Managing disk subsystems using IBM totalstorage productivity center

Managing disk subsystems using IBM totalstorage productivity center

IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center is designed to provide a single point of control for managing networked storage devices that implement the Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S), including the IBM TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller, Enterprise Storage Server, and FAStT. TotalStorag...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Lovelace, Mary (-)
Otros Autores: Bamford, Jason, Ferenc, Dariusz, Vaze, Madhav
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: San Jose, CA : IBM 2005.
Edición:2nd ed
Colección:IBM redbooks.
Materias:
Data recovery (Computer science)
Storage area networks (Computer networks)
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009626953206719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front cover
  • Contents
  • Notices
  • Trademarks
  • Preface
  • The team that wrote this redbook
  • Become a published author
  • Comments welcome
  • Chapter 1. IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center overview
  • 1.1 Introduction to IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center
  • 1.1.1 Standards organizations and standards
  • 1.2 IBM TotalStorage Open Software family
  • 1.3 IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center
  • 1.3.1 Data subject matter expert: TotalStorage Productivity Center for Data
  • 1.3.2 Fabric subject matter expert: Productivity Center for Fabric
  • 1.3.3 Disk subject matter expert: TotalStorage Productivity Center for Disk
  • 1.3.4 Replication subject matter expert: Productivity Center for Replication
  • 1.4 IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center
  • 1.4.1 Productivity Center for Disk and Productivity Center for Replication
  • 1.4.2 Event services
  • 1.5 Taking steps toward an On Demand environment
  • Chapter 2. Key concepts
  • 2.1 Standards organizations and standards
  • 2.1.1 CIM/WEB management model
  • 2.2 Storage Networking Industry Association
  • 2.2.1 The SNIA Shared Storage Model
  • 2.2.2 SMI Specification
  • 2.2.3 Integrating existing devices into the CIM model
  • 2.2.4 CIM Agent implementation
  • 2.2.5 CIM Object Manager
  • 2.3 Common Information Model (CIM)
  • 2.3.1 How the CIM Agent works
  • 2.4 Service Location Protocol (SLP)
  • 2.4.1 SLP architecture
  • 2.4.2 SLP service agent
  • 2.4.3 SLP user agent
  • 2.4.4 SLP directory agent
  • 2.4.5 Why use an SLP DA?
  • 2.4.6 When to use DAs
  • 2.4.7 SLP configuration recommendation
  • 2.4.8 Setting up the Service Location Protocol Directory Agent
  • 2.4.9 Configuring SLP Directory Agent addresses
  • 2.5 Productivity Center for Disk and Replication architecture
  • Chapter 3. TotalStorage Productivity Center suite installation
  • 3.1 Installing the IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center.
  • 3.1.1 Configurations
  • 3.1.2 Installation prerequisites
  • 3.1.3 TCP/IP ports used by TotalStorage Productivity Center
  • 3.1.4 Default databases created during install
  • 3.2 Pre-installation check list
  • 3.2.1 User IDs and security
  • 3.2.2 Certificates and key files
  • 3.3 Services and service accounts
  • 3.3.1 Starting and stopping the managers
  • 3.3.2 Uninstall Internet Information Services
  • 3.3.3 SNMP install
  • 3.4 IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Fabric
  • 3.4.1 The computer name
  • 3.4.2 Database considerations
  • 3.4.3 Windows Terminal Services
  • 3.4.4 Tivoli NetView
  • 3.4.5 Personal firewall
  • 3.4.6 Change the HOSTS file
  • 3.5 Installation process
  • 3.5.1 Prerequisite product install: DB2 and WebSphere
  • 3.5.2 Installing IBM Director
  • 3.5.3 Tivoli Agent Manager
  • 3.5.4 IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Disk and Replication Base
  • 3.5.5 IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Disk
  • 3.5.6 IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Replication
  • 3.5.7 IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Fabric
  • Chapter 4. CIMOM installation and configuration
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Planning considerations for Service Location Protocol
  • 4.2.1 Considerations for using SLP DAs
  • 4.2.2 SLP configuration recommendation
  • 4.3 General performance guidelines
  • 4.4 Planning considerations for CIMOM
  • 4.4.1 CIMOM configuration recommendations
  • 4.5 Installing CIM agent for ESS
  • 4.5.1 ESS CLI install
  • 4.5.2 ESS CIM Agent install
  • 4.5.3 Post Installation tasks
  • 4.6 Configuring the ESS CIM Agent for Windows
  • 4.6.1 Registering ESS Devices
  • 4.6.2 Register ESS server for Copy services
  • 4.6.3 Restart the CIMOM
  • 4.6.4 CIMOM User Authentication
  • 4.7 Verifying connection to the ESS
  • 4.7.1 Problem determination
  • 4.7.2 Confirming the ESS CIMOM is available.
