IntelliMagic White Papers
IntelliMagic has a number of white papers available to help you with Storage Performance Management issues, and with Copy Services planning and implementation.
To access a copy of any of these white papers, please click on the title.
The Power of Proactive Storage Performance Management (17 pages)
This paper provides an overview of the processes, skills, challenges, and benefits of Storage Performance Management (SPM) with the goal of addressing the importance of SPM and how to overcome the most common reasons that prevent companies from implementing the processes consistently. This content is useful for enterprise storage in both distributed and mainframe environments.
Storage Performance Management Technical Primer (17 pages)
The purpose of this paper is to introduce storage administrators, storage architects, and storage managers to the performance analysis of enterprise disk storage. This paper provides an overview of storage system architecture, the components and measurements for the major components in the storage system, and an overview of measurement considerations. This content is useful for enterprise storage in both distributed systems and mainframe environments.
Improving z/OS Storage Performance Efficiency (14 pages)
This paper explains how IntelliMagic Storage Performance Management (SPM) suite is able to solve efficiency problems. First, it enables you to easily see and understand the available performance capacity and to receive warnings
before critical thresholds are reached. Secondly, through better balance it can significantly increase the available performance capacity while at the same time decreasing the risk of performance issues.
Storage Performance Analysis for an IBM San Volume Controller (SVC) (27 pages)
The purpose of this paper is to provide a practical guide for conducting performance analysis on an IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC). This paper will discuss the end-to-end I/O path, the SVC architecture, and the SVC key measurements. In addition, it will provide guidance in diagnosing and resolving performance issues using IntelliMagic products such as IntelliMagic Vision and IntelliMagic Direction.
Storage Performance Analysis for IBM DS8000 (27 pages)
The purpose of this paper is to provide a practical guide to conducting performance analysis on an IBM DS8000 series storage system. This paper will discuss the I/O path from the server to the storage, the IBM DS8000 storage architecture, and key measurements for the IBM DS8000 series storage systems. In addition, it will provide guidance in diagnosing and resolving performance issues using IntelliMagic Vision.
Storage Performance Analysis for IBM DS4000 and DS5000 Series (18 pages)
The purpose of this paper is to provide a practical guide to conducting performance analysis on IBM DS4000 and DS5000 storage systems. This paper discusses the storage architecture and key measurements of the IBM DS4000 and DS5000 storage systems. In addition, it provides guidance in diagnosing and resolving performance issues
SMI-S for Data Collection of Storage Performance Metrics (14 pages)
This paper examines the fundamentals of SMI-S by providing a defintion of SMI-S, an overview of components and functionality, and a description of information collected. This content is most applicable to enterprise storage in non-mainframe environments.
Green Storage: Reduce Power not Performance (15 pages)
This white paper provides techniques to configure the disk drives in your storage system such that they use the least amount of power while still providing good performance. Minimizing power usage is not so much about finding disk drives with a lower power usage, but rather about selecting a disk drive configuration that closely matches your workload needs.
The key objective in selecting disk drives is to find a configuration that meets your performance needs at the lowest drive count, i.e. with the highest drive capacity possible without the drives getting too busy. It is important to realize that this is not only a matter of selecting a drive type, but that the selection of the most suitable RAID type is equally important as is discussed in this white paper.
Planning and Monitoring EMC SRDF/A Configurations Using IntelliMagic (26 pages)
This white paper describes how EMC's Symmetrix Remote Data Facility / Asynchronous (SRDF/A) product operates, and how IntelliMagic Vision can be used to plan and monitor activity and bandwidth for a remote data mirroring configuration based on SRDF/A.
Planning and Monitoring z/OS Global Mirror (XRC) (34 pages)
The Resource Management Facility (RMF) in z/OS records a wealth of statistics reflecting the usage of Disk Subsystems. These statistics can be used effectively to plan and monitor a z/OS Global Mirror configuration, provided one has access to a tool such as IntelliMagic Vision that can consolidate the RMF data by disk subsystem, aggregate statistics by user-defined groups of volumes and compute supplemental information, such as Write Megabytes.
IntelliMagic Vision can drastically improve disk subsystem performance visibility and with that make the performance analyst more effective in planning and monitoring a z/OS Global Mirror configuration. IntelliMagic Vision includes specialized XRC reports on SDM's and Readers, for example, and can also read GEOXPARM files.
Using IntelliMagic Vision to Plan and Monitor IBM Global Mirror (21 pages)
The Global Mirror white paper describes how Global Mirror works, and discusses in particular the trade-offs between bandwidth, recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time objective (RTO). The paper also explains in detail how IntelliMagic Vision can be used to assist in the planning and monitoring process.
