This IBM® Redpaper™ publication describes preferred practices for attaching members of the IBM Spectrum™ Accelerate family, including the IBM XIV® Gen3 Storage System, IBM FlashSystem® A9000, IBM FlashSystem A9000R, and other IBM Spectrum Accelerate™ based deployments, to either an IBM System Storage® SAN Volume Controller or IBM Storwize® V7000 system. The paper also explains what to consider for data migration when done in combination with a SAN Volume Controller or a Storwize V7000 system.

In addition, this publication describes data reduction, and where it is appropriate to enable data reduction.

Chapter 1. IBM Spectrum Accelerate family and IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller attachment

Chapter 2. IBM XIV Gen3 with IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller

Chapter 3. IBM FlashSystem A9000 or IBM FlashSystem A9000R with SAN Volume Controller

Chapter 4. IBM Spectrum Accelerate with IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller and IBM Storwize V7000

Chapter 5. Data movement concepts: SAN Volume Controller and the IBM Spectrum Accelerate family