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- Configuring IBM System Storage DS4000 Series for Oracle Database Applications
- This paper focuses on Oracle data layout on AIX for the IBM System Storage DS4000 series. The DS4000 series has gained widespread acceptance in the marketplace. This is due in part to its industry leading performance, value, flexibility, and very attractive Total Cost of Ownership TCO. However, as with all...
- Tags: Database, Oracle Corp., I/O, Oracle Database, IBM Corp., DS4000 Series, Roi/Tco, Storage, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Hardware
- White papers 2007-10-22
- SQL Server 2005 With IBM System Storage DS8000 & DS4000: Best Practices Guide
- This paper provides design, configuration, and planning information for implementing Microsoft SQL Server 2005 with IBM System Storage arrays. It covers some of the new storage-related features of IBM System Storage arrays, and how they impact the decisions when one deploys and manages a large SQL Server 2005 environment. The...
- Tags: Microsoft SQL Server, Best Practice, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, IBM Corp., Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2007-10-30
- IBM TotalStorage DS4000 Storage Considerations for SAS 9 on the IBM eServer p590: Results and Findings of Disk Layout Testing
- This paper presents the storage findings and recommendations for SAS 9.1 with IBM TotalStorage DS4000 disk arrays formerly known as FAStT. IBM and SAS team members tested SAS 9.1 at the IBM Beaverton Test Labs. SAS ETL Test Suite 1.4 was used for the test workload generator. The test environment...
- Tags: Disk, IBM eServer, SAS Institute, IBM TotalStorage, IBM Corp., Utility Computing, Storage Management, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2005-09-22
- IBM System Storage DS4700 Disk Architecture for Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne
- This paper discusses the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne application storage performance and configuration characteristics as tested with an IBM System Storage DS4000 subsystem and an IBM System x server running the 64-bit Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database. The primary objective of this IBM Oracle International Competency Center benchmarking effort is to...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., J.D. Edwards & Co., IBM Corp., Performance Management, Storage, Servers, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware
- White papers 2007-03-01
- Miller Group Builds Centralised Backup Architecture on IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
- Miller Group, the UK's largest privately-owned house-building, property development and construction business, employs around 1,500 people at 26 offices across the UK, achieving a turnover of £1.2 billion in 2006. Dealing with a constant interchange of information between construction sites and headquarters, Miller Group depends on the availability of its...
- Tags: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, IBM Corp., Backups, Portals, Storage Management, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Linux, Storage, Open Source, Internet, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems
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- Using IBM System Storage N Series SnapDrive for Lotus Domino for Windows
- Because SnapDrive integrates with Microsoft Windows and IBM System Storage N series, it makes storage management easier and offers the high data availability that is required for IBM Lotus Domino environments. The combination of an IBM N series storage system and SnapDrive offers an enterprise-class solution for Lotus Domino. This...
- Tags: IBM Lotus Domino, IBM Corp., E-mail Servers, Microsoft Windows, Groupware, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Hardware
- White papers 2007-07-24
- Infrastructure Simplification With IBM System Storage N Series
- This paper discusses how the IBM System Storage N series storage system simplifies the storage infrastructure. The signs of complexity are everywhere in the modern data center. Firewalls, routers, servers, and multiple operating systems are just the beginning. Server environments, networks, and storage are typically silos of resources that are...
- Tags: Environment, IBM Corp., Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2006-08-01
- Storage Best Practices: SAS 9 With IBM System Storage, System p5, and System x: Considerations for Optimal Storage Layout
- This paper gives an overview of SAS specific I/O characteristics and provides IBM System Storage recommendations. The recommendations are specific to SAS 9 on AIX 5L or Windows O/S with members of the IBM System Storage DS4000, DS6000, and DS8000 family as noted in the document. SAS has many product...
- Tags: Storage, SAS Institute, Storage System, IBM Corp.
- White papers 2006-08-08
- IBM BladeCenter Booting JS21 From Fibre Network Attached Storage
- This paper demonstrates to the Storage Administrator audience how to prepare, configure, and boot the IBM BladeCenter using IBM Fibre Channel based storage solutions. The initial view of this paper describes how to configure the Blade Center Fibre Channel expansion adapter, provides a brief overview of the BladeCenter I/O module...
- Tags: NAS, IBM eServer BladeCenter, Network, IBM Corp., Blade Servers, Storage, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2006-07-01
- IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC): "A Building-Block Approach With DS4000 Storage"
- The IBM SVC SAN Volume Controller scales far beyond any single large storage subsystem, so an overall storage methodology should be employed to manage the storage at the virtual layer. A virtual storage strategy is unique to each install and is developed and deployed by understanding the IBM SAN Volume...