  • 4.7.3 Setting up the Service Location Protocol Directory Agent
  • 4.7.4 Configuring IBM Director for SLP discovery
  • 4.7.5 Registering the ESS CIM Agent to SLP
  • 4.7.6 Verifying and managing CIMOMs availability
  • 4.8 Installing CIM agent for IBM DS4000 family
  • 4.8.1 Verifying and Managing CIMOM availability
  • 4.9 Configuring CIMOM for SAN Volume Controller
  • 4.9.1 Adding the SVC TotalStorage Productivity Center for Disk user account
  • 4.9.2 Registering the SAN Volume Controller host in SLP
  • 4.10 Configuring CIMOM for TotalStorage Productivity Center for Disk summary
  • 4.10.1 SLP registration and slptool
  • 4.10.2 Persistency of SLP registration
  • 4.10.3 Configuring slp.reg file
  • Chapter 5. TotalStorage Productivity Center common base use
  • 5.1 Productivity Center common base: Introduction
  • 5.2 Launching TotalStorage Productivity Center
  • 5.3 Exploiting Productivity Center common base
  • 5.3.1 Configure MDM
  • 5.3.2 Launch Device Manager
  • 5.3.3 Discovering new storage devices
  • 5.3.4 Manage CIMOMs
  • 5.3.5 Manually removing old CIMOM entries
  • 5.4 Performing volume inventory
  • 5.5 Working with ESS
  • 5.5.1 Changing the display name of an ESS
  • 5.5.2 ESS Volume inventory
  • 5.5.3 Assigning and unassigning ESS volumes
  • 5.5.4 Creating new ESS volumes
  • 5.5.5 Launch device manager for an ESS device
  • 5.6 Working with SAN Volume Controller
  • 5.6.1 Changing the display name of a SAN Volume Controller
  • 5.6.2 Working with SAN Volume Controller mdisks
  • 5.6.3 Creating new Mdisks on supported storage devices
  • 5.6.4 Create and view SAN Volume Controller Vdisks
  • 5.7 Working with DS4000 family or FAStT storage
  • 5.7.1 Changing the display name of a DS4000 or FAStT
  • 5.7.2 Working with DS4000 or FAStT volumes
  • 5.7.3 Creating DS4000 or FAStT volumes
  • 5.7.4 Assigning hosts to DS4000 and FAStT volumes.
