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                                                                                          Angelo Bernasconi


IBM SAN Volume Controller and IBM Tivoli
Storage FlashCopy Manager

                This IBM® Redpaper™ document provides a brief overview of IBM Tivoli® Storage
                FlashCopy® Manager and how it interacts with the IBM System Storage™ SAN Volume
                Controller (SVC). It describes FlashCopy Manager features and benefits and identifies
                supported hardware and software. Basic information to help you plan for, install, configure,
                and use FlashCopy Manager is also included.




© Copyright IBM Corp. 2010. All rights reserved.                                      ibm.com/redbooks         1
IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager
              In today’s business world, where application servers are operational 24 hours a day, the data
              on these servers must be fully protected. You cannot afford to lose any data, but you also
              cannot afford to stop these critical systems for hours so you can protect the data adequately.
              As the amount of data that needs protecting continues to grow exponentially and the need to
              keep the downtime associated with backup to an absolute minimum, IT processes are at their
              breaking point. Data volume snapshot technologies, such as IBM FlashCopy, can help
              minimize the impact caused by backups and provide near instant restore capabilities.

              While many storage systems are now equipped with volume snapshot tools, these
              hardware-based snapshot technologies provide only “crash consistent” copies of data. Many
              business critical applications, including those that rely on a relational database, need an
              additional snapshot process to ensure that all parts of a data transaction are flushed from
              memory and committed to disk prior to the snapshot to ensure you have a usable, consistent
              copy of the data.

              IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager helps deliver the highest levels of protection for
              mission critical IBMDB2, SAP, Oracle, Microsoft® Exchange, and Microsoft SQL Server
              applications via integrated, application-aware snapshot backup and restore capabilities. This
              is achieved through the exploitation of advanced IBM storage hardware snapshot technology
              to create a high performance, low impact application data protection solution.

              The snapshots captured by Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager can be retained as backups
              on local disk, and with optional integration with Tivoli Storage Manager, customers can
              leverage the full range of advanced data protection and data reduction capabilities such as
              data deduplication, progressive incremental backup, hierarchical storage management, and
              centrally managed policy-based administration.

              Since a snapshot operation typically takes much less time than the time for a tape backup, the
              window during which the application must be aware of a backup can be reduced. This
              facilitates more frequent backups, which can reduce the time spent performing forward
              recovery through transaction logs, increases the flexibility of backup scheduling, and eases
              administration.

              Application availability is also significantly improved due to the reduction of the load on the
              production servers. Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager exploits storage snapshot capabilities
              to provide high speed, low impact, application-integrated backup and restore functionality for
              the supported application and storage environments. Automated policy-based management
              of multiple snapshot backup versions, together with a simple and guided installation and
              configuration process, provide an easy to use and quick to deploy data protection solution
              that enables the most stringent database recovery time requirements to be met.

              More details about IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager are available here:

              https://www-01.ibm.com/software/tivoli/products/storage-flashcopy-mgr/




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FlashCopy Manager support
        FlashCopy Manager (FCM) exploits disk subsystems such as:
           DS8000®
           SVC
           XIV®
           DS 3/4/5k through VSS only

        FCM supports applications such as:
           Microsoft Exchange 2003 and 2007 on Windows® 2003 and Windows 2008
           Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and 2008 on Windows 2003 and Windows 2008
           Oracle 10g and11g on AIX® 5.3 and 6.1
           DB2® UDB V9.5 or later on AIX 5.3 and 6.1
           SAP releases running on DB2 V9.5 supported by SAP BRTools 7.10 or later on AIX 5.3
           and 6.1
           SAP with Oracle

        Prior to FCM, TSM for ACS was the typical solution used to minimize the back-up window
        (reducing the time where the systems were off line to guarantee data consistency for the
        back-up operation).

        Figure 1 on page 4 shows the basic operation of TSM for ACS.




                              IBM SAN Volume Controller and IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager   3
Figure 1 TSM for ACS

              With TSM for ACS it was possible to:
                  Trigger a snapshot for backup and map the local Snapshot™ versions to a TSM server
                  Transfer outboard of the application server to minimize impact to the application
                  Provide long term retention and disaster recovery with copies on the TSM server
                  Provide very fast restore times from the snapshot
                  Provide support for multiple, persistent snapshots
                  Provide persistent snapshots retained locally
                  Provide policy-based management of local, persistent snapshots
                  Have different retention policies for local snapshots and copies on TSM server
                  Automatically reuse local snapshot storage when older snapshot versions expire
                  Perform restores from:
                  – Local snapshot versions
                  – TSM storage hierarchy

              These TSM for ACS benefits are still valid, but for certain environments (such as DB2, SAP,
              Oracle on AIX, Exchange and SQL on Windows), it is also possible to trigger the snapshot for


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backup and for restore, and exploit the IBM Storage Subsystem, without the intervention of
         the TSM Server, as shown in Figure 2.




         Figure 2 FCM design


Common features
         FlashCopy Manager has the following features:
            TSM continues to use Processor Value Units (PVUs) licensing.
            FCM uses managed capacity, which is the sum of the usable capacity for all snapshot
            volumes.
            FlashCopy Manager performs snapshots at the storage volume level.
            Storage capacity required to be licensed is the total allocated size of the source volumes
            that are snapped (where the original source data resides).
            Applies to logical storage volumes (can map to multiple physical volumes).
            Applies to both hardware and software snapshots.
            Utilities are included to determine the managed capacity.




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Additional support for the SAN Volume Controller
                    For the SAN Volume Controller, FlashCopy Manager includes the following additional
                    features:
                        Support for VSS Instant Restore from Space-Efficient target Volumes (SEV) with SAN
                        Volume Controller 5.1
                        Fast Restore is unchanged
                        Support for CIM agents using SSL / HTTPS


Supported hardware and functions
                    FCM exploits the IBM Storage Subsystem without the intervention of the TSM Server.

