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IBM SAN Volume Controller Best Practices and Performance Guidelines for IBM Spectrum Virtualize Version 8.4.2
Storage hardware
Redbooks, published 17 Jan 2022, last updated 3 Oct 2023
This IBM® Redbooks® publication captures several of the preferred practices and describes the performance gains that can be achieved by implementing the IBM SAN Volume Controller powered by IBM Spectrum® Virtualize Version 8.4.2. These practices are based on field experience. This book highlights configuration guidelines and preferred practices for the storage area network (SAN) topology, clustered system, back-end storage, storage pools and managed disks, volumes, Remote Copy services and hosts. It explains how you can optimize disk performance with the IBM System Storage Easy Tier® ... [more]
IBM SAN Volume Controller Best Practices and Performance Guidelines
Storage software
Redbooks, published 15 Apr 2021, last updated 3 Oct 2023
This IBM® Redbooks® publication describes several of the preferred practices and describes the performance gains that can be achieved by implementing the IBM SAN Volume Controller powered by IBM Spectrum® Virtualize V8.4. These practices are based on field experience. This book highlights configuration guidelines and preferred practices for the storage area network (SAN) topology, clustered system, back-end storage, storage pools, and managed disks, volumes, Remote Copy services, and hosts. Then, it provides performance guidelines for IBM SAN Volume Controller, back-end storage, and ... [more]
IBM DS8000 Transparent Cloud Tiering: DS8000 Release 9.3
Storage software
Redbooks, published 20 Dec 2022, last updated 11 Aug 2023
This IBM® Redbooks® publication gives a broad understanding of storage clouds and the initial functions that were introduced for mainframe data to be transferred to cloud storage . IBM Data Facility Storage Management Subsystem (DFSMS) and the IBM DS8000® added functions to provide elements of serverless data movement, and for IBM z/OS® to communicate with a storage cloud. The function is known as Transparent Cloud Tiering (TCT) and is composed of the following key elements:
- A gateway in the DS8000, which allows the movement of data to and from Object Storage by using a network ... [more]
IBM Cloud Object Storage Concepts and Architecture: System Edition
Storage software
Draft Redpaper, last updated 8 Apr 2023
Object Storage is the primary storage solution that is used in the cloud and on-premises solutions as a central storage platform for unstructured data. Object Storage is growing more popular for the following reasons:
- It is designed for exabyte scale.
- It is easy to manage and yet meets the growing demands of enterprises for a broad set of applications and workloads.
- It allows users to balance storage cost, location, and compliance control requirements across data sets and essential applications.
IBM® Cloud Object Storage (IBM COS) system provides ... [more]
IBM Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.5: A practical, hands-on guide with best practices, examples, use cases, and walk-throughs
Cloud Storage
Redbooks, published 15 Nov 2022, last updated 7 Apr 2023
IBM Cloud Pak for Data platform is a unified, integrated and collaborative data and artificial intelligence (AI) platform that helps organizations collect, organize, and analyze data and infuse AI within and across business process and applications. Its ultimate goal is to deliver deeper business insights that enable smarter business outcomes. IBM Cloud Pak for Data delivers a set of capabilities core to a data fabric. A data fabric can help organizations improve productivity and reduce complexities when accessing, managing, and understanding disparate, siloed data that is distributed across ... [more]
The above is a list of IBM Redbooks and Redpapers on Storage software, showing most recently published first. IBM Redbooks publications are available for download in PDF and EPUB formats and most are also available on Google Play Books and Apple Books.