About This Guide; Who Should Use This Guide; Conventions Used In This Guide; Ds8000 Library And Related Publications - IBM DS8800 Introduction And Planning Manual

About this guide

The IBM System Storage
and Planning Guide provides information about the IBM System Storage DS8800
and DS8700 storage units.
This guide provides you with the following information:
v What you need to consider as you plan to use the DS8800 and DS8700 storage
v How you can customize your DS8800 and DS8700 storage units.

Who should use this guide

The IBM System Storage DS8800 Introduction and Planning Guide is for storage
administrators, system programmers, and performance and capacity analysts.

Conventions used in this guide

The following typefaces are used to show emphasis:
boldface
italics
monospace

DS8000 library and related publications

Product manuals, other IBM publications, and websites contain information that
relates to DS8000
DS8000 Information Center
The IBM System Storage DS8000 Information Center contains all of the information
that is required to install, configure, and manage the DS8000. The information
center is updated between DS8000 product releases to provide the most current
documentation. The information center is available at the following website:
publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ds8000ic/index.jsp
DS8000 library
Table 1 on page xiv lists and describes the publications that make up the DS8000
library. Unless otherwise noted, these publications are available in Adobe portable
document format (PDF). Go to the IBM Publications Center at
www.ibm.com/shop/publications/order to obtain a publication.
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units.
Text in boldface represents menu items and lowercase or mixed-case
command names.
Text in italics is used to emphasize a word. In command syntax, it is used
for variables for which you supply actual values.
Text in monospace identifies the data or commands that you type, samples
of command output, or examples of program code or messages from the
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