Tivoli Storage Manager V6.1 Technical Guide

Tivoli Storage Manager V6.1 Technical Guide

by Mary Lovelace, Gerd Becker, Dan Edwards, Shayne Gardener, Mikael Lindstrom, Craig McAllister, Norbert Pott
Released December 2009
Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
ISBN: None

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Book description

This IBM® Redbooks® publication provides details of changes, updates, and new functions in IBM Tivoli® Storage Manager Version 6.1. We cover all the new functions of Tivoli Storage Manager that have become available since the publication of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Version 5.4 and Version 5.5 Technical Guide, SG24-7447.

This book is for customers, consultants, IBM Business Partners, and IBM and Tivoli staff who are familiar with earlier releases of Tivoli Storage Manager and who want to understand what is new in Version 6.1. Hence, because we target an experienced audience, we use certain shortcuts to commands and concepts of Tivoli Storage Manager. If you want to learn more about Tivoli Storage Manager functionality, see IBM Tivoli Storage Management Concepts, SG24-7447, and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Implementation Guide, SG24-5416.

This publication should be used in conjunction with the manuals and readme files provided with the products and is not intended to replace any information contained therein.

Table of contents

  1. Notices
    1. Trademarks
  2. Preface
    1. The team who wrote this book
    2. Become a published author
    3. Comments welcome
  3. Part 1: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager introduction
  4. Chapter 1: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager overview
    1. 1.1: Overview
    2. 1.2: Product positioning
    3. 1.3: Overview of the development timeline
      1. Upgrade path for clients and servers
      2. Migration guidelines
    4. 1.4: Overview of new features
      1. Server enhancements, additions, and changes from Version 6.1
      2. Client enhancements, additions, and changes from Version 6.1
    5. 1.5: Additional functionality overview
      1. Tivoli Storage Manager for SAN, additions, and changes
      2. Tivoli Storage Manager HSM for Windows Version 6.1, additions, and changes
      3. Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Management, additions and changes
    6. 1.6: Additional information about Tivoli Storage Manager V6.1
  5. Chapter 2: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for products
    1. 2.1: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail
    2. 2.2: Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server
    3. 2.3: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Microsoft SharePoint V6.1
    4. 2.4: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for ERP
    5. 2.5: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Advanced Copy Services V6.1 and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Copy Services V6.1
  6. Part 2: Tivoli Storage Manager enhancements since V5.4 and V5.5
  7. Chapter 3: Tivoli Storage Manager enhancements provided since V5.5 availability
    1. 3.1: SAN Device Mapping for Virtual Tape Library
    2. 3.2: RELABELSCRATCH parameter for Virtual Tape Libraries
    3. 3.3: RECLAIMDELAY and RECLAIMPERIOD server options
    4. 3.4: Tivoli Storage Manager HP-UX passthru driver support
  8. Part 3: Tivoli Storage Manager V6.1 Server enhancements
  9. Chapter 4: Commands, utilities, and option changes
    1. 4.1: New server commands, utilities, and options
    2. 4.2: Updated server commands, utilities, and options
    3. 4.3: Deleted server commands, utilities, and options
  10. Chapter 5: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager database
    1. 5.1: Background
    2. 5.2: Transition to DB2
      1. Database transition
      2. General DB2 configuration items
      3. Database and log configuration items (1/3)
      4. Database and log configuration items (2/3)
      5. Database and log configuration items (3/3)
    3. 5.3: Database administration tools
      1. DB2 commands
      2. DB2 Control Center (1/3)
      3. DB2 Control Center (2/3)
      4. DB2 Control Center (3/3)
    4. 5.4: Database maintenance
      1. Backing up your database
      2. Restoring the database (1/2)
      3. Restoring the database (2/2)
      4. Increase database space
