Tivoli Storage Manager 6.3.3 & 6.4

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Technical Updates:

- IBM FlashCopy Manager 3.2 - IBM TSM for Virtual Environments 6.4 Cyrus Niltchian, Technical Evangelist, [email protected]


Tivoli Technical Enablement

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q  Updates for FlashCopy Manager for Windows

q  Updates for FlashCopy Manager for UNIX

q  Updates for FlashCopy Manager for VMware

q  Updates IBM TSM for Virtual Environments

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Tivoli Technical Enablement File System and Custom Application support with TSM Integration

1. User stops or suspends application. This can be automated using the TSM PRESNAPSHOT option. 2. User executes FlashCopy Manager command to perform a snapshot of volumes containing the application files. 3. User restarts or resumes application. This can be automated using the TSM POSTSNAPSHOT option. 4. Snapshot is optionally sent to TSM by FCM

§  Integrated backups for File Systems/Custom Applications to be offloaded into TSM

§  Prior to FCM 3.2, TSM integration for File Systems/Custom Applications was manual

FlashCopy Manager

Logical Volume

Local Snapshot Versions Snapshot

Backup

Custom

Apps

TSM Server

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FlashCopy Manager

Logical Volume

Local Snapshot Versions Snapshot

Backup

Just-in-time import/export of VSS snapshots

Custom

Apps

§  VSS snapshots are mapped to production/offload host only when needed , they are no longer

mapped by default

§  New option in FCM 3.2, which works for clustered and non-clustered systems

§  Avoids consuming limited host system resources to maintain a large number of snapshots

§  In VMware/ESX environments SCSI device limits are not exhausted

No Mapping Required

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Tivoli Technical Enablement Other Enhancements

§  Improved Exchange 2010 Data Base Availability Group (DAG) Support - Backup to Common DAG Node

•  Back up DAG databases to a common location •  Manage DAG backups using a common policy •  Restore DAG backups to any active DAG member

- Single Instance Backup •  Coordinate backups between DAG members so that only one copy is backed up per backup cycle

§  SQL Server 2012 Support - AlwaysOn Availability Group Support

§  Protect Primary Replicas §  Protect Secondary Replicas §  Common file space in TSM Environment §  Configuration of Where Backup Jobs Run

- Support Windows Server Core Environment

§  Snapshot backups of the volumes to be stored on the TSM Server in “TSM - image” format

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Tivoli Technical Enablement SQL Server 2012 Support

§  Configuring where backup jobs run in an availability group –  Setting Backup Priority and Preferred Replica through FCM/DP property sheets –  Backup option /ALWAYSONPriority

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System Storage

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System Storage

StandbyProduction

Production Volume

Metro/Global Mirror

FlashCopy

Produc

tion

Server

Global/Metro/Remote Mirror snapshot integration

Introduce Support for application consistent copies from target of a remote mirror relationship on SVC, Storwize V7000 and XIV

FCM

Production Server

FCM*

Failover Server

TSM Server

FCM

Backup Server

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DR (Disaster Recovery) Site Primary Site * Only required for restore at DR Site



§ Similar capabilities at the DR site to what FCM has today at the primary site §  Extends FCM to allow FlashCopy / Snapshot management in the DR site §  Offload workload from production disk subsystem §  Supports DB2 , Oracle, SAP (DB2 or Oracle), Custom Applications/File Systems § Supported Disk Subsystems: XIV, SVC and Storwize V7000 § Supported Operating Systems: AIX, Linux, Solaris and HP-UX § Leveraging XIV´s Remote Mirror in synchronous or asynchronous mode § Leveraging SVC/V7000 Metro (synchronous) or Global Mirror (asynchronous) § Backup Flow:

1.  FCM at the Production site sets the Database in backup mode 2.  FCM triggers snapshot at the DR Site 3.  Optional Backup into TSM takes place at the DR site

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Global/Metro/Remote Mirror snapshot integration


Tivoli Technical Enablement Global Mirror / Metro Mirror integration Use Cases

Use Cases for application consistent copies from target of the remote mirror relationships on SVC, Storwize V7000 and XIV

