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Summary of Best Practices for Storage Area Networks
Table of Contents
1 Introduction .................................................................................................................. 5
2 Zoning .......................................................................................................................... 6
3 Fabric and Switch ......................................................................................................... 9
4 Disk Storage ............................................................................................................... 14
4.1 General topics ...................................................................................................... 14
4.2 DS8000 ................................................................................................................ 15
4.3 XIV ....................................................................................................................... 18
4.4 DS3000, DS4000 and DS5000 Storage Systems ................................................ 20
4.5 SVC...................................................................................................................... 21
5 Cable Plant ................................................................................................................. 25
6 High Availability .......................................................................................................... 28
7 Servers ....................................................................................................................... 29
8 Change Management ................................................................................................. 30
9 Monitoring .................................................................................................................. 39
9.1 Performance and Metrics ..................................................................................... 40
9.2 Tools .................................................................................................................... 42
10 Solution-centric......................................................................................................... 43
10.1 Security .............................................................................................................. 43
10.2 Consistent clock settings .................................................................................... 46
10.3 Interoperability ................................................................................................... 46
10.4 Separation of Production and Test Segments .................................................... 48
Appendix A - References and additional materials ........................................................ 49