This document provides an overview of IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager and how it interacts with IBM SAN Volume Controller. It describes FlashCopy Manager's features, including creating application-aware snapshots using storage snapshot technologies to minimize backup impact. It also covers supported hardware, installation and configuration steps, and how FlashCopy Manager exploits SAN Volume Controller capabilities like space-efficient volumes and instant restore.
The IBM XIV Gen3 Storage System provides several key integrations with VMware vSphere that improve performance and management:
1) It supports VAAI primitives like full copy offload and hardware-assisted locking that improve scalability and reduce host processing.
2) It integrates with vSphere APIs like VASA to provide real-time storage information and alerts to vCenter.
3) It includes a plug-in for vCenter that allows storage provisioning, mapping, replication and snapshot management from within vCenter.
The document provides an overview of backup best practices for various IBM Lotus products, including Domino, Sametime, Connections, Quickr, DB2, and WebSphere. It discusses what needs to be backed up for each product, such as databases, configuration files, customized files. It recommends backing up these components before upgrades, daily incrementals, and weekly full backups. The document also provides examples of how to perform backups for each product, whether it be using Domino backup utilities, DB2 backup commands, or file system backups of WebSphere directories. Proper documentation of installations is also emphasized to aid in future restores.
The document discusses IBM's XIV storage array. It provides details on:
- XIV's simplicity and ease of use with no tuning required
- XIV's scalability to multi-petabyte capacities through its grid architecture
- New features of XIV including real-time compression, Microsoft Azure integration, and quality of service classes
XIV is a grid-based storage system that was acquired by IBM in 2007. It uses a unique architecture that distributes data evenly across all drives to avoid hotspots and ensure balanced performance even as the system scales. Key features like snapshots, replication, and thin provisioning are included at no additional charge. The document provides details on XIV's history, architecture, scalability, and comparison to traditional storage systems.
VMworld 2014: Site Recovery Manager and Stretched StorageVMworld
SRM with stretched storage provides a new approach for active-active data centers:
- It allows live migration of VMs across vCenter servers using stretched storage for continuous availability.
- Recovery plans can be tested non-disruptively and used to automate recovery from site failures via vMotion.
- Planned migrations can be performed before site maintenance using vMotion for zero downtime.
The document provides configuration best practices for using IBM's SAN Volume Controller (SVC) with IBM's XIV storage systems. It discusses SVC and XIV terminology, logical configuration recommendations for each product, zoning considerations, and SSD and Easy Tier deployment considerations when using SVC and XIV together. Sample configurations for XIV Gen2 and Gen3 systems with SVC are also presented.
This document provides an overview of the AIX operating system and its logical volume manager (LVM). It discusses AIX's tool-managed configuration approach and integration with IBM hardware. The LVM uses physical volumes to create volume groups that are divided into logical partitions backing logical volumes for filesystems and logs. Management is performed through commands that manipulate these logical structures.
Id101 what's new in ibm lotus® domino® 8.5.3 and beyond finalSaurabh Calla
With IBM Lotus Domino 8.5.3 we continue to drive enhancements to help customers manage their Domino environment and improve end user experience. This LS12 session described the new features of Domino 8.5.3 and provided an early look at what is coming up in 2012.
The IBM XIV Gen3 Storage System provides several key integrations with VMware vSphere that improve performance and management:
1) It supports VAAI primitives like full copy offload and hardware-assisted locking that improve scalability and reduce host processing.
2) It integrates with vSphere APIs like VASA to provide real-time storage information and alerts to vCenter.
3) It includes a plug-in for vCenter that allows storage provisioning, mapping, replication and snapshot management from within vCenter.
The document provides an overview of backup best practices for various IBM Lotus products, including Domino, Sametime, Connections, Quickr, DB2, and WebSphere. It discusses what needs to be backed up for each product, such as databases, configuration files, customized files. It recommends backing up these components before upgrades, daily incrementals, and weekly full backups. The document also provides examples of how to perform backups for each product, whether it be using Domino backup utilities, DB2 backup commands, or file system backups of WebSphere directories. Proper documentation of installations is also emphasized to aid in future restores.
The document discusses IBM's XIV storage array. It provides details on:
- XIV's simplicity and ease of use with no tuning required
- XIV's scalability to multi-petabyte capacities through its grid architecture
- New features of XIV including real-time compression, Microsoft Azure integration, and quality of service classes
XIV is a grid-based storage system that was acquired by IBM in 2007. It uses a unique architecture that distributes data evenly across all drives to avoid hotspots and ensure balanced performance even as the system scales. Key features like snapshots, replication, and thin provisioning are included at no additional charge. The document provides details on XIV's history, architecture, scalability, and comparison to traditional storage systems.
