IBM storwize v7000

Front cover Implementing the IBM Storwize V7000 Discover the exciting latest addition to the IBM virtualization family Get familiar with the leading edge intuitive GUI See how simple IBM virtualization really is Brian Cartwright Ronda Hruby Daniel Koeck Xin Liu Massimo Rosati Thomas Vogel Bill Wiegand Jon Tate ibm.com/redbooks International Technical Support Organization Implementing the IBM Storwize V7000 May 2011 SG24-7938-00 Note: Before using this information and the product it supports, read the information in “Notices” on page ix First Edition (May 2011) This edition applies to the IBM Storwize V7000 Version 6.1.0 © Copyright International Business Machines Corporation 2011 All rights reserved Note to U.S Government Users Restricted Rights Use, duplication or disclosure restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corp Contents Notices ix Trademarks x Preface xi The team who wrote this book xi Now you can become a published author, too! xiv Comments welcome xv Stay connected to IBM Redbooks xv Chapter Overview of the IBM Storwize V7000 1.1 Storage virtualization 1.2 IBM Storwize V7000 overview 1.3 IBM Storwize V7000 terminology 1.3.1 IBM Storwize V7000 models 1.3.2 IBM Storwize V7000 attributes 1.3.3 IBM Storwize V7000 functions 1.3.4 IBM Storwize V7000 licensing 10 1.4 IBM Storwize V7000 hardware 11 1.4.1 Control enclosure 13 1.4.2 Expansion enclosure 14 1.4.3 Disk drive types 15 1.5 IBM Storwize V7000 components 15 1.5.1 Hosts 16 1.5.2 Nodes 16 1.5.3 I/O Group 16 1.5.4 Cluster 17 1.5.5 RAID 17 1.5.6 Managed disks 18 1.5.7 Quorum disks 19 1.5.8 Storage pools 19 1.5.9 Volumes 22 1.5.10 Thin-provisioned volumes 24 1.5.11 Mirrored volumes 25 1.5.12 Easy Tier 26 1.5.13 iSCSI 26 1.6 Advanced copy services 28 1.6.1 Synchronous/Asynchronous Remote Copy 28 1.6.2 FlashCopy 29 1.6.3 Copy Services configuration limits 30 1.7 Management and support tools 30 1.8 Useful Storwize V7000 websites 32 1.8.1 IBM Storwize V7000 learning videos on YouTube 33 Chapter Initial configuration 2.1 Hardware installation planning 2.2 SAN configuration planning 2.3 LAN configuration planning 2.3.1 Management IP address considerations 2.3.2 Service IP address considerations © Copyright IBM Corp 2011 All rights reserved 35 36 38 40 41 41 iii 2.4 Host configuration planning 2.5 Miscellaneous configuration planning 2.6 System management 2.6.1 Graphical user interface (GUI) 2.6.2 Command-line interface 2.7 First time setup 2.8 Initial configuration 2.8.1 Configure Call Home, email alert, and inventory 42 43 44 44 45 46 53 55 Chapter Graphical user interface overview 65 3.1 Overview of IBM Storwize V7000 management software 66 3.1.1 Access to the storage management software 66 3.1.2 Getting Started window layout 67 3.1.3 Navigation 69 3.1.4 Multiple selections 73 3.1.5 Status Indicators menu 75 3.2 Home menu 77 3.2.1 System Status menu 78 3.3 Troubleshooting menu 82 3.3.1 Recommended Actions menu 83 3.3.2 Event Log menu 86 3.3.3 Support menu 88 3.4 Physical Storage menu 94 3.4.1 Internal menu 95 3.4.2 External menu 96 3.4.3 Storage Pools menu 97 3.4.4 MDisks menu 98 3.5 Volumes menu 101 3.5.1 All Volumes menu 102 3.5.2 Volumes by Pool menu 104 3.5.3 Volumes by Host menu 106 3.6 Hosts menu 108 3.6.1 All Hosts menu 109 3.6.2 Ports by Host menu 111 3.6.3 Host Mappings menu 113 3.7 Copy Services menu 115 3.7.1 FlashCopy menu 116 3.7.2 FlashCopy Consistency Group menu 118 3.7.3 FlashCopy Mapping menu 119 3.7.4 Remote Copy menu 120 3.7.5 Partnerships menu 121 3.8 User Management menu 122 3.8.1 Users menu 123 3.8.2 Audit Log menu 125 3.9 Configuration menu 126 3.9.1 Network menu 127 3.9.2 Event Notification menu 129 3.9.3 Advanced menu 130 Chapter Host configuration 4.1 Preparing the host operating system 4.1.1 Windows 2008: Preparing for Fibre Channel attachment 4.1.2 Windows 2008: Preparing for iSCSI attachment iv Implementing the IBM Storwize V7000 131 132 132 137 4.1.3 VMware ESX: Preparing for Fibre Channel attachment 4.1.4 VMware ESX: Preparing for iSCSI attachment 4.2 Creating hosts using the GUI 4.2.1 Creating Fibre Channel hosts 4.2.2 Creating iSCSI hosts 140 142 150 153 157 Chapter Basic volume configuration 5.1 Provisioning storage from IBM Storwize V7000 and making it available to the host 5.1.1 Creating a generic volume 5.1.2 Creating a thin-provisioned volume 5.1.3 Creating a mirrored volume 5.1.4 Creating a thin-mirror volume 5.2 Mapping a volume to the host 5.2.1 Mapping newly created volumes to the host using the wizard 5.3 Discovering the volumes from the host and specifying multipath settings 5.3.1 Windows 2008 Fibre Channel volume attachment 5.3.2 Windows 2008 iSCSI volume attachment 5.3.3 VMware ESX Fibre Channel attachment 5.3.4 VMware ESX iSCSI attachment 163 164 166 167 170 173 175 175 177 178 182 190 196 Chapter Migration wizard 207 6.1 Preparing for