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IBM Storage Scale System Introduction Guide (ESS)
Storage solutions

Draft Redpaper, last updated 26 Mar 2024

This IBM® Redpaper publication provides an overview of the IBM Storage Scale and IBM Storage Scale System (Formally known as IBM Elastic Storage® Server (IBM ESS) and IBM Elastic Storage System (also formally IBM ESS)). These scalable, high-performance data and file management solution, are built on IBM Storage Scale technology. Providing reliability, performance, and scalability, can be implemented for a range of diverse requirements. The latest IBM Storage Scale System 6000 is the most innovative system that provides investment protection to expand or build a new Global Data Platform and ... [more]


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IBM Storage Scale: Encryption
Storage solutions

Redpaper, published 15 Mar 2024

This IBM Redbooks Redpaper discusses the configuration, implementation and use of encryption with IBM Storage Scale systems. It is intended to be used by technical professionals and anyone who wants to know more about encryption with IBM Storage Scale systems or anyone who is hands on with the software and devices.


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IBM DS8000 Encryption for Data at Rest, Transparent Cloud Tiering, and Endpoint Security (DS8000 Release 9.2)
Storage solutions

Redpaper, published 8 Sep 2021, last updated 11 Mar 2024

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™ Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager with the DS8000 Release 9.2 code or later and updated DS GUI for encryption functions. The DS8000 Release 9.2 code introduces support for local key management for data at ... [more]


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IBM TS7700 Release 5.3 Guide
Storage solutions

Redbooks, published 27 Feb 2024

This IBM Redbooks® publication covers IBM TS7700 R5.3. The IBM TS7700 is part of a family of IBM Enterprise tape products. This book is intended for system architects and storage administrators who want to integrate their storage systems for optimal operation. Building on over 25 years of experience, the R5.3 release includes many features that enable improved performance, usability, and security. Highlights include the IBM TS7700 Advanced Object Store, an all flash TS7770, grid resiliency enhancements, and Logical WORM retention. By using the same hierarchical storage techniques, the TS7700 ... [more]


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IBM Storage DS8000 Safeguarded Copy: Updated for DS8000 Release 9.3.2
Storage hardware

Redpaper, published 26 Jun 2023, last updated 22 Feb 2024

This IBM Redpaper publication explains the IBM Storage DS8000® Safeguarded Copy functions. With Safeguarded Copy, organizations can improve their cyber resiliency by frequently creating protected point-in-time backups of their critical data, with minimum impact and effective resource utilization. The paper is intended for IT security architects who plan and design an organization’s cybersecurity strategy, and the infrastructure technical specialists who implement them. The content is structured into four major sections:
- Safeguarded Copy introduction:
- Safeguarded Copy ... [more]


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IBM DS8000 Copy Services: Updated for IBM DS8000 Release 9.1
Storage solutions

Redbooks, published 9 Apr 2021, last updated 18 Feb 2024

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 products to automate Copy Services functions. It is intended for anyone who needs a detailed and practical understanding of the DS8000 Copy Services. This edition is an update for the DS8900 Release 9.1. ... [more]


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IBM and CMTG Cyber Resiliency: Building an Automated, VMware Aware Safeguarded Copy Solution to Provide Data Resilience
Storage software

Redpaper, published 9 Feb 2024

This IBM Blueprint outlines how CMTG and IBM have partnered to provide cyber resilient services to their clients. CMTG is one of Australia's leading private cloud providers based in Perth, Western Australia. The solution is based on IBM Storage FlashSystem, IBM Safeguarded Copy and IBM Storage Copy Data Management. The target audience for this Blueprint is IBM Storage technical specialists and storage admins.


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IBM Storage Fusion Multicloud Object Gateway
Storage solutions

Redpaper, published 30 Jan 2024, last updated 31 Jan 2024

This Redpaper provides an overview of IBM Storage Fusion Multicloud Object Gateway (MCG) and can be used as a quick reference guide for the most common use cases. The intended audience is cloud and application administrators, as well as other technical staff members who wish to learn how MCG works, how to set it up, and usage of a Backing Store or Namespace Store, as well as object caching.


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IBM TS7700 R5.3 Cloud Storage Tier Guide
Storage solutions

Redpaper, published 11 Jan 2024, last updated 26 Jan 2024

Building on over 25 years of virtual tape experience, the IBM® TS7700 (IBM TS7760 and TS7770) now can store virtual tape volumes in object storage. This IBM Redpaper Redbooks publication helps you set up and configure the cloud object storage support for IBM Cloud® Object Storage, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), or RSTOR. The TS7700 supported offloading to physical tape for over two decades. Using a TS7700 to offload to physical tape is a process that is used by hundreds of organizations around the world. By using the same hierarchical storage techniques, the TS7700 also can ... [more]


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Implementation Guide for IBM Elastic Storage System 3500
Storage solutions

