SAN Volume Controller Best Practices and Performance Guidelines

This IBM® Redbooks® publication captures several of the best practices based on field experience and describes the performance gains that can be achieved by implementing the IBM System Storage™ SAN Volume Controller (SVC).

This book is intended for extremely experienced storage, SAN, and SVC administrators and technicians.

Readers are expected to have an advanced knowledge of the SVC and SAN environment, and we recommend these books as background reading:

- IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller, SG24-6423
- Introduction to Storage Area Networks, SG24-5470
- Using the SVC for Business Continuity, SG24-7371

Chapter 1. SAN fabric
Chapter 2. SAN Volume Controller cluster
Chapter 3. SVC Console
Chapter 4. Storage controller
Chapter 5. MDisks
Chapter 6. Managed disk groups
Chapter 7. VDisks
Chapter 8. Copy services
Chapter 9. Hosts
Chapter 10. Applications
Chapter 11. Monitoring
Chapter 12. Maintenance
Chapter 13. Cabling, power, cooling, scripting, support, and classes
Chapter 14. Troubleshooting and diagnostics
Chapter 15. SVC 4.3 performance highlights

• Implementing the IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller V4.3, SG24-6423-06
• PowerVM Virtualization on IBM System p: Introduction and Configuration Fourth Edition, SG24-7940-03
• IBM System Storage N series, SG24-7129-03

Publish Date
07 December 2008

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Author(s)

Jon Tate is a Project Manager for IBM System Storage SAN Solutions at the International Technical Support Organization, San Jose Center. Before joining the ITSO in 1999, he worked in the IBM Technical Support Center, providing Level 2 support for IBM storage products. Jon has 23 years of experience in storage software and management, services, and support, and is both an IBM Certified IT Specialist and an IBM SAN Certified Specialist. Jon also serves as the UK Chair of the Storage Networking Industry Association.

• Jon Tate

Katja Gebuhr is a Support Center Representative for IBM Germany in Mainz. She joined IBM in 2003 for an apprenticeship as an IT-System Business Professional and started working for the DASD Front End SAN Support in 2006. Katja provides Level 1 Hardware and Software support for SAN Volume Controller and SAN products for IMT Germany and CEMAAS.

• Katja Gebuhr

Alex Howell is a Software Engineer in the SAN Volume Controller development team, based at IBM Hursley, UK. He has worked on SVC since the release of Version 1.1.0 in 2003, when he joined IBM as a graduate. His roles have included test engineer, developer, and development team lead. He is a development lab advocate for several SVC clients, and he has led a beta program piloting new function.

• Alex Howell

Nik Kjeldsen is an IT Specialist at IBM Global Technology Services, Copenhagen, Denmark. With a background in data networks, he is currently a Technical Solution Architect working with the design and implementation of Enterprise Storage infrastructure. Nikolaj has seven years of experience in the IT field and holds a Master's degree in Telecommunication Engineering from the Technical University of Denmark.

• Nik Kjeldsen

ISBN

0738432040

IBM Form Number
SG24-7521-01

Number of pages
338