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IBM System Storage N series Reference Architecture for Virtualized Environments

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Published on 22 December 2012, updated 25 January 2013

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ISBN-10: 0738450804
ISBN-13: 9780738450803
IBM Form #: REDP-4865-00


Authors: Roland Tretau, Jacky Ben-Bassat and Michel Chalogany

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    Abstract

    This IBM® Redpaper™ publication provides deployment guidelines, workload estimates, and preferred practices for clients who want a proven IBM technology stack for VMware environments. The result is a Reference Architecture for Virtualized Environments (RAVE) that uses VMware vSphere, IBM System x® or IBM BladeCenter® server, IBM System Networking, and IBM System Storage® N series as a storage foundation. The reference architecture can be used as a foundation to create dynamic cloud solutions and make full use of underlying storage features and functions.

    This paper provides a blueprint that illustrates how clients can create a virtualized infrastructure and storage cloud to help address current and future data storage business requirements. It explores the solutions that IBM offers to create a storage cloud solution addressing client needs. This paper also shows how the Reference Architecture for Virtualized Environments and the extensive experience of IBM in cloud computing, services, proven technologies, and products support a Smart Storage Cloud solution that is designed for your storage optimization efforts.

    When used as the storage foundation, System Storage N series offers unified storage solutions. These solutions provide industry-leading technologies for storage efficiencies, instantaneous virtual machine and data store cloning for virtual servers and virtual desktops, and virtual data center backup and business continuance solutions.

    This paper is for anyone who wants to learn how to successfully deploy a virtualized environment. It is also written for anyone who wants to understand how IBM addresses data storage and compute challenges with IBM System Storage N series solutions with IBM servers and networking solutions. This paper is suitable for IT architects, business partners, IBM clients, storage solution integrators, and IBM sales representatives.

    Table of Contents

    Chapter 1. Architecture

    Chapter 2. vSphere and N series integration

    Chapter 3. Server

    Chapter 4. Networking

    Chapter 5. Storage

     

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