                    Table 1 shows the hardware and functionality supported by FCM depending on which
                    operating system platform is used, and with which IBM Storage Subsystem it is integrated.

Table 1 Hardware and supported function
                  Full copy      INCR refresh      NoCopy              SEV targets   Snap restore   Snap restore
                                                   (COW or ROW)                                     from SE targets

    AIX           DS8000         DS8000            DS8000              XIV           DS80002        XIV
                  SVC            SVC               SVC                 SVC 5.1       SVC2           SVC 5.1
                                                   XIV                               XIV

    WIN           DS8000         DS80001           DS8000              XIV           DS80002        XIV
    (VSS)         SVC            SVC1              SVC                 SVC 5.1       SVC2           SVC 5.1
                                                   XIV                 DS3/4/5k      XIV
                                                   DS3/4/5k


                        1 Limits solution to 1 backup version (target set)
                        2 Done by changing direction on FC map



FCM planning and prerequisites
                    The requirements for FCM differ depending on the platform that it will operate on, but there
                    are also some common requirements. As usual, planning is the key to successful
                    implementation.

                    The following requirements to implement FCM into an SVC environment apply to all
                    platforms:
                        LAN and SAN connections between the production and Storage Management server for:
                        – Tape restore operations
                        – Backup/restore of the log files
                        LAN or SAN connections for tape backup operations between the backup and Storage
                        Management server unless both are installed on the same system.
                        The production machine must have a LAN connection to the CIM Agent. For SVC this can
                        be the SVC console or the SVC cluster depending on the SVC version. The backup server
                        also must have a LAN connection to the SVC CIM Agent.
                        LUNs of the production database must not be distributed over multiple disk storage
                        subsystems/SVC storage clusters.
                        – For LVM mirroring support:


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•   Each mirror set of the production database must be located completely on only one
                    disk storage subsystem DSnnnn/ SVC storage cluster.
             – For Oracle ASM support:
                •   All failure groups representing a consistent database image must be located on
                    only one disk storage subsystem DSnnnn/SVC storage cluster/XIV.
                •   For DSnnnn only one LUN per disk storage subsystem is supported.
             The LUNs of the disk storage subsystem used by the production database are accessible
             to the production system and are the source volumes used by the FlashCopy process.
             For performance reasons the number of LUNs allocated to one database should be kept
             low.
             The LUNs of the disk storage subsystem intended to be used as target volumes by the
             FlashCopy process must be accessible to the backup system.
             Each source and target volume pair must be the same size.
             Source and target volume pairs can be located in different storage devices within one SVC
             cluster.
             If SDD is installed, the correct vpath device configuration must be checked with lsvpcfg.
             On the production and backup systems, all pvids containing storage system volumes must
             be converted to vpath (hd2vp command, only in the case of SDD). Alternatively, SDDPCM
             with AIX MPIO can be used.
             IBM TotalStorage® SAN Volume Controller Master Console V4.2.1.822 (SVC Cluster
             4.2.1 with incremental FlashCopy), V4.3.0.620 (SVC Cluster 4.3.0), V4.3.1.606 (SVC
             Cluster 4.3.1) and SVC 5.1.
             For up-to-date information about the recommended console and compatible cluster levels
             see:
             http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=591&uid=ssg1S100288
             FlashCopy Manager will only communicate with the SVC. It does not need to be aware of
             the storage systems attached to the SVC.
             The CIM Agent for SVC comes integrated with the master console code package, or in the
             SVC cluster (with SVC versions later than 4.3.0).
             The CIM Agent for SVC must be configured for https or http communication. An
             application user must be defined in the CIM agent for use by FlashCopy Manager. By
             default, SVC is configured for https communication and no changes are required in this
             configuration, and the following description can be ignored:
                For SVC version 4.2.1 or later the configuration of the CIMOM must be done with the
                cimconfig command, which can be found in
                C:Program FilesIBMsvcconsolecimompegasusbin. For example, the following
                command sets the default HTTPS port to 5999:
                cimconfig -s httpsPort=5999 -p
             For SAN Volume Controller 4.2.1 or later, including the appropriate SVC Master Console
             4.2.1 or later, the COPYSERVICES_USERNAME parameter as specified in init<SID>.fcs
             must be assigned the “Administrator” role when defined in the SVC Master Console.


CIM agent setup for SVC
          After installing the SVC and its CIM agent, a default CIM-user is defined:
             username: superuser
             password: password


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You can add a new CIM user with the SVC Web Interface.

              The CIM user is used by FlashCopy Manager to connect to the CIM agent, and is the one you
              need to specify in the FlashCopy Manager profile parameter:
              COPYSERVICES_USERNAME

              Figure 3 shows the communication flow between FCM and SVC.




              Figure 3 Communication flow diagram




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FCM instant restore in an SVC environment
         In this section we briefly describe FCM support for instant restore from SE target volumes in
         SVC 5.1. Note that this capability on AIX is different than on Windows.


On AIX
         With SVC 5.1, Space Efficient Volumes can be defined as FlashCopy targets.

         In mirrored environments, all target sets on each mirror must be either Space Efficient or fully
         allocated.

         Space Efficient targets, just like full or incremental FlashCopies, can be destructively restored
         so long as the background copy operation has not completed, with these two caveats:
             Upon restore, the FlashCopy relations for the restored backup and all FlashCopy relations
             that were established later than the restored backup are stopped.
             Similarly, reusing a target set results in the deletion of all FlashCopy backups that were
             created before the target set's relationships,as well as the backup on the reused target
             set.


