Requirements
In addition to basic hardware and licensing requirements, certain provisioning strategies and implementations have additional requirements.
- Parent Topic
- Introduction to provisioning
There are several provisioning strategies that you can implement on your storage system to solve business requirements. Provisioning your storage system requires balancing the costs of the solution with the benefits that the solution provides.
- Introduction to provisioning
- Child Topics
- System requirements
- Shared memory requirements
- Cache management device requirements
Cache management devices are used to manage the cache associated with volumes (LDEVs). Each volume (LDEV) requires at least one cache management device. An LDEV that is not a DP-VOL requires one cache management device. For an LDEV that is a DP-VOL, you need to calculate the number of cache management devices required.
- System option modes for provisioning
To provide greater flexibility, the storage systems have additional operational parameters called system option modes (SOMs) that allow you to tailor the storage system to your unique operating requirements. The SOMs are set on the service processor (SVP) by your service representative. Review the SOMs for your storage system, and work with your service representative to ensure that the appropriate SOMs for your operational environment are configured on your storage system.