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
- Notices
- Preface
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Chapter 1: Tivoli Storage Productivity Center V4.2 introduction and overview
- Introduction and functions of IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center
- Architecture
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Tivoli Storage Productivity Center family
- Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Data
- Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk
- Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk Select
- Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Select
- Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Basic Edition
- Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Standard Edition
- Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication
- IBM System Storage Productivity Center Version 1.5
- IBM System Director Storage Control
- New functions since version Tivoli Storage Productivity Center 4.1
- New functions since version Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication 4.1
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Chapter 2: Tivoli Storage Productivity Center installation on Windows
- Tivoli Storage Productivity Center installation
- Preinstallation steps for Windows
- Installing the prerequisite for Windows
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Installing Tivoli Storage Productivity Center components
- Creating the Database Schema (1/2)
- Creating the Database Schema (2/2)
- Installing Tivoli Storage Productivity Center components (1/4)
- Installing Tivoli Storage Productivity Center components (2/4)
- Installing Tivoli Storage Productivity Center components (3/4)
- Installing Tivoli Storage Productivity Center components (4/4)
- Agent installation
- Disabling Tivoli Storage Productivity Center or Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication
- Applying a Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Upgrade (1/2)
- Applying a Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Upgrade (2/2)
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Chapter 3: Tivoli Storage Productivity Center installation on Linux
- Tivoli Storage Productivity Center installation on Linux
- Preinstallation steps for Linux
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Installing Tivoli Storage Productivity Center components
- Preparing for the installation
- Creating the database schema (1/2)
- Creating the database schema (2/2)
- Installing Tivoli Storage Productivity Center servers, GUI, and CLI (1/4)
- Installing Tivoli Storage Productivity Center servers, GUI, and CLI (2/4)
- Installing Tivoli Storage Productivity Center servers, GUI, and CLI (3/4)
- Installing Tivoli Storage Productivity Center servers, GUI, and CLI (4/4)
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Chapter 4: Tivoli Storage Productivity Center installation on AIX
- Tivoli Storage Productivity Center installation on AIX
- Preinstallation steps for AIX
- Installing the prerequisite for AIX
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Installing Tivoli Storage Productivity Center components
- Preparing for the installation
- Creating the database schema (1/2)
- Creating the database schema (2/2)
- Installing Tivoli Storage Productivity Center components (1/4)
- Installing Tivoli Storage Productivity Center components (2/4)
- Installing Tivoli Storage Productivity Center components (3/4)
- Installing Tivoli Storage Productivity Center components (4/4)
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Chapter 5: Migrating Tivoli Storage Productivity Center base code to current level
- Migration considerations
- Credentials migration tool
- Agent Manager, Data agent, Fabric agent considerations
- Migration scenarios
- Upgrading Storage Resource Agent
- Upgrading Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication in a high availability environment
- Upgrading System Storage Productivity Center (SSPC)
- Chapter 6: Agent migration and upgrade
- Chapter 7: Device configuration: Introducing the Native API
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Chapter 8: Storage Resource Agent
- Overview
- Storage Resource Agent requirements
- Storage Resource Agent installation methods
- Database monitoring with Storage Resource Agent
- IBM Power VM Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) support
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NetApp and N series monitoring
- Overview of NAS support
- Configuring Windows Storage Resource Agent (1/3)
- Configuring Windows Storage Resource Agent (2/3)
- Configuring Windows Storage Resource Agent (3/3)
- Configuring the UNIX Storage Resource Agent (1/2)
- Configuring the UNIX Storage Resource Agent (2/2)
- Retrieving and displaying data about the NAS filer (1/2)
- Retrieving and displaying data about the NAS filer (2/2)
- VMware support
- VMware virtual machine reporting
- Batch reporting (1/2)
- Batch reporting (2/2)
- Storage Resource Agent fabric function
- Agent resource utilization
- HBA information reports
- Collecting Storage Resource Agent support data
- Clustering support
- Chapter 9: Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Select and Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk Select
