IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center V4.2 Release Guide

Book description

IBM® Tivoli® Storage Productivity Center V4.2 is a feature-rich storage management software suite. The integrated suite provides detailed monitoring, reporting, and management within a single console.

This IBM Redbooks® publication is intended for storage administrators and users who are installing and using the features and functions in IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center V4.2. The information in the book can be used to plan for, install, and customize the components of Tivoli Storage Productivity Center in your storage infrastructure. This release contains several important functional enhancements:

- New licensing for Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Select and for Tivoli Storage productivity Center for Disk Select to provide full Tivoli Storage Productivity Center functionality to Midrange.

- Support for IBM Storwize V7000. Also new is the capability for customers to generate and see Storwize V7000 and SAN Volume Controller (SVC) Internal Disks report.

- New IBM Tivoli Tier reports that help clients make important decisions about storage tiering by utilizing estimated capability and actual performance data for IBM System Storage® SAN Volume Controller and IBM Storwize V7000 storage tier reports.

- IBM XIV® Storage System support has been updated, adding discovery, provisioning, and performance management, as well as new replication support for three new XIV sessions: Snapshot, Metro Mirror failover/failback, and Global Mirror Failover/Failback.

Step-by-step procedures are provided to help you with tasks such as migrating to Storage Resource agents, using Native APIs, using SAN configuration planning functions, and maintaining your IBM DB2 database repository.

