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IBM System Storage™ Digital Media Storage Solution Installation Guide Selling and Deployin g DS3000/DS400 0/DS5000 in Apple and StorNext E nvironmen ts Con Rice Modular Storage Prod uct Specialist LSI Corporation 12007 Sunrise Valle y Drive, Su ite 325 Reston, VA 20191 Cell: 703-867-00 12 Tel: 703 -262-5 418 e-mail: con.
Digital Media Storage Solution Installation Guide 2 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. Contents INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................................... 4 File Sharing Environments .
Digital Media Storage Solution Installation Guide 3 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. Closing a Case ................................................................................................................. 16 MIGRATING FROM XSAN MDC TO STORNEXT MDC .
Digital Media Storage Solution Installation Guide 4 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. INTRODUC TION There has long been a desire to support Apple servers and work station s with IBM DS series storage, and now we ha ve that capability.
Digital Media Storage Solution Installation Guide 5 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. THREE CU RRENT SOLUTIONS A pple Homogenous A pple X san Clients with Linux MDC (Meta Data C.
Digital Media Storage Solution Installation Guide 6 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. Heterogeneous A pple X san Clients, Linux StorNext Clients, Windows Clients (June) and Linu.
Digital Media Storage Solution Installation Guide 7 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. SAN Architecture must meet RPQ criteria • Limit number of paths for Xsan/StorNext clients.
Digital Media Storage Solution Installation Guide 8 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. PLA NNED SUPPORT ROLL OUT There are very specific capabilities that are being added and they are tied to specific hardw are, software, and driver availability.
Digital Media Storage Solution Installation Guide 9 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. Linux Homogenous Linux StorNext Clients with Linux MDC 3. Multiple Linux Host Client connected to DS3000/DS4000/DS5000 Storage (NOW) a. RHEL/SLES using StorNext Client software i.
Digital Media Storage Solution Installation Guide 10 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. Heterogeneous A pple X san Clients, Linux StorNext Clients, Windows Clients (June) and Linux MDC 4. Mixed Host Apple and Linux Client connected to DS3000/DS4000/DS5000 Storage (NO W ) a.
Digital Media Storage Solution Installation Guide 11 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. Planned Future Enhancements A dditional Linux HB A choices and Windows Server 200x Meta data Controller 7. Expand RHEL/SLES connectivity choices (Planned) a.
Digital Media Storage Solution Installation Guide 12 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. SOLUTION REST RICTIONS A ND RECO MMENDAT IONS There are several important aspects to the configuring of the SAN that must be understoo d.
Digital Media Storage Solution Installation Guide 13 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. RECOMMENDED RA ID CONFIGURA TIONS RAID level RAID Array size Segment size Disk type Journa.
Digital Media Storage Solution Installation Guide 14 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. SOLUTION INSTA LLA TION 1. Use a mes hed fabric with each HBA zoned to see both controllers but contro llers unable to see each other. 2. Use RDAC or MPIO f ailover drivers as appro priate for your opera ting system s (ATTO for Apple).
Digital Media Storage Solution Installation Guide 15 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. 10. RAID 1 or 10 for J ournal and Meta Data a. Multiple RAID 1 Grou ps would be pref erable to a sim ilarly size RAID 10 b. Placing Meta Data a nd Journal on a st orage s ystem separate from the data is preferable.
Digital Media Storage Solution Installation Guide 16 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. QUA NTUM / A PPLE JOINT PRODU CT SUPPORT PROGRA M Quantum / Apple Joint Product Support Program Overview QUANTUM and Apple have agreed to a coop erative support relation ship for QUAN TUM‟s StorNext and Apple‟s Xsan products.
Digital Media Storage Solution Installation Guide 17 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. MIGRATING FROM XSAN MDC TO STORNEXT MDC Q.
Digital Media Storage Solution Installation Guide 18 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. ATTO A TTO Tec hnology, Inc. Value Proposition ATTO Technolog y is a leader in stor age and connecti vity solutions.
Digital Media Storage Solution Installation Guide 19 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. Product Features Celerity HBA‟s FC84EN FC82EN FC81EN Fibre Channel Ports 4 2 1 Maximum Data Rate 8Gb 8Gb 8Gb Maximum Transfer Rate (Full Duplex) 6.
Digital Media Storage Solution Installation Guide 20 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. Multipath ing is the abilit y to send I/O over m ultiple path s to the sam e LUN F.
Digital Media Storage Solution Installation Guide 21 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. A TTO OS X Configuration Tool Installation Do wnload the latest AT TO Config T ool from www .attotech.com /solutions/ibm Doub le-click the osx_app_configtool_328.
Digital Media Storage Solution Installation Guide 22 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. Viewing multipathing information Launch the ATT O Configuration Tool (doub le click the Configuration T ool link located in the Applications folder).
Digital Media Storage Solution Installation Guide 23 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. Path Status at Target Level The icon next to the d evice indicates the m ultipathing statu.
Digital Media Storage Solution Installation Guide 24 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. A dditional Pa th Information Status – the overall status of all paths. “Online” indicates all paths are connected. “Degraded” indicates on e or more paths are not conne cted.
Digital Media Storage Solution Installation Guide 25 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. Detailed Info Click on a path in the table to displa y detailed inform ation for the path in th e lower half of the window.
Digital Media Storage Solution Installation Guide 26 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. Detailed Statistics Inf o – Statistics (Sho wn in Average and T otal) – Read Rate / Da.
Digital Media Storage Solution Installation Guide 27 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. • Saving the Configurat ion • When done, select “F inish” • Navigate to the “P.
Digital Media Storage Solution Installation Guide 28 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. ***Changes to th e adapters NVR AM settings m ust be changed on e ach channel of the HBA f.
Digital Media Storage Solution Installation Guide 29 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. A PPENDIX: CONFIGURA TION SCRIPTS Setting TPGS On This script turns on TPGS for host type LNXCLVMW ARE (which is what we are using for OSX) .
Digital Media Storage Solution Installation Guide 30 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. A PPENDIX: EXA MPLE CONFIGURATIONS Large Heterogeneous StorNext configuration MetaData Eth.
Digital Media Storage Solution Installation Guide 31 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. Detailed explanat ion of exam ple 1. Example Large StorN ext 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 Solution Installation Guide 32 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. Mid to large - sized “MAC Homogenous” StorNext configuration Example 2 . In this example diagram Linux MDC Servers are shown, but only MAC Xsan Clients are shown.
Digital Media Storage Solution Installation Guide 33 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. Mid-sized “MAC Homogenous” StorNext configuration FibreChannel Switch FibreChannel Swi.
Digital Media Storage Solution Installation Guide 34 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. Mid- sized “MAC Homogenous” StorNext configuration FibreChannel Switch Zone 1 Controll.
Digital Media Storage Solution Installation Guide 35 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. Small “MAC Homogenous” StorNext configuration FibreChannel Switch Zone 1 Controller A .
Digital Media Storage Solution Installation Guide 36 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. Mid to large -sized Heterogeneous StorNext configuration MetaData Ethernet Network IBM DS5.
Digital Media Storage Solution Installation Guide 37 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. Additional Refe rence Links IBM DS Series Portal : www.ibmdsseries.com ATTO Technology, Inc: www.attotech.com/solutions/ibm Quantum StorNext: www.
Digital Media Storage Solution Installation Guide 38 © Copyright 2010, IBM Corporation. All rights reserved. Trademarks IBM, the IBM logo, and ibm.com are trademarks or registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States, other countries, or both.
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