VMworld 2014: Site Recovery Manager and Stretched StorageVMworld
SRM with stretched storage provides a new approach for active-active data centers:
- It allows live migration of VMs across vCenter servers using stretched storage for continuous availability.
- Recovery plans can be tested non-disruptively and used to automate recovery from site failures via vMotion.
- Planned migrations can be performed before site maintenance using vMotion for zero downtime.
The document provides configuration best practices for using IBM's SAN Volume Controller (SVC) with IBM's XIV storage systems. It discusses SVC and XIV terminology, logical configuration recommendations for each product, zoning considerations, and SSD and Easy Tier deployment considerations when using SVC and XIV together. Sample configurations for XIV Gen2 and Gen3 systems with SVC are also presented.
This document provides an overview of the AIX operating system and its logical volume manager (LVM). It discusses AIX's tool-managed configuration approach and integration with IBM hardware. The LVM uses physical volumes to create volume groups that are divided into logical partitions backing logical volumes for filesystems and logs. Management is performed through commands that manipulate these logical structures.
Id101 what's new in ibm lotus® domino® 8.5.3 and beyond finalSaurabh Calla
With IBM Lotus Domino 8.5.3 we continue to drive enhancements to help customers manage their Domino environment and improve end user experience. This LS12 session described the new features of Domino 8.5.3 and provided an early look at what is coming up in 2012.
PowerVM Live Partition Mobility in IBM PureFlexLuca Comparini
Technical overview in relation to the IBM PowerVM Live Partition Mobility (LPM): LPM is an IBM PowerVM® feature capable of migrating a running partition from one IBM Power Systems™ server to another; migration is performed without disrupting the transactions and the applications that are running on the partition, in other words transparently for the business.
LPM is not a business continuity feature. LPM improves the serviceability and maintainability of an environment running on Power Systems servers. In other words, this feature is designed to make the IT manager's life easier, when a planned maintenance is scheduled because it is capable of reducing the downtime to zero for a planned maintenance activity. Reasons for using LPM also include workload consolidation (from many servers to one), workload balancing (distribute workloads across a pool of servers), and workload resilience in response to a Predictive Failure Analysis (PFA) event.
Monitoring a SUSE Linux Enterprise Environment with System Center Operations ...Novell
Learn the architecture and how you can monitor a SUSE Linux Enterprise environment using cross-platform extensions, which will be part of Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2, and the new Novell Linux Management Pack. The management pack extends the default cross-platform capability of System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 and provides monitoring and management capability of key services running on SUSE Linux Enterprise.
This document discusses IBM's XIV storage system and its advantages over traditional storage. Some key points:
- XIV provides radical simplicity through its self-optimizing architecture that eliminates hotspots and manual tuning. It also offers enterprise features like snapshots and mirroring at no extra cost.
- Its scale-out architecture allows it to scale capacity and performance non-disruptively. It can also migrate volumes between systems transparently to hosts.
- Benchmark tests show it achieves exceptional performance and price/performance results. Customers report it is easier to deploy and manage than other solutions and provides more predictable performance.
Building vSphere Perf Monitoring ToolsPablo Roesch
This document discusses building performance monitoring tools for VMware vSphere using the vSphere APIs. It begins with an overview of common use cases for monitoring CPU, memory, disk, and network performance. These include monitoring high CPU ready times, memory ballooning vs swapping, disk latency, and network throughput. The document then covers techniques for building applications that collect performance data using the vSphere APIs. It provides examples of useful metrics and how to identify issues like CPU overcommitment. The target audience is described as system administrators and VMware partners looking to integrate performance monitoring into their own tools.
VMworld 2013: Implementing a Holistic BC/DR Strategy with VMware - Part TwoVMworld
VMworld 2013
Jeff Hunter, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
Ken Werneburg, VMware
What’s New in VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager v5.0Eric Sloof
Summary of SRM v5.0 New Features
New user interface
Planned migration – with replication update
Failback
vSphere Replication
Faster IP customization
Shadow VM icons
In guest scripts
VM dependency
IBM is the first major storage vendor to deliver eMLC Flash Storage Systems and has been incorporating flash into its servers and storage products for many years. This presentation explains the benefits of using IBM FlashSystems with I/O Intensive workloads where lower latency can make the difference; use cases include Online Transaction processing (OLTP), Business Intelligence (BI), Online Analytical Processing (OLAP), Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), High Performance Computing (HPC), Content delivery solutions (such as cloud storage and video on demand).