Table of contents

  1. Notices
    1. Trademarks
  2. Preface
    1. The team who wrote this book
    2. Now you can become a published author, too!
    3. Comments welcome
    4. Stay connected to IBM Redbooks
  3. Chapter 1: Tivoli Storage Productivity Center V4.2 introduction and overview
    1. Introduction and functions of IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center
    2. Architecture
      1. Architecture overview
      2. Data server
      3. Device server
      4. Tivoli Integrated Portal
      5. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication
      6. DB2 database
      7. Agents
      8. Interfaces
      9. Integration with other applications
    3. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center family
      1. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Data
      2. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk
      3. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk Select
      4. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Select
      5. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Basic Edition
      6. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Standard Edition
      7. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication
      8. IBM System Storage Productivity Center Version 1.5
      9. IBM System Director Storage Control
    4. New functions since version Tivoli Storage Productivity Center 4.1
      1. New for Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Version 4.2.0
      2. New for Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Version 4.2.1
      3. New for Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Version 4.2.2
    5. New functions since version Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication 4.1
      1. New for IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication 4.2.0
      2. New for IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication 4.2.1
      3. New for IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication 4.2.2
  4. Chapter 2: Tivoli Storage Productivity Center installation on Windows
    1. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center installation
      1. Installation overview
      2. Product code media layout and components
    2. Preinstallation steps for Windows
      1. Verifying system hardware and software prerequisites
      2. Verifying primary domain name systems
      3. Activating NetBIOS settings
      4. User IDs and passwords to be used and defined
    3. Installing the prerequisite for Windows
      1. DB2 installation
      2. Verifying the installation
    4. Installing Tivoli Storage Productivity Center components
      1. Creating the Database Schema (1/2)
      2. Creating the Database Schema (2/2)
      3. Installing Tivoli Storage Productivity Center components (1/4)
      4. Installing Tivoli Storage Productivity Center components (2/4)
      5. Installing Tivoli Storage Productivity Center components (3/4)
      6. Installing Tivoli Storage Productivity Center components (4/4)
      7. Agent installation
      8. Disabling Tivoli Storage Productivity Center or Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication
    5. Applying a Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Upgrade (1/2)
    6. Applying a Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Upgrade (2/2)
  5. Chapter 3: Tivoli Storage Productivity Center installation on Linux
    1. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center installation on Linux
      1. Installation overview
      2. Product code media layout and components
    2. Preinstallation steps for Linux
      1. Verifying system hardware and software prerequisites
      2. Prerequisite component for Tivoli Storage Productivity Center V4.2
      3. DB2 installation: Using the GUI installation program
      4. Verifying that DB2 is installed correctly
    3. Installing Tivoli Storage Productivity Center components
      1. Preparing for the installation
      2. Creating the database schema (1/2)
      3. Creating the database schema (2/2)
      4. Installing Tivoli Storage Productivity Center servers, GUI, and CLI (1/4)
      5. Installing Tivoli Storage Productivity Center servers, GUI, and CLI (2/4)
      6. Installing Tivoli Storage Productivity Center servers, GUI, and CLI (3/4)
      7. Installing Tivoli Storage Productivity Center servers, GUI, and CLI (4/4)
  6. Chapter 4: Tivoli Storage Productivity Center installation on AIX
    1. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center installation on AIX
      1. Installation overview
      2. Product code media layout and components
    2. Preinstallation steps for AIX
      1. Verifying system hardware prerequisites
      2. Verifying system software prerequisites
      3. Prerequisite component for Tivoli Storage Productivity Center V4.2
    3. Installing the prerequisite for AIX
      1. DB2 installation: Using the command line
      2. Verifying that DB2 is installed correctly
    4. Installing Tivoli Storage Productivity Center components
      1. Preparing for the installation