      5. Diagnostic information (1/2)
      6. Diagnostic information (2/2)
  11. Chapter 6: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Disaster Recovery Manager
    1. 6.1: Introduction to disaster recovery
    2. 6.2: Disaster Recovery Manager changes in V6.1
      1. New system requirements for V6.1
      2. Recovery plan limitations
      3. DRM enhancements for V6.1
      4. Disaster Recovery Manager exclusions in V6.1
    3. 6.3: Recovery of a V6.1 Tivoli Storage Manager server
      1. Local disaster recovery of the Tivoli Storage Manager database
      2. DR site recovery of the Tivoli Storage Manager server
      3. DR site recovery scenario
    4. 6.4: Data deduplication considerations
      1. Data life cycle for a Tivoli Storage Manager server and DRM
      2. Data life cycle for a Tivoli Storage Manager server and DRM including deduplicated storage pools
    5. 6.5: Seven tiers of disaster recovery solutions
      1. A breakdown of the seven tiers
      2. Selecting the optimum Disaster Recovery solution
    6. 6.6: Best practices for offsite data vaulting and security
  12. Chapter 7: Data deduplication in Tivoli Storage Manager V6.1
    1. 7.1: Introduction to deduplication
      1. Deduplication approaches
      2. Deduplication ratios
      3. Tivoli Storage Manager V6.1 deduplication overview
      4. Should we use Tivoli Storage Manager, or VTL/Filer deduplication?
    2. 7.2: Implementing deduplication
  13. Chapter 8: No-query restore changes
    1. 8.1: Introduction
      1. Proprietary NQR algorithm
      2. Objectives of the new NQR process
      3. New NQR process
    2. 8.2: Summary
  14. Chapter 9: Expiration enhancements
    1. 9.1: Introduction
      1. Proprietary expiration algorithm
      2. Objectives of the new expiration process
      3. Enhanced Tivoli Storage Manager V6.1 expiration algorithm
    2. 9.2: Externals of the enhanced expiration
      1. Command line changes
      2. Administration Center integration: Expiration
      3. Administration Center integration: maintenance script
      4. New server messages
      5. Expiration restart
      6. Expiration retries
    3. 9.3: Summary
  15. Chapter 10: Changes to the TXNGROUPMAX default
    1. 10.1: Transaction handling
      1. TXNGROUPMAX option examples
      2. Server options
    2. 10.2: Implementation example
    3. 10.3: Summary
  16. Part 4: Tivoli Storage Manager V6.1 Client enhancements
  17. Chapter 11: HSM for Windows
    1. 11.1: Introduction
    2. 11.2: Automatic threshold migration
      1. Installation
      2. Configuration
      3. Operation
    3. 11.3: Summary
  18. Chapter 12: Active Directory Object Item Restore
    1. 12.1: Active Directory overview
    2. 12.2: Version 6.1 Client Update
      1. Design limitations for restore
      2. New client commands and parameters
      3. New client options
  19. Chapter 13: Client restore statistics
    1. 13.1: QUERYSUMMARY option
    2. 13.2: QUERYSUMMARY output
  20. Part 5: Complimentary products and NDMP
  21. Chapter 14: N Series support
    1. 14.1: Overview
      1. Large file system backup
      2. IP address of server interface to receive NDMP backup data
    2. 14.2: SnapMirror to Tape
      1. How to set up, use, and control SnapMirror to Tape for backup
      2. How to restore a NAS Volume from SnapMirror to Tape backup
    3. 14.3: The snapdiff option for NFS data stored on NetApp filers
      1. Overview of SnapDiff
      2. How the Backup Archive Client interacts with the SnapDiff-API
      3. Preparation for using SnapDiff API
      4. Using snapdiff option to do Incremental Backup for NAS file systems (1/2)
      5. Using snapdiff option to do Incremental Backup for NAS file systems (2/2)
      6. Hints and tips for troubleshooting
      7. Performance issues and test results
  22. Chapter 15: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Data Protection for Mail: Exchange 6.1
    1. 15.1: System requirements
      1. Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange V6.1 on Windows for x86
      2. Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 SP2 or later
      3. Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange V6.1 on Windows for x64
      4. Compatibility issues with earlier versions
      5. Backup methods supported
    2. 15.2: Individual Mailbox Restore feature
      1. Individual Mailbox Restore limitations