This document discusses video formats and compression. It defines digital video as discrete video frames containing both audio and pictures. It describes common video file formats like MOV, AVI, MPEG, ASF and RM and their purposes. The document also discusses video compression techniques, identifying lossless and lossy compression and their advantages.
Short presentation I gave to the UKCMG 1-day mini-conference 15 October in London.
Covers 2 main aspects of Parallel Sysplex performance, both in the CPU area:
1) Comparing Type 70 view of CPU to Type 74-4.
2) Type 74-4 Structure-Level CPU and its role in Capacity Planning and Performance.
Implementing a Disaster Recovery Solution using VMware Site Recovery Manager ...Paula Koziol
IBM Spectrum Virtualize delivers business continuity capabilities using a stretched cluster configuration together with VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM). The result is an end-to-end disaster recovery solution for organizations of all sizes. Join this session to understand how IBM Spectrum Virtualize, including offerings like IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) and IBM Storwize Family, integrates with VMware SRM to automate and optimize disaster recovery operations. Everyone who works in mission critical environments understands the need for high availability and effective solutions for planned and unplanned outages. Organizations demand disaster recovery operations that are fully automated and can be executed in a repeatable manner, so that they are always prepared for disaster situations. This IBM-VMware solution offers SMB and enterprise customers the ability to survive a wide range of failures and enables seamless migration of applications across company sites for various planned activities, enabling zero-downtime application mobility.
Learn about SAP with IBM Tivoli FlashCopy Manager
for VMware and IBM XIV and IBM Storwize V7000 storage systems to create an effective VMware backup / restore solution for the SAP landscape.
This document provides instructions for installing and configuring IBM FlashCopy Manager for VMware to backup two SAP virtual machines using IBM XIV and Storwize V7000 storage systems. It describes installing FlashCopy Manager on a Linux server, setting up the required storage array interfaces, and creating protection jobs through the vCenter plug-in to take application-consistent snapshots of the SAP VMs for backup purposes with minimal downtime.
IBM Spectrum Protect (formerly IBM Tivoli Storage Manager) provides data protection and recovery for hybrid cloud environments. This document summarizes a presentation on IBM's strategic direction for Spectrum Protect, including plans to enhance the product to better support hybrid cloud, virtual environments, large-scale deduplication, simplified management, and protection for key workloads. The presentation outlines roadmap features for 2015 and potential future enhancements.
IBM released updates to FlashCopy Manager 3.2 and IBM TSM for Virtual Environments 6.4. The updates include enhancements to backup and restore capabilities for virtual machines, file systems, databases and applications. New features allow integration with remote replication technologies and support for virtual disk mappings. The user interface was also improved with a new configuration wizard.
IBM released updates to FlashCopy Manager 3.2 and IBM TSM for Virtual Environments 6.4. The updates include enhancements to backup and restore capabilities for virtual machines, file systems, databases, and custom applications. They provide improved support for VMware environments, SQL Server 2012, Exchange 2010, and remote mirroring capabilities. The user interface was also enhanced with a new configuration wizard and reporting features.
It is a time of unprecedented challenges for the SAP world. Recent SAP documents and statements have
variously referred to the need to maintain business momentum in “challenging times…hard times…
perilous times…tough times…volatile times…turbulent times.”
The document discusses IBM's Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) data protection and recovery product. It provides an overview of TSM server products, applications supported, new features in recent versions including support for virtual environments, reporting and monitoring, and the TSM Suite for Unified Recovery. It also briefly outlines IBM's vision for smarter storage software going forward.
Meet the IBM Storwize family and discover IBM Smarter Storage for small and medium businesses and its advantages: efficient by design, self optimizing, cloud agile. Start smart and grow easily with IBM Smarter Storage and meet its high performance like a midrange disk system.
The document discusses IBM's information infrastructure and journey to the cloud. It notes that smarter systems are creating an information explosion as data from sources like RFID tags and smart meters grows exponentially. This growth is outpacing storage budget increases, creating inefficiencies. The IBM SAN Volume Controller addresses this by virtualizing storage across arrays into a single pool to improve utilization and simplify management. It allows non-disruptive data migration and copy services to further optimize infrastructure and ensure business continuity.