Redbooks, published 29 Jun 2023, last updated 5 Jan 2024

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 Storage® Scale technology, formerly IBM Spectrum Scale. IBM Elastic Storage System 3500 is a hybrid platform able to provide both very high data throughput for high demand AI and ML workloads using an NVMe based drive configuration, or provide large amounts of storage when attached to additional disk based ESS HDD storage units. This book provides a technical overview of the ESS 3500 ... [more]


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What is New in DFSMSrmm
Storage hardware

Redbooks, published 18 Dec 2023, last updated 18 Dec 2023

DFSMSrmm is an IBM z/OS feature that is a fully functioning tape management system to manage your removable media. In the last decade, many enhancements were made to DFSMSrmm. This IBM Redbooks publication is intended to help you configure and use the newer functions and features that are now available. Discussion of the new features is included along with use cases. Hints and tips of various common DFSMSrmm problems and useful configuration and reporting JCL also are included. This publication is intended as a supplement to DFSMSrmm Primer, SG24-5983, which ... [more]


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IBM Storage Ceph Concepts and Architecture Guide
Storage solutions

Draft Redpaper, last updated 28 Nov 2023

IBM® Storage Ceph is an IBM-supported distribution of the open-source Ceph platform that provides massively scalable object, block, and file storage in a single system. IBM Storage Ceph is designed to operationalize AI with enterprise resiliency and consolidate data with software simplicity and run on multiple hardware platforms to provide flexibility and lower costs. Engineered to be self-healing and self-managing with no single point of failure and includes storage analytics for critical insights into growing amounts of data. IBM Storage Ceph can be used as an easy and efficient way to ... [more]


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IBM TS7700 R5 DS8000 Object Store User's Guide
Storage solutions

Redpaper, published 30 Aug 2023, last updated 7 Nov 2023

The IBM® TS7700 features a functional enhancement that allows for the TS7700 to act as an object store for transparent cloud tiering with IBM DS8000®, DFSMShsm (HSM), and native DFSMSdss (DSS). This function can be used to move data sets directly from DS8000 to TS7700. This IBM Redpaper publication provides a functional overview of the features, provides client value information, and walks through DFSMS, DS8000, and TS7700 set up steps.


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IBM Storage Fusion Backup and Restore for IBM Cloud Pak for Data
Storage solutions

Redpaper, published 7 Jun 2023, last updated 24 Oct 2023

IBM Cloud Pak® for Data can be protected with IBM Storage Fusion™. This IBM Redpaper publication 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 in IBM Storage Fusion, then protecting Cloud Pak for Data, protecting IBM Storage Fusion namespace and the IBM Storage Protect Plus (SPP) catalog. Backup and restore is supported from ... [more]


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Cyber Resiliency with IBM Storage Sentinel and IBM Storage Safeguarded Copy
Storage solutions

Redbooks, published 18 Oct 2023, last updated 23 Oct 2023

IBM Storage Sentinel is a cyber resiliency solution for SAP HANA, Oracle, and Epic healthcare systems, designed to help organizations enhance ransomware detection and incident recovery. IBM Storage Sentinel automates the creation of immutable backup copies of your data, then uses machine learning to detect signs of possible corruption and generate forensic reports that help you quickly diagnose and identify the source of the attack. Because IBM Storage Sentinel can intelligently isolate infected backups, your organization can identify the most recent verified and validated backup copies, ... [more]


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IBM Diamondback Tape Library Guide
Storage hardware

Draft Redbooks, last updated 11 Oct 2023

The IBM® Diamondback tape library is the next-generation ultra-high density tape storage solution available from IBM. The Diamondback is designed to easily scale out and fit into any data center or server room, with each frame having only the footprint of a standard server rack. Designed with a focus on simplicity and density, the library can be deployed quickly and easily managed using either REST API or its own browser based GUI. Maintenance and support are also simplified via the use of Customer Replaceable Units (CRUs) and built in call home, which greatly lowers the number of parts to ... [more]


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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]


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Accelerating IBM watsonx.data with IBM Fusion HCI
Storage solutions

Draft Redpaper, last updated 29 Sep 2023

Organizations that are expanding from AI pilot projects to full-scale production systems typically need a set of tools for building and deploying foundation models, a container-based application platform, software-defined storage, and hardware on which to run it all. This IBM Redpaper describes the IBM solution for running IBM watsonx.data on-premise, with IBM Fusion HCI providing an appliance-based hosting platform, and IBM Storage Ceph providing cloud-scale object storage. The main purpose of this Redpaper publication shows how to set up the Storage Acceleration feature (only available on ... [more]


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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]


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IBM TS4500 R9 Tape Library Guide
Storage solutions

Draft Redbooks, last updated 26 Jul 2023

The IBM® TS4500 (TS4500) tape library is a next-generation tape solution that offers higher storage density and better integrated management than previous solutions. This IBM Redbooks® publication gives you a close-up view of the new IBM TS4500 tape library. In the TS4500, IBM delivers the density that today’s and tomorrow’s data growth requires. It has the cost-effectiveness and the manageability to grow with business data needs, while you preserve investments in IBM tape library products. Now, you can achieve a low per-terabyte cost and high density, with up to 13 PB of data (up to 39 PB ... [more]


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