  • 5.7.5 Unassigning hosts from DS4000 or FAStT volumes
  • 5.8 Event Action Plan Builder
  • 5.8.1 Applying an Event Action Plan to a managed system or group
  • 5.8.2 Exporting and importing Event Action Plans
  • Chapter 6. TotalStorage Productivity Center for Disk use
  • 6.1 Performance Manager GUI
  • 6.2 Exploiting Performance Manager
  • 6.2.1 Performance Manager data collection
  • 6.2.2 Using IBM Director Scheduler function
  • 6.2.3 Reviewing Data collection task status
  • 6.2.4 Managing Performance Manager Database
  • 6.2.5 Performance Manager gauges
  • 6.2.6 ESS thresholds
  • 6.2.7 Data collection for SAN Volume Controller
  • 6.2.8 SAN Volume Controller thresholds
  • 6.3 Exploiting gauges
  • 6.3.1 Before you begin
  • 6.3.2 Creating gauges example
  • 6.3.3 Zooming in on the specific time period
  • 6.3.4 Modify gauge to view array level metrics
  • 6.3.5 Modify gauge to review multiple metrics in same chart
  • 6.4 Performance Manager command line interface
  • 6.4.1 Performance Manager CLI commands
  • 6.4.2 Sample command outputs
  • 6.5 Volume Performance Advisor (VPA)
  • 6.5.1 VPA introduction
  • 6.5.2 The provisioning challenge
  • 6.5.3 Workload characterization and workload profiles
  • 6.5.4 Workload profile values
  • 6.5.5 How the Volume Performance Advisor makes decisions
  • 6.5.6 Enabling the Trace Logging for Director GUI Interface
  • 6.6 Getting started
  • 6.6.1 Workload profiles
  • 6.6.2 Using VPA with predefined Workload profile
  • 6.6.3 Launching VPA tool
  • 6.6.4 ESS User Validation
  • 6.6.5 Configuring VPA settings for the ESS diskspace request
  • 6.6.6 Choosing Workload Profile
  • 6.6.7 Choosing candidate locations
  • 6.6.8 Verify settings for VPA
  • 6.6.9 Approve recommendations
  • 6.6.10 VPA loopback after Implement Recommendations selected
  • 6.7 Creating and managing Workload Profiles
  • 6.7.1 Choosing Workload Profiles.
  • 6.8 Remote Console installation for TotalStorage Productivity Center for Disk - Performance Manager
  • 6.8.1 Installing IBM Director Console
  • 6.8.2 Installing TotalStorage Productivity Center for Disk Base Remote Console
  • 6.8.3 Installing Remote Console for Performance Manager function
  • 6.8.4 Launching Remote Console for TotalStorage Productivity Center
  • Chapter 7. TotalStorage Productivity Center for Fabric use
  • 7.1 TotalStorage Productivity Center for Fabric overview
  • 7.1.1 Zoning overview
  • 7.1.2 Supported switches for zoning
  • 7.1.3 Deployment
  • 7.1.4 Enabling zone control
  • 7.1.5 TotalStorage Productivity Center for Disk eFix
  • 7.1.6 Installing the eFix
  • 7.2 Installing Fabric remote console
  • 7.3 TotalStorage Productivity Center for Disk integration
  • 7.4 Launching TotalStorage Productivity Center for Fabric
  • Chapter 8. TotalStorage Productivity Center for Replication use
  • 8.1 TotalStorage Productivity Center for Replication overview
  • 8.1.1 Supported Copy Services
  • 8.1.2 Replication session
  • 8.1.3 Storage group
  • 8.1.4 Storage pools
  • 8.1.5 Relationship of group, pool, and session
  • 8.1.6 Copyset and sequence concepts
  • 8.2 Exploiting TotalStorage Productivity Center for Replication
  • 8.2.1 Before you start
  • 8.2.2 Creating a storage group
  • 8.2.3 Modifying a storage group
  • 8.2.4 Viewing storage group properties
  • 8.2.5 Deleting a storage group
  • 8.2.6 Creating a storage pool
  • 8.2.7 Modifying a storage pool
  • 8.2.8 Deleting a storage pool
  • 8.2.9 Viewing storage pool properties
  • 8.2.10 Storage paths
  • 8.2.11 Point-in-Time Copy: Creating a session
  • 8.2.12 Creating a session: Verifying source-target relationship
  • 8.2.13 Continuous Synchronous Remote Copy: Creating a session
  • 8.2.14 Managing a Point-in-Time copy
  • 8.2.15 Managing a Continuous Synchronous Remote Copy.
  • 8.3 Using Command Line Interface (CLI) for replication.

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