FlashSystem 7300 Midrange Enterprise for Hybrid Cloud L2 Sellers Presentation...ssuserecfcc8
The document provides information about IBM's FlashSystem 7300 including its key features, specifications, supported host adapters and configurations. It discusses IBM Storage Expert Care options and expanding support offerings. Memory and adapter plug-in rules and recommendations are also covered to help optimize the FlashSystem 7300 for different workloads and use cases.
PowerVM Live Partition Mobility in IBM PureFlexLuca Comparini
Technical overview in relation to the IBM PowerVM Live Partition Mobility (LPM): LPM is an IBM PowerVM® feature capable of migrating a running partition from one IBM Power Systems™ server to another; migration is performed without disrupting the transactions and the applications that are running on the partition, in other words transparently for the business.
LPM is not a business continuity feature. LPM improves the serviceability and maintainability of an environment running on Power Systems servers. In other words, this feature is designed to make the IT manager's life easier, when a planned maintenance is scheduled because it is capable of reducing the downtime to zero for a planned maintenance activity. Reasons for using LPM also include workload consolidation (from many servers to one), workload balancing (distribute workloads across a pool of servers), and workload resilience in response to a Predictive Failure Analysis (PFA) event.
Monitoring a SUSE Linux Enterprise Environment with System Center Operations ...Novell
Learn the architecture and how you can monitor a SUSE Linux Enterprise environment using cross-platform extensions, which will be part of Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2, and the new Novell Linux Management Pack. The management pack extends the default cross-platform capability of System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 and provides monitoring and management capability of key services running on SUSE Linux Enterprise.
This document discusses IBM's XIV storage system and its advantages over traditional storage. Some key points:
- XIV provides radical simplicity through its self-optimizing architecture that eliminates hotspots and manual tuning. It also offers enterprise features like snapshots and mirroring at no extra cost.
- Its scale-out architecture allows it to scale capacity and performance non-disruptively. It can also migrate volumes between systems transparently to hosts.
- Benchmark tests show it achieves exceptional performance and price/performance results. Customers report it is easier to deploy and manage than other solutions and provides more predictable performance.
Building vSphere Perf Monitoring ToolsPablo Roesch
This document discusses building performance monitoring tools for VMware vSphere using the vSphere APIs. It begins with an overview of common use cases for monitoring CPU, memory, disk, and network performance. These include monitoring high CPU ready times, memory ballooning vs swapping, disk latency, and network throughput. The document then covers techniques for building applications that collect performance data using the vSphere APIs. It provides examples of useful metrics and how to identify issues like CPU overcommitment. The target audience is described as system administrators and VMware partners looking to integrate performance monitoring into their own tools.
VMworld 2013: Implementing a Holistic BC/DR Strategy with VMware - Part TwoVMworld
VMworld 2013
Jeff Hunter, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
Ken Werneburg, VMware
What’s New in VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager v5.0Eric Sloof
Summary of SRM v5.0 New Features
New user interface
Planned migration – with replication update
Failback
vSphere Replication
Faster IP customization
Shadow VM icons
In guest scripts
VM dependency
IBM is the first major storage vendor to deliver eMLC Flash Storage Systems and has been incorporating flash into its servers and storage products for many years. This presentation explains the benefits of using IBM FlashSystems with I/O Intensive workloads where lower latency can make the difference; use cases include Online Transaction processing (OLTP), Business Intelligence (BI), Online Analytical Processing (OLAP), Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), High Performance Computing (HPC), Content delivery solutions (such as cloud storage and video on demand).
This document discusses video formats and compression. It defines digital video as discrete video frames containing both audio and pictures. It describes common video file formats like MOV, AVI, MPEG, ASF and RM and their purposes. The document also discusses video compression techniques, identifying lossless and lossy compression and their advantages.
Short presentation I gave to the UKCMG 1-day mini-conference 15 October in London.
Covers 2 main aspects of Parallel Sysplex performance, both in the CPU area:
1) Comparing Type 70 view of CPU to Type 74-4.
2) Type 74-4 Structure-Level CPU and its role in Capacity Planning and Performance.