      2. Tivoli Storage Manager 6.1 Mailbox Restore features
      3. Exchange Server: Mailbox Restore
      4. Tivoli Storage Manager Mailbox Restore limitations
      5. The restoremailbox command line parameter
  23. Part 6: Tivoli Storage Manager V6.1 planning considerations
  24. Chapter 16: Installation and upgrade planning for Tivoli Storage Manager V6.1
    1. 16.1: Overview
    2. 16.2: Upgrade strategy
      1. What you can and cannot do with Tivoli Storage Manager V6.1
      2. Upgrade considerations
    3. 16.3: Preparation
      1. System requirements for the V6.1 server system
      2. System requirements for the V6.1 reporting and monitoring
      3. Client environment requirements
      4. Tivoli Storage Manager Client compatibility
    4. 16.4: Database capacity planning
      1. Overview of the four different log types
      2. Recovery logs summary
    5. 16.5: Planning an upgrade from V5 to V6
      1. Database restructure
      2. Estimating the upgrade time
      3. Space requirements (1/2)
      4. Space requirements (2/2)
      5. Work sheet for planning space for the V6.1 server
      6. High level process for upgrading the server to V6.1
    6. 16.6: Naming best practices
    7. 16.7: Performance
    8. 16.8: Upgrading an existing system versus a new system
      1. Comparison of methods for moving data to the V6.1 database
      2. Details of the database upgrade process
      3. Tivoli Storage Manager V6.1 upgrade utilities
    9. 16.9: Upgrade scenarios
      1. Scenario 1: New system, media method
      2. Upgrading the server using the wizard
      3. Scenario 2: New system, network method
      4. Upgrading using the wizard
      5. Scenario 3: Same system, media method
      6. Summary of the wizard method scenario
      7. Scenario 4: Same system, network method
      8. Upgrading the server using the wizard
      9. Hybrid upgrade migration method (1/2)
      10. Hybrid upgrade migration method (2/2)
    10. 16.10: Testing
      1. Testing the upgrade process for a server
      2. Test by extracting data from a separate copy of the server
      3. Test by extracting data from the production server
    11. 16.11: Planning for operational changes
    12. 16.12: Why use the database upgrade wizards
    13. 16.13: An upgrade test
      1. Upgrading from V5.5 to V6.1, step by step
      2. Additional preparation activities
    14. 16.14: Modifying the server before the upgrade
      1. Performance tips for the V5 database extraction process
      2. Performance tips for inserting data into the V6.1 database
    15. 16.15: Tivoli Storage Manager documentation
  25. Part 7: Installation, customization, and upgrade of Tivoli Storage Manager V6.1 Server and Client
  26. Chapter 17: Installation of Tivoli Storage Manager V6.1 on AIX
    1. 17.1: System requirements for AIX
      1. Planning the installation
      2. System requirements
    2. 17.2: Installation tasks
      1. Prepare the installation source
      2. Choosing the installation method for AIX
    3. 17.3: Installing Tivoli Storage Manager for AIX software
    4. 17.4: Installation using the console installation wizard
      1. Setup of X11 environment for non-graphical environments
      2. Installation wizard using X11 redirection
    5. 17.5: Post-installation steps for Tivoli Storage Manager
      1. Preparing the AIX server for Tivoli Storage Manager instances
      2. Post-completion tasks
      3. Configuring using the dsmicfgx and X11 redirection (1/2)
      4. Configuring using the dsmicfgx and X11 redirection (2/2)
    6. 17.6: Upgrading from Tivoli Storage Manager V6.1.0
    7. 17.7: Problem determination and recovery actions
      1. Database queries and validation
      2. Logs
      3. Completely removing the Deployment Engine if required
    8. 17.8: Backup considerations for production on V6.1
  27. Chapter 18: Installation of Tivoli Storage Manager V6.1 on Windows
    1. 18.1: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager planning for installation
    2. 18.2: System requirements for Windows
      1. Hardware
      2. Software
    3. 18.3: Planning for space for the V6.1 server
    4. 18.4: Tivoli Storage Manager V6.1 components
      1. Package names
      2. Package extraction
      3. Installing components
    5. 18.5: Installing the Tivoli Storage Manager components
    6. 18.6: Installation wizard installation (1/2)