      2. Creating the database schema (1/2)
      3. Creating the database schema (2/2)
      4. Installing Tivoli Storage Productivity Center components (1/4)
      5. Installing Tivoli Storage Productivity Center components (2/4)
      6. Installing Tivoli Storage Productivity Center components (3/4)
      7. Installing Tivoli Storage Productivity Center components (4/4)
  7. Chapter 5: Migrating Tivoli Storage Productivity Center base code to current level
    1. Migration considerations
      1. Prerequisites
      2. Database considerations
      3. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication considerations (1/2)
      4. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication considerations (2/2)
    2. Credentials migration tool
      1. Migration methods
      2. Running the credentials migration tool before the upgrade
      3. Running the credentials migration tool during the upgrade
      4. Running the credentials migration tool after the upgrade
    3. Agent Manager, Data agent, Fabric agent considerations
    4. Migration scenarios
      1. Migration from Tivoli Storage Productivity Center V3.x
      2. Migration from Tivoli Storage Productivity Center V4.1
    5. Upgrading Storage Resource Agent
      1. Installation wizard
      2. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center user interface
      3. Command line interface
    6. Upgrading Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication in a high availability environment
    7. Upgrading System Storage Productivity Center (SSPC)
  8. Chapter 6: Agent migration and upgrade
    1. Common Agent Services and Storage Resource agent history
    2. Benefits of Data agent and Fabric agent migrated to Storage Resource agent
    3. Prerequisites
    4. Scenarios to migrate from Common Agent Services to Storage Resource agent
      1. Installation wizard
      2. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center user interface (1/2)
      3. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center user interface (2/2)
      4. Command-line interface
    5. CIMOM to NAPI
  9. Chapter 7: Device configuration: Introducing the Native API
    1. Native API and other changes
      1. Full list of changes
      2. Changed panels and tasks
      3. Behind the scenes: the External Process Manager
    2. Solution design for device access
      1. Planning for NAPI and NAPI discovery
      2. Planning for CIMOM discovery
      3. Planning for the Configure Devices Wizard
      4. Planning for Monitoring Groups
      5. Planning for events
    3. Using the Configure Devices wizard
      1. Scenario (1/2)
      2. Scenario (2/2)
      3. Adding or configuring an IBM DS8000
      4. Adding or configuring an IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) or Storwize V7000
      5. Adding or configuring an IBM XIV
      6. Adding or configuring a CIMOM
    4. Adding or configuring fabrics and switches
      1. Adding or configuring a Brocade Fabric or switch
      2. Adding or configuring a McDATA Fabric or switch
      3. Adding or configuring a Cisco Fabric or switch
      4. Adding or configuring a QLogic Fabric or switch
      5. Adding or configuring a mixed Brocade/McDATA Fabric
    5. Other enhancements and changes
      1. Help panels
      2. Deleting a device
      3. Alert log
      4. Job history
      5. Job Management
  10. Chapter 8: Storage Resource Agent
    1. Overview
    2. Storage Resource Agent requirements
      1. User requirements
      2. Platform dependencies
      3. Communication requirements and types
    3. Storage Resource Agent installation methods
      1. Local graphical installer
      2. Storage Resource Agent deployment from GUI (1/3)
      3. Storage Resource Agent deployment from GUI (2/3)
      4. Storage Resource Agent deployment from GUI (3/3)
      5. Local or CLI installation of the Storage Resource Agent
    4. Database monitoring with Storage Resource Agent
      1. Registering the database
      2. Setting up probes and scans
      3. Database capacity reports
      4. Database usage reports
    5. IBM Power VM Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) support
      1. VIOS LUN correlation supported environments
      2. Installing the Storage Resource Agent on VIOS
      3. Uninstalling the Storage Resource Agent on VIOS
      4. Overview of new functionality available with SRA on VIOS
    6. NetApp and N series monitoring
      1. Overview of NAS support
      2. Configuring Windows Storage Resource Agent (1/3)
      3. Configuring Windows Storage Resource Agent (2/3)
      4. Configuring Windows Storage Resource Agent (3/3)
      5. Configuring the UNIX Storage Resource Agent (1/2)
      6. Configuring the UNIX Storage Resource Agent (2/2)
      7. Retrieving and displaying data about the NAS filer (1/2)
      8. Retrieving and displaying data about the NAS filer (2/2)
    7. VMware support
    8. VMware virtual machine reporting
    9. Batch reporting (1/2)
    10. Batch reporting (2/2)
    11. Storage Resource Agent fabric function
      1. HBA library requirements
      2. Storage Resource Agent fabric enhancements
