Integrating IBM DB2 with the IBM System Storage N series

This IBM Redbook describes the steps carried out to configure and install an IBM DB2 database in a N series storage system UNIX environment. It particularly elaborates the configuration steps for the UNIX host as well as the IBM N series storage system. The UNIX host types covered in this IBM Redbook are Linux, IBM AIX, Sun Solaris, and HP-UX.

Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Requirements
Chapter 3. Configuration overview
Chapter 4. IBM DB2 UDB databases on IBM N series storage system
Chapter 5. Configuring the environment
Chapter 6. Creating a new database on an IBM N series storage system
Chapter 7. Migrating existing DB2 UDB databases to an IBM N series storage system
Chapter 8. Performance Considerations
Chapter 9. Enabling NVFAIL on the IBM N series

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Publish Date
29 December 2006

Last Update
10 April 2007

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Author(s)

Alex Osuna is a Project Leader at the International Technical Support Organization, Tucson Arizona Center. He writes extensively and teaches IBM classes on all areas of storage. He has over 28 years in the I/T industry working for United States Air Force, IBM, and Tivoli in computer maintenance, field engineering, service planning, Washington Systems Center, business and product planning, advanced technical support, and Systems Engineering, focusing on storage hardware and software. He has over 10 certifications from IBM, Microsoft and Red Hat.

• Alex Osuna

Jawahar Lal is a Alliance engineer for IBM DB2 at Network Appliance Inc., RTP, North Carolina. He holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from University of Rajasthan, Jaipur (India). Currently he is working on his MBA degree from Kenan Flagler Business School UNC Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He has been involved in the storage and IT industry for over 11 years, in areas of database programming, modeling, designing, administration, performance tuning and storage integration. He writes extensively on storage and database integration. He is an IBM DB2 Certified DBA and holds four other certifications from IBM and Oracle.

• Jawahar Lal

Roger Sanders is a Senior Manager - IBM Alliance Engineering with Network Appliance, Inc. He has been designing and developing databases and database applications for more than 20 years and has been working with DB2 Universal Database and its predecessors since it was first introduced on the IBM PC (as part of OS/2 1.3 Extended Edition). He has written articles for IDUG Solutions Journal and Certification Magazine, authored DB2 tutorials for the IBM developerWorks Web site, presented at several International DB2 User's Group (IDUG) and regional DB2 User's Group (RUG) conferences, taught classes on DB2 Fundamentals and Database Administration (DB2 8.1 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows), and is the author of nine books on DB2 and one book on ODBC. Roger is also a member of the DB2 Certification Exam development team and the author of a regular column (Distributed DBA) in DB2 Magazine.

• Roger Sanders

ISBN

0738496855

IBM Form Number
SG24-7329-00

Number of pages
102