On Windows
         The initial release of FCM on Windows has the following limited support for instant restore
         from SE target volumes:
             Instant restore from SE target volumes is allowed when there is only one SE backup
             version.
             If multiple SE backup versions exist, FCM performs a file copy restore (also known as Fast
             Restore).
             An SE backup version is defined by an FC map to an SE target volume that has a
             background copy rate = 0. (Use of SE target volumes with “autoexpand” enabled and a
             background copy rate > 0 does not create SE backup versions because the target
             volumes will grow to the allocated size of the source volumes when the background copy
             completes).
             The background copy rate is a configuration parameter of the VSS provider for SVC, not a
             parameter on a VSS snapshot request. It is not expected that customers will intermix
             snapshots with copy rate = 0 and copy rate > 0, nor is that supported by FCM. However:
             – Some accommodation is made for a transition from one to the other when customers
               switch from fully allocated targets to the use of SE targets or vice versa.
             – To enable multiple backup versions while minimizing storage costs and performance
               overhead, the standard configuration of background copies on the SVC cluster will be
               to configure SE target volumes for the VSS free pool, and set the VSS provider
               background copy rate to 0. This will avoid doing a background copy of blocks that do
               not change on the source volumes. We also recommend that autoexpand be enabled
               for the SE target volumes to avoid out of space conditions.

          Note: Full support for instant restore from SE target volumes on SVC 5.1 when multiple SE
          targets exist requires additional changes in the VSS provider for SVC, which are planned
          for availability after GA of SVC 5.1 and FCM 2.1.




                                 IBM SAN Volume Controller and IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager       9
Basic implementation steps
              This section guides you through the steps to install FlashCopy Manager. For a more detailed
              discussion of this process refer to the product documentation: Tivoli Storage FlashCopy
              Manager Installation and User’s Guide for Windows, SC27-2504-00 or the Tivoli Storage
              FlashCopy Manager Installation and User’s Guide for AIX, SC27-2503.

              The screens shown here were captured during a typical installation in a Windows
              environment.
              1. The installation wizard performs a check of the system to ensure that certain prerequisites
                 are in place, including Microsoft.NET Framework 3.5. If Microsoft.NET Framework SP1 is
                 not present on your server the installation will fail and the FCM console will not work.
                 The panel shown in Figure 4 identifies the prerequisite packages.




              Figure 4 Installation packages

              2. Figure 5 and Figure 6 on page 11 show the messages returned if installation of the
                 prerequisites is not completed.




              Figure 5 Missing package message window




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Figure 6 Installation error

3. After all of the prerequisites have been met you can launch the FCM console. The
   configuration wizard panel shown in Figure 7 is displayed. Specify the environment on
   which you will be working: SQL or Microsoft Exchange.




Figure 7 Configuration wizard

4. Figure 8 on page 12 shows the Requirements Check performed by the configuration
   wizard. As this figure shows, Windows HotFixes and the VSS Providers are required.




                         IBM SAN Volume Controller and IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager   11
Figure 8 Requirements check panel


               Note: To install the VSS Provider for SVC, follow the instructions in the IBM System
               Storage SAN Volume Controller Software Installation and Configuration Guide Version
               5.1.0 SC23-6628-04.

              5. The next two figures illustrate the VSS installation process. Select the CIM agent you want
                 to connect to as shown in Figure 9 and click Next.




              Figure 9 VSS CIM Agent selection




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6. Enter your CIM Agent userid and password as shown in Figure 10.




Figure 10 CIM Agent user and password


 Important: Follow the VSS configuration procedure described in the chapter titled “IBM
 System Storage support for Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service and Virtual Disk
 Service for Windows” in the IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller Software
 Installation and Configuration Guide Version 5.1.0, SC23-6628-04.

7. After implementing all the Windows HotFix and VSS requirements, return to the FCM
   configuration wizard. All the configuration check steps have now been passed, as shown
   in Figure 11.




Figure 11 Check passed


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8. Figure 12 shows the successful completion of installation and configuration.




              Figure 12 Completion step




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9. Click Finish. You will be redirected to the Snapshot Volume Selection for VSS test as
   shown in Figure 13. The test is aware of which type of database is installed on your LUNs,
   so the test will work only if you select the LUN where the database is installed.




Figure 13 Snapshot Volume Selection

At the end of the VSS Test you will get the FCM Console as shown in Figure 14.




Figure 14 FCM Console




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SVC and FCM in a Windows scenario
              In this section we show how FCM and SVC can be integrated in a real SQL/Windows
              scenario where:
                 The VSS free pool is configured with space efficient (thin provisioned) target volumes and
                 the VSS provider background copy rate is set to 0
                 The FCM backup policy is defined to maintain three backup versions
                 One snapshot backup has been created (and one snapshot backup version exists)
                 The customer will attempt to restore the available backup version and the result is that
                 FCM will perform a FlashCopy (instant) restore.

              Environment description
              Our environment is composed of an SQL server with space allocated on two LUNs, one for
              the data and the second for the log, as shown in Figure 15 on page 16.

              In this example disk K:> is DATA_S disk and disk L:> is the LOG_S disk.

              There are counterpart disks for the FlashCopy mapping.




              Figure 15 SQL Disk

              Example 1 on page 17 shows the entire set of disks using the SVC CLI.