- Tags: IBM Corp., Storage Strategy, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-10-01
- IBM TSM for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Backup and Restore Solution
- IBM TSM Tivoli Storage Manager for SharePoint Server 2007 provides site, subsite, and item-level backup and restore granularity down to the single document level. Granular restore capability is the key to quicker restore times with SharePoint. When TSM is combined with a reliable, scalable disk subsystem like the IBM System...
- Tags: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, IBM Corp., Backups, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2008-04-24
- Technical Report: Exchange Server 2003 on IBM System Storage N Series
- This paper establishes best-practices guidelines for testing and validating IBM System Storage N series with Microsoft Exchange Server workloads. It provides detailed and easy to follow steps on how to use Jetstress - a Microsoft tool - to validate storage system configurations using customer requirements, the Microsoft ESRP (Exchange Solution...
- Tags: Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, IBM Corp., Storage, E-mail Servers, Groupware, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2007-10-29
- Comparison of the Performance of the DS4500 (FAStT900) and DS4400 (FAStT700) Storage Servers
- This paper provides the baseline performance of the IBM TotalStorage DS4500 Storage Server, which employs IBM DS4000 storage technology (formerly Fibre Array Storage Technology, i.e., FAStT). The purpose of this paper is to present the results obtained using the Iometer tool to measure the raw performance of the DS4500's RAID...
- Tags: Performance, Server, IBM TotalStorage, IBM Corp., Storage Server, DS4500, Performance Management, Storage, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware
- White papers 2004-09-01
- IBM System Storage N Series With MultiStore and SnapMover
- The storage system hardware is made up of CPUs, network cards, Fibre Channel controllers, power supplies, disk drives, and so forth. One can use System Storage N series with MultiStore software to effectively partition and dynamically assign a storage system's storage and networking resources to virtual storage systems to virtualize...
- Tags: Storage System, IBM Corp., Storage System Hardware, Storage, Storage Management, Hardware
- White papers 2007-08-22
- IBM System Storage N Series File System Design for an NFS File Server
- The IBM System Storage N series is specifically designed to be used as Network File System NFS file servers. The requirements for a file system operating in an NFS file server environment are different from those for a general purpose file system. The Write Anywhere File Layout WAFL is the...
- Tags: Network File System, File System, Storage, Server, File Server, IBM Corp., IBM System Storage N Series, Write Anywhere File Layout
- White papers 2006-02-08
- Thin Provisioning in an IBM SAN or IP SAN Enterprise Environment
- This paper describes how to provision storage efficiently with IBM System Storage N series in a Fibre Channel or iSCSI deployment. Storage efficiency has historically been extremely low because of the difficulty provisioning or changing provisioning to adapt to changing needs with classic storage array architectures. System Storage N series...
- Tags: Environment, IP SAN, SAN, Provisioning, IP, IBM Corp., Storage Efficiency, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-08-28
- Implementing Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS) and Windows 2000/2003 Boot From IBM DS4000 SAN With Blade Servers
- This paper illustrates the detailed configuration procedure necessary to implementing Microsoft Cluster Server MSCS and Windows 2000/2003 operating systems with IBM blade servers attached to the IBM DS4000 storage subsystem in a Boot from San environment. The Boot from SAN configuration for the HS20, HS21, LS21, LS41 and HS40 blades...
- Tags: Microsoft Cluster Server, Blade Server, Blade, SAN, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., HS40 Blade, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2007-06-14
- Technical Report: Symantec Enterprise Vault and IBM System Storage N Series
- In addition to e-mail archival, file-system archival offers a new feature to archive needed files and save storage space. Symantec Enterprise Vault has a compelling product to meet these challenges and improve the customer experience. This paper describes the method to integrate Symantec Enterprise Vault with an IBM System Storage...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., Storage, IBM Corp., Symantec Enterprise Vault, Security
- White papers 2007-10-10
- IBM System Storage N Series: An iSCSI Performance Overview
- The iSCSI protocol has enabled information technology organizations to lower the cost of their Storage Area Network SAN deployments. Cost is of little concern if the solution does not perform to expectations. This paper examines some of the issues and options that are available with the IBM N series storage...
- Tags: iSCSI, IBM Corp., iSCSI Protocol, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Network Technology, Storage, Hardware, Networking
- White papers 2007-04-12
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