries servers has been hard to find and scattered around. Now the authors complied most of the information that would be critical when you build a SAN fabric with IBM pSeries machines.

Chapter 1. Planning guide
Chapter 2. Installing SAN switches
Chapter 3. Installing SAN storages
Chapter 4. Problem determination guide

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Publish Date
28 March 2002

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Author(s)

Daesung Chung is working at ITSO, Austin Center, and is in charge of e-business solutions on IBM eServer pSeries and RS/6000. He writes extensively and teaches IBM classes worldwide on e-business solutions and AIX and Linux. His areas of study are implementation, capacity planning, and performance tuning. He also has years of experience in UNIX system management. Before joining ITSO, he was a Consulting IT Specialist at IBM Korea.

• Daesung Chung

Jim Blue is a Software Engineer in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, and is currently a member of the SAN Central Support Group. He has 18 years of experience in the areas of IT and networking. He holds a BS degree in computer science from North Carolina State University. His areas of expertise include SCSI and other networking protocols.

• Jim Blue

Andrew Carr is a Senior IT Specialist working as a Techline Storage Specialist in the UK. He has 18 years of experience in the computer industry. He has worked at IBM for five years and previously worked for Storagetek. His areas of expertise include both IBM and other vendor storage systems.

• Andrew Carr

Yonghee Kim is a Senior IT Specialist with the Storage Techline in Korea. She has 14 years of experience in the Information Technology field. Her areas of expertise include VAX, iSeries, pSeries, and storage hardware and software. She has practical experience with SAN planning and design from working with many customers in her country.

• Yonghee Kim

ISBN

0738423386

IBM Form Number
SG24-6050-00

Number of pages
254