Two IBM Redbooks on FlashSystem and IBM Storage Ceph

IBM Corp. has published 2 Redbooks available on its website.

Supercharge Your IBM Storage FlashSystem: Performance Tips and Tricks for:

Optimize FlashSystem performance and maximize the value of storage investment.
Diagnose performance-related problems on FlashSystem.
Expand your knowledge of FlashSystem performance tuning.
Enhance the performance of particular workloads on FlashSystem.

“This book offers a practical guide to maximizing IBM Storage FlashSystem performance, providing practical techniques, best practices, and real-world examples to help you fine-tune your environment and achieve the speed and efficiency your organization demands.“ said IBM Redbooks team.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1. IBM Storage FlashSystem performance fundamentals
Chapter 2. Workload specific tuning
Chapter 3. Performance optimization for IBM FlashSystem storage tiers and arrays
Chapter 4 Performance considerations for volumes
Chapter 5. Networking and multipathing optimization
Chapter 6. Performance monitoring and analysis
Chapter 7. Isolate performance issues using IBM Storage Insights case study
Chapter 8. Pauseless snapshots case study
Appendix A. Workload migration performance considerations

Unlocking Data Insights and AI: IBM Storage Ceph as a Data Lakehouse Platform for IBM watsonx.data and Beyond

“This practical book starts with a foundational overview of modern data lake architecture. Then, it explores how IBM Storage Ceph’s storage and IBM watsonx.data’s analytics capabilities combine to create a powerful data and AI platform for unlocking valuable insights from data. Finally, the book dives deep into a real-world customer scenario using an S3 data lake.“ said IBM Redbooks team.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. The modern data lake architecture
Chapter 3. Building a scalable data lake with Ceph Object Storage
Chapter 4. Replacing Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) with IBM Storage Ceph Object Storage
Chapter 5. IBM Storage Ceph with IBM watsonx.data
Chapter 6. Retail use case
Chapter 7. Ingest: Landing and raw zones
Chapter 8. Transform: Staging and curated zones
Chapter 9. Consume: Curated zone

“The readers can explore each stage of the data pipeline – ingest, transformation, and consumption – with step-by-step instructions and hands-on examples. All code samples created for the book’s scenarios are available on the Redbooks GitHub, so that customers can download them and experiment with these scenarios in their own environments. To enhance the readers’ learning experience, we added ‘Key Takeaways’ sections throughout the book, summarizing key points and offering best practice suggestions.“ said IBM Redbooks team

More about IBM Storage Ceph Redbooks:
IBM Storage Ceph Solutions Guide
IBM Storage Ceph Concepts and Architecture Guide