IBM Storage solutions Redbooks

16 March 2023, Draft Redpaper

IBM® Cloud Pak for Data can be protected with IBM Spectrum® Fusion. This Redpaper covers backing up IBM Cloud® Pak for Data with a non-disruptive (online) backup and then restoring to an alternate cluster. During an online backup, normal runtime operations in the Cloud Pak for Data cluster continue while the backup completes. The backup process includes creating policies and automating backups ...

10 March 2023, Blueprint

This IBM® blueprint publication focuses on early threat detection within a database environment by using IBM Security® Guardium® Data Protection and IBM QRadar® . It also highlights how to proactively start a cyber resilience workflow in response to a cyberattack or potential malicious user actions. The workflow that is presented here uses IBM Copy Services Manager as orchestration software to ...

28 February 2023, Draft Redpaper

This IBM Redbooks® publication offers a short overview of IBM®'s integrated environment for container workloads, IBM Spectrum® Fusion. The product comes in two variants, IBM Spectrum Fusion HCI including all required hardware, and IBM Spectrum Fusion (software-only) for deployment in public or private ...

24 February 2023, Product Guide

This IBM® Redbooks Product Guide provides an overview of the features and functions that are available with the IBM DS8900F models that run microcode Release 9.3.2 (Bundle 89.32/Licensed Machine Code 7.9.32). As of February 2023, the DS8900F with DS8000 Release 9.3.2 is the latest addition. The DS8900F is an all-flash system exclusively, and it offers three classes: IBM DS8980F: ...

17 February 2023, Draft Redbooks

This IBM® Redbooks® publication introduces and describes the IBM Elastic Storage® Server 3500 (ESS 3500) as a scalable, high-performance data and file management solution. The solution is built on proven IBM Spectrum® Scale technology, formerly IBM General Parallel File System (IBM GPFS). IBM Elastic Storage System 3500 is a hybrid platform able to provide both very high data throughput for high ...

14 February 2023, Redpaper

Policy-based replication is the successor to Remote Copy for providing replication services for IBM Storage FlashSystem, IBM SAN Volume Controller, and IBM Storage Virtualize for version 8.5.2 and later. This new management model uses volume groups and replication policies to enable the system to automatically deploy and manage replication. This significantly simplifies the tasks that are ...

31 January 2023, Redpaper

The IBM® DS8000® supports encryption-capable drives. They are used with key management services (local or external) to allow encryption for data at rest. The use of encryption technology involves several considerations that are critical for you to understand to maintain the security and accessibility of encrypted data. This edition of this IBM Redpaper™ publication focuses on IBM Security™ ...

28 January 2023, Redbooks

This IBM® Redbooks® publication helps you plan, install, configure, and manage Copy Services on the IBM DS8000® operating in an IBM Z® or Open Systems environment. This book helps you design and implement a new Copy Services installation or migrate from an existing installation. It includes hints and tips to maximize the effectiveness of your installation, and information about tools and ...

27 January 2023, Redbooks

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 ...

14 December 2022, Redpaper

This IBM® Redpaper publication describes support for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform application data protection with IBM Spectrum® Protect Plus. It explains backup and restore operations for persistent volume data by using the Container Storage Interface (CSI) plug-in. The paper starts with an introduction and overview of containers and Red Hat OpenShift, followed by a quick review of the ...