 | Level: Intermediate Barry Kadleck (kadlecb@us.ibm.com), Project Leader, IBM
24 Feb 2004 With applications and data consuming growing amounts of space, and storage administrative staff spends an increasing amount of time allocating new storage. Tivoli Storage Resource Manager and ESS deliver self-optimizing capabilities with their LUN provisioning capabilities, which can extend file systems and provision LUNs as new storage is needed. The intent with this automation in place, is to spend less time allocating storage and more time actively managing storage. This tutorial describes the automation options offered by ESS and IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager.
Prerequisites
To get the most from this tutorial, it is recommended that you have some experience with configuring ESS machines for Logical unit (LUN) provisioning.
System requirements
To complete the steps in this tutorial, you should install IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager.
Duration
Under one hour
Formats html, pdf
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