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Abstract
This IBM® Redbooks® publication is a detailed technical guide to the IBM System Storage™ SAN Volume Controller (SVC), a virtualization appliance solution that maps virtualized volumes visible to hosts and applications to physical volumes on storage devices. Each server within the SAN has its own set of virtual storage addresses, which are mapped to physical addresses. If the physical addresses change, the server continues running using the same virtual addresses that it had before. This means that volumes or storage can be added or moved while the server is still running. The IBM virtualization technology improves management of information at the "block" level in a network, enabling applications and servers to share storage devices on a network.
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Table of contents
Chapter 1. Introduction to storage virtualization
Chapter 2. IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller overview
Chapter 3. Planning and configuration
Chapter 4. SVC initial configuration
Chapter 5. Host configuration
Chapter 6. Advanced Copy Services
Chapter 7. SVC operations using the CLI
Chapter 8. SVC operations using the GUI
Chapter 9. Data migration
Appendix A. Scripting
Appendix B. Node replacement
Appendix C. Performance data and statistics gathering
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