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Example 1 Disk environment
IBM_2145:ITSO-CLS2:admin>svcinfo lsvdisk -filtervalue name=VD_L*
id               name                IO_group_id     IO_group_name      status
mdisk_grp_id mdisk_grp_name      capacity       type          FC_id            FC_name
RC_id          RC_name            vdisk_UID           fc_map_count copy_count
fast_write_state
10              VD_LOG_S          0              io_grp0           online         0
MDG_DS47       3.00GB        striped
60050768018401BF280000000000001E 0                 1              empty
17              VD_LOG_T_01       0              io_grp0           online         0
MDG_DS47       3.00GB        striped
60050768018401BF280000000000001B 0                 1              empty
18              VD_LOG_T_02       0              io_grp0           online         0
MDG_DS47       3.00GB        striped
60050768018401BF280000000000001C 0                 1              empty
19              VD_LOG_T_03       0              io_grp0           online         0
MDG_DS47       3.00GB        striped
60050768018401BF280000000000001D 0                 1              empty
IBM_2145:ITSO-CLS2:admin>svcinfo lsvdisk -filtervalue name=VD_D*
id               name                IO_group_id     IO_group_name      status
mdisk_grp_id mdisk_grp_name      capacity       type          FC_id            FC_name
RC_id          RC_name            vdisk_UID           fc_map_count copy_count
fast_write_state
8               VD_DATA_S         0              io_grp0           online         0
MDG_DS47       8.00GB        striped
60050768018401BF2800000000000012 0                 1              empty
11              VD_DATA_T_01      0              io_grp0           online         0
MDG_DS47       8.00GB        striped
60050768018401BF2800000000000015 0                 1              empty
13              VD_DATA_T_02      0              io_grp0           online         0
MDG_DS47       8.00GB        striped
60050768018401BF2800000000000017 0                 1              empty
15              VD_DATA_T_03      0              io_grp0           online         0
MDG_DS47       8.00GB        striped
60050768018401BF2800000000000019 0                 1              empty
IBM_2145:ITSO-CLS2:admin>svctask mkvdiskhostmap -host 0 8


Using FCM we want to create and manage three copies of data using three different sets of
SE VDisks. Those VDisks will be identified by the “T” and the copy number in the name as
shown in Table 2.

Table 2 FC and drive relationship
 Windows drive       VDisk name        FC Copy 1          FC Copy 2          FC Copy 3
 letter

 K:>                VD_DATA_S         VD_DATA_T_01       VD_DATA_T_02       VD_DATA_T_03

 L:>                VD_LOG_S          VD_LOG_T_01        VD_LOG_T_02        VD_LOG_T_03


SQL database backup
Perform the following steps to trigger a disk database backup using FCM.
1. From the FCM console expand the Protect and Recover Data tree and right-click the SQL
   server icon to launch the FlashCopy Manager for SQL Server GUI as shown in Figure 16
   on page 18.




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Figure 16 Launch the GUI

              2. Your database is listed in the resulting panel (in our environment it is called MIO). As
                 shown in Figure 17, two tabs are available, one for backup and one for restore.




              Figure 17 FCM for SQL GUI



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3. Select your database and click the Backup button to start your database backup. A
   progress window is displayed as shown in Figure 18.




Figure 18 Backup progress window

4. Use the SVC GUI or the SVC CLI to check that FlashCopy mapping related to your
   database VDisks and your Target FlashCopy VDisk is in progress.
   The Status field indicates when backup is complete.

SQL database restore
We configured FCM for our database from the Local Policy Management window to keep
three FlashCopy snapshot versions in one day because we will run three backup processes
every day, as shown in Figure 19.




Figure 19 Local Policy Management panel




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Perform the following steps to execute a restore procedure:
              1. Click the Restore Database tab to view your last backup copy tree as shown in Figure 20.
                 Select the copy you want to restore and click the Restore button.




              Figure 20 Restore Database tab

              2. The progress window shown in Figure 21 is displayed.




              Figure 21 Restore database progress window

              3. At the end of the restore process your data will be restored, as shown in Figure 22 on
                 page 21. You can use the SVC GUI or the SVC CLI to check that FlashCopy mapping
                 related to your database VDisks and your Target FlashCopy VDisk is in progress while the
                 restore is running.




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Figure 22 Restore completed

         The database restore is now complete.



Related publications
         IBM Redbooks publications:
            Implementing the IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller V5.1, SG24-6423-07

         Other publications:
            IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller Planning Guide, GA32-0551
            IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller Hardware Installation Guide, GC27-2132
            IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller Software Installation and Configuration
            Guide, SC23-6628
            Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager for AIX: Installation and User’s Guide, SC27-2503
            Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager Messages, SC27-2505
            Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager Quick Start Guide, CF27SML

         All of these documents are available from the IBM Publications Center at:

         http://www-05.ibm.com/e-business/linkweb/publications/servlet/pbi.wss?SSN=10BTJ000
         1139899335&FNC=SRH



The team who wrote this paper
         This paper was produced at the International Technical Support Organization, San Jose
         Center by:

         Angelo Bernasconi is a Certified ITS Senior Storage and SAN Software Specialist in IBM
         Italy. He has 24 years of experience in the delivery of maintenance and professional services


                               IBM SAN Volume Controller and IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager   21
for IBM Enterprise customers in z/OS® and open systems. His areas of expertise include
              storage hardware, Storage Area Network, storage virtualization, de-duplication, and disaster
              recovery solutions. He has written extensively on SAN and virtualization products in three
              IBM Redbooks documents, and is the Technical Leader of the Italian Open System Storage
              Professional Services Community.

              Jon Tate is a Project Manager for IBM System Storage SAN Solutions at the International
              Technical Support Organization, San Jose Center. Before joining the ITSO in 1999, he
              worked in the IBM Technical Support Center, providing Level 2 and 3 support for IBM storage
              products. Jon has 24 years of experience in storage software and management, services,
              and support, and is both an IBM Certified IT Specialist and an IBM SAN Certified Specialist.
              He is also the UK Chairman of the Storage Networking Industry Association.