data migration 208 6.2 Migrating the data using the migration wizard 208 Chapter Storage pools 7.1 Working with internal drives 7.1.1 Actions on internal drives 7.1.2 Configuring internal storage 7.2 Working with MDisks 7.2.1 Adding MDisks to storage pools 7.2.2 Importing MDisks 7.2.3 RAID action for MDisks 7.2.4 Selecting the tier for MDisks 7.2.5 Additional actions on MDisks 7.3 Working with storage pools 227 228 230 234 247 250 254 267 269 271 276 Chapter Advanced host and volume administration 8.1 Advanced host administration 8.1.1 Modifying Mappings menu 8.1.2 Unmapping all volumes from a host 8.1.3 Renaming 8.1.4 Deleting a host 8.1.5 Host properties 8.2 Adding and deleting host ports 8.2.1 Adding a host port 8.2.2 Adding a Fibre Channel port 8.2.3 Adding an iSCSI host port 8.2.4 Deleting a host port 8.3 Host mappings overview 8.3.1 Unmapping an volume 8.3.2 Properties Host 8.3.3 Properties Volume 8.4 Advanced volume administration 8.4.1 Advanced volume functions 283 284 286 292 294 295 296 300 301 302 305 306 308 309 310 310 310 311 Contents v vi 8.4.2 Mapping a volume to a host 8.4.3 Unmapping volumes from all hosts 8.4.4 Viewing a host mapped to a volume 8.4.5 Renaming a volume 8.4.6 Shrinking a volume 8.4.7 Expanding a volume 8.4.8 Migrating a volume to another storage pool 8.4.9 Exporting to an image mode volume 8.4.10 Deleting a volume 8.5 Volume properties 8.5.1 Overview tab 8.5.2 Host Maps tab 8.5.3 Member MDisk tab 8.5.4 Adding a mirrored volume copy 8.5.5 Editing thin-provisioned volume properties 8.6 Advanced volume copy functions 8.6.1 Thin-provisioned 8.6.2 Splitting into a new volume 8.6.3 Validate Volume Copies option 8.6.4 Delete this Copy option 8.6.5 Migrating volumes using the volume copy features 8.7 Volumes by storage pool 8.7.1 Changing the Storage Pool function icon 8.7.2 Changing the storage pool name 8.8 Volumes by host 8.8.1 Renaming a host 314 316 317 317 318 319 320 324 325 327 328 331 332 334 335 338 340 340 341 343 343 344 346 347 349 351 Chapter External storage virtualization 9.1 Planning for external storage virtualization 9.1.1 License for external storage virtualization 9.1.2 SAN configuration planning 9.1.3 External storage configuration planning 9.1.4 Guidelines for virtualizing external storage 9.2 Working with external storage 9.2.1 Adding external storage 9.2.2 Managing external storage 9.2.3 Removing external storage 353 354 354 356 358 358 359 359 360 364 Chapter 10 Easy Tier 10.1 Easy Tier overview 10.2 Easy Tier for IBM Storwize V7000 10.2.1 Disk tiers 10.2.2 Tiered storage pools 10.2.3 The Easy Tier process 10.2.4 Easy Tier operating modes 10.2.5 Easy Tier rules 10.3 Easy Tier configuration using the GUI 10.3.1 Creating multitiered pools: Enable Easy Tier 10.3.2 Downloading Easy Tier I/O measurements 10.4 Easy Tier configuration using the CLI 10.4.1 Enabling Easy Tier evaluation mode 10.4.2 Enabling or disabling Easy Tier on single volumes 10.5 IBM Storage Tier Advisor Tool 367 368 370 370 370 371 373 374 376 376 384 387 387 390 392 Implementing the IBM Storwize V7000 10.5.1 Creating graphical reports 392 10.5.2 STAT reports 393 Chapter 11 Copy services 11.1 FlashCopy 11.1.1 FlashCopy concepts 11.1.2 Planning for FlashCopy 11.1.3 Managing FlashCopy using the GUI 11.1.4 Managing FlashCopy mapping 11.2 Remote Copy 11.2.1 Remote Copy concepts 11.2.2 Remote Copy planning 11.2.3 Managing Remote Copy using the GUI 395 396 396 404 405 412 439 439 446 449 Chapter 12 IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center 12.1 Tivoli Storage Productivity Center overview 12.1.1 IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk Midrange Edition 12.2 Tivoli Storage Productivity Center architecture 12.2.1 Data Server 12.2.2 Device Server 12.2.3 Tivoli Integrated Portal 12.2.4 Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication 12.2.5 DB2 Database 12.2.6 Agents 12.2.7 Interfaces 12.3 Preparing Windows to install Tivoli Storage Productivity Center 12.3.1 Installation overview 12.3.2 Product code layout 12.3.3 Pre-installation steps for Windows 12.4 Installing Tivoli Storage Productivity Center components 12.5 Connecting Tivoli Storage Productivity Center to IBM Storwize V7000 12.6 Tivoli Storage Productivity Center example views 477 478 478 479 479 479 479 480 480 480 480 481 481 482 483 495 504 514 Chapter 13 Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability, monitoring, and troubleshooting for IBM Storwize V7000 517 13.1 Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability on the IBM Storwize V7000 518 13.1.1 Node canisters 518 13.1.2 Disk subsystem 521 13.1.3 Power 524 13.2 Configuration backup procedure 526 13.3 Software upgrade 530 13.4 Critical Fix Notification feature 537 13.5 Monitoring host paths to the IBM Storwize V7000 537 13.6 Troubleshooting overview 540 13.7 Manipulating the event log