Book description
When you hear IBM® Tivoli® Storage Manager, the first thing that you typically think of is data backup. Tivoli Storage Manager is the premier storage management solution for mixed platform environments.
Businesses face a tidal wave of information and data that seems to increase daily. The ability to successfully and efficiently manage information and data has become imperative. The Tivoli Storage Manager family of products helps businesses successfully gain better control and efficiently manage the information tidal wave through significant enhancements in multiple facets of data protection.
Tivoli Storage Manager is a highly scalable and available data protection solution. It takes data protection scalability to the next level with a relational database, which is based on IBM DB2® technology. Greater availability is delivered through enhancements such as online, automated database reorganization.
This IBM Redbooks® publication describes the evolving set of data-protection challenges and how capabilities in Tivoli Storage Manager can best be used to address those challenges. This book is more than merely a description of new and changed functions in Tivoli Storage Manager; it is a guide to use for your overall data protection solution.
Table of contents
- Front cover
- Notices
- Preface
- Part 1 Today’s environment and challenges
- Chapter 1. Tivoli Storage Manager as a data protection solution
- Part 2 Overview of Tivoli Storage Manager family of products
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Chapter 2. Tivoli Storage Manager and the family of products
- 2.1 Tivoli Storage Manager evolution
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2.2 Data protection family of products and components
- 2.2.1 Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail
- 2.2.2 Tivoli Storage Manager for Databases
- 2.2.3 Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments: Data Protection for VMware
- 2.2.4 AvePoint DocAve Backup and Restore
- 2.2.5 Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager
- 2.2.6 Tivoli Storage Manager for Enterprise Resource Planning
- 2.2.7 Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Management
- 2.2.8 Tivoli Storage Manager Hierarchical Storage Management for Windows
- 2.2.9 Tivoli Storage Manager for Storage Area Networks
- 2.2.10 Tivoli Storage Manager for System Backup and Recovery
- 2.2.11 Tivoli Storage Manager for z/OS Media
- 2.2.12 Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack
- 2.2.13 Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack for Microsoft Exchange
- 2.2.14 Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack for Bare Machine Recovery
- 2.2.15 Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack for Workstations
- 2.2.16 Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack Center
- 2.2.17 Tivoli Storage Manager Suite for Unified Recovery
- 2.3 Tivoli Storage Manager recent enhancements
- 2.4 Conclusion
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Chapter 3. Data protection with Tivoli Storage Manager
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3.1 Protect the data at the client side
- 3.1.1 Operating system protection
- 3.1.2 Flat file backup
- 3.1.3 Backup considerations
- 3.1.4 Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service
- 3.1.5 Microsoft cluster support wizard
- 3.1.6 Virtual environment specifics
- 3.1.7 Archive data
- 3.1.8 Application or database backup
- 3.1.9 Hierarchical storage management
- 3.1.10 Protect data storage devices owning data
- 3.2 Recover data from the client
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3.3 Data protection at server side
- 3.3.1 Disaster recovery with traditional methods
- 3.3.2 Disaster recovery with node replication
- 3.3.3 Server-side data deduplication
- 3.3.4 Storage hierarchy, storage pool features
- 3.3.5 Tiered storage
- 3.3.6 Advanced Tiered storage concept with virtual tape libraries
- 3.3.7 Policy management
- 3.3.8 Protecting data with Tivoli Storage Manager security
- 3.3.9 Scripting for administration task automation
- 3.3.10 Automatic client deployment
- 3.3.11 Reporting analytics
- 3.3.12 Storage area network (SAN) environments
- 3.4 Tivoli Storage Manager server database management
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3.1 Protect the data at the client side
- Part 3 Solution to challenges using Tivoli Storage Manager
- Chapter 4. Tivoli Storage Manager challenge matrix
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Chapter 5. Tivoli Storage Manager server protection
- 5.1 