      3. Fabric agent assignment
    12. Agent resource utilization
    13. HBA information reports
    14. Collecting Storage Resource Agent support data
    15. Clustering support
  11. Chapter 9: Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Select and Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk Select
    1. Overview
    2. Supported devices and firmware levels
    3. Licensing methodology
    4. Key benefits
  12. Chapter 10: Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication
    1. New V4.2 features and functions
    2. Open HyperSwap replication
      1. Description
      2. Prerequisites
      3. Setting up Open HyperSwap session (1/3)
      4. Setting up Open HyperSwap session (2/3)
      5. Setting up Open HyperSwap session (3/3)
      6. Performing Open HyperSwap (1/2)
      7. Performing Open HyperSwap (2/2)
      8. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication high availability with Open HyperSwap
    3. Copy set soft removal of a hardware relationship
      1. Copy set soft removal scenario
      2. Suspending the session after removing a copy set
      3. Removing a copy set from an Open HyperSwap
    4. Downloading log packages with the GUI
    5. Path Manager (1/2)
    6. Path Manager (2/2)
    7. SVC and Storwize V7000 enhancements
      1. SVC and Storwize V7000 space-efficient volumes
      2. SVC and Storwize V7000 incremental FlashCopy (1/2)
      3. SVC and Storwize V7000 incremental FlashCopy (2/2)
    8. DS8000 enhancements
      1. DS8000 extent space efficient volumes
      2. Global Mirror session enhancements
      3. Multiple Global Mirror sessions
    9. XIV enhancements
      1. Overview
      2. Snapshot sessions
      3. Metro Mirror Failover/Failback sessions
      4. Global Mirror Failover/Failback sessions
      5. Troubleshooting (1/2)
      6. Troubleshooting (2/2)
  13. Chapter 11: XIV support
    1. Supported firmware levels
    2. Adding XIV systems to Tivoli Storage Productivity Center
    3. XIV performance metrics
    4. XIV storage provisioning
    5. XIV and SAN Planner
    6. XIV and Storage Optimizer
  14. Chapter 12: SAN Planner
    1. Purpose of SAN Planner
    2. New features and functions
    3. Prerequisites for using SAN Planner
    4. Supported storage subsystems in SAN Planner
      1. Performance-based planning
      2. Space Only planning
      3. Replication planning
    5. Storage Resource Groups Monitoring and Alerting
    6. Creating a Space Only SAN Planner recommendation (1/3)
    7. Creating a Space Only SAN Planner recommendation (2/3)
    8. Creating a Space Only SAN Planner recommendation (3/3)
    9. Creating a DR Planner recommendation
      1. Introduction
      2. Disaster Recovery Planner scenario (1/5)
      3. Disaster Recovery Planner scenario (2/5)
      4. Disaster Recovery Planner scenario (3/5)
      5. Disaster Recovery Planner scenario (4/5)
      6. Disaster Recovery Planner scenario (5/5)
    10. SAN Planner with SVC and Storwize V7000 (1/3)
    11. SAN Planner with SVC and Storwize V7000 (2/3)
    12. SAN Planner with SVC and Storwize V7000 (3/3)
    13. SAN Planner with XIV replication
      1. Replication plan for XIV Snapshot
      2. Replication plan for XIV Metro and Global Mirror Failover/Failback (1/5)
      3. Replication plan for XIV Metro and Global Mirror Failover/Failback (2/5)
      4. Replication plan for XIV Metro and Global Mirror Failover/Failback (3/5)
      5. Replication plan for XIV Metro and Global Mirror Failover/Failback (4/5)
      6. Replication plan for XIV Metro and Global Mirror Failover/Failback (5/5)
  15. Chapter 13: Job Management panel
    1. Background
    2. Job Management terms
      1. Schedule
      2. Run
      3. Job
    3. Job Management changes
      1. Default jobs
      2. CLI and event-driven jobs
    4. Job Management panel explained
      1. Entities details
      2. Schedules details
      3. Runs and Jobs details
    5. Example
      1. List Schedule log files
      2. View and act on Tivoli Storage Productivity Center recommendation
  16. Chapter 14: Fabric enhancements
    1. Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) support
    2. Additional switch models supported
      1. Brocade 3016, 5410, 5470, 5480, 7800, and M5440
      2. Brocade Silk Worm 7800 (IBM 2005-R06)
      3. Brocade DCX-4S Backbone
      4. Brocade 8000
      5. Cisco Nexus 5000 Series
    3. Additional HBA and CNA models supported
    4. Integration with Brocade Data Center Fabric Manager and Brocade Network Advisor
      1. Supported functions
      2. Configuring the integrated SMI agent for DCFM and Network Advisor
      3. Adding a DCFM or Network Advisor server into Tivoli Storage Productivity Center
  17. Chapter 15: Reporting
    1. Reporting overview
      1. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center GUI
      2. Batch reports
      3. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center CLI (TPCTOOL)
      4. Reporting database views
    2. Generating reports
    3. Reporting example (1/2)
    4. Reporting example (2/2)
    5. Storage Capacity Pyramid
