IBM DS8000 and Transparent Cloud Tiering by Reinhardt, Andreas -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Part 1 Introduction to TCT and Cloud Chapter 1. Storage Tiering History and the Value of TCT

1.1 Storage tiers 1.2 Hardware layers overview 1.3 Software layers 1.4 DFSMShsm behavior without TCT 1.5 Introducing TCT

Chapter 2. Cloud Overview

2.1 What defines cloud in the context of TCT? 2.2 Compute cloud versus storage cloud 2.3 Types of storage 2.4 Cloud Storage delivery models 2.5 Object Storage hierarchy

2.5.1 Storage cloud hierarchy 2.5.2 Metadata

Chapter 3. Transparent cloud tiering

3.1 Transparent Cloud Tiering overview 3.2 Transparent Cloud Tiering data flow

3.2.1 DS8000 cloud connection 3.2.2 DFSMS cloud connection

3.3 Storing and retrieving data using DFSMS 3.4 Transparent cloud tiering and disaster recovery 3.5 Transparent cloud tiering and DS8000 Copy Services

3.5.1 IBM FlashCopy 3.5.2 Metro Mirror 3.5.3 Metro Mirror with HyperSwap 3.5.4 Global Mirror 3.5.5 Multisite data replication

3.6 Transparent Clout Tiering encryption 3.7 Selecting data to store in a cloud

Part 2 Cloud setup and use Chapter 4. Requirements

4.1 Ethernet connections on DS8000 4.2 z/OS Level 4.3 DS8000 Release Level 4.4 Authentication information

4.4.1 Endpoint 4.4.2 Cloud credentials 4.4.3 Certificates (if using SSL/TLS)

4.5 TLS/SSL considerations

4.5.1 External CA versus self-signed certificates with DS8000 and DFSMS/RACF

Chapter 5. Configuring the DS8000 for TCT

5.1 Configuring the IBM DS8000 for TCT

5.1.1 Ethernet configuration 5.1.2 Cloud configuration

5.2 Maintaining the cloud server configuration

5.2.1 Listing a cloud server configuration 5.2.2 Updating or removing a cloud server configuration

5.3 Prepare the DS8000 as cloud proxy

5.3.1 Configure a DS8000 user for REST API proxy 5.3.2 External CA versus self-signed certificates and REST API Proxy

Chapter 6. Configuring DFSMS for TCT

6.1 DFSMS connections to cloud 6.2 Adding digital certificates to RACF

6.2.1 Uploading the certificate files to the z/OS host 6.2.2 Adding external CA certificates to RACF 6.2.3 Adding self-signed certificates to RACF

6.3 Controlling access to the Cloud features

6.3.1 Controlling access to DFSMSdss 6.3.2 Controlling access to DFSMShsm

6.4 Creating a DFSMS cloud connection using ISMF

6.4.1 Defining a cloud connection for S3, IBMCOS, or TS7700 cloud targets 6.4.2 Defining a cloud connection for a SWIFT cloud object storage target 6.4.3 Activating the Storage Management Subsystem configuration

6.5 Configuration of DFSMShsm for TCT

Part 3 Operation and Usage Chapter 7. DFSMShsm

7.1 Cloud use overview 7.2 Cloud container management 7.3 Object management

7.3.1 Migration 7.3.2 Recall

7.4 Fast Subsequent Migration 7.5 Migration update and considerations

7.5.1 Command-driven migration 7.5.2 Automatic migration 7.5.3 CPU utilization considerations

7.6 Recall considerations 7.7 LIST command updates 7.8 Audit 7.9 REPORT command

Chapter 8. Using automatic migration

8.1 SMS support for automatic migration

8.1.1 Management Class updates

8.2 Storage Group affinity enhancements 8.3 Space management functions

Chapter 9. Operational integration and reporting considerations

9.1 Pre-implementation reporting 9.2 Operational monitoring

9.2.1 Monitoring cloud setting changes 9.2.2 Monitoring migration activities 9.2.3 Monitoring reconnections 9.2.4 Other messages to consider

9.3 Operational reporting

9.3.1 Building reports 9.3.2 DCOLLECT reports

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