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- SAN Volume Controller: Best Practices and Performance Guidelines
- The IBM SAN Volume Controller SVC has unique SAN fabric configuration requirements that are different from what one may be used to for other storage devices. A quality SAN configuration can go a long way towards a stable, reliable, and scalable SVC installation; conversely, a poor SAN environment can make...
- Tags: Performance, IBM TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller, SAN, Best Practice, IBM Corp., IBM SAN Volume Controller, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage Management, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2008-02-10
- SVC Volume Migration
- The IBM SAN Volume Controller SVC is a block storage virtualization appliance. SVC implements an indirection, or "virtualization", layer in a Fibre Channel storage area network FC SAN. The purpose of this paper is to provide detailed, step-by-step instructions on the migration of SAN attached disk volumes to a virtualized...
- Tags: Storage Virtualization, IBM TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller, SAN, Migration, IBM Corp., IBM SAN Volume Controller, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage, Storage Management, Virtualization, Ip storage, Hardware
- White papers 2005-07-01
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- Murray Goulburn Solves Growth and Flexibility Challenges With IBM
- Murray Goulburn Co-Operative Company Limited of Melbourne, Australia, is best known for its flagship Devondale brand of dairy products. Farmers' co-operative Murray Goulburn wanted to introduce faster and more reliable business reporting across its nine manufacturing sites in Australia. Existing servers had reached their processing performance limits and data storage...
- Tags: IBM Corp., Murray Goulburn, Storage Management, Storage, Servers, Hardware
- Case studies 2009-02-01
- Whispers from a ghost: Windows 7 and cloud computing
- Whispers from a ghost: Windows 7 and cloud computingYou don't mention it until MS is involvedMS is a latecomer to the party. Yet you single out MS for this. Well, since you're so confident - why don't you put a bet on it? How much money will you put up...
- Tags: Storage, Operating systems, Storage management, Microsoft Windows, cloud computing, I/O, Microsoft Windows 7, basket, ghost, IBM AIX, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-30
- Deploying Oracle RAC 10g With ASM on AIX With the IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller
- This paper details the step-by-step configuration of the IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller SVC with Oracle Database 10g, Oracle Real Application Clusters 10g Release 2 RAC and Oracle Automatic Storage Management ASM on the IBM AIX 5.3 operating system. The test exercise demonstrates that it is easy to configure...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., IBM TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller, IBM AIX, Storage, Oracle Real Application Cluster, IBM Corp., Test Exercise, Blade Servers, Databases, Enterprise Software, Operating Systems, Servers, Hardware, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2008-08-01
- IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller and System Storage DS8100 15,000 Mailbox Exchange Solution Review Program Storage Solution
- The IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller SVC is a system that presents highly available virtualized storage to a host. Logically the SVC sits between the hosts and storage. Storage is presented to the SVC instead of directly to the host. The SVC takes that storage, virtualizes it, and presents...
- Tags: Mailbox, IBM TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller, IBM Corp., SVC, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2008-05-19
- Geek Sheet: Bare-metal backup and recovery
- Tired of the same old punditry and OS wars? Want to read something practical you can actually use and apply to your real job? Or perhaps you need some light reading material to help you get some sleep on the plane between consulting engagements â€" either way, welcome to the...
- Tags: Recovery, Network File System, File System, Photovoltaics, Backup, Volume, Partition, Machine, System Rescue CD, LVM, Volume Group, Linux, Manufacturing, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC): "A Building-Block Approach With DS4000 Storage"
- The IBM SVC SAN Volume Controller scales far beyond any single large storage subsystem, so an overall storage methodology should be employed to manage the storage at the virtual layer. A virtual storage strategy is unique to each install and is developed and deployed by understanding the IBM SAN Volume...
- Tags: IBM Corp., Storage Strategy, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-10-01
- Circuit City Boosts IT Infrastructure Effectiveness With Storage Virtualization
- As a leading worldwide retailer of brand-name consumer electronics, PCs and entertainment software, almost every aspect of Circuit City relies on IT. The retailer wanted to build a scalable storage infrastructure that can keep pace with business growth; improve administrator productivity as well as application and server availability. Circuit City...
- Tags: Storage Virtualization, Circuit City Stores Inc., IT Infrastructure, Information Technology, IBM Corp., Storage, Hardware
- Case studies 2007-09-01
- IBM and Tectrade Help Winterthur Life UK Meet Storage Demands
- Winterthur Life UK wanted to increase capacity and scalability of mainframe storage; improve performance and flexibility of storage for Microsoft Windows-based systems; and simplify storage management and enable faster response to new business requirements. Worked with IBM Business Partner Tectrade to implement an IBM TotalStorage DS8100 storage system, with IBM...
- Tags: IBM Corp., Tectrade, Storage, Hardware
- Case studies 2007-05-09
- ESG Labs Report on the ROI of IBM's SAN Volume Controller (SVC)
- Enterprise Strategy Group ESG Labs performed a hands-on analysis of IBM's System Storage SAN Volume Controller storage virtualization solution in order to validate its value proposition to customers. ESG Labs found that SAN Volume Controller is a rock-solid, feature-rich platform that delivers on the promise of network based storage virtualization:...
- Tags: Storage Virtualization, IBM TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller, ROI, Enterprise Strategy Group, IBM Corp., Virtualization, Storage, Ip storage, Storage Management, Hardware
- White papers 2006-10-01
- Magnetic tape prototype makes data leap
- Magnetic tape prototype makes data leapWait a minute here...I thought one of the big issues with tape storage was the fact that the magnetic domains, separated by only the thickness of the carrier mylar or whatever would degrade each other because they were too close together over extended storage...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Backups, Magnetic Storage, tape, media, storage, domain, disk
- Discussion threads 2006-05-16
- Subsystem Device Driver Management 1.6.0.1 (Windows)
- Subsystem Device Driver Management: The Subsystem Device Driver is a pseudo device driver designed to support the multipath configuration environments in the IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server, the IBM TotalStorage DS Family, the IBM TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller, and the IBM TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller for Cisco MDS 9000. It...
- Tags: Device Driver, Microsoft Windows, IBM TotalStorage, IBM Corp., Storage Management, Utility Computing, Storage, Hardware
- Software downloads 2005-01-25
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