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Chapter 3. Planning
This chapter describes steps that are required to plan the installation of an IBM System 
Storage SAN Volume Controller in your storage network. 
This chapter includes the following topics:
/SM5900003.1, “General planning rules” on page 44
/SM5900003.2, “Planning for availability” on page 46
/SM5900003.3, “Connectivity planning” on page 47
/SM5900003.4, “Physical planning” on page 48
/SM5900003.5, “Planning IP connectivity” on page 48
/SM5900003.6, “SAN configuration planning” on page 50
/SM5900003.7, “iSCSI configuration planning” on page 60
/SM5900003.8, “Back-end storage subsystem configuration” on page 63
/SM5900003.9, “Internal storage configuration” on page 65
/SM5900003.10, “Storage pool configuration” on page 65
/SM5900003.11, “Volume configuration” on page 67
/SM5900003.12, “Host attachment planning” on page 70
/SM5900003.13, “Host mapping and LUN masking” on page 71
/SM5900003.14, “NPIV planning” on page 72
/SM5900003.15, “Advanced Copy Services” on page 72
/SM5900003.17, “Data migration from a non-virtualized storage subsystem” on page 79
/SM5900003.17, “Data migration from a non-virtualized storage subsystem” on page 79
/SM5900003.18, “Storwize V7000 configuration backup procedure” on page 80
/SM5900003.19, “Performance considerations” on page 80
/SM5900003.20, “Storage Insights” on page 83
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