    7. 18.6: Installation wizard installation (2/2)
    8. 18.7: Command-line console wizard
    9. 18.8: Silent mode installation
      1. Silent mode without saving responses
      2. Silent mode saving responses
    10. 18.9: Creating directories and user ID for the server instance
      1. Creating the directories for the server instance
      2. Creating the user ID for the server instance
    11. 18.10: Configuring a new Tivoli Storage Manager Server instance
    12. 18.11: Using the Tivoli Storage Manager configuration wizard (1/3)
    13. 18.11: Using the Tivoli Storage Manager configuration wizard (2/3)
    14. 18.11: Using the Tivoli Storage Manager configuration wizard (3/3)
    15. 18.12: Creating the server instance manually
      1. Manually creating a Tivoli Storage Manager instance
      2. Running multiple server instances on a single system
      3. Configuring server and client communications
      4. TCP/IP options
      5. Named Pipes options
      6. Shared memory options
      7. SNMP DPI subagent options
      8. Monitoring the server
      9. Network connection types
    16. 18.13: Debugging techniques
      1. Investigating log messages
      2. How to completely remove Deployment Engine
    17. 18.14: Gathering logs
  28. Chapter 19: Tivoli Storage Manager V6.1 Backup-Archive Client update and installation changes
    1. 19.1: Backup-Archive Client updates
      1. New function in Tivoli Storage Manager V6.1
      2. Related commands
    2. 19.2: Installation of the Tivoli Storage Manager V6.1 client
      1. Migrating from earlier versions
      2. Considerations for migrating between processor architectures
      3. Unicode considerations
      4. Additional migration information
      5. Upgrading Open File Support or online image
      6. NDMP support requirements (Extended Edition only)
      7. Installing from the Tivoli Storage Manager DVD
      8. Installation steps
      9. Installation steps (1/3)
      10. Installation steps (2/3)
      11. Installation steps (3/3)
  29. Part 8: Tivoli Storage Manager V6.1 monitoring, reporting, ISC, and Administration Center
  30. Chapter 20: Monitoring and reporting in Tivoli Storage Manager V6.1
    1. 20.1: Monitoring and reporting overview
      1. Administration Center: Health Monitor
      2. Administration Center: Reporting
      3. Tivoli Storage Manager Monitoring and Reporting
    2. 20.2: Monitoring and reporting installation
    3. 20.3: Installing the Monitoring and Reporting feature (1/2)
    4. 20.3: Installing the Monitoring and Reporting feature (2/2)
    5. 20.4: Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools
  31. Chapter 21: Integrated Solutions Console and Administration Center
    1. 21.1: Introduction
      1. New installations
      2. Upgrade and co-existence
      3. Upgrade considerations
    2. 21.2: Administration Center updates and enhancements
      1. Policy Domain configuration panels
      2. Updated Integrated Solutions Console
      3. WebSphere Windows service
    3. 21.3: Administration Center features in V6.1
      1. Identify managing servers
      2. Hover help for table links
      3. Information links for server and Administration Center messages
      4. Maintenance script enhancements
      5. Client nodes and backup sets enhancements
      6. Centralized server-connection management
      7. Changes to management-class activation
      8. DRM support for Active Data Pools
      9. Health Monitor
      10. Reporting
      11. Creating a new server instance (1/2)
      12. Creating a new server instance (2/2)
      13. Client nodes and backup set enhancements (1/2)
      14. Client nodes and backup set enhancements (2/2)
      15. Maintenance plan enhancements (1/3)
      16. Maintenance plan enhancements (2/3)
      17. Maintenance plan enhancements (3/3)
    4. 21.4: Integrated Solutions Console changes
      1. Tivoli Common Reporting
      2. Single user ID signon
      3. Credential Store
      4. Manage Global Refresh
      5. Quick references
    5. 21.5: Additional notes of interest
  32. Part 9: Tivoli Storage Manager V6.1 upgrade consolidation
  33. Chapter 22: Upgrading to Tivoli Storage Manager V6.1
    1. 22.1: Upgrade strategy
      1. The process for upgrading the server to V6.1
      2. The DSMUPGRD upgrade utilities
    2. 22.2: Hardware and software server requirements for upgrade
      1. Hardware and software requirements for V5 server upgrade