- Chapter 10: Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication
- Chapter 11: XIV support
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Chapter 12: SAN Planner
- Purpose of SAN Planner
- New features and functions
- Prerequisites for using SAN Planner
- Supported storage subsystems in SAN Planner
- Storage Resource Groups Monitoring and Alerting
- Creating a Space Only SAN Planner recommendation (1/3)
- Creating a Space Only SAN Planner recommendation (2/3)
- Creating a Space Only SAN Planner recommendation (3/3)
- Creating a DR Planner recommendation
- SAN Planner with SVC and Storwize V7000 (1/3)
- SAN Planner with SVC and Storwize V7000 (2/3)
- SAN Planner with SVC and Storwize V7000 (3/3)
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SAN Planner with XIV replication
- Replication plan for XIV Snapshot
- Replication plan for XIV Metro and Global Mirror Failover/Failback (1/5)
- Replication plan for XIV Metro and Global Mirror Failover/Failback (2/5)
- Replication plan for XIV Metro and Global Mirror Failover/Failback (3/5)
- Replication plan for XIV Metro and Global Mirror Failover/Failback (4/5)
- Replication plan for XIV Metro and Global Mirror Failover/Failback (5/5)
- Chapter 13: Job Management panel
- Chapter 14: Fabric enhancements
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Chapter 15: Reporting
- Reporting overview
- Generating reports
- Reporting example (1/2)
- Reporting example (2/2)
- Storage Capacity Pyramid
- Capacity licensing
- VDisk mirroring reporting
- Storwize V7000 and SVC internal disk reports
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Storage Tier reports
- Tivoli Common Reporting and Storage Tier reports
- Terminology
- TCR installation and setup (1/3)
- TCR installation and setup (2/3)
- TCR installation and setup (3/3)
- Running Storage Tier reports (1/3)
- Running Storage Tier reports (2/3)
- Running Storage Tier reports (3/3)
- Analyzing Storage Tier reports: Case Studies (1/2)
- Analyzing Storage Tier reports: Case Studies (2/2)
- Considerations (1/2)
- Considerations (2/2)
- Migrating from the STAR tool
- Supported environments
- Non-supported environments
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Chapter 16: Tivoli Storage Productivity Center database backup on Windows
- Before you start
- Common backup setup steps
- Offline backup to file system setup steps
- Offline backup to Tivoli Storage Manager setup steps
- Online backup to Tivoli Storage Manager setup steps
- Online backup to a file system setup steps
- Performing offline database backups
- Performing online database backup
- Other backup considerations
- Managing database backup versions
- Verifying a backup file
- Restoring Tivoli Storage Productivity Center database
- Backup scheduling and automation
- Chapter 17: Tivoli Storage Productivity Center database considerations
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Chapter 18: Tivoli Storage Productivity Center database backup on Linux
- Before you start
- Common backup setup steps
- Offline backup to file system setup steps
- Offline backup to Tivoli Storage Manager setup steps
- Online backup to Tivoli Storage Manager setup steps
- Online backup to a file system setup steps
- Performing offline database backups
- Performing online database backup
- Other backup considerations
- Managing database backup versions
- Verifying a backup file
- Restoring Tivoli Storage Productivity Center database
- Backup scheduling and automation
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Chapter 19: Tivoli Storage Productivity Center database backup on AIX
- Before you start
- Common backup setup steps
- Offline backup to file system setup steps
- Offline backup to Tivoli Storage Manager setup steps
- Online backup to Tivoli Storage Manager setup steps
- Online backup to a file system setup steps
- Performing offline database backups
- Performing online database backup
- Other backup considerations
- Managing database backup versions
- Verifying a backup file
- Restoring Tivoli Storage Productivity Center database
- Backup scheduling and automation
- Chapter 20: Lessons learned
- Appendix A: DB2 table space considerations
- Appendix B: Worksheets
- Appendix C: Configuring X11 forwarding
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Appendix D: LDAP considerations
- Overview
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Organization
- Tivoli Integrated Portal and Tivoli Storage Productivity Center
- Preparing to implement LDAP
- Deciding whether to install with OS or with LDAP
- backupConfig and restoreConfig
- Stopping and restarting services: Order matters
- Troubleshooting authentication problems: Configuration files
- Secure LDAP
- Useful LDAP tips
- Appendix E: Tivoli Common Reporting: Remote Installation
- Related publications
- Index (1/4)
- Index (2/4)
- Index (3/4)
- Index (4/4)
- Back cover
Product information
- Title: IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center V4.2 Release Guide
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2011
- Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
- ISBN: None
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