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Summary of Best Practices for Storage Area Networks

Notices:

This white paper reflects the IBM SAN Central support team concerns from customer

feedback about the lack of a single source of best practices related to storage area

networks (SANs) and storage systems. It has been produced and reviewed by

members of numerous IBM support teams and is presented “As-Is”.

The use of this information or the implementation of these techniques is a customer

responsibility and depends on the customer’s ability to evaluate and integrate them into

the customer’s operational environment. While each item may have been reviewed by

IBM for accuracy in a specific situation, there is no guarantee that the same or similar

results will be obtained elsewhere. Customers attempting to adapt these techniques to

their own environments do so at their own risk.

IBM may not officially support techniques mentioned in this document. For questions

regarding officially supported techniques, please refer to the product documentation,

announcement letters or contact the IBM Support Line at 1-800-IBM-SERV.

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