Implementing a Disaster Recovery Solution using VMware Site Recovery Manager ...Paula Koziol
IBM Spectrum Virtualize delivers business continuity capabilities using a stretched cluster configuration together with VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM). The result is an end-to-end disaster recovery solution for organizations of all sizes. Join this session to understand how IBM Spectrum Virtualize, including offerings like IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) and IBM Storwize Family, integrates with VMware SRM to automate and optimize disaster recovery operations. Everyone who works in mission critical environments understands the need for high availability and effective solutions for planned and unplanned outages. Organizations demand disaster recovery operations that are fully automated and can be executed in a repeatable manner, so that they are always prepared for disaster situations. This IBM-VMware solution offers SMB and enterprise customers the ability to survive a wide range of failures and enables seamless migration of applications across company sites for various planned activities, enabling zero-downtime application mobility.
Learn about SAP with IBM Tivoli FlashCopy Manager
for VMware and IBM XIV and IBM Storwize V7000 storage systems to create an effective VMware backup / restore solution for the SAP landscape.
This document provides instructions for installing and configuring IBM FlashCopy Manager for VMware to backup two SAP virtual machines using IBM XIV and Storwize V7000 storage systems. It describes installing FlashCopy Manager on a Linux server, setting up the required storage array interfaces, and creating protection jobs through the vCenter plug-in to take application-consistent snapshots of the SAP VMs for backup purposes with minimal downtime.
IBM Spectrum Protect (formerly IBM Tivoli Storage Manager) provides data protection and recovery for hybrid cloud environments. This document summarizes a presentation on IBM's strategic direction for Spectrum Protect, including plans to enhance the product to better support hybrid cloud, virtual environments, large-scale deduplication, simplified management, and protection for key workloads. The presentation outlines roadmap features for 2015 and potential future enhancements.
IBM released updates to FlashCopy Manager 3.2 and IBM TSM for Virtual Environments 6.4. The updates include enhancements to backup and restore capabilities for virtual machines, file systems, databases and applications. New features allow integration with remote replication technologies and support for virtual disk mappings. The user interface was also improved with a new configuration wizard.
IBM released updates to FlashCopy Manager 3.2 and IBM TSM for Virtual Environments 6.4. The updates include enhancements to backup and restore capabilities for virtual machines, file systems, databases, and custom applications. They provide improved support for VMware environments, SQL Server 2012, Exchange 2010, and remote mirroring capabilities. The user interface was also enhanced with a new configuration wizard and reporting features.
It is a time of unprecedented challenges for the SAP world. Recent SAP documents and statements have
variously referred to the need to maintain business momentum in “challenging times…hard times…
perilous times…tough times…volatile times…turbulent times.”
The document discusses IBM's Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) data protection and recovery product. It provides an overview of TSM server products, applications supported, new features in recent versions including support for virtual environments, reporting and monitoring, and the TSM Suite for Unified Recovery. It also briefly outlines IBM's vision for smarter storage software going forward.
Meet the IBM Storwize family and discover IBM Smarter Storage for small and medium businesses and its advantages: efficient by design, self optimizing, cloud agile. Start smart and grow easily with IBM Smarter Storage and meet its high performance like a midrange disk system.
The document discusses IBM's information infrastructure and journey to the cloud. It notes that smarter systems are creating an information explosion as data from sources like RFID tags and smart meters grows exponentially. This growth is outpacing storage budget increases, creating inefficiencies. The IBM SAN Volume Controller addresses this by virtualizing storage across arrays into a single pool to improve utilization and simplify management. It allows non-disruptive data migration and copy services to further optimize infrastructure and ensure business continuity.
FlashSystem 7300 Midrange Enterprise for Hybrid Cloud L2 Sellers Presentation...ssuserecfcc8
The document provides information about IBM's FlashSystem 7300 including its key features, specifications, supported host adapters and configurations. It discusses IBM Storage Expert Care options and expanding support offerings. Memory and adapter plug-in rules and recommendations are also covered to help optimize the FlashSystem 7300 for different workloads and use cases.
IBM Spectrum Virtualize is a software defined storage solution that provides storage virtualization, data mobility, protection and copy services. It supports a wide range of storage platforms and can scale to manage over 400 storage arrays. The solution provides agility, efficiency and protection for applications and data.
Software Snapshots FTW? Practical Experiences of Software Snapshots with TSM ...David McClelland
A presentation delivered by David McClelland at the Butterfly Network Event and IBM Bedfont Lakes in May 2011. An overview of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack and some practical experiences in using it.
