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DS4000 Best Practices and Performance Tuning Guide

IBM Redbooks

DS4000 Best Practices and Performance Tuning Guide

This IBM Redbook is intended for IBM technical professionals, Business Partners, and customers responsible for the planning, deployment, and maintenance of the IBM TotalStorage DS4000 family of products. We realize that setting up a DS4000 Storage Server can be a complex task. There is no single configuration that will be satisfactory for every application or situation.

First, we provide a conceptual framework for understanding the DS4000 in a Storage Area Network. Then we offer our recommendations, hints, and tips for the physical installation, cabling, and zoning, using the Storage Manager setup tasks.

After that, we turn our attention to the performance and tuning of various components and features, including numerous recommendations. We look at performance implications for various application products such DB2, Oracle, Tivoli Storage Manager, Microsoft SQL server, and in particular, Microsoft Exchange with a DS4000 storage server.

Then we review the various tools available to simulate workloads and to measure and collect performance data for the DS4000, including the Engenio Storage Performance Analyzer. We also consider the AIX environment, including High Availability Cluster Multiprocessing (HACMP ) and General Parallel File System (GPFS). Finally, we provide a quick guide to the DS4000 Storage Server installation and configuration.
Price: $53.00
Pages: 316
Date Published: March 22, 2006
ISBN: 0738498367
Author: IBM Redbooks
Product Number: SG24-6363-01
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