Front cover -- Contents -- Figures -- Notices -- Trademarks -- Preface -- The team that wrote this redbook -- Become a published author -- Comments welcome -- Summary of changes -- July 2004, First Edition -- Part 1 FAStT introduction, planning, configuration, and maintenance -- Chapter 1. Introduction to FAStT and SAN -- 1.1 FAStT features and models -- 1.2 FAStT Storage Manager -- 1.2.1 FAStT Storage Manager components -- 1.2.2 New features introduced in Storage Manager Version 8.4 -- 1.3 Introduction to SAN -- 1.3.1 SAN components -- Chapter 2. FAStT planning tasks -- 2.1 Planning your SAN -- 2.2 SAN zoning -- 2.2.1 Zone types -- 2.2.2 Zoning configuration -- 2.3 Physical components and characteristics -- 2.3.1 Rack considerations -- 2.3.2 Cables and connectors -- 2.3.3 Cable management and labeling -- 2.3.4 Fibre Channel adapters -- 2.3.5 Planning your storage structure and performance -- 2.3.6 Logical drives and controller ownership -- 2.3.7 Segment size -- 2.3.8 Storage partitioning -- 2.3.9 Cache parameters -- 2.3.10 Hot-spare drive -- 2.3.11 Remote Volume Mirroring -- 2.4 Additional planning considerations -- 2.4.1 Planning for systems with LVM: AIX example -- 2.4.2 Planning for systems without LVM: Windows example -- 2.4.3 The function of ADT and a multipath driver -- 2.4.4 ADT alert notification -- 2.4.5 Failover alert delay -- Chapter 3. FAStT configuration tasks -- 3.1 Preparing the FAStT Storage Server -- 3.1.1 Network setup of the controllers -- 3.1.2 Installing and starting the FAStT Storage Manager Client -- 3.1.3 Updating the controller microcode -- 3.2 FAStT cabling -- 3.2.1 FAStT600 cabling configuration -- 3.2.2 FAStT700/FastT900 cabling configuration -- 3.2.3 Expansion unit numbering -- 3.3 Configuring the FAStT Storage Server -- 3.3.1 Defining hot-spare drives -- 3.3.2 Creating arrays and logical drives.

3.3.3 Configuring storage partitioning -- Chapter 4. FAStT maintenance tasks -- 4.1 Performance monitoring and tuning -- 4.1.1 The performance monitor -- 4.1.2 Tuning cache parameters -- 4.2 Controlling the performance impact of maintenance tasks -- 4.2.1 Modification operations -- 4.2.2 Remote Volume Mirroring operations -- 4.2.3 VolumeCopy priority rates -- 4.2.4 FlashCopy operations -- 4.3 Event monitoring and alerts -- 4.3.1 FAStT Service Alert -- 4.4 Saving the subsystem profile -- 4.5 Upgrades and maintenance -- 4.5.1 Being up-to-date with your drivers and firmware using My support -- 4.5.2 Prerequisites for upgrades -- 4.5.3 Updating FAStT host software -- 4.5.4 Updating microcode -- 4.6 Capacity upgrades, system upgrades -- 4.6.1 Capacity upgrades and increased bandwidth -- 4.6.2 System upgrade and disk migration procedures -- 4.6.3 Other considerations when adding expansion enclosures and drives -- Part 2 Advanced topics -- Chapter 5. Migrating 7133 to FAStT in AIX -- 5.1 Performance sizing considerations -- 5.1.1 SSA adapters and FAStT adapters performance comparison -- 5.2 Sizing a solution based upon the SSA configuration -- 5.3 Sizing a solution based upon the application IO rates -- 5.4 Sizing a solution for more performance -- 5.5 Setting up the FAStT prior to migration -- 5.5.1 Install FAStT software on the AIX host server -- 5.6 Performing the migration -- 5.6.1 Logical Volume Manager -- 5.6.2 Migration procedure -- 5.6.3 Mirroring the VG (method 1) illustration -- 5.6.4 Migrating PVs (method 2) illustration -- 5.6.5 Other considerations -- 5.6.6 HACMP considerations -- Chapter 6. IBM migration services -- 6.1 Data migration -- 6.2 Piper: IBM hardware-assisted data migration -- 6.3 What is Piper Lite? -- 6.3.1 Piper hardware appliance -- 6.3.2 Piper Migration Director -- 6.3.3 Piper Migration Surveyor -- 6.3.4 Data migration process.