              We are especially grateful for the contribution of:
              Toni Ionescu, IBM Romania



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  • 1. Redpaper Angelo Bernasconi IBM SAN Volume Controller and IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager This IBM® Redpaper™ document provides a brief overview of IBM Tivoli® Storage FlashCopy® Manager and how it interacts with the IBM System Storage™ SAN Volume Controller (SVC). It describes FlashCopy Manager features and benefits and identifies supported hardware and software. Basic information to help you plan for, install, configure, and use FlashCopy Manager is also included. © Copyright IBM Corp. 2010. All rights reserved. ibm.com/redbooks 1
  • 2. IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager In today’s business world, where application servers are operational 24 hours a day, the data on these servers must be fully protected. You cannot afford to lose any data, but you also cannot afford to stop these critical systems for hours so you can protect the data adequately. As the amount of data that needs protecting continues to grow exponentially and the need to keep the downtime associated with backup to an absolute minimum, IT processes are at their breaking point. Data volume snapshot technologies, such as IBM FlashCopy, can help minimize the impact caused by backups and provide near instant restore capabilities. While many storage systems are now equipped with volume snapshot tools, these hardware-based snapshot technologies provide only “crash consistent” copies of data. Many business critical applications, including those that rely on a relational database, need an additional snapshot process to ensure that all parts of a data transaction are flushed from memory and committed to disk prior to the snapshot to ensure you have a usable, consistent copy of the data. IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager helps deliver the highest levels of protection for mission critical IBMDB2, SAP, Oracle, Microsoft® Exchange, and Microsoft SQL Server applications via integrated, application-aware snapshot backup and restore capabilities. This is achieved through the exploitation of advanced IBM storage hardware snapshot technology to create a high performance, low impact application data protection solution. The snapshots captured by Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager can be retained as backups on local disk, and with optional integration with Tivoli Storage Manager, customers can leverage the full range of advanced data protection and data reduction capabilities such as data deduplication, progressive incremental backup, hierarchical storage management, and centrally managed policy-based administration. Since a snapshot operation typically takes much less time than the time for a tape backup, the window during which the application must be aware of a backup can be reduced. This facilitates more frequent backups, which can reduce the time spent performing forward recovery through transaction logs, increases the flexibility of backup scheduling, and eases administration. Application availability is also significantly improved due to the reduction of the load on the production servers. Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager exploits storage snapshot capabilities to provide high speed, low impact, application-integrated backup and restore functionality for the supported application and storage environments. Automated policy-based management of multiple snapshot backup versions, together with a simple and guided installation and configuration process, provide an easy to use and quick to deploy data protection solution that enables the most stringent database recovery time requirements to be met. More details about IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager are available here: https://www-01.ibm.com/software/tivoli/products/storage-flashcopy-mgr/ 2 IBM SAN Volume Controller and IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager
  • 3. FlashCopy Manager support FlashCopy Manager (FCM) exploits disk subsystems such as: DS8000® SVC XIV® DS 3/4/5k through VSS only FCM supports applications such as: Microsoft Exchange 2003 and 2007 on Windows® 2003 and Windows 2008 Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and 2008 on Windows 2003 and Windows 2008 Oracle 10g and11g on AIX® 5.3 and 6.1 DB2® UDB V9.5 or later on AIX 5.3 and 6.1 SAP releases running on DB2 V9.5 supported by SAP BRTools 7.10 or later on AIX 5.3 and 6.1 SAP with Oracle Prior to FCM, TSM for ACS was the typical solution used to minimize the back-up window (reducing the time where the systems were off line to guarantee data consistency for the back-up operation). Figure 1 on page 4 shows the basic operation of TSM for ACS. IBM SAN Volume Controller and IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager 3
  • 4. Figure 1 TSM for ACS With TSM for ACS it was possible to: Trigger a snapshot for backup and map the local Snapshot™ versions to a TSM server Transfer outboard of the application server to minimize impact to the application Provide long term retention and disaster recovery with copies on the TSM server Provide very fast restore times from the snapshot Provide support for multiple, persistent snapshots Provide persistent snapshots retained locally Provide policy-based management of local, persistent snapshots Have different retention policies for local snapshots and copies on TSM server Automatically reuse local snapshot storage when older snapshot versions expire Perform restores from: – Local snapshot versions – TSM storage hierarchy These TSM for ACS benefits are still valid, but for certain environments (such as DB2, SAP, Oracle on AIX, Exchange and SQL on Windows), it is also possible to trigger the snapshot for 4 IBM SAN Volume Controller and IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager
  • 5. backup and for restore, and exploit the IBM Storage Subsystem, without the intervention of the TSM Server, as shown in Figure 2. Figure 2 FCM design Common features FlashCopy Manager has the following features: TSM continues to use Processor Value Units (PVUs) licensing. FCM uses managed capacity, which is the sum of the usable capacity for all snapshot volumes. FlashCopy Manager performs snapshots at the storage volume level. Storage capacity required to be licensed is the total allocated size of the source volumes that are snapped (where the original source data resides). Applies to logical storage volumes (can map to multiple physical volumes). Applies to both hardware and software snapshots. Utilities are included to determine the managed capacity. IBM SAN Volume Controller and IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager 5