      1. Overview
      2. Tiers
    6. Capacity licensing
      1. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk Licensing
      2. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Data Licensing
      3. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Standard Edition licensing
    7. VDisk mirroring reporting
    8. Storwize V7000 and SVC internal disk reports
      1. Data Manager report
      2. Disk Manager report
      3. Troubleshooting Internal disk reports
    9. Storage Tier reports
      1. Tivoli Common Reporting and Storage Tier reports
      2. Terminology
      3. TCR installation and setup (1/3)
      4. TCR installation and setup (2/3)
      5. TCR installation and setup (3/3)
      6. Running Storage Tier reports (1/3)
      7. Running Storage Tier reports (2/3)
      8. Running Storage Tier reports (3/3)
      9. Analyzing Storage Tier reports: Case Studies (1/2)
      10. Analyzing Storage Tier reports: Case Studies (2/2)
      11. Considerations (1/2)
      12. Considerations (2/2)
      13. Migrating from the STAR tool
      14. Supported environments
      15. Non-supported environments
  18. Chapter 16: Tivoli Storage Productivity Center database backup on Windows
    1. Before you start
    2. Common backup setup steps
    3. Offline backup to file system setup steps
    4. Offline backup to Tivoli Storage Manager setup steps
      1. Adding new variables to Windows
      2. Configuring Tivoli Storage Manager option file and password
      3. Rebooting the Tivoli Storage Productivity Center server
      4. Creating an offline backup to Tivoli Storage Manager script
    5. Online backup to Tivoli Storage Manager setup steps
      1. DB2 parameter changes for archive logging to Tivoli Storage Manager
      2. Creating an online backup script for Tivoli Storage Manager
    6. Online backup to a file system setup steps
      1. Setting up DB2 archive logging to a file system
      2. Creating an online backup script to a file system
    7. Performing offline database backups
      1. Performing an offline backup to a file system
      2. Performing an offline backup to Tivoli Storage Manager
    8. Performing online database backup
      1. Performing an online database backup to Tivoli Storage Manager
      2. Performing an online backup to a file system
    9. Other backup considerations
    10. Managing database backup versions
      1. Managing backup versions for a file system
      2. Managing archive log files on a file system
      3. Managing backup versions that you store in Tivoli Storage Manager
    11. Verifying a backup file
    12. Restoring Tivoli Storage Productivity Center database
      1. Restoring from offline backups
      2. Restoring from online backups (1/2)
      3. Restoring from online backups (2/2)
      4. Potential agent issues after the restore process
    13. Backup scheduling and automation
      1. Frequency of full TPCDB backups
      2. TPCDB backup automation
  19. Chapter 17: Tivoli Storage Productivity Center database considerations
    1. Database tuning
      1. Setting DB2 variables
      2. Tuning the database manager
      3. Changing DB2 active logs directory
    2. Repository database sizing
      1. Introduction
      2. Storage subsystem performance data sizing (1/2)
      3. Storage subsystem performance data sizing (2/2)
    3. Repository calculation templates
      1. Worksheet: Sizing SVC and Storwize V7000 performance collection
      2. Worksheet: Sizing performance collection for XIV, DSxxxx, and non-IBM subsystems
      3. Worksheet: Sizing SAN switch performance collection
      4. Worksheet: Sizing Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Data repository
    4. Preparing for database backups
      1. Scripts provided
      2. Database backup
      3. Database backup method considerations
  20. Chapter 18: Tivoli Storage Productivity Center database backup on Linux
    1. Before you start
    2. Common backup setup steps
    3. Offline backup to file system setup steps
    4. Offline backup to Tivoli Storage Manager setup steps
      1. Adding new variables to Linux
      2. Configuring Tivoli Storage Manager option file and password
      3. Restarting DB2
      4. Creating an offline backup to Tivoli Storage Manager script
    5. Online backup to Tivoli Storage Manager setup steps
      1. DB2 parameter changes for archive logging to Tivoli Storage Manager
      2. Creating an online backup script for Tivoli Storage Manager
    6. Online backup to a file system setup steps
      1. Setting up DB2 archive logging to a file system
      2. Creating an online backup script to a file system
    7. Performing offline database backups
      1. Performing an offline backup to a file system
      2. Performing an offline backup to Tivoli Storage Manager
    8. Performing online database backup
      1. Performing an online database backup to Tivoli Storage Manager
      2. Performing an online backup to a file system
    9. Other backup considerations
    10. Managing database backup versions
      1. Managing backup versions for a file system