      2. Upgrade utility additional information
      3. Hardware and software requirements for the upgraded server
      4. Server requirements on AIX systems
      5. Server requirements on HP-UX systems
      6. Server requirements on Linux systems
      7. Server requirements for Linux on x86_64 systems
      8. Server requirements for Linux on System z systems
      9. Server requirements on Sun Solaris systems
      10. Server requirements on Microsoft Windows systems
    3. 22.3: Planning space for the upgrade process and server
      1. Space requirements for the V5 server system
      2. Space requirements for the Tivoli Storage Manager V6 server system
      3. Estimating total space requirements for upgrade process and server
    4. 22.4: Estimating the upgrade time
      1. Performance tips for the extraction process
      2. Performance tips for inserting data into the V6.1 database
    5. 22.5: Planning for upgrading multiple servers and components
      1. Compatibility with servers and components running at earlier versions
      2. Planning for upgrading multiple servers on a single system
      3. Planning for upgrading library managers and library clients
      4. Planning for upgrading clients
      5. Planning for upgrading storage agents
    6. 22.6: Testing
    7. 22.7: Preparing for operational changes
  34. Chapter 23: Tivoli Storage Manager V6.1 Upgrade Scenarios
    1. 23.1: The basics of planning the upgrade
    2. 23.2: Upgrade scenarios
    3. 23.3: Upgrading from V5.5 to V6.1 step by step
      1. Modifying the server before the upgrade
      2. Upgrade steps: V5.5 server to V6.1 on Windows platform (1/5)
      3. Upgrade steps: V5.5 server to V6.1 on Windows platform (2/5)
      4. Upgrade steps: V5.5 server to V6.1 on Windows platform (3/5)
      5. Upgrade steps: V5.5 server to V6.1 on Windows platform (4/5)
      6. Upgrade steps: V5.5 server to V6.1 on Windows platform (5/5)
      7. Summary of the upgrade
    4. 23.4: Steps after V6.1 server is started
      1. Initial verification
      2. Database backup
    5. 23.5: Sample commands to run for database upgrade validation
    6. 23.6: Common database maintenance tasks
    7. 23.7: Scripting and reporting
      1. SQL function
      2. SQL syntax enforcement examples
    8. 23.8: How to rollback to V5 if needed or restart the process
    9. 23.9: Debugging
    10. 23.10: Gathering logs
    11. 23.11: Upgrade for NAS TOC data on AIX
      1. Steps for the upgrade
      2. Summary
  35. Part 10: Appendixes
  36. Appendix A: Configuring ODBC connections
    1. DB2 configuration for ODBC
      1. ODBC target machine configuration
      2. ODBC client machine configuration (1/2)
      3. ODBC client machine configuration (2/2)
      4. ODBC connection examples (1/3)
      5. ODBC connection examples (2/3)
      6. ODBC connection examples (3/3)
  37. Appendix B: DB2 and SQL commands
    1. Commands to manage the database environment (1/2)
    2. Commands to manage the database environment (2/2)
    3. Diagnosing and troubleshooting the database environment (1/2)
    4. Diagnosing and troubleshooting the database environment (2/2)
    5. Monitoring the status and health of the database
    6. Changes to the SELECT command
      1. LIKE predicate for a nested SELECT statement
      2. SELECT statements for time calculation
      3. The index_keyseq and index_order columns
      4. Access to database objects using the SELECT command
      5. Table joins and column labeling
      6. Results of the SELECT command for the DISK device class
      7. Extra spaces appearing in output
  38. Appendix C: Recovering from log exhausted conditions
    1. Preparing for the out of log space condition
      1. The server crash scenario
      2. Recovering the server
      3. Complete the recovery
    2. Summary
  39. Related publications
    1. IBM Redbooks publications
    2. Other publications
    3. Online resources
    4. How to get IBM Redbooks publications
    5. Help from IBM
  40. Index (1/3)
  41. Index (2/3)
  42. Index (3/3)
  43. Back cover

Product information

  • Title: Tivoli Storage Manager V6.1 Technical Guide
  • Author(s): Mary Lovelace, Gerd Becker, Dan Edwards, Shayne Gardener, Mikael Lindstrom, Craig McAllister, Norbert Pott
  • Release date: December 2009
  • Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
  • ISBN: None