and recommended actions grid 543 13.8 Recommended Actions menu: Details 544 13.9 Audit Log tab 559 13.10 Collecting support information 561 13.11 Shutting down the IBM Storwize V7000 564 13.11.1 Shutting down using the GUI 565 13.11.2 Shutting down using the command-line interface 566 13.12 Shutting down and powering on an IBM Storwize V7000 infrastructure 566 13.12.1 Shutting down 567 13.12.2 Powering on 567 Contents vii Appendix A CLI setup and SAN Boot Command-line interface Basic setup Example commands SAN Boot Enabling SAN Boot for Windows Enabling SAN Boot for VMware Windows SAN Boot migration 569 570 570 578 583 583 584 584 Related publications IBM Redbooks publications Other publications Online resources Help from IBM 587 587 587 588 589 Index 591 viii Implementing the IBM Storwize V7000 date and time 43, 53–54, 130, 387 date code 27 DB2 Administration Server 488 DB2 installation 484 verify installation 494 DB2 Installer 484 DB2 tools catalog 491 DB2 user account 489 db2sampl command 494 decoupled 22 default location 387 delete consistency groups 476 FlashCopy mappings 119, 405, 429 host ports 300, 306 hosts 295 image mode MDisk copies 265 log files 89 mappings 400 old volume copies 343 partnerships 121, 455 ports 112 Remote Copy relationships 475 storage pools 97, 280 users 123 volume copies 343 volumes 325 Delete option 89 deleting 25, 284 dependent writes 400–401 destaged 329, 339, 344 detected hardware issues 55 new storage 271 software failures 518 disk controller 213, 256 disk drive types 15 disks internal capacity 230 distance 9, 28, 439, 443–444 DNS suffix 483 documentation 29, 32, 340, 584 domain name system 483 drive faults 18 drives 5–6, 585 3.5-inch 521 dependent 232 disk 13–14, 16, 37 enclosures 4–5 fast SAS or FC 370 hard disk 367 hot spare 237, 241–242, 244, 267, 379 internal 5, 7, 10, 16–19, 62, 95, 228–231, 234 capacity 95 extended help 228 objects 17 overview 229 logical 44 expanding 44 594 Implementing the IBM Storwize V7000 MDisks 269, 275, 281 mirrored 18 pairs 18, 235 RAID arrays 235–236, 249, 522 SAS solid state 43, 368, 370, 376–378, 380–381, 392–393 unconfigured 247 unmounting 396 DSMs 133 dump 13, 518 E Easy Tier 10, 16, 21, 26, 43, 207, 235–236, 241, 243, 278, 358, 367–375, 378–379, 381–384, 386–392, 479 overview 10 performance data 392 empty 279, 434, 445, 470, 579, 581 enclosures 5–6, 9, 16, 36, 80, 521, 524 chain expansion 3–5, 7, 14, 36–37, 78, 521, 523–524, 567 maximum virtualized 43 entire VDisk 396 errors 550, 558 asynchronous notification 518 cluster logging 518 ConsistentStopped state 446 DMP procedure 551, 556 hardware 400, 520 I/O 402 IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center installation 498 link 271 mirrored volume copies 341 partnership candidates 450 Recommended Actions grid 551, 557 service panel 518 svc.config.backup.log 527 vpd 521 Ethernet cabling 36 LED statuses 519 management interfaces 530 ports 13, 36, 40–41, 50, 519 switches 26 Ethernet Ports menu 161 EUIs 16 Event Log Properties menu 553 Event Log tabs 553 events 3, 83, 87 alerts 35 configuration 55–56, 560 count 543 definition details 551 detected 31 disaster 17 extended logging 140 highest priority 541, 544 informational 479, 544 level 57 logs 267, 342, 540–541, 543–544, 552–553, 563 marked as fixed 86 node canisters 41 notifications 31, 55, 518 offline fabrics 38 power input failure 13 reporting 479 resolving 84 serious 541 site power failure 518 SNMP traps 31 sorted by time stamp 543 svc_snap files 563 syslog messages 32 unexpected 541 Expand Volume window 319 extended unique identifiers 16 extents 21, 26, 368 allocation 371 Easy Tier 26, 369, 392 hot 375, 393–394 I/O activity 374 level 369 managed MDisks 19, 249 mappings 24 MDisks 19, 24 migration 320, 343, 367, 370–375, 384 migration plan 26, 369 monitoring I/O statistics 368 real capacity 167 sizes 19–20, 25–26 statistics 372 striped volume 22 striped volumes 23 external storage 4–5, 7, 9, 11, 18, 38–39, 43, 54, 208, 212, 215, 222, 224, 227–228, 249, 256, 261, 271, 320, 353–354, 357–359, 361–364, 367, 370 arrays External Storage System extended help 360 External Virtualization 10–11, 354, 356 F fabric 5, 370, 477 BLUE 357 errors 441 Fibre Channel ports 36 links 441 Out of Band Agents 480 problems 271 RED 357 remote 448 SAN 13, 16, 26, 42, 213, 477, 480 WWPN zones 39 failover 16, 28–29, 40, 131, 444 failover situation 443 failure 4, 17–19, 235, 358, 448, 482, 518, 523, 525–526 FAStT xii fault tolerant 13 Fibre Channel attached Fibre Channel Port Login 28 Fibre Channel ports 7, 13, 36, 213, 359, 447 file system 364, 477, 479 FlashCopy 8, 29, 44, 116, 167, 396–397 capabilities 44 commands 400, 402 consistency group states Prepared 402 Preparing 402 Stopped 402 consistency groups 8, 402, 432–433 copy services 28, 395 database volumes 401 example commands 581 functions integrity 400 mapping