  • 6. Additional support for the SAN Volume Controller For the SAN Volume Controller, FlashCopy Manager includes the following additional features: Support for VSS Instant Restore from Space-Efficient target Volumes (SEV) with SAN Volume Controller 5.1 Fast Restore is unchanged Support for CIM agents using SSL / HTTPS Supported hardware and functions FCM exploits the IBM Storage Subsystem without the intervention of the TSM Server. Table 1 shows the hardware and functionality supported by FCM depending on which operating system platform is used, and with which IBM Storage Subsystem it is integrated. Table 1 Hardware and supported function Full copy INCR refresh NoCopy SEV targets Snap restore Snap restore (COW or ROW) from SE targets AIX DS8000 DS8000 DS8000 XIV DS80002 XIV SVC SVC SVC SVC 5.1 SVC2 SVC 5.1 XIV XIV WIN DS8000 DS80001 DS8000 XIV DS80002 XIV (VSS) SVC SVC1 SVC SVC 5.1 SVC2 SVC 5.1 XIV DS3/4/5k XIV DS3/4/5k 1 Limits solution to 1 backup version (target set) 2 Done by changing direction on FC map FCM planning and prerequisites The requirements for FCM differ depending on the platform that it will operate on, but there are also some common requirements. As usual, planning is the key to successful implementation. The following requirements to implement FCM into an SVC environment apply to all platforms: LAN and SAN connections between the production and Storage Management server for: – Tape restore operations – Backup/restore of the log files LAN or SAN connections for tape backup operations between the backup and Storage Management server unless both are installed on the same system. The production machine must have a LAN connection to the CIM Agent. For SVC this can be the SVC console or the SVC cluster depending on the SVC version. The backup server also must have a LAN connection to the SVC CIM Agent. LUNs of the production database must not be distributed over multiple disk storage subsystems/SVC storage clusters. – For LVM mirroring support: 6 IBM SAN Volume Controller and IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager
  • 7. Each mirror set of the production database must be located completely on only one disk storage subsystem DSnnnn/ SVC storage cluster. – For Oracle ASM support: • All failure groups representing a consistent database image must be located on only one disk storage subsystem DSnnnn/SVC storage cluster/XIV. • For DSnnnn only one LUN per disk storage subsystem is supported. The LUNs of the disk storage subsystem used by the production database are accessible to the production system and are the source volumes used by the FlashCopy process. For performance reasons the number of LUNs allocated to one database should be kept low. The LUNs of the disk storage subsystem intended to be used as target volumes by the FlashCopy process must be accessible to the backup system. Each source and target volume pair must be the same size. Source and target volume pairs can be located in different storage devices within one SVC cluster. If SDD is installed, the correct vpath device configuration must be checked with lsvpcfg. On the production and backup systems, all pvids containing storage system volumes must be converted to vpath (hd2vp command, only in the case of SDD). Alternatively, SDDPCM with AIX MPIO can be used. IBM TotalStorage® SAN Volume Controller Master Console V4.2.1.822 (SVC Cluster 4.2.1 with incremental FlashCopy), V4.3.0.620 (SVC Cluster 4.3.0), V4.3.1.606 (SVC Cluster 4.3.1) and SVC 5.1. For up-to-date information about the recommended console and compatible cluster levels see: http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=591&uid=ssg1S100288 FlashCopy Manager will only communicate with the SVC. It does not need to be aware of the storage systems attached to the SVC. The CIM Agent for SVC comes integrated with the master console code package, or in the SVC cluster (with SVC versions later than 4.3.0). The CIM Agent for SVC must be configured for https or http communication. An application user must be defined in the CIM agent for use by FlashCopy Manager. By default, SVC is configured for https communication and no changes are required in this configuration, and the following description can be ignored: For SVC version 4.2.1 or later the configuration of the CIMOM must be done with the cimconfig command, which can be found in C:Program FilesIBMsvcconsolecimompegasusbin. For example, the following command sets the default HTTPS port to 5999: cimconfig -s httpsPort=5999 -p For SAN Volume Controller 4.2.1 or later, including the appropriate SVC Master Console 4.2.1 or later, the COPYSERVICES_USERNAME parameter as specified in init<SID>.fcs must be assigned the “Administrator” role when defined in the SVC Master Console. CIM agent setup for SVC After installing the SVC and its CIM agent, a default CIM-user is defined: username: superuser password: password IBM SAN Volume Controller and IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager 7
  • 8. You can add a new CIM user with the SVC Web Interface. The CIM user is used by FlashCopy Manager to connect to the CIM agent, and is the one you need to specify in the FlashCopy Manager profile parameter: COPYSERVICES_USERNAME Figure 3 shows the communication flow between FCM and SVC. Figure 3 Communication flow diagram 8 IBM SAN Volume Controller and IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager
  • 9. FCM instant restore in an SVC environment In this section we briefly describe FCM support for instant restore from SE target volumes in SVC 5.1. Note that this capability on AIX is different than on Windows. On AIX With SVC 5.1, Space Efficient Volumes can be defined as FlashCopy targets. In mirrored environments, all target sets on each mirror must be either Space Efficient or fully allocated. Space Efficient targets, just like full or incremental FlashCopies, can be destructively restored so long as the background copy operation has not completed, with these two caveats: Upon restore, the FlashCopy relations for the restored backup and all FlashCopy relations that were established later than the restored backup are stopped. Similarly, reusing a target set results in the deletion of all FlashCopy backups that were created before the target set's relationships,as well as the backup on the reused target set. On Windows The initial release of FCM on Windows has the following limited support for instant restore from SE target volumes: Instant restore from SE target volumes is allowed when there is only one SE backup version. If multiple SE backup versions exist, FCM performs a file copy restore (also known as Fast Restore). An SE backup version is defined by an FC map to an SE target volume that has a background copy rate = 0. (Use of SE target volumes with “autoexpand” enabled and a background copy rate > 0 does not create SE backup versions because the target volumes will