Results per page:
Quick-start Guide to Configuring VMware Virtual Volumes for Systems Powered by IBM Spectrum Virtualize
Storage Solutions
Redpaper, published 28 Jan 2016
This IBM® Redpaper™ publication provides a quick, yet comprehensive, guide to configuring Virtual Volumes (VVols) for systems powered by IBM Spectrum™ Virtualize. You are guided through the configuration of the storage system, IBM Spectrum Control™ Base Edition, and the VMware vSphere Web Client. These three components are key to enabling the Virtual Volumes management framework.
Optimize your investments with IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center and IBM SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center
Storage Software
Solution Guide, published 5 Nov 2014, last updated 8 Jun 2015
IBM® SmartCloud® Virtual Storage Center V5.2 enables easy migration to agile, cloud-based storage environments. This solution comprises the advanced functions available in IBM Tivoli® Storage Productivity Center, IBM System Storage® SAN Volume Controller, and IBM Tivoli FlashCopy® Manager, as well as the advanced analytics provided by the IBM SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center V5.2 license. By integrating these separate products, Virtual Storage Center provides a combined storage virtualization platform and storage management solution. It provides more room for data growth and simplifies the ... [more]
Harnessing the Power of ProtecTIER and Tivoli Storage Manager
Storage Software
Redbooks, published 27 Jun 2014, last updated 19 Aug 2014
This IBM® Redbooks® publication will help you install, tailor, and configure IBM ProtecTIER® products with IBM Tivoli® Storage Manager to harness the performance and the power of the two products working together as a data protection solution. This book goes beyond the preferred practices of each product and provides in-depth explanations of each of the items that are configurable, and the underlying reasons behind the suggestions. This book provides enough detailed information to allow an administrator to make the correct choices about which methods to use when implementing both products to ... [more]
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager as a Data Protection Solution
Storage Software
Redbooks, published 15 Aug 2014
When you hear IBM® Tivoli® Storage Manager, the first thing that you typically think of is data backup. Tivoli Storage Manager is the premier storage management solution for mixed platform environments. Businesses face a tidal wave of information and data that seems to increase daily. The ability to successfully and efficiently manage information and data has become imperative. The Tivoli Storage Manager family of products helps businesses successfully gain better control and efficiently manage the information tidal wave through significant enhancements in multiple facets of data protection. ... [more]
Securing IBM HyperSwap and IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication Communication Using AT-TLS
Storage Software
Redpaper, published 22 Jul 2014
IBM® Tivoli® Storage Productivity Center for Replication V5.2 can establish a connection to an IBM z/OS® server from a Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication distributed installation or from another z/OS installation that can reside outside the sysplex that is being managed. This IBM Redpaper™ publication describes the steps to connect to, configure, and manage z/OS IBM HyperSwap® from Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication V5.2. This paper helps you configure IBM HyperSwap to communicate with IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication securely through ... [more]
Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments: Data Protection for VMware Solution Design Considerations
Storage Software
Solution Guide, published 14 May 2014
IBM® Tivoli® Storage Manager for Virtual Environments (referred to as Data Protection for VMware) provides a comprehensive solution for protecting virtual machines (VMs). Data Protection for VMware eliminates the impact of running back-ups on a VM by offloading backup workloads from a VMware ESX or ESXi-based host to a vStorage backup server. It works with the Tivoli Storage Manager backup-archive client (installed on the vStorage backup server) to complete full, incremental, and incremental forever snapshots of VMs. The intent of this IBM Redbooks® Solution Guide is to help with key ... [more]
IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center V5.1 Technical Guide
Storage Software
Redbooks, published 8 Apr 2014
IBM® Tivoli® Storage Productivity Center V5.1 products offer storage infrastructure management that helps optimize storage management by centralizing, simplifying, automating, and optimizing storage tasks associated with storage systems, data disaster recovery, storage networks, and capacity management. IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center V5.1 products include:
- IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center V5.1
- IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Select Edition V5.1
Tivoli Storage Productivity Center V5.1 is designed to provide device management capabilities, such ... [more]
Managing IBM z/OS HyperSwap from IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication for Open Systems
Storage Software
Solution Guide, published 18 Dec 2013
This IBM® Redbooks® Solution Guide walks you through the process of setting up and using the solution of managing an IBM z/OS® HyperSwap® session from IBM Tivoli® Storage for Productivity Center for Replication for Open Systems.
Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments - Data Protection for VMware Deployment Guide
Storage Software
Redpaper, published 25 Nov 2013
This IBM® Redpaper™ publication helps you to install, tailor, configure, and use IBM Tivoli® Storage Manager for Virtual Environments - Data Protection for VMware. The features of Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments - Data Protection for VMware are described. Scenarios are provided for implementation of Tivoli Storage Manager Virtual Environment to protect virtual machines in several environments. This publication includes answers to common implementation errors and questions you might have that are related to the implementation of Data Protection for ... [more]
VSAM Demystified
Storage Software
Redbooks, published 5 Mar 2013, last updated 9 Jul 2013
Virtual Storage Access Method (VSAM) is one of the access methods used to process data. Many of us have used VSAM and work with VSAM data sets daily, but exactly how it works and why we use it instead of another access method is a mystery. This book helps to demystify VSAM and gives you the information necessary to understand, evaluate, and use VSAM properly. This book also builds upon the subject of Record Level Sharing and DFSMStvs. It clarifies VSAM functions for application programmers who work with VSAM. The practical, straightforward approach should dispel much of the complexity ... [more]
The above is a list of IBM Redbooks and Redpapers on Storage Software, showing most recently published first. IBM Redbooks publications are available for download in PDF and EPUB formats and most are also available on Google Play Books and Apple Books.
RSS Feeds for IBM Storage Software
IBM Redbooks want technical practitioners to be recognized for their newly gained knowledge, experience and accomplishments.
Become an IBM certified Redbooks author