§ Use snapshot at DR site as Backup for Data Protection

§ Consolidated Data Protection at the DR site § Restored to a takeover host at the DR site after a take over of the production

server, e.g. in case of disaster or maintenance taks

§ Mounted to an optional backup server at the DR site and sent to a TSM Server

§ Used for cloning of the database instance at DR site

§ Consolidate multiple backups (single or multiple primary sites) to the DR site

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Tivoli Technical Enablement FCM – N Series/NetAPP Support

§  Unix-based FCM support for IBM N Series / NetAPP Disk Sub Systems

§  FCM on UNIX now supports: SVC, V7000, DS8000, DS6000, XIV and N Series

§  Supports VMware, Oracle, DB2, SAP, Custom Applications, Unix/Linux file systems

§ FCM Support for IBM N series / NetApp devices as their primary storage for supported applications and databases (especially VMWare)

§ Support for Data Protection and Cloning

§ Volumes can be Fibre Channel or iSCSI attached

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Tivoli Technical Enablement Add VMWare support for backup/restore of VMs with Raw Device Mappings

Many databases and applications use Raw Disks/

Partitions for performance reasons. When using FCM for VMware, this new

enhancement avoids errors in VM restores that have raw device mappings.

Disk Subsystem

SAN

• VM1

Snaps VM1

LUN1

LUN2 VM1’s Physical RDM

VM1’s Virtual disk

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§  Types of RDMs: - pRDMs (physical) and vRDMs (virtual)

§  FCM’s Support: -  FCM supports both in toleration mode

§  FCM‘s Toleration Mode: - Clear indication that the virtual disk was skipped inserted in the OVF configuration file and in saved Object Info Disk structure - Disks treated exactly as if the user had excluded these disks from the backup

§ How to protect them: - FCM inside the VM can be used to protect RDMs

§  Examples of Applications and Databases that may use RDMs: –  Oracle, Informix, SQL Server, MYSQL –  DB2 on Linux –  MS Exchange –  BEA Tuxedo

Add VMWare support for backup/restore of VMs with Raw Device Mappings

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Levels of RDM Support

Toleration Mode Toleration Mode

Fully Supported Toleration Mode

pRDM vRDM

FCM

TSM for VE

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Tivoli Technical Enablement Concurrent Attach of Multiple VMs from same Backup

§  FCM 3.1 – Manages VMs one at a time, customers cannot attach/detach multiple VMs concurrently

§  FCM 3.2: – Allows concurrent attach of multiple VMs from the same backup – Supports granular detach operations which allow to detach VMs at the VM level so that

other attached VMs within the same backup are not affected – Allows concurrent operations while VMs of a backup are attached, e.g. restore and tape

backup – Maintains meta information of attached VMDKs in its internal repository, which will allow

additional attach operations for the same backup and concurrent operations – Provides a new view in the GUI that displays all attached VMs and gives the possibility to

detach virtual disks on VM level granularity

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§  Backup & Restore of VMware Templates

§  Backup & Restore of VMs within a vApp

§  Restore VMs to the original resource pool location assuming the resource pool still exists

§  Plugin GUI enhancements - More easily select VMs to be backed up - Better reporting on backup tasks

More Enhancements

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Tivoli Technical Enablement VMware progressive incremental backup (Incremental Forever)

vStorage Backup Server

Changed Block Tracking

• TSM API

• B/A Client

• TSM for VE Recovery Agent

• NAS/local

• Guest • Machines • Host • Machines • (ESX, ESXi)

• VMFS

• Datastore • Datastore • Datastore • SAN

• VMDK

Restore full and apply required incrementals

Expiration of non-used blocks on TSM server

TSM for VE 6.3 6.4: Progressive Incremental

Full-VM Backup Periodic full + incrementals

Full-VM Restore

Initial full + incrementals

Only restore required blocks once

TSM Server

vCenter

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Tivoli Technical Enablement Progressive Incremental Backup: How does it work ?

