Best practices

Refer to the general guidance and best practices that are described in the following sections.

Handling datastores
For best performance of VMware datastores:
Handling ESXi hosts that use XIV volumes
For the best performance of ESXi hosts that use XIV volumes, define all ESXi hosts within a cluster as cluster hosts on the XIV® storage system as well.
Distributing volumes evenly on DS8000 systems
DS8000® storage systems have two rank groups, 0 and 1, each managed by a single server. In addition, each DS8000 extent pool is based on one rank group.
Setting the multipath policy for DS8000 and Storwize Family systems
When using the IBM® Storage Enhancements for VMware vSphere Web Client, the recommended multipath policy for DS8000 and Storwize® Family (including SAN Volume Controller) storage systems is Round Robin.
Working with multiple storage systems
The IBM Spectrum Control Base Edition, running on RHEL 6.3–6.6 64-bit operating systems, utilizes CPU and memory resources in accordance with the amount of objects monitored by the vROps server.
Upgrading or installing Spectrum Control Base with vSphere failover
Spectrum Control Base can be upgraded or installed together with vSphere failover procedure.
Creating a VVol-enabled service
The IBM Spectrum Control Base Edition introduces a comprehensive storage virtualization support, using VMware virtual volume (VVol) technology.
Configuring an LDAP user for a managed domain
To ensure that proper LDAP authentication is used in a storage system managed domain, you must create a user with the storage integration administrator role on the Active Directory server.
Restoring VVol-based virtual machines
You can restore virtual machines deployed on virtual volumes in case of Spectrum Control Base failure.

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