DS8300 实施截图及方案（很详细）

最近在玩儿DS8300，公司整了台测试机。学习一下。实施流程：

参见IBM DS8000架构和部署红皮书

Configuration flow

The following list shows the tasks that need to be done when configuring storage in the

DS8700 or DS8800. Although we have numbered them, the order of the tasks does not need

to be exactly as shown here, some of the individual tasks can be done in a different order.

Follow these steps:

1. Install license keys: Activate the license keys for the storage unit.

2. Create arrays: Configure the installed disk drives as either RAID 5, RAID 6, or RAID 10

arrays.

3. Create ranks: Assign each array to either a fixed block (FB) rank or a count key data

(CKD) rank.

4. Create Extent Pools: Define Extent Pools, associate each one with either Server 0 or

Server 1, and assign at least one rank to each Extent Pool. If you want to take advantage

of Storage Pool Striping, you must assign multiple ranks to an Extent Pool. With current

versions of the DS GUI, you can start directly with the creation of Extent Pools (arrays and

ranks will be automatically and implicitly defined).

5. Create a repository for Space Efficient volumes.

6. Configure I/O ports: Define the type of the Fibre Channel/FICON ports. The port type can

be either Switched Fabric, Arbitrated Loop, or FICON.

7. Create volume groups for open systems: Create volume groups where FB volumes will be

assigned.

8. Create host connections for open systems: Define open systems hosts and their Fibre

Channel (FC) host bus adapter (HBA) worldwide port names. Assign volume groups to the

host connections.

9. Create open systems volumes: Create striped open systems FB volumes and assign them

to one or more volume groups.

10.Create System z logical control units (LCUs): Define their type and other attributes, such

as subsystem identifiers (SSIDs).

11.Create striped System z volumes: Create System z CKD base volumes and Parallel

Access Volume (PAV) aliases for them.