IBM System Storage N series
Published: June 1, 2009
ISBN: 0738432962
778 pages
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Abstract

This IBM® Redbooks® publication provides a basic understanding of the IBM System Storage™ N series hardware and software features. It discusses topics such as installation, setup, and administration for both the N series filer and clients and provides example scenarios of some features.
Corporate workgroups, distributed enterprises, and small to medium-sized companies are increasingly seeking to network and consolidate storage to improve availability, reduce costs, share information, and protect and secure information. These organizations require enterprise-class solutions capable of addressing immediate storage needs cost-effectively while providing an upgrade path for future requirements. IT managers need a maximum degree of flexibility to design the architecture that best supports the requirements of multiple types of data and a broad range of applications. IBM System Storage N series is designed to meet these requirements. It supports Ethernet environments, enabling economical network-attached storage (NAS) and iSCSI deployments. It also functions as a unification engine that is designed to allow you to simultaneously serve both file and block-level data across a single network. These are demanding procedures that, for some solutions, require multiple, separately managed systems. The flexibility of N series allows it to address the storage needs of a wide range of organizations, including distributed enterprises and data centers for midrange enterprises. N series also supports sites with computer-intensive and data-intensive enterprise applications, such as database, data warehousing, workgroup collaboration, and messaging.

Table of contents

Chapter 1. Introduction to IBM System Storage N series
Chapter 2. Data ONTAP
Chapter 3. Write Anywhere File Layout
Chapter 4. Snapshot
Chapter 5. Data protection with RAID Double Parity
Chapter 6. Aggregates and volumes
Chapter 7. Multiprotocol data access
Chapter 8. Recovery with SnapRestore
Chapter 9. Flexible volumes
Chapter 10. FlexClone volumes
Chapter 11. FlexCache volumes
Chapter 12. FlexShare
Chapter 13. Enabling rapid recovery with SnapVault
Chapter 14. Data permanence with SnapLock
Chapter 15. SnapDrive
Chapter 16. Operations Manager
Chapter 17. Protection Manager
Chapter 18. FlexScale and the Performance Accelerator Module (PAM)
Chapter 19. Multipathing with the N series
Chapter 20. SnapMirror
Chapter 21. SyncMirror
Chapter 22. Active/active configuration and management
Chapter 23. Multistore
Chapter 24. Boot from SAN with N series
Chapter 25. MetroCluster
Chapter 26. Ensuring integrity with IBM N series SnapValidator
Chapter 27. Disk sanitization
Chapter 28. Setting up Common Internet File System (CIFS) shares and joining Active Directory
Chapter 29. Network File System (NFS) p_w_upload
Chapter 30. IBM N series storage system administration
Chapter 31. Pre-installation planning
Chapter 32. Performance monitoring
Chapter 33. AutoSupport Service
Appendix A. Getting started
Appendix B. Power checklists