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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

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

SAN Volume Controller Global Mirror Statistics Using TPC for Disk V3.1.3

The purpose of this paper is to provide users of the SVC Global Mirror function with test scenarios that illustrate the usage of the new available SVC statistics. An important objective of this paper is to show how TPC interacts with the different SVC statistics to produce reports and graphs...

Tags: Statistics, Disk, IBM TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller

White papers 2007-06-12

SAN Volume Controller Performance Examples Using TPC for Disk

The purpose of this paper is to provide users of the SAN Volume Controller with a set of practical examples of SVC 4.1.1.2 performance using different traffic patterns (sequential/random) and messages of different sizes (32K, 64K and 1 Meg). An important objective of this paper is to show how TPC...

Tags: Disk, Performance, IBM TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management

White papers 2007-03-28

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

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

Additional Resources

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

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