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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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