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This IBM Redbook captures some of the best practices based on field experience and details the performance gains that can be achieved by implementing the IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller. This book is intended for very experienced storage, SAN, and SVC administrators and technicians. Readers are expected to have an advanced knowledge of the SVC and SAN environment, and we recommend these books as background reading: IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller, SG24-6423 Introduction to Storage Area Networks, SG24-5470 Using the SVC for Business Continuity, SG24-7371 Table of Contents Chapter 1. SAN Fabric Chapter 2. SAN Volume Controller Cluster Chapter 3. Master console Chapter 4. I/O groups and nodes Chapter 5. Storage Controller Chapter 6. MDisks Chapter 7. Managed disk groups Chapter 8. VDisks Chapter 9. Copy Services Chapter 10. Hosts Chapter 11. Applications Chapter 12. Monitoring Chapter 13. Maintenance Chapter 14. Other useful information Chapter 15. Troubleshooting and diagnostics Chapter 16. SVC 4.2 performance highlights About the Authors Jon Tate is a Project Manager for IBM System Storage SAN Solutions at the International Technical Support Organization, San Jose Center. Before joining the ITSO in 1999, he worked in the IBM Technical Support Center, providing Level 2 support for IBM storage products. Jon has 22 years of experience in storage software and management, services, and support, and he is both an IBM Certified IT Specialist and an IBM SAN Certified Specialist. He is also the UK Chair of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA). Deon George is a Technical Pre-sales Specialist working in the Tivoli Software Group based in Melbourne, Australia. Deon works with the Australian and New Zealand Storage Software Group team and Storage Groups Team to provide solutions for Storage Virtualization, Infrastructure Lifecycle Management, Backup/Recovery and Business Continuity, and Storage Systems Management. He has co-authored other IBM Redbooks publications and IBM Redpapers on the SVC, Tivoli Storage Manager, and Linux on the System z during his 10 years with IBM. Deon is an IBM Certified IT Specialist. Thorsten Hoss is an ATS member of the Virtualization and Storage Software Solutions Europe team working for IBM Germany in Mainz. Before joining the Virtualization and Storage Software Solutions Europe team, he worked for the ATS Customer Solutions team where he has presented the SVC and hosted several proof of concept projects. Thorsten also worked as a Product Field Engineer for the SAN Volume Controller for six years. He joined IBM in 2000 after finishing his electrical engineering degee at the Fachhochschule Wiesbaden - University of Applied Sciences, Germany. Thorsten is an IBM SAN Certified Specialist in Networking and Virtualization Architecture. Ronda Hruby is a Technical Support Engineer working in Storage Software Level 2 Support. She specializes in SAN Volume Controller and SDD multipathing software. Before joining the software technical support organization, she spent many years developing and testing storage hardware and microcode. Ronda is a SNIA Certified Professional. ISBN-- 9788184045116
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