§ Transparent process, which works on block-level basis

§ Keeping track of changed blocks works ´on the fly´ (during backup)

§ No longer required blocks are marked as expired

§ During Backup, only meta data (pointers to blocks) are being processed

§ Regular TSM Expiration expires all blocks marked for deletion

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Tivoli Technical Enablement Progressive Incremental visualized in the Plugin GUI

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TSM for VE: Support for Backup/Restore of VMs with RDM Disks Handle raw disk mappings: pRDM and vRDM

vRDM Backup Supported today, works just like a regular disk pRDM Backup Clear indication that the virtual disk was skipped inserted in the OVF configuration file and in saved Object Info Disk structure

– pRDM disks treated exactly as if the user had excluded these disks from the backup

– Use options -vmprocessvmwithindependent=yes & vmprocessvmwithprdm=yes

– FCM inside the VM can be used to protect pRDMs

Storage Disk Subsystem

• VM

DK

SAN

• VM1

Snaps VM1

LUN1

LUN2 VM1’s Physical RDM

VM1’s Virtual disk

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Levels of RDM Support

Toleration Mode Toleration Mode

Fully Supported Toleration Mode

pRDM vRDM

FCM

TSM for VE

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Support of individual disk volume backup/restore for VMware virtual disks

§  Users can specify which virtual disks are backed up or restored - Disks not needed to be protected can be skipped saving storage space and backup time - Skipped disk configuration information saved to the backup ( also pRDM) - Skipped disk configuration restored to the VM as an unformatted disk definition

§  Allows to specify a “division of labor” between TSM for VE and TSMs for

… - Backs up non TSM for … disks while TSM for … agents back up disks specific to them

§  Allows individual disks to be restored to an existing VM - Existing VM must be powered off - Disks not specified remain unchanged on existing VM - Can specify that just the VM configuration information be restored

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Enhancements in the Plugin GUI

•  Ability to configure backup ‘by cluster’

•  Configuration Wizard

•  Configuration Test Function

•  More easily select VMs to be backed up

•  Better reporting on backup tasks

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‘By Cluster ‘selection

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Tivoli Technical Enablement New Configuration Wizard for easy configuration: Launch Wizard

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Tivoli Technical Enablement New Configuration Wizard for easy configuration: Wizard

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Tivoli Technical Enablement New Configuration Wizard for easy configuration: TSM Configuration

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Tivoli Technical Enablement New Configuration Wizard for easy configuration: vCenter Node

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Tivoli Technical Enablement Configuration Editor: Configuration Status

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Tivoli Technical Enablement Configuration Editor: Configuration Error

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Tivoli Technical Enablement Configuration Editor: Configuration Status

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Tivoli Technical Enablement Configuration Editor: Configuration Status: Check Nodes

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Tivoli Technical Enablement Direction: Unified application protection for VMware environments

Recovery

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Tivoli Technical Enablement Direction: Unified application protection for VMware environments

§ Protection of applications/databases introduces additional requirements as compared to file/web servers traditionally hosted in VMware

– Log management (truncation) for a sustainable backup methodology – Achievement of multiple recovery points through roll-forward/roll-backward –  Individual email message recovery

§ To achieve protection of applications and databases (Microsoft SQL, Exchange, Active Directory, Custom Applications) hosted in a VMware environment

– TSM customers today use TSM for Mail/Databases etc. running inside VMs – Future goal is to provide application protection that is integrated/unified with TSM for VE

§ Looking at various options that could involve integration of product features from – TSM for VE for common disaster recovery across all VMs – TSM for Mail/Databases/Custom Applications for application awareness and operational recovery

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Tivoli Technical Enablement First Step: In-guest TSM for VE 6.4 Application/Database support

§  Supported for Windows VM (VSS Writer is being called) for MS SQL Server and MS Exchange

§  TSM B/A Client (datamover) triggers log truncation at VMware snapshot time

§  Injection via Web Services API at runtime

§  Allows for consistent Application/Database support in Windows VMs

§ No TSM for …. product required inside the VM

§  Limited functions for Point in Time restores, restores only possible to the time when the snapshot

occurred, no log ‘roll forward’

§ No log handling in this scenario

-> Running TSM for … inside the VMs is still functionally superior, therefore still recommended

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§ A virtual machine template (usually referred to as simply“a template”) is a reusable image created from a virtual machine.

