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Blog
How to Create a Network Operations Center (NOC) for Your SAN Infrastructure
Brett Allison - 1 July 2019 How do you make Enterprise SAN performance, capacity and availability approachable for the Operations teams? You start by simplifying complex relationships between the VMware guests, associated fabric connections and external storage and summarizing the overall health into a few simple to understand dashboards. You…
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Customer Experience
IntelliMagic Vision gives Healthy Storage to Large Health Care Insurer
A leading national health care solutions provider needed an effective solution to help them assure the health of their large disk storage environment. Using IntelliMagic Vision, they moved from reactive fire-fighting of availability issues to proactively preventing performance problems. The health insurance company offers a variety of insurance products to…
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Video
IntelliMagic Vision Web Reporter Usage Tips
IntelliMagic consultant, Dennis Moore covers some useful tips for the IntelliMagic Vision Web Reporter. He demonstrates how to customize your personal dashboard, save, export, and share reports with your peers, quickly navigate the reporter and use the compare dates tool to easily identify workload differences. Related Resources Video Improve…
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Blog
Troubleshooting Physical and Virtual Host Issues After a Storage Outage
Brett Allison - 1 July 2019 SAN administrators have a lot on their hands when managing their storage environment, and an outage or disruption to the VMware ESX host, SAN Fabric or storage array certainly doesn’t help. Whether the downtime is an unexpected hardware failure or a scheduled firmware upgrade…
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Blog
HPE 3PAR Performance Best Practices Guide
Tim Chilton - 1 July 2019 Getting the best performance and resilience from your HPE 3PAR storage array doesn’t have to be difficult. You must lay the proper foundation, follow best practices when building on that foundation, monitor your progress, and correct course as necessary. This blog will show you…
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Cheryl Watson's Tuning Letter
How to Achieve Higher Availability and Lower Performance Costs with Asynchronous Db2 Lock Structure Duplexing
Performance Benefits of Asynchronous Duplexing IBM introduced Asynchronous duplexing for the Db2 Coupling Facility (CF) lock structure back in 2016. It took some time for sites to get positioned with the combination of software (z/OS 2.2, Db2 V12) and hardware (z13 CFs) prerequisites. And considering the business-critical role the Db2…
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Blog
Storage Management Initiative (SMI) and the Block Services Performance (BSP) sub-profile: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – Part 3 “The Ugly”
Brett Allison - 1 July 2019 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – Part 3 “The Ugly” In the first part of this three-part blog I introduced the SMI project and provided some reasons why it is a good thing. In the second installment I discussed some of the challenges with SMI project,…
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Blog
RLS Catalog Justification
Dave Heggen - 1 July 2019 Serialization of disk resources (data sets) is a necessary evil in any multi-tasking, multi-user, multi-system environment, so the less time you spend performing serialization, the better. Over the decades, z/OS serialization has gotten more refined. Starting with Volume Reserve, moving to Systems Enqueue and…
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Blog
4 Benefits of Implementing TS7700’s New Microcode Compression
Merle Sadler - 1 July 2019 Have you ever turned down free stuff? In my experience, the old saying, “Nothing in this world is free” is true more often than not. I’ve turned down enough “free (when you sit through our two-hour seminar on how to invest your money) dinners”…
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Webinar
Implementing Asynchronous Duplexing in a Production Db2 Lock Structure – User Experience
Performance Impacts of Asynchronous Duplexing for Db2 Lock Structure Get Notified of Upcoming Webinars In this SHARE User Experience session, Todd Havekost presents on a detailed before-and-after analysis of the performance and operational impacts of implementing asynchronous duplexing for the Db2 lock structure in a high volume production Db2…