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by Duane Bolland, Jordan Fincher, David Green, Vasfi Gucer, Warren Hawkins, Ibrahim
IBM FlashSystem and VMware Implementation and Best Practices Guide
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Chapter 1. Introduction
1.1 IBM and VMware
1.2 Overview of IBM Spectrum Virtualize and IBM FlashSystem
1.2.1 IBM Spectrum Virtualize
1.2.2 IBM FlashSystem
1.2.3 Key IBM Spectrum Virtualize terminology
1.3 Overview of IBM FlashSystem with VMware
Chapter 2. Host and storage connectivity
2.1 Test environment implementation
2.1.1 FlashSystem host clusters
2.1.2 Use cases for implementing throttles
2.1.3 Data reduction pools
2.2 Host connectivity protocols
2.2.1 iSCSI
2.2.2 iSER
2.2.3 FC-NVMe
2.2.4 SCSI Fibre-Channel
2.3 Multi-path considerations
2.3.1 Path selection policies
2.3.2 Zoning considerations
Chapter 3. Storage consumption
3.1 Datastore types
3.1.1 vSphere Virtual Machine File System
3.1.2 Raw Device Mappings
3.1.3 vSphere Virtual Volumes
3.2 VMware vSphere Storage APIs Array Integration (VAAI)
3.2.1 Atomic Test and Set / SCSI Compare and Write
3.2.2 Extended copy - XCOPY
3.2.3 WRITE_SAME
3.2.4 SCSI UNMAP command
Chapter 4. Integration with VMware using IBM Spectrum Connect
4.1 Overview of IBM Spectrum Connect
4.1.1 Supported cloud interfaces
4.1.2 Installation considerations
4.1.3 Download and Installation of IBM Spectrum Connect
4.1.4 Initial configuration
4.1.5 Registering a Storage System into IBM Spectrum Connect
4.2 Understanding Storage Spaces and Storage Services
4.2.1 Creating Storage Services
4.2.2 Allocating capacity to Storage Services
4.2.3 Delegating Storage Services to vCenter
4.3 vSphere Virtual Volumes
4.3.1 Virtual Volumes overview
4.3.2 Configuring IBM Spectrum Virtualize to support vVols
4.3.3 Configuring IBM Spectrum Connect
4.3.4 Configuring VMware vSphere vCenter
4.3.5 Creating a vVol datastore
4.4 Best practice considerations and troubleshooting
4.4.1 Protecting the Spectrum Connect server
4.4.2 Viewing the relationships between vVol and VM
4.4.3 Mirroring the utility volume
4.4.4 Performing an upgrade on a storage system with vVols enabled
4.4.5 Understanding audit log entries
4.4.6 Spectrum Virtualize GUI
4.4.7 Metadata vdisk
4.4.8 Enable Debug in Spectrum Connect
4.4.9 Certificates
4.4.10 Prerequisites, limitations and restrictions
4.5 IBM Storage Enhancements for VMware vSphere Web Client
4.5.1 Installation of the vSphere plugin
4.5.2 Provisioning storage from within vCenter
4.5.3 Using the IBM Storage Enhancements vSphere plugin
4.5.4 Viewing additional storage information from within vSphere Client
4.6 Performing additional storage volume management tasks
4.6.1 Considerations
4.7 IBM Storage Plug-in for VMware vRealize Orchestrator
4.7.1 Configuring Spectrum Connect for vRealize Orchestrator
4.7.2 Using vRealize Automation and vRealize Orchestrator
4.8 IBM Storage Management Pack for VMware vRealize Operations Manager
4.8.1 Configuring Spectrum Connect for vRealize Operations Manager
4.8.2 Installing Management Pack in vRealize Operations Manager
Chapter 5. VMware and Spectrum Virtualize multi-site guidelines
5.1 Copy Services overview
5.1.1 FlashCopy
5.1.2 Metro Mirror
5.1.3 Global Mirror
5.1.4 Remote copy consistency groups
5.1.5 VMware Site Recovery Manager
5.1.6 Storage Replication Adapter
5.2 Storage Replication Adapter with VMware Site Recovery Manager
5.2.1 Storage replication adapter planning
5.2.2 Storage Replication Adapter for VMware installation
5.2.3 Storage Replication Adapter configuration and usage guide
5.3 IBM HyperSwap with VMware vSphere Metro Storage Cluster
5.3.1 IBM HyperSwap
5.3.2 VMware vSphere Metro Storage Cluster
5.3.3 IBM HyperSwap with VMware vSphere Metro Storage
Chapter 6. Troubleshooting
6.1 Collecting data for support
6.1.1 Data Collection Guidelines for SVC and FlashSystems
6.1.2 Data collection guidelines for VMware ESXi
6.1.3 Data collection guidelines for VMware Site Recovery Manager
6.1.4 Data collection guidelines for IBM Spectrum Connect (VASA/vVol)
6.2 Common support cases
6.2.1 Storage loss of access
6.2.2 VMware migrate task failures
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1-1 Key IBM Spectrum Virtualize terminology 8
2-1 NPIV ports and port usage when FC-NVMe is enabled 30
3-1 ESXi host maximums - Storage 38
3-2 Parameters description 48
5-1 Spectrum Virtualize HyperSwap and VMware vMSC supported failure scenarios 135
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