grow to the allocated size of the source volumes when the background copy completes). The background copy rate is a configuration parameter of the VSS provider for SVC, not a parameter on a VSS snapshot request. It is not expected that customers will intermix snapshots with copy rate = 0 and copy rate > 0, nor is that supported by FCM. However: – Some accommodation is made for a transition from one to the other when customers switch from fully allocated targets to the use of SE targets or vice versa. – To enable multiple backup versions while minimizing storage costs and performance overhead, the standard configuration of background copies on the SVC cluster will be to configure SE target volumes for the VSS free pool, and set the VSS provider background copy rate to 0. This will avoid doing a background copy of blocks that do not change on the source volumes. We also recommend that autoexpand be enabled for the SE target volumes to avoid out of space conditions. Note: Full support for instant restore from SE target volumes on SVC 5.1 when multiple SE targets exist requires additional changes in the VSS provider for SVC, which are planned for availability after GA of SVC 5.1 and FCM 2.1. IBM SAN Volume Controller and IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager 9
  • 10. Basic implementation steps This section guides you through the steps to install FlashCopy Manager. For a more detailed discussion of this process refer to the product documentation: Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager Installation and User’s Guide for Windows, SC27-2504-00 or the Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager Installation and User’s Guide for AIX, SC27-2503. The screens shown here were captured during a typical installation in a Windows environment. 1. The installation wizard performs a check of the system to ensure that certain prerequisites are in place, including Microsoft.NET Framework 3.5. If Microsoft.NET Framework SP1 is not present on your server the installation will fail and the FCM console will not work. The panel shown in Figure 4 identifies the prerequisite packages. Figure 4 Installation packages 2. Figure 5 and Figure 6 on page 11 show the messages returned if installation of the prerequisites is not completed. Figure 5 Missing package message window 10 IBM SAN Volume Controller and IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager
  • 11. Figure 6 Installation error 3. After all of the prerequisites have been met you can launch the FCM console. The configuration wizard panel shown in Figure 7 is displayed. Specify the environment on which you will be working: SQL or Microsoft Exchange. Figure 7 Configuration wizard 4. Figure 8 on page 12 shows the Requirements Check performed by the configuration wizard. As this figure shows, Windows HotFixes and the VSS Providers are required. IBM SAN Volume Controller and IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager 11
  • 12. Figure 8 Requirements check panel Note: To install the VSS Provider for SVC, follow the instructions in the IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller Software Installation and Configuration Guide Version 5.1.0 SC23-6628-04. 5. The next two figures illustrate the VSS installation process. Select the CIM agent you want to connect to as shown in Figure 9 and click Next. Figure 9 VSS CIM Agent selection 12 IBM SAN Volume Controller and IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager
  • 13. 6. Enter your CIM Agent userid and password as shown in Figure 10. Figure 10 CIM Agent user and password Important: Follow the VSS configuration procedure described in the chapter titled “IBM System Storage support for Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service and Virtual Disk Service for Windows” in the IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller Software Installation and Configuration Guide Version 5.1.0, SC23-6628-04. 7. After implementing all the Windows HotFix and VSS requirements, return to the FCM configuration wizard. All the configuration check steps have now been passed, as shown in Figure 11. Figure 11 Check passed IBM SAN Volume Controller and IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager 13
  • 14. 8. Figure 12 shows the successful completion of installation and configuration. Figure 12 Completion step 14 IBM SAN Volume Controller and IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager
  • 15. 9. Click Finish. You will be redirected to the Snapshot Volume Selection for VSS test as shown in Figure 13. The test is aware of which type of database is installed on your LUNs, so the test will work only if you select the LUN where the database is installed. Figure 13 Snapshot Volume Selection At the end of the VSS Test you will get the FCM Console as shown in Figure 14. Figure 14 FCM Console IBM SAN Volume Controller and IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager 15
  • 16. SVC and FCM in a Windows scenario In this section we show how FCM and SVC can be integrated in a real SQL/Windows scenario where: The VSS free pool is configured with space efficient (thin provisioned) target volumes and the VSS provider background copy rate is set to 0 The FCM backup policy is defined to maintain three backup versions One snapshot backup has been created (and one snapshot backup version exists) The customer will attempt to restore the available backup version and the result is that FCM will perform a FlashCopy (instant) restore. Environment description Our environment is composed of an SQL server with space allocated on two LUNs, one for the data and the second for the log, as shown in Figure 15 on page 16. In this example disk K:> is DATA_S disk and disk L:> is the LOG_S disk. There are counterpart disks for the FlashCopy mapping. Figure 15 SQL Disk Example 1 on page 17 shows the entire set of disks using the SVC CLI. 16 IBM SAN Volume Controller and IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager
  • 17. Example 1 Disk environment IBM_2145:ITSO-CLS2:admin>svcinfo lsvdisk -filtervalue name=VD_L* id name IO_group_id IO_group_name status mdisk_grp_id mdisk_grp_name capacity type FC_id FC_name RC_id RC_name vdisk_UID fc_map_count copy_count fast_write_state 10 VD_LOG_S 0 io_grp0 online 0 MDG_DS47 3.00GB striped 60050768018401BF280000000000001E 0 1 empty 17 VD_LOG_T_01 0 io_grp0 online 0 MDG_DS47 3.00GB striped 60050768018401BF280000000000001B 0 1 empty 18 VD_LOG_T_02 0 io_grp0 online 0 MDG_DS47 3.00GB striped 60050768018401BF280000000000001C 0 1 empty 19 VD_LOG_T_03 0 io_grp0 online 0 MDG_DS47 3.00GB striped 60050768018401BF280000000000001D 0 1 empty IBM_2145:ITSO-CLS2:admin>svcinfo lsvdisk -filtervalue name=VD_D* id name IO_group_id IO_group_name status mdisk_grp_id mdisk_grp_name capacity type FC_id FC_name RC_id RC_name vdisk_UID fc_map_count copy_count fast_write_state 8 VD_DATA_S 0 io_grp0 online 0 MDG_DS47 8.00GB striped 60050768018401BF2800000000000012 0 1 empty 11 VD_DATA_T_01 0 io_grp0 online 0 MDG_DS47 8.00GB striped 60050768018401BF2800000000000015 0 1 empty 13 VD_DATA_T_02 0 io_grp0 online 0 MDG_DS47 8.00GB striped 60050768018401BF2800000000000017 0 1 empty 15 VD_DATA_T_03 0 io_grp0 online 0 MDG_DS47 8.00GB striped 60050768018401BF2800000000000019 0 1 empty IBM_2145:ITSO-CLS2:admin>svctask mkvdiskhostmap -host 0 8 Using FCM we want to create and manage three copies of data using three different sets of SE VDisks. Those VDisks will be identified by the “T” and the copy number in the name as shown in Table 2. Table 2 FC and drive relationship Windows drive VDisk name FC Copy 1 FC Copy 2 FC Copy 3 letter K:> VD_DATA_S VD_DATA_T_01 VD_DATA_T_02 VD_DATA_T_03 L:> VD_LOG_S VD_LOG_T_01 VD_LOG_T_02 VD_LOG_T_03 SQL database backup Perform the following steps to trigger a disk database backup using FCM. 1. From the FCM console expand the Protect and Recover Data tree and right-click the SQL server icon to launch the FlashCopy Manager for SQL Server GUI as shown in Figure 16 on page 18. IBM SAN Volume Controller and IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager 17
  • 18. Figure 16 Launch the GUI 2. Your database is listed in the resulting panel (in our environment it is called MIO). As shown in Figure 17, two tabs are available, one for backup and one for restore. Figure 17 FCM for SQL GUI 18 IBM SAN Volume Controller and IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager
  • 19. 3. Select your database and click the Backup button to start your database backup. A progress window is displayed as shown in Figure 18. Figure 18 Backup progress window 4. Use the SVC GUI or the SVC CLI to check that FlashCopy mapping related to your database VDisks and your Target FlashCopy VDisk is in progress. The Status field indicates when backup is complete. SQL database restore We configured FCM for our database from the Local Policy Management window to keep three FlashCopy snapshot versions in one day because we will run three backup processes every day, as shown in Figure 19. Figure 19 Local Policy Management panel IBM SAN Volume Controller and IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager 19
  • 20. Perform the following steps to execute a restore procedure: 1. Click the Restore Database tab to view your last backup copy tree as shown in Figure 20. Select the copy you want to restore and click the Restore button. Figure 20 Restore Database tab 2. The progress window shown in Figure 21 is displayed. Figure 21 Restore database progress window 3. At the end of the restore process your data will be restored, as shown in Figure 22 on page 21. You can use the SVC GUI or the SVC CLI to check that FlashCopy mapping related to your database VDisks and your Target FlashCopy VDisk is in progress while the restore is running. 20 IBM SAN Volume Controller and IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager
  • 21. Figure 22 Restore completed The database restore is now complete. Related publications IBM Redbooks publications: Implementing the IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller V5.1, SG24-6423-07 Other publications: IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller Planning Guide, GA32-0551 IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller Hardware Installation Guide, GC27-2132 IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller Software Installation and Configuration Guide, SC23-6628 Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager for AIX: Installation and User’s Guide, SC27-2503 Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager Messages, SC27-2505 Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager Quick Start Guide, CF27SML All of these documents are available from the IBM Publications Center at: http://www-05.ibm.com/e-business/linkweb/publications/servlet/pbi.wss?SSN=10BTJ000 1139899335&FNC=SRH The team who wrote this paper This paper was produced at the International Technical Support Organization, San Jose Center by: Angelo Bernasconi is a Certified ITS Senior Storage and SAN Software Specialist in IBM Italy. He has 24 years of experience in the delivery of maintenance and professional services IBM SAN Volume Controller and IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager 21
  • 22. for IBM Enterprise customers in z/OS® and open systems. His areas of expertise include storage hardware, Storage Area Network, storage virtualization, de-duplication, and disaster recovery solutions. He has written extensively on SAN and virtualization products in three IBM Redbooks documents, and is the Technical Leader of the Italian Open System Storage Professional Services Community. Jon Tate is a Project Manager for IBM System Storage SAN Solutions at the International Technical Support Organization, San Jose Center. Before joining the ITSO in 1999, he worked in the IBM Technical Support Center, providing Level 2 and 3 support for IBM storage products. Jon has 24 years of experience in storage software and management, services, and support, and is both an IBM Certified IT Specialist and an IBM SAN Certified Specialist. He is also the UK Chairman of the Storage Networking Industry Association. We are especially grateful for the contribution of: Toni Ionescu, IBM Romania Now you can become a published author, too! Here's an opportunity to spotlight your skills, grow your career, and become a published author - all at the same time! Join an ITSO residency project and help write a book in your area of expertise, while honing your experience using leading-edge technologies. Your efforts will help to increase product acceptance and customer satisfaction, as you expand your network of technical contacts and relationships. Residencies run from two to six weeks in length, and you can participate either in person or as a remote resident working from your home base. Find out more about the residency program, browse the residency index, and apply online at: http://www.ibm.com/redbooks/residencies.html Stay connected to IBM Redbooks Find us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/IBM-Redbooks/178023492563?ref=ts Follow us on twitter: http://twitter.com/ibmredbooks Look for us on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=2130806 Explore new Redbooks publications, residencies, and workshops with the IBM Redbooks weekly newsletter: https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/subscribe?OpenForm Stay current on recent Redbooks publications with RSS Feeds: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/rss.html 22 IBM SAN Volume Controller and IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager
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