states Idling/Copied 400 Prepared 400 Preparing 400 Stopped 400, 425, 437 mappings 3, 9, 30, 119, 325, 328, 397–402, 404–405, 414, 416, 420, 424, 426, 428, 433–435, 437–438, 566, 581 creating 413 deleting 428–429 dependency tree 430 renaming 426 operations 404–405 properties 404 relationships 328 Remote Copy 448 source volumes 430 start time 436 thin provisioning 24 volumes 117 multiple target 398 target 401, 410, 424–425, 428, 431, 442, 447 FlashCopy Consistency Group window 118 FlashCopy Mapping window 119, 423 FlashCopy Mappings menu 407 FlashCopy Nocopy with Thin Provisioning flexibility 240 foreground I/O latency 451 FRU 233 Full Feature Phase 28 Full/Incremental Copy G generator 570, 573 Getting Started window help references 67 Global Mirror 9–10, 28, 30, 44, 439, 443–445, 447, 458, 477–478, 582 relationships 448 gminterdelaysimulation 444, 583 gmintradelaysimulation 444, 583 grains 169, 329, 397–398 granularity 396 Index 595 GUID 484 H hardware failures 32 HBA BIOS 42, 133, 583–584 HBAs installing 132, 140 port connection 42 ports 585 high availability 170, 522 Host function icon 349 Host Type setting 298 hosts 163 adding ports 303 administration 284 agents 480 capacity 312 clusters 42 configuration 151 configured and mapped overview 178 creating 152 data 216 deleting 295 details 128, 179, 183, 192, 198 device drivers 208 devices 221 domain name systems 483 drivers 217 ESX 142, 150 Fibre Channel 190, 192, 196 iSCSI 150, 198 Fibre Channel 152 connections 39 Windows 2008 178 Fibre Channel and iSCSI ports 111 I/O 9, 208, 397 IDs 113 initiator names 157, 305 iSCSI 159, 184, 301 iSCSI access 36, 40 iSCSI CHAP Secret 298 manual mapping process 175 mapping volumes 314 mappings 4, 102, 106, 109, 162–163, 175–177, 179, 183, 219–221, 283, 289, 291–292, 308, 312, 316, 345 overview 308 verifying 579 viewing 317 mirrored volumes 170 modification 284 names 27, 157 naming 218 OpenVMS 329 paths 537 ports 38, 154, 299, 301, 305 deleting 306–307 WWPNs 153 properties 296–297, 310 596 Implementing the IBM Storwize V7000 overview 297 rebooting 185 renaming 298, 351 SAN Boot 132–133 security warnings 134 servers 16, 24, 140, 167 settings 288 spare 237 systems 2, 5, 8, 16, 18–19, 22, 25, 128, 131–132, 140–142 TPGS 155 unmapping 292, 316 virtual capacity 79, 167 volumes 7, 349 volumes access 42, 131, 181 Windows 583 Windows 2008 132, 135–136, 138, 180–181 iSCSI 139, 182, 190 WWPNs 39, 136, 303 zones 217 hot spare 18, 230–231, 241, 378–379, 522 I I/O Group 16, 447 I/O group 13, 16, 30, 199, 308, 447, 523, 585 I/O statistics 368, 374, 390 IBM Assist On-site tool 31 IBM Storewize V7000 GUI overview 65 IBM Storwize V7000 xi, 1, 3–7, 9–12, 15–21, 24–28, 30–33, 35–36, 38–40, 42–45, 50, 55, 64–67, 72, 77–79, 81, 83, 96, 98, 121, 131–132, 134, 136, 138–140, 142, 150, 153, 159–160, 162–164, 166, 170, 177, 179, 181, 183, 186, 188, 190, 194, 199, 207–208, 212–213, 215–216, 220, 222, 241, 283–284, 292, 303, 310, 318, 320, 353–354, 356–359, 363, 367–370, 372–374, 376–377, 379, 387, 393–394, 439, 442, 446, 450, 452–453, 478, 481, 504, 507, 513, 517–518, 520–522, 524, 526, 530–531, 537, 541–542, 544, 559, 563–564, 566–567, 570, 574, 577–578, 583–585 adding a Fibre Channel port 303 adding external storage 359 advanced host administration 284 advanced host and volume administration 283 Advanced menu 130 advanced volume administration 310 amber fault LED 50 architecture overview Audit Log tab 559 basic volume configuration 163 Call Home configuration 55 capacity clusters 17 command-line interface 45, 570 components 15 configuration backup procedure 526 configuration limits and restrictions control enclosures 13 copy services 395 creating generic volumes 166 creating mirrored volumes 170 creating new partnerships 450 data migration 363 Data Migrator 373 disk subsystem 521 downloading and installing supported firmware 140 Easy Tier 367, 370 configuration using the CLI 387 overview 368 rules 374 educational videos 33 enclosures 15 External Physical Storage menu 96 external storage configuration planning 358 external storage virtualization 353 Fibre Channel ports 213 FlashCopy 396 concepts 397 guidelines for implementation 404 mapping states 399 full-meshed topology 441 function icons 72 generating configuration backups using the CLI 526 Getting Started window 67 GUI 3, 20, 27, 31–33, 43–44, 136, 142, 150, 207, 513, 526, 530 creating hosts 131, 150, 177 Easy Tier configuration 376 managing and configuring Remote Copy 449 managing and implementing Remote Copy 439 managing FlashCopy 405 overview 65 hardware overview 12 hardware installation planning 36 Home menu 77 host configuration planning 42 hosts configuration 131 I/O Monitoring 372 IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center connecting to IBM Storwize V7000 504 installation overview 481 IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center