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.
SMI-S for Data Collection (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.
Storage Performance Management (17 pages)
This paper examines the fundamentals of storage performance management with the goal of addressing the three primary reasons why many organizations apply storage performance management processes inconsistently.
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.
