Deployment Guide Series: IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Data

IBM® TotalStorage® Productivity Center for Data (Data Manager) is a comprehensive file and capacity management solution for heterogeneous storage environments. It includes enterprise-wide reporting and monitoring, policy-based management, and automated capacity provisioning for Direct Attached Storage (DAS), Network Attached Storage (NAS), and storage area network (SAN) environments. Data Manager, Data Manager for Databases, and Data Manager for Chargeback let you improve storage utilization, plan for future capacity, and ensure availability by providing storage on demand for filesystems.
This IBM Redbooks® publication is intended for administrators and users who are installing and using IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Data. It provides an overview of the product and its functions. It describes the hardware and software environment required and provides a step-by-step installation procedure. Customization and usage information is also provided. The reader needs to have a basic understanding of storage concepts, network topologies, communication protocols, and a basic understanding of the IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center product.
This book focuses on the TotalStorage Productivity Center for Data component as an integral part of the TotalStorage Productivity Center product.

Chapter 1. Introduction to IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Data
Chapter 2. Planning for deployment of IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Data
Chapter 3. Installing IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Data
Chapter 4. Configuring IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Data
Chapter 5. Operations and reporting
Appendix A. Worksheets

• TCP/IP Tutorial and Technical Overview, GG24-3376-07
• SAN Storage Performance Management Using TotalStorage Productivity Center, SG24-7364-01

Publish Date
25 June 2009

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Author(s)

Mary Lovelace is a Consulting IT specialist at the International Technical Support Organization. She has more than 20 years of experience with IBM in large systems, storage and Storage Networking product education, system engineering and consultancy, and systems support. She has written many IBM Redbooks publications about TotalStorage Productivity Center and z/OS storage products.

• Mary Lovelace

Alejandro Berardinelli is an IT Specialist with IBM Uruguay. Since joining IBM, Alejandro has been providing z/OS software support. His primary focus is on Tivoli Storage Manager deployments for multiple platforms, including AIX, Linux, Windows, and z/OS. He also performs IBM storage implementations involving disk, tape subsystems, and switches. Alejandro is working on a Computer Engineer degree at UDELAR.

• Alejandro Berardinelli

Kamalakkannan Jayaraman is an IT Specialist working with IBM India Software Labs. His areas of expertise include multivendor disk, SAN, tape solves, UNIX, and Windows operating systems. His current job includes designing and implementing storage solutions. He is a Brocade Certified Fabric Professional, a SNIA Certified Professional, and an HP Certified Professional.

• Kamalakkannan Jayaraman

Nidhi Khator is an Associate System Engineer working with IBM Global Business Services. Her areas of expertise includes AIX, SUSE Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, VMWare ESX Server, and IBM Storage Administration. Her current job role is to provide end-to-end support to data centers hosting IBM System p, IBM System x, and IBM BladeCenter servers and IBM System Storage DS4800 and DS4500 servers. She is an IBM certified System p administrator and System p Enterprise Technical Support for AIX 5L V5.3.

• Nidhi Khator

ISBN

0738432806

IBM Form Number
SG24-7140-03

Number of pages
602