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by Stephen Solewin, Lisa Martinez, Roger Eriksson, Bert Dufrasne, Francesco Anderlo
IBM FlashSystem A9000 and A9000R Architecture and Implementation (Version 12.3.1)
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Chapter 1. IBM FlashSystem A9000 and IBM FlashSystem A9000R
1.1 FlashSystem A9000 and FlashSystem A9000R overview
1.1.1 FlashSystem A9000
1.1.2 FlashSystem A9000R
1.2 Feature set
1.3 Licensing
1.4 Management tools
1.5 Utility Offering
Chapter 2. Logical architecture and concepts
2.1 Overall architecture
2.1.1 Parallelism and grid architecture
2.1.2 Cache resiliency
2.2 IBM FlashCore technology
2.3 Data reduction and capacity concepts
2.3.1 Data reduction technology
2.4 Storage provisioning concepts
2.4.1 Storage pools
2.4.2 Volumes
2.4.3 Snapshots
2.4.4 Consistency groups
2.5 Multi-tenancy
2.5.1 Domains
2.6 Data security
2.6.1 Key management
2.6.2 User access control
2.7 Auditing through syslog
Chapter 3. Hardware and technology
3.1 Systems overview
3.1.1 FlashSystem A9000R
3.1.2 FlashSystem A9000R entry-level capacity option
3.1.3 FlashSystem A9000
3.1.4 FlashSystem A9000 and A9000R Storage Utility Offering
3.2 System components details
3.2.1 Grid controller
3.2.2 Flash enclosure
3.3 FlashSystem A9000R specifics
3.3.1 FlashSystem A9000R switched InfiniBand
3.3.2 InfiniBand switch battery backup unit
3.3.3 FlashSystem A9000R rack
3.4 Scaling FlashSystem A9000R
3.5 FlashSystem A9000 specifics
3.5.1 FlashSystem A9000 direct InfiniBand
3.6 Reliability, availability, and serviceability
3.6.1 Reliability
3.6.2 Availability
3.6.3 Serviceability
3.7 IBM FlashCore technology
3.7.1 Technology and architectural design overview
3.7.2 Hardware-only data path
3.7.3 Flash card memory chips
3.7.4 Flash module capacities
3.7.5 Field Programmable Gate Array
3.7.6 Overprovisioning
3.7.7 Wear leveling
3.8 IBM Variable Stripe RAID and 2D Flash RAID protection overview
3.8.1 Variable Stripe RAID
3.8.2 Two-dimensional (2D) Flash RAID
Chapter 4. Capacity planning and management
4.1 Introduction and definitions
4.1.1 System capacity specifications
4.1.2 Capacity allocation
4.2 Capacity planning with data reduction
4.2.1 Workload types
4.2.2 Data reduction planning
4.3 Capacity representation and reporting
4.3.1 Data usage collection
4.3.2 Capacity representation in the Hyper-Scale Manager GUI
4.3.3 Capacity planning report
4.4 Intelligent capacity management for deduplication
Chapter 5. Installation requirements
5.1 Physical space requirements
5.1.1 FlashSystem A9000
5.1.2 FlashSystem A9000R
5.2 Delivery requirements for IBM FlashSystem A9000R
5.2.1 Delivery clearance requirements
5.2.2 Delivery weight requirements
5.2.3 Height and weight reduction features
5.3 Site requirements
5.3.1 Power supply requirements
5.3.2 Power consumption and thermal dissipation
5.3.3 Other equipment
5.4 Basic configuration
5.5 Network connections
5.5.1 Remote mirroring connectivity
5.5.2 Planning for growth
5.5.3 IPv6 addressing and planning
5.5.4 IP protocols
5.5.5 SMTP server
5.5.6 IBM service ports (model 415 only)
5.6 Physical installation
5.6.1 Initial setup
5.6.2 Completing the physical installation
5.6.3 System shutdown/power-off and power-on
5.7 Host connections
5.7.1 Fibre Channel connections
5.7.2 iSCSI connections
5.7.3 Fibre Channel cabling and configuration
5.7.4 iSCSI cabling and configuration
5.7.5 iSCSI IP configuration
Chapter 6. Performance
6.1 Performance considerations
6.1.1 Sizing
6.1.2 Multipathing considerations
6.2 Quality of service
6.2.1 Limitation by bandwidth
6.2.2 Limitation by input/output operations per second
6.3 Performance monitoring
6.3.1 Using the Storage Management GUI
6.3.2 Using the command-line interface
Chapter 7. Monitoring and troubleshooting
7.1 Monitoring
7.1.1 Monitoring events
7.1.2 Monitoring alerts and events
7.1.3 Monitoring statistics
7.1.4 Monitoring hardware
7.1.5 Simple Network Management Protocol monitoring
7.1.6 Call Home
7.1.7 Encrypting Call Home and heartbeat notifications
7.1.8 Subscribe to support notifications
7.2 Troubleshooting
7.2.1 IBM Support process
7.2.2 Collecting logs
7.2.3 IBM Remote Support
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