About This Guide; Who Should Use This Guide; Emphasis; Storwize V7000 Library And Related Publications - IBM Storwize V7000 Troubleshooting And Maintenance Manual

About this guide

This guide describes how to service, maintain, and troubleshoot the IBM Storwize V7000.
The chapters that follow introduce you to the hardware components and to the tools that assist you in
troubleshooting and servicing the Storwize V7000, such as the management GUI, and the service
assistant.
The troubleshooting procedures can help you analyze failures that occur in a Storwize V7000 system.
With these procedures, you can isolate the components that fail.
You are also provided with step-by-step procedures to remove and replace parts.

Who should use this guide

This guide is intended for system administrators who use and diagnose problems with the Storwize
V7000.

Emphasis

Different typefaces are used in this guide to show emphasis.
The following typefaces are used to show emphasis:
Boldface
Italics
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Storwize V7000 library and related publications

Product manuals, other publications, and websites contain information that relates to Storwize V7000.
Storwize V7000 Information Center
The IBM Storwize V7000 Information Center contains all of the information that is required to install,
configure, and manage the Storwize V7000. The information center is updated between Storwize V7000
product releases to provide the most current documentation. The information center is available at the
following website:
publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/storwize/ic/index.jsp
© Copyright IBM Corp. 2010
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names.
Text in italics is used to emphasize a word. In command
syntax, it is used for variables for which you supply
actual values, such as a default directory or the name of
a cluster.
Text in monospace identifies the data or commands that
you type, samples of command output, examples of
program code or messages from the system, or names of
command flags, parameters, arguments, and name-value
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