Chapter 7. FAStT and HACMP for AIX -- 7.1 HACMP introduction -- 7.2 Supported environment -- 7.2.1 General rules -- 7.2.2 Configuration limitations -- Chapter 8. FAStT and GPFS for AIX -- 8.1 GPFS introduction -- 8.2 Supported configurations -- Part 3 VMware and FAStT -- Chapter 9. Introduction to VMware -- 9.1 VMware, Inc. -- 9.2 The IBM and VMware relationship -- 9.3 VMware ESX Server v2.1 architecture -- 9.4 VMware ESX Server storage structure: disk virtualization -- 9.4.1 Local disk usage -- 9.4.2 SAN disk usage -- 9.4.3 Disk virtualization with VMFS volumes and .dsk files -- 9.4.4 The Buslogic and LSI SCSI controllers -- 9.4.5 The complete picture of ESX and FAStT storage -- 9.5 FAStT and ESX Server solution considerations -- 9.5.1 General performance and sizing considerations -- 9.5.2 Which model of FAStT should be used in a VMware implementation? -- 9.5.3 FAStT tuning considerations -- 9.6 IBM eServer BladeCenter and ESX Server -- 9.6.1 Introduction to the IBM eServer BladeCenter -- 9.6.2 BladeCenter disk storage -- Chapter 10. VMware ESX Server terminology, features, limitations, and tips -- 10.1 Storage Management: naming conventions and features -- 10.1.1 Disks and LUNs -- 10.1.2 Failover paths and failover policies -- 10.1.3 Adapter bindings -- 10.1.4 VMFS or raw disks? -- 10.1.5 Booting from SAN and use of NAS devices -- 10.1.6 Direct attached storage -- 10.1.7 FAStT premium features: RVM, FlashCopy, VolumeCopy -- 10.1.8 Network considerations -- Chapter 11. VMware ESX Server storage configurations -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Using redundant paths from the switches to the FAStT -- 11.2.1 Recommended configuration -- 11.2.2 Workaround for LUN discovery -- 11.3 Configurations by implementation -- 11.3.1 Single HBA with single switch -- 11.3.2 Multiple HBAs with multiple switches -- 11.4 Configurations by function.

11.4.1 Independent VMFS volumes -- 11.4.2 Public VMFS volumes -- 11.4.3 Clustering -- 11.5 Zoning options -- 11.6 BladeCenter specifics -- 11.6.1 The configuration tested in this redbook -- Chapter 12. Installing VMware ESX Server -- 12.1 Assumptions and requirements -- 12.2 HBA configuration -- 12.3 Fibre switch configuration -- 12.3.1 Single path -- 12.3.2 Dual path: crossover -- 12.3.3 Zoning the Qlogic FCSM of a BladeCenter -- 12.3.4 Considerations for attaching multiple hosts -- 12.4 FAStT NVSRAM settings -- 12.5 LUN configuration and storage partitioning -- 12.5.1 Configurations without LUN sharing -- 12.5.2 Configurations with LUN sharing -- 12.6 Verifying the storage setup -- 12.7 ESX Server installation -- 12.7.1 Text mode installation of ESX Server (BladeCenter without USB mouse) -- 12.7.2 Installation of ESX using the Graphical Installer -- 12.8 Configuring the ESX Server swap file -- 12.8.1 Swap file: required steps for blade servers with IDE drives -- 12.8.2 Creating and activating the swap file -- 12.9 Configuring the virtual network -- 12.9.1 Configuring the network for all systems except HS20 blade servers -- 12.9.2 Configuring the virtual network on HS20 blade servers -- 12.10 ESX Server advanced settings and Qlogic parameters -- 12.10.1 ESX Server advanced settings -- 12.10.2 Adjust Qlogic driver parameters -- 12.11 Planning disk resources and creating VMFS partitions -- 12.11.1 Considerations and guidelines -- 12.11.2 Creating VMFS partitions -- 12.12 Creating virtual machines -- 12.12.1 Creating the virtual disk resources -- 12.12.2 Modifying the disk resources as shared drives for clustering -- 12.13 Guest OS specific settings and remarks -- 12.13.1 Clustered Windows guest OS settings -- 12.13.2 Installing MSCS 2003 on a hybrid cluster -- Chapter 13. Redundancy by configuration -- 13.1 Single path configuration.

13.2 Dual path redundant configuration -- Related publications -- IBM Redbooks -- Other publications -- Online resources -- How to get IBM Redbooks -- Help from IBM -- Index -- Back cover.