Track 1 Virtualizing Critical Applications with VMWARE VISPHERE by Roshan ShettyEMC Forum India
Virtualizing Critical Applications with Vsphere 5 provides concise summaries of the key enhancements in vSphere 5 that enable virtualizing even the most critical applications. These include support for larger virtual machines with up to 32 vCPUs, 1TB of RAM and 4x larger sizes. It also improves availability, storage, and network services with features like Storage DRS, Profile-Driven Storage, and Network I/O Control that provide performance guarantees and help prevent resource starvation issues. The document also highlights how vSphere 5 simplifies infrastructure deployment and management with capabilities such as Auto Deploy, vCenter Server Appliance, and the new Web Client.
- The document discusses IBM's cloud storage options, including IBM XIV, SAN Volume Controller, Elastic Storage Server, IBM Spectrum Archive, and IBM Spectrum Storage software-defined storage offerings. It also covers unified file and object storage with IBM Spectrum Scale and IBM Cloud Object Storage.
- The presentation covers topics such as business continuity, IBM's cloud storage options, IBM Cloud Object Storage, converged and hyperconverged environments, storage tiering, and IBM Spectrum Scale for file and object storage.
- IBM offers various cloud storage solutions including block, file, object, reference, hosted, ephemeral, and persistent storage options that can be deployed on-premises or off-premises.
Learn about the IBM Flex System V7000 Storage Node. IBM Flex System V7000 Storage Node is derived from the same base technology as the successful IBM Storwize V7000. It inherits unmatched performance and flexibility through internal virtualization and built-in flash memory optimization technologies. It enables external virtualization, consolidation, and tiering, and improves application availability and resource usage for organizations of all sizes. For more information on Pure Systems, visit http://ibm.co/18vDnp6.
Visit the official Scribd Channel of IBM India Smarter Computing at http://bit.ly/VwO86R to get access to more documents.
The document discusses storage virtualization using IBM's Storwize V7000 and SVC storage arrays. It provides an overview of the key benefits of storage virtualization such as reducing complexity, improving availability and enabling better use of tiered storage. It also summarizes the history and enhancements of the SVC software, features of Storwize V7000 such as Easy Tier and support for VMware vSphere.
This document provides an overview of the VNX storage solutions from EMC Corporation. It discusses the key capabilities of the VNX family such as unified storage, hybrid flash technology, and cloud readiness. The document is intended as a repository of slides for sales and marketing presentations on VNX. It provides information on the various VNX models and options, hybrid flash guidelines, management integrations, service provider partnerships, and customer case studies.
Presentation integration vmware with emc storagesolarisyourep
This document summarizes an EMC presentation on storage essentials. The presentation covered EMC's integration with VMware including features like VAAI, backup and replication solutions using Avamar, and the use of tiered storage technologies like FAST to improve performance. It also discussed reference architectures for VDI deployments using View and how VPLEX can enable live migration of VMs across sites for high availability.
PHD Virtual Technologies presented their virtual backup appliance product. Their solution uses virtual backup appliances that deploy as small VMs to conduct backups without impacting production. It leverages deduplication and compression for efficient backups. The virtual appliance architecture provides reliability, security, ease of use, scalability and fault tolerance compared to traditional backup methods. PHD also highlighted features like SureRestore technology to ensure backup integrity and one step restore capabilities.
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This document provides the table of contents and introduction for the PostgreSQL 14.6 documentation. It describes that PostgreSQL is an open-source object-relational database system that uses and extends the SQL language combined with many features that safely store and scale the most complicated data workloads. The documentation is copyrighted by the PostgreSQL Global Development Group and provides instructions for how to report bugs and get further information.
This document provides instructions for a lab exercise on getting started with IBM MobileFirst Platform. It introduces the key concepts of MobileFirst Platform Studio and walks through steps to import a sample banking application project, examine the project structure, add an Android environment, and preview the application in the Mobile Browser Simulator and an Android device. It also demonstrates how to invoke adapters and use the MobileFirst Platform Console and Operational Analytics. The lab aims to familiarize users with the MobileFirst Platform development tools and features.
The IBM MobileFirst Platform provides mobile application development tools and services. It allows developers to integrate backend data, continuously improve apps based on user feedback, and deliver personalized experiences. The platform provides modular services for contextualizing apps, securing data, and gaining insights from usage data. It supports both hybrid and native mobile application development.