§ The template, as a derivative of the source virtual machine, typically includes virtual hardware components, an installed guest operating system (with any applicable patches) and software application(s).

§ Templates are VM blueprints from which VMs can be created

§ TSM for VE 6.3 didn´t support backup/restore of VMware template

§ TSM for VE 6.4 adds this support

TSM for VE 6.4 : VMware Template Support

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Tivoli Technical Enablement TSM for VE 6.4 : vAPP Support

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§ Starting with VMware 4.0, VMware introduce the concept of a vApp container, which is a group of virtual machines that are managed as a single object

§ vApp simplifies the management of complex multi-tiered application running on multiple virtual machines

§ Another container in the vApp hierarchy is the Resource Pool which provides a mechanism to partition available CPU and memory resource of ESXi host and Clusters

§ TSM for VE 6.3 can backup virtual machines contained in vApps, Resource Pools, Clusters and VM Folders but on restore we fail to return these virtual machine back to their original locations, this is due to our failure to save the necessary data



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Tivoli Technical Enablement Links for FCM I

§  Redbook: Using IBM Tivoli Storage Manager to Back Up Microsoft Exchange with VSS: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247373.html

§  TechNote: Automating Cluster Continuous Replication (CCR) backups for Exchange 2007 http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21329825

§  White Paper: IBM XIV® System Storage, with IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail - DP for Exchange version 6.1 http://www-03.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/WP101517

§  White Paper: Exchange Server 2007 SP1 SAN Volume Controller (SVC) VSS TSM 6.1 Backup Solution http://w3-03.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/WP101514

§  White Paper: Exchange Server 2007 SP1 VSS-Based Backup & Recovery Solution (SVC) http://www-03.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/WP101348

§  White Paper: Exchange Server 2007 SP1 DS6000 and DS8000 VSS Backup Solution http://w3.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/WP101351

§  White Paper: IBM System Storage TSM solution for Exchange Server 2003 and DS6000/DS8000 http://www-03.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/WP101009

§  White Paper: IBM System Storage TSM solution for Exchange Server 2003 and DS4000 Series http://www-03.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/PRS2451

§  Redbook - Backing up Microsoft SQL Server with IBM Tivoli Storage Manager http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg246148.html?Open

§  IBM developerWorks - Using Tivoli Storage Manager for performing VSS operations http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/tivoli/library/t-tsm-vss/index.html?S_TACT=105AGX14&S_CMP=EDU

§  Understanding and exploiting snapshot technology for data protection http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/tivoli/library/t-snaptsm1/index.html

FCM on Windows:

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Tivoli Technical Enablement Links for FCM II

§  White Papers: ISV Solutions http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/solutions/isv/

§  White Paper: Exchange Server 2007 SP1 DS6000 and DS8000 VSS Backup Solution http://w3.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/WP101351

§  White Paper: Exchange Server 2007 SP1 SAN Volume Controller (SVC) VSS TSM 6.1 Backup Solution §  http://w3-03.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/WP101514

FCM on Windows:

FCM on Unix: §  For more information on IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager:

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

§  For more information on IBM Tivoli Storage Manager:

http://www.ibm.com/software/tivoli/products/storage-mgr/

§  For more information on IBM System Storage Disk:

http://www.ibm.com/systems/storage/disk/

§  For more information on IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller:

http://www.ibm.com/systems/storage/software/virtualization/svc/index.html

§  Known issues and limitations:

•  http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21567738

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Tivoli Technical Enablement Generic Information

§  ERL: Storage related collection of links http://pokgsa.ibm.com/projects/e/erl/

§  Xtreme Leverage: All sales related resources http://w3.ibm.com/software/xl/portal

§  IBM Tivoli Demo Library http://depot.tivlab.raleigh.ibm.com/DemoLib.nsf/DemoIndexCat_w3

§  IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Website

http://www.ibm.com/software/tivoli/products/

§  PartnerWorld: For Business Partners http://www-1.ibm.com/partnerworld/pwhome.nsf/weblook/index.html

§  System Sales Site http://w3-1.ibm.com/sales/systems/portal/

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