overview 478 Information Center 138 initial configuration 35 internal storage 11 iSCSI 26 connections 139 overview 160 LAN configuration planning 40 licensing 10 managed 354 managed storage management 17, 30, 66 GUI management and support tools 30 management software overview 66 maximum ports or WWPNs 357 MDisks 18 MDisks menu 98 Metro Mirror migrating a volume to another storage pool 320 migration wizard 207, 212 mirrored volumes 25 models monitoring host paths 537 multipathing 134 multitiered storage pools 21 nodes 16 overview Partnerships menu 121 performance optimized setup 241 planning for external virtualization storage 354 preparing for data migration 208 provisioning storage 164 RAID supported levels 522 RAS 518 RAS, monitoring, and troubleshooting 517 Recommended Actions menu 83, 544 Remote Copy general guidelines 446 partnerships 439 removing external storage 364 renaming target volumes 425 SAN configuration planning 38, 356 requirements 40 SAN Boot 42, 583 SAS cabling 524 shrinking volumes 318 shutdown 564, 566–567 using the GUI 565 SNMP traps 31 software upgrades 530 STAT reports 393 Supported Hardware List 132 synchronous and asynchronous Remote Copy 28 System Status menu 78 terminology thin provisioned volumes 24 triangle topology 440 troubleshooting overview 541 unmapping volumes from a host 292 uploading the SSH public key 574 USB connector slot 50 VMware ESX iSCSI attachment 142 multipathing 142 Volume ID 394 volume mirroring function 222 volume types 166 warnings 27 websites 32 Windows SAN Boot migration 584 IBM Support Center 31, 561 Index 597 IBM Systems Storage Productivity Center 30 IBM Tivoli Integrated Portal 479, 482 IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager 29 IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center 17, 29, 477–484, 495, 498–499, 502–504, 513–514, 516 GUI 480, 482, 504 installation overview 481 overview 478 IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication 478–479, 482–483, 495 IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center component install 495 identical data 442 IdlingDisconnected 446 image mode 19, 23, 96, 216, 224, 249, 254, 324, 358, 374, 585 Include Excluded MDisk menu 271 InconsistentCopying 446 InconsistentDisconnected 446 InconsistentStopped 446 Incremental FlashCopy mappings 398 initiator 27–28, 137–138, 143, 149–150, 157, 162, 184, 199, 305, 523 initiator name 27, 150 inter-cluster 444, 458 communication 439 link bandwidth 451 internal storage 3–5, 11, 222, 227–228, 230, 234, 247, 335, 354, 359, 364, 570 intra-cluster 444 IP addresses 17, 27, 32, 36, 40–43, 50, 53, 147, 183, 199, 530, 577 IP network 26–27, 32 IQNs 16, 27 iSCISI Configuration tab 183 iSCSI 26 access 40 adding host ports 301 addresses 27 advanced host administration 284 attachment 142 Windows 2008 137 CHAP Secret 298 connections 16 definitions 127 ESX attachment 196 initiator 150 Ethernet ports 159 hosts 36, 40 creating 152, 157 Windows 2008 139 initiator 27 interface 131 maximum attached hosts maximum combined hosts Microsoft software initiator 137 name 27 598 Implementing the IBM Storwize V7000 nodes 27 ports by host 111 ports on IBM Storwize models settings 160 volumes 177 mappings 199 Windows 2008 182 iSCSI Alias 160 iSCSI Configuration tab 183, 186 iSCSI Host menu 157 iSCSI Qualified Name 27 iSCSI Service 137 iSCSI settings overview 160 iSCSI Software Adapter Properties window 149 ISL hop count 448 iSNS 160 J Java Web Start GUI 480 JBOD 18 K key pair 45, 570, 572 keys 507 generator 570 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSe tControlClass‘4D36E97B-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} Parameters axRequestHoldTime 139 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSe tControlClass‘4D36E97B-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} ParametersLinkDownTime 138 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESystemCurrentControlSet Services‡iskimeOutValue 133 private 570–573, 577 public 570, 572, 574–575 SSH 124, 570, 574 USB 46, 49–50 L lane 4–5 latency 26, 28, 368–369, 448, 451 LBA 24, 341 learning videos 33 LEDs 13–14, 50, 232, 517, 519–521, 524, 526 licenses Enclosure 10, 43 external 208 External Storage 11, 54, 354 External Virtualization 354 External Virtualization Limit and Remote-Copy Limit 356 External Virtulization 11 Global Mirror and Metro Mirror 43 IBM Storwize V7000 10 IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center 478 summary 11 Thin Provisioning virtualization 54, 208 Volume Mirroring limits 7, 30, 447 Linux 132, 483 listing 88, 90, 385–386, 529 log messages 32 logged 25, 67, 303 logical block address 24, 341 logical disk 22, 163 login phase 28 logins 298 LU LUNs 133, 142, 208, 215–216, 249, 271, 358–359 M maintenance contract 32 management capacity 477 copy services 449 device-level 478 enterprise-wide 478 FlashCopy 