IBM manual IBM TotalStorage DS8000 Series Concepts Architecture

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The IBM TotalStorage

DS8000 Series: Concepts

and Architecture

Advanced features and performance breakthrough with POWER5 technology

Configuration flexibility with LPAR and virtualization

Highly scalable solutions for on demand storage

This IBM Redbook describes the IBM TotalStorage DS8000 series of storage servers, its architecture, logical design, hardware design and components, advanced functions, performance features, and specific characteristics. The information contained in this redbook is useful for those who need a general understanding of this powerful new series of disk enterprise storage servers, as well as for those looking for a more detailed understanding of how the DS8000 series is designed and operates.

The DS8000 series is a follow-on product of the IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server with new functions related to storage virtualization and flexibility. This book describes the virtualization hierarchy that now includes virtualization of a whole storage subsystem. This is made possible by utilizing IBM’s pSeries POWER5-based server technology and its Virtualization Engine LPAR technology. This LPAR technology offers totally new options to configure and manage storage.

In addition to the logical and physical description of the DS8000 series, the fundamentals of the configuration process are also described in this redbook. This is useful information for proper planning and configuration when installing the DS8000 series, as well as for the efficient management of this powerful storage subsystem.

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SG24-6452-00 ISBN 0738492205