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IBM System Storage™ Digital Media Storage Solution Installation Guide Selling and Deploying DS3000/DS4000/DS5000 in Mac, Linux, Windows Client, and StorNext Environments Con Rice Modular Storage Product Specialist LSI Corporation 12007 Sunrise Valley Drive, Suite 325 Reston, VA20191 Cell: 703-867-0012 Tel: 703-262-5418 e-mail: con.
Digital Media Storage Soluti on Installation Guide 2 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. Contents INTRODUC TION ..................................................................................................................
Digital Media Storage Soluti on Installation Guide 3 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. StorNext Controlled SA N File Sy stem .............................................................................. 20 Cooperation Effort Betw een Apple and Q uantum .
Digital Media Storage Soluti on Installation Guide 4 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. INTRODUCTION This paper outlines support of Windows Client (XP, Vista, and Windows 7), Linux (RHEL and SUSE) and Mac (OS X 10.5 – 10.6.x) with IBM DS3000, DS4000, and DS5000 Storage Servers.
Digital Media Storage Soluti on Installation Guide 5 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. Mac, Windows and Linux Client Connectivity In recent years, the workflow requirements of t.
Digital Media Storage Soluti on Installation Guide 6 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. There are three components to the basic StorNext solution: Clients, Meta Data Controllers (MDCs), and the storage.
Digital Media Storage Soluti on Installation Guide 7 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. • FC-81EN, Single Port Windows Servers ATTO (future support), see current compatibility .
Digital Media Storage Soluti on Installation Guide 8 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. Note: A customer seeking connection that has already deployed Apple Xsan MDC will need to transition to a Quantum StorNext MDC running either on Linux or Windows Server.
Digital Media Storage Soluti on Installation Guide 9 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. • Must use supported ATTO HBA and MultiPath Director driver purchased from ATTO or ATTO .
Digital Media Storage Soluti on Installation Guide 10 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. DS3400 DS3500 DS3500 Turbo DS5020 DS5100 base performance DS5300 Burst I/O rate cache rea.
Digital Media Storage Soluti on Installation Guide 11 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. Sustained throughput disk read (MB/s) 925 2,000 4,000 1,600 1,600 6,400 Sustained through.
Digital Media Storage Soluti on Installation Guide 12 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. Solutions Apple Hardware Connect Only Apple Servers and/or clients with no shared filed a.
Digital Media Storage Soluti on Installation Guide 13 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. Hardware Connect Only Windows clients with no shared filed access • Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 • Using ATTO HBAs and ATTO MP Director • Without StorNext or Xsan support • This is basic host connectivity support.
Digital Media Storage Soluti on Installation Guide 14 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. Client, or mixed: Supported ATTO HBAs Linux SLES 10.2 x64 If clients are also Linux: supported HBA: QLogics, Emulex, If clients are MacOS, Windows Client, or mixed: Supported ATTO HBAs RDAC, MPP, or ATTO as appropriate Yes Linux RHEL 5.
Digital Media Storage Soluti on Installation Guide 15 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. Windows 2008 R2 x86, x64 Supported ATTO HBAs(future) MPIO/DSM, ATTO) Windows Windows 7 x8.
Digital Media Storage Soluti on Installation Guide 16 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. Storage Controller A Up to 8 All ports see all MDC and client ports Controller B Up to 8 .
Digital Media Storage Soluti on Installation Guide 17 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. SOLUTION INSTALLATION 1. Use a meshed fabric with each HBA zoned to see bo th controllers but controllers una ble to see each other.
Digital Media Storage Soluti on Installation Guide 18 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. 9. For clients, limit the number of defined paths to four. This gives you the redundancy you nee d while minimizing boot time. During boot, StorNext tries EVERY defined path.
Digital Media Storage Soluti on Installation Guide 19 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. 10. RAID 1 or 10 for Journal and Meta Data a. Multiple RAID 1 Groups would be pr eferable to a similarly size RAID 10 b. Placing Meta Data and Journal on a storage system separate from t he data is preferable.
Digital Media Storage So luti on Installation Guide 20 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. QUANTUM / APPLE JOINT PR ODUCT SUPPORT PROGRAM Quantum / Apple Joint Product Support Program Overview Quantum and Apple have agreed to a cooperative support relationship for Quantum’s StorNext and Apple’s Xsan products.
Digital Media Storage Soluti on Installation Guide 21 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. MIGRATING FROM XSAN M DC TO STORNEXT MDC Q.
Digital Media Storage So luti on Installation Guide 22 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. ATTO Technology Inc. ATTO Technology, Inc.
Digital Media Storage Soluti on Installation Guide 23 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. ATTO Celerity 8Gb Fibre Channel HBAs Product Features Celerity HBAs FC84EN FC82EN FC81EN Fibre Channel Ports 4 2 1 Maximum Data Rate 8Gb 8Gb 8Gb Maximum Transfer Rate (Full Duplex ) 6.
Digital Media Storage Soluti on Installation Guide 24 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. APPENDIX A: EXAMPLE CONFIGURATIONS Large Heterogeneous St orNext configuration Example 1.Drawing dep icts large and expandab le SAN with heter ogeneous client conn ectivity.
Digital Media Storage Soluti on Installation Guide 25 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. Detailed explanation of example 1. Example Large StorNext configuration showing DS5300’s with Fibre Channel and/or SAT A disk for Data and a separate DS5020 for Meta Data and Journal.
Digital Media Storage Soluti on Installation Guide 26 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. Mid to large -sized “MAC Homo genous”StorN ext configuration Example 2. In this example d iagram Linux MDC Servers ar e shown, but only MAC Xsan Clients are sho wn.
Digital Media Storage Soluti on Installation Guide 27 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. Mid-sized “MAC Homoge nous”StorN ext configuration Example 4. In this example d iagram Linux MDC Servers ar e shown, but only MAC Xsan Clients are sho wn.
Digital Media Storage Soluti on Installation Guide 28 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. Small “MAC Homogenous”StorNe xt c onfi guration Example 5. In this example d iagram Linux MDC Servers ar e shown, but only MAC Xsan Clients are sho wn.
Digital Media Storage Soluti on Installation Guide 29 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. Mid to large -sized Heteroge neous StorNe xt configuration Example 6. Drawing depicts mid to larg e siz e and expandab le SAN with heterogeneous client connectivit y.
Digital Media Storage Soluti on Installation Guide 30 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. APPENDIX B: ATTO H BA AND MULTIPATH DIRECTOR INSTALLATION AND TROUBLESHOOTING MANUAL • Please refer to ATTO Celerity MultiPath Director Manual for installation and troubleshooting.
Digital Media Storage Soluti on Installation Guide 31 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. Additional Reference Links • IBM DS Series Portal: www.ibmdsseries.com • ATTO Technology, Inc: www.attotech.com/solutions/ibm • Quantum StorNext: www.
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