396, 405 IP addresses 17, 41 redundant access 40 Remote Copy 439 storage 31 storage infrastructure 477 storage pools 227, 276, 363 system 44–46, 50, 53 Management Information Base 32 mappings 284 extents 249 external storage LUNs 215 FlashCopy 9, 397–398 cleaning rate 399 host definition LUNs 216 Multi-target FlashCopy removing 309, 364 source volumes 402 user roles 480 volumes 131 master console 31 MDisks 24, 247, 262, 278–279 adding to storage pools 96, 250 additional actions 271 arrays 237, 269, 275 definition 522 capacity 230 definition extended help 247 external 370 external storage definition FlashCopy 117 HDD tier 374 higher tier 26, 370 image mode 256, 265, 324 internal storage definition lower tier 26, 369, 372 managed 24, 98, 249–250, 259, 320, 478 definition 19 maximum menu 98, 363 migration 216 mixing 358 mode 260 overview 18, 274–275 performance 358, 370 Pool Details 345 Properties action 274 quorum disks 19 overview 19 RAID 267 single tiered storage pools 21 source 259, 265 spare goals 267 SSDs 522 storage pools 19, 166, 227 swapping drives 268 tiers 270 unmanaged 19, 98, 208, 224, 249–250, 254–255, 265, 271, 359 definition 19 window 274 Member MDisk tab 332 metadata 24–25, 167, 400 Metro Mirror 9, 28, 30, 374, 439, 442–445, 447–448, 458, 477 consistency groups 444 relationships 444 MIB 32 microcode 358, 518 Microsoft Multi Path Input Output 133 migrating 25, 208, 216, 220, 396 migration advanced migration function 225 automatic 21, 479 Automatic Data Placement 375 cluster hosts 213 copies between storage pools 339 data migration function data migration tool 363 Data Migrator 373 Easy Tier 26, 369, 374 extent migration plans 26 extents 367, 369, 374 feature 343 FlashCopy 396 hot spots 10 image mode MDisks 256 image mode volumes 23 images 584 licenses 11 nondisruptive 15 Index 599 process 265, 320, 322, 344 progress 222, 254, 257–258, 263, 265–266 reports 26 SAN Boot images 213, 584 status 322 storage migration wizard 211–212 VMware clusters 213 VMware ESX hosts 213 volume copies 322–323 volumes 20 volumes to storage pools 321 wizard 62, 207–208, 219 Migration window 261 mirroring advance mirroring settings 172 host based software 170 remote 2, 9, 17, 36, 121 MLC 15 modes 18, 28, 142, 249, 373 monitoring 17, 129, 370, 374, 477–478, 515, 518 MPIO 133–135, 184–185, 189 multipath I/O 134 multipath storage solution 134 multiple paths 42, 584 Multi-target FlashCopy multitiered storage pools 21 N naming authority string 27 Nearline SAS 15, 236 NETBIOS 484 network management program 32 node canisters 90 Node option 90 nodes 128, 518 adding back to a cluster 44 canisters 4, 13, 39–40, 50, 357, 359, 439, 447, 518 definitions Ethernet ports 36 LED status 520 overview 518 configuration node canisters 17 Ethernet ports 50 expansion canisters definition FlashCopy mapping states 399 518 I/O group 16 internal storage definition Internet 27 IP addresses 36, 41 names changing 27 overview 16 pairs 170 partner 16 port 36 ports 583–584 600 Implementing the IBM Storwize V7000 quorum disks 19 replacing 518 surviving 13 target ports 298 usage statistics file 26 non-zero contingency 25 NTP 43 O object names 19 operations copy 443, 447 data migration 566 I/O 167, 396, 400, 446, 448 IOPS 21 iSCSI 138 nocopy start and stop 401 stop 401 write 400, 443 ordering 401 Overview tab 297, 328 P parity strips 18 partnerships 17 clusters 441 managing 449 creating 439, 447, 450 deleting 121 disconnected 453 fully configured 452 new 121 Remote Copy 453 states Fully Configure (Remote Stopped) 441 Fully Configured (Remote Exceeded) 442 Fully Configured (Remote Excluded) 442 Fully Configured Stopped 454–455 Local Excluded 441 Partially Configured 441 Remote Not Present 441 Stopped 441, 454 stopped 454 passphrase 573 peak 448 per cluster 30, 404, 447 performance analysis 479 high performance disk tier 394 high performance disk tiers 384 hight performance disk tier 393 I/O 368 impact 443 log 369 monitoring and analysis 477 needs 15 optimized setup 241–244, 246–247 pools 344 requirements 9, 142 statistics 478, 515 storage 368 testing 444 PHY 5, 14, 520–521 physical location 27 PiT 29 PLOGI 28 point in time 4, 29, 371, 399, 402, 443 point-in-time copies 29 copy 29 data 400 point-in-time copy 8, 396, 402 Pools function icon extended help 276 Port Mask 298 ports 5–7, 13–14, 16, 27–28, 36, 38–42, 50, 111–112, 132, 140, 153–154, 159, 161, 183, 186–188, 199, 213, 271, 298–307, 349, 356–359, 447, 478, 501, 519, 521, 523, 546, 552, 554–555, 583–585 of SAS drive 14 power supply 12, 14, 521, 524 power supply unit 13 P-parity 18 presets 3, 234–237, 405–406, 408, 412 primary 25, 28, 43, 170–171, 173, 294, 312, 339–340, 342–344, 374, 389, 391, 442–448, 451, 465–466, 472, 474, 479, 483 priority 320, 328, 541, 544 private keys 570–573, 577 provisioning 5, 24, 79, 419, 477–478, 480 PSU 13–14, 524 public keys 570, 572, 