      2. Managing archive log files on a file system
      3. Managing backup versions that you store in Tivoli Storage Manager
    11. Verifying a backup file
    12. Restoring Tivoli Storage Productivity Center database
      1. Restoring from offline backups
      2. Restoring from online backups
      3. Potential agent issues after the restore process
    13. Backup scheduling and automation
      1. Frequency of full TPCDB backups
      2. TPCDB backup automation
  21. Chapter 19: Tivoli Storage Productivity Center database backup on AIX
    1. Before you start
    2. Common backup setup steps
    3. Offline backup to file system setup steps
    4. Offline backup to Tivoli Storage Manager setup steps
      1. Adding new variables to AIX
      2. Configuring Tivoli Storage Manager option file and password
      3. Restarting DB2
      4. Creating an offline backup to Tivoli Storage Manager script
    5. Online backup to Tivoli Storage Manager setup steps
      1. DB2 parameter changes for archive logging to Tivoli Storage Manager
      2. Creating an online backup script for Tivoli Storage Manager
    6. Online backup to a file system setup steps
      1. Setting up DB2 archive logging to a file system
      2. Creating online backup script to file system
    7. Performing offline database backups
      1. Performing an offline backup to a file system
      2. Performing an offline backup to Tivoli Storage Manager
    8. Performing online database backup
      1. Performing an online database backup to Tivoli Storage Manager
      2. Performing an online backup to a file system
    9. Other backup considerations
    10. Managing database backup versions
      1. Managing backup versions for a file system
      2. Managing archive log files on a file system
      3. Managing backup versions that you store in Tivoli Storage Manager
    11. Verifying a backup file
    12. Restoring Tivoli Storage Productivity Center database
      1. Restoring from offline backups
      2. Restoring from online backups
      3. Potential agent issues after the restore process
    13. Backup scheduling and automation
      1. Frequency of full TPCDB backups
      2. TPCDB backup automation
  22. Chapter 20: Lessons learned
    1. User-defined properties for Fabrics and Switches
    2. IBM Software Support Lifecycle
    3. IBM Support Assistant
    4. Certificate errors in Windows Internet Explorer
      1. Preventing address certificate mismatch errors
      2. Managing new certificates
    5. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center support matrix
    6. DB2 hints
      1. SQL5005C System Error
      2. User ID to stop and start DB2
    7. Extracting the installation images on AIX
    8. Tivoli Common Reporting hints
      1. Linux libraries
      2. Physical Address Extension on Windows
      3. Browser back button
    9. Hints and tips
  23. Appendix A: DB2 table space considerations
    1. Selecting an SMS or DMS table space
    2. Advantages of an SMS table space
    3. Advantages of a DMS table space
  24. Appendix B: Worksheets
    1. User IDs and passwords
      1. Server information
      2. User IDs and passwords for key files and installation
      3. LDAP information
    2. Storage device information
      1. IBM System Storage Enterprise Storage Server, DS6000, DS8000
      2. IBM DS3000, DS4000, DS5000 family products
      3. IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC)
      4. IBM XIV Storage System (XIV)
      5. IBM Storwize V7000 Midrange Disk System (Storwize)
      6. Other storage device information
  25. Appendix C: Configuring X11 forwarding
    1. Preparing the display export
      1. Preparation of the AIX server
      2. Preparation of the Windows workstation and Xming installation (1/2)
      3. Preparation of the Windows workstation and Xming installation (2/2)
    2. Launching an Xming X Window session (1/2)
    3. Launching an Xming X Window session (2/2)
    4. VNC server
  26. Appendix D: LDAP considerations
    1. Overview
    2. Organization
      1. Tivoli Integrated Portal and Tivoli Storage Productivity Center
      2. Preparing to implement LDAP
      3. Deciding whether to install with OS or with LDAP
      4. backupConfig and restoreConfig
      5. Stopping and restarting services: Order matters
      6. Troubleshooting authentication problems: Configuration files
      7. Secure LDAP
      8. Useful LDAP tips
  27. Appendix E: Tivoli Common Reporting: Remote Installation
    1. Overview
    2. Installing the DB2 client
    3. References
  28. Related publications
    1. IBM Redbooks publications
    2. Other publications
    3. Online resources
    4. Help from IBM
  29. Index (1/4)
  30. Index (2/4)
  31. Index (3/4)
  32. Index (4/4)
  33. Back cover

Product information

  • Title: IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center V4.2 Release Guide
  • Author(s): Karen Orlando, Robin Badart, Mathias Defiebre, Brian De Guia, Johanna Hislop, Joao Marcos Leite, Hope Rodriguez
  • Release date: December 2011
  • Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
  • ISBN: None