IBM MobileFirst Foundation provides tools for developing hybrid, native, and mobile web applications using standards-based technologies. This proof of technology session will demonstrate how to use IBM MobileFirst Foundation to accelerate mobile app development, provide management of deployed apps, and utilize capabilities like in-app notifications, operational analytics, and sentiment analysis. The agenda includes presentations and hands-on labs covering app development, backend integration, app lifecycle management, quality assurance, and the MobileFirst architecture. The session is intended for IT professionals interested in a mobile application platform and will be offered free of charge with breakfast provided.
The document describes adding a mobile coupons ("My Offers") feature to the IBMBank mobile application. It involves using the MobileFirst Platform Service Discovery wizard to generate an adapter for a SOAP web service, adding HTML/JS to display offer data from the service, and implementing local storage of selected offers using the JSON Store database. Key steps include discovering and testing the SOAP service, importing JS files, initializing JSON Store, modifying the app code to retrieve and save offers, and previewing the updated app.
This document provides instructions for a lab exercise on getting started with IBM MobileFirst Platform. It introduces the key concepts of MobileFirst Platform Studio and walks through steps to import a sample banking application project, examine the project structure, add an Android environment, and preview the application in the Mobile Browser Simulator and an Android device. It also demonstrates how to invoke backend services using adapters and view analytics data from the MobileFirst Operations Console. The document contains detailed steps, screenshots and explanations to help users learn fundamental MobileFirst Platform development tasks.
This document describes a lab exercise to demonstrate application management functions in IBM MobileFirst using the MobileFirst Operations Console. The lab will:
1. Deploy an initial version of an IBMBank mobile application to a MobileFirst Server.
2. Publish an updated version of the application to fix a bug, and test the "Direct Update" feature which pushes changes to client devices.
3. Configure application status notifications via the MobileFirst Operations Console and see them displayed on an Android emulator.
This document provides an overview of IBM MobileFirst Platform's operational analytics features. It describes how the analytics platform collects and analyzes data from mobile applications, servers, and devices to provide visibility into performance and usage. The analytics console contains various views and capabilities for searching logs, viewing charts and reports, and diagnosing issues. It summarizes the different data sources, events captured, and the client and server APIs used to log additional analytics data. The document then outlines the steps to access the analytics console and walk through its key pages and functionality.
This document provides instructions for using the MobileFirst Quality Assurance tool on Bluemix to perform sentiment analysis. It first gives a brief overview of MobileFirst Quality Assurance and its capabilities. It then outlines the steps to set up a Mobile Quality Assurance service instance on Bluemix and link it to an iOS app. Finally, it describes how to view the sentiment analysis results in production, including overall sentiment scores, attribute dashboards, comparison to other apps, and attribute trend statistics.
The document describes an exercise using IBM Mobile Quality Assurance (MQA) to test a mobile banking application and report bugs. Students will launch an Android emulator containing the instrumented app. They can test the app functionality and use MQA's in-app notification to report bugs found, such as a misspelled button label. MQA will capture screenshots which students can annotate to describe the issue. All bug reports are uploaded to MQA and viewed by instructors in Bluemix to share with the class. The goal is to introduce MQA's capabilities for mobile app testing and feedback.
This document provides an overview and instructions for installing and configuring the Tivoli Management Environment (TME) platform. It discusses planning the installation, installing TME software on UNIX and PC nodes, configuring the TME management regions and resources, creating administrators and policy regions, and diagnosing common installation issues. It also provides guidance on setting up backups and describes capabilities of the Tivoli/Courier deployment application for managing file packages.
This document provides an overview of firewalls and demilitarized zones (DMZs), and summarizes Tivoli Framework solutions for communicating across firewalls in a secure manner. It describes how Tivoli Framework 3.7.1 introduced single port bulk data transfer and endpoint upcall port consolidation to reduce open ports. The Firewall Solutions Toolbox further improves security with endpoint and gateway proxies, relays to cross multiple DMZs adhering to no direct routing, and supporting unidirectional communications. It also describes the event sink for collecting events from non-Tivoli sources.
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This document provides an overview and guide for using Business Objects reporting tools with Tivoli Data Warehouse 1.2. It covers Business Objects products and platform, installing Business Objects desktop components, configuring Business Objects for Tivoli Data Warehouse, creating reports, advanced reporting and security features, and deploying reports. The document contains examples and step-by-step instructions for setting up Business Objects and generating simple to advanced reports on Tivoli Data Warehouse data.
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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/
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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.
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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
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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.
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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:
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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14. 8. Figure 12 shows the successful completion of installation and configuration.
Figure 12 Completion step
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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