574–575 PuTTY 570, 572–573, 576–578 key generator 572 Q Q-parity 18 quorum candidates 19 disks 5, 19 R RAID 3, 5, 7, 15–18, 21–22, 44, 228, 234–237, 240–241, 243, 249, 267–269, 358–359, 378–379, 393, 518, 522 mirrored 18, 235, 522 performance 17, 522 RAID 18, 235, 358 RAID 7, 18, 358 RAID 10 18, 235, 358 RAID 7, 18, 235, 243, 358 RAID 18, 235, 243, 358 RAID arrays 7, 16, 18, 522 goals 18, 522 spare 237 width 243 RAS 517–518 rebalancing 18, 271, 522 receiver 32 Redbooks Web site Contact us xv redundancy 4, 17–19, 36, 38, 40–42, 231, 234, 357–359, 447–448, 522, 524, 584–585 Relationship function icon 470 relationships 23, 118–119, 397, 446, 448, 452–453, 455, 459–460, 463–468 background copy 399 cleaning rate 399 FlashCopy 29, 398, 402 Global Mirror 448 inter-cluster 458 Metro Mirror 443–444 Remote Copy 17, 442, 446, 457–458 reliability 131, 358 remote clusters 441–442 data mirroring 17 fabric 448 mirroring 2, 9, 36 nodes 448 service 31 site 9, 256 sites 444 storage system 451 Remote Copy 16–17, 28, 30, 33, 54–55, 120, 167, 325, 395, 439, 442–449, 453, 455–459, 461, 463–465, 467–473, 475, 566 license 10, 356 Remote Mirroring 44, 121 Remote-Copy Limit 356 removing 293, 564 response time 21, 367 restore points 29, 402 restrict access 31 Reverse FlashCopy 8, 29, 402, 404, 581 RFC3720 27 S SAN fabric 477, 480 planning 479 zoning 153, 298, 303, 447, 584 SAN Volume Controller xi–xii, 3, 507 SAS 3–5, 14–15, 37, 236, 370, 376, 380–381, 520–521, 523 connectors 14 interfaces 14 ports 14, 520 SBB 11 scalable scripts 482 SCSI 3–5, 26–27, 113, 179, 183, 192, 198, 215, 220, 287, 289, 298, 308, 365, 400, 584–585 SDD 584–585 SDDDSM 134–135, 179, 537–538, 584–585 secondary 28, 171, 174, 339–340, 442–448, 451, 463, 466, 472–473 site 29, 443–444, 448 Index 601 security features 31 requirements 142 warnings 134 sender 32 service tasks 17 Shutdown Cluster menu 565 Simple Network Management Protocol 31 single sign-on 477, 479 single tiered 21, 370, 376 site 7, 9, 29, 31–32, 46, 256, 442–444, 448, 518, 531 slots 6, 12, 14, 521 SMTP server 32, 43 snapshot 5, 116, 405, 408, 410, 414–415, 419 SNIA xi SNMP 31, 43, 129, 518 manager 31 messages 31 settings 31 solid state drives 367 sort 561 sorting 442, 561 sources 8, 30, 397, 402, 405, 444 data Global and Metro Mirror 374 multiple 29 splitting 25, 338, 340–341, 343, 358 SSDs 15, 26, 43, 235–237, 241, 243, 269, 339, 367, 370, 374–375, 377–378, 380–381, 384, 392–394, 479, 522 performance 367 SSH 45, 123, 507, 570, 572, 574, 576 client 570, 576–577 keys 570, 574 SSPC 30, 481 stack 142 states 4, 13, 16, 26, 303, 398–400, 402, 434, 437, 441–442, 444–448, 464, 519–520, 524, 538, 543 clusters 44 Easy Tier 375 information 91 stopped 399 stopping 398 statistics 373, 515 Easy Tier 26 file 385 I/O 374, 390 log file 384 performance 478, 515 usage 372, 480 workload 372 stop 119, 464, 466 command 118, 400 I/O operations 396 migration progress 265 partnerships 453 process 437 relationships 120 stopping 400, 425 migrations 266 Storage Bridge Bay 11 602 Implementing the IBM Storwize V7000 storage cache 368 storage pools 5, 8, 17–22, 24–25, 95, 98, 117, 163, 166–167, 170, 216, 222, 227–228, 235, 245–246, 249–250, 252–254, 256, 259, 261–262, 265, 269, 276–280, 320–321, 323–324, 334, 339, 343–344, 347–348, 358–359, 363–364, 369–370, 375–376, 380–382, 384, 387–388, 390–391, 397, 404, 417 configured overview 387 definition performance 369 target 222, 259, 262, 321, 343, 369 thin provisioning definition storage systems external overview 361 strand 5, 523 stripe 18 Striped 22 striping 18 Subsystem Device Driver DSM 134–135, 179 summary report 26, 499 superuser 44–45, 53, 507, 531 Suspended 400, 402 SVC xii, 3–4, 17, 535, 537, 570, 574 svcinfo 45, 387–389, 391, 579–583 svctask 388, 391–392, 579–583 svctask mkfcmap 581 synchronized 9, 43, 166, 238, 335, 339–340, 343, 396, 442–443, 448, 460 synchronizing 60, 63 syslog manager 32 messages 31–32 protocol 32 System Storage Productivity Center 30, 481 systems xi, 2, 4, 8–9, 17, 19, 25, 30, 38–39, 42–43, 45, 96, 128, 131, 142, 170, 177, 207–208, 215, 261, 318, 353–354, 357–359, 361, 364, 392, 396, 439, 442, 446, 450–451, 453, 477–479, 483, 537, 567, 583–584 T T0 29, 397 targets 8, 26–27, 187, 199, 374, 397–398, 403, 405, 420 IP address 199 names 27 thin provisioned 166, 190, 398 definition Thin Provisioning function 7–8 thrashing 17 threshold warning 21 tie 19 time-zero copy 29, 397 traffic 142, 145, 147, 161, 188, 370 troubleshooting 31, 44, 232, 517 overview 540 Typical install 487 U UDP 32 unbalanced 18, 522 updates xii, 28, 271, 397, 401, 442, 444, 448, 531 database transaction 401 drives and enclosures 524 HBA BIOS 132 IBM Storiwze V7000 software 530 network configuration 127 SDDDSM 585 software licenses 130 unmanaged MDisks 271 write operations 443 upgrades firmware 130 IBM Storwize V7000 software 518 software 517, 530, 532, 536 SVC software 535 usage statistics 26 USB 14, 46, 49–50, 519 User Datagram Protocol 32 V VDisk 582 viewing 540 virtual disks 16 virtualization xi–xii, 1–3, 7, 15–16, 22, 24, 54, 208, 324, 356, 358–359, 363 volume allocation indicator 278 volume copy feature 340 volume copy function 264 volume copy synchronization 264 Volume Details window 327 Volume Mirroring 44 Volume Mirroring function volume properties view 310 volumes 4–5, 7–8, 13, 16, 19, 22, 24, 30, 103, 105, 107, 116–117, 142, 163, 166, 168, 170–171, 173–176, 178–181, 183, 192, 195, 198, 213, 215, 217, 220, 249, 255, 258, 262, 273, 287, 289, 291, 308, 312–314, 316–317, 323, 329, 331–332, 335, 339, 342–343, 349–350, 368–369, 383–384, 394, 396, 404, 408, 417–418, 420, 560, 583 actions 363 adding a mirrored copy 334 administration 310 boot 583–585 by host overview 349 by storage pool overview 344 capacity per I/O group 30, 447 clones 409 copies 323, 335, 338–340, 346, 350, 375–376, 390–392, 394 deleting 343 mirrored 341 data placement 368 database 401 definition deleting 325, 343, 480 details 389 discovering 176 Easy Tier 383 expanding 25, 319, 338 extents 370 fully allocated 7, 24–25, 166–167 group 364 host 358 hot spots 16 I/O handling management 16 image mode 24, 254, 261, 324, 585 iSCSI 199 level 338, 374 logical 18, 364 mappings 175, 579 overview 298 master 30, 442, 444, 447, 455, 459–460, 465, 474 maximum capacity of 356 TB per volume maximum size 19–20 migrating 20, 24–25, 102, 163, 219, 320, 322–323, 371 volume copy feature 340 mirrored 17, 20, 24–25, 117, 172, 174, 222, 341, 374, 522 adding 334 automatic data placement 374 copies 334 creating 170 peak write load 448 validating 341 mirroring 20, 222, 522 modification 310 names 116–117, 224, 266, 345 non-mirrored 25 overview 22 overwritten 560 pairs 447 primary 446, 466 properties 327–328, 331, 383, 580 overview 328 Remote Copy master 459 renaming 317 secondary 443–444, 446, 448, 466 sequential 23, 25, 374 shrinking 318, 336 size 342, 459 snapshot 408 source 8, 29–30, 340, 396–400, 402–405, 410, 413, 417, 420–421, 425, 429–430, 442, 447, 455, 460, 465 SQL_Database 317 status 345 striped 166 Index 603 definition 22 target 29, 396–405, 410, 414, 419, 421, 423–426, 428–429, 431, 442, 447–448, 455, 458–460 image mode 585 multiple 29 thin-mirror 173 thin-provisioned 7, 24–25, 29, 167–169, 255, 336, 404–405 expanding 337 UID 179, 183, 192, 198 W warning threshold 329 warranty period 32 Windows 27, 45, 47, 50, 131–136, 138–139, 177–178, 180–183, 189–190, 392, 481–484, 488, 495, 537, 543, 563, 583–585 timeout value 132–133 working with 543 WWNNs WWPNs 7, 16, 39, 218, 302, 357–359 Z zero contingency 25 zone 39, 131, 208, 216, 225, 357, 359, 477 zoning recommendation 447 604 Implementing the IBM Storwize V7000 Implementing the IBM Storwize V7000 Implementing the IBM Storwize V7000 Implementing the IBM Storwize V7000 Implementing the IBM Storwize V7000 (1.0” spine) 0.875”1.498” 460 788 pages Implementing the IBM Storwize V7000 Implementing the IBM Storwize V7000 Back cover ® Implementing the IBM Storwize V7000 ® Discover the exciting latest addition to the IBM virtualization family Get familiar with the leading edge intuitive GUI See how simple IBM virtualization really is Continuing its commitment to developing and delivering industry-leading storage technologies, IBM introduces the IBM Storwize V7000, an innovative new storage offering that delivers essential storage efficiency technologies and exceptional ease of use and performance, all integrated into a compact, modular design that is offered at a competitive, midrange price IBM Storwize V7000 incorporates some of the top IBM technologies typically found only in enterprise-class storage systems, raising the standard for storage efficiency in midrange disk systems This cutting-edge storage system extends the comprehensive storage portfolio from IBM and can help change the way organizations address the ongoing information explosion This IBM Redbooks publication introduces the features and functions of the IBM Storwize V7000 through several examples This book is aimed at pre- and post-sales technical support and marketing, storage administrators, and will help you understand the architecture of the Storwize V7000, how to implement it, and take advantage of the industry leading functions and features INTERNATIONAL TECHNICAL SUPPORT ORGANIZATION BUILDING TECHNICAL INFORMATION BASED ON PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE IBM Redbooks are developed by the IBM International Technical Support Organization Experts from IBM, Customers and Partners from around the world create timely technical information based on realistic scenarios Specific recommendations are provided to help you implement IT solutions more effectively in your environment For more information: ibm.com/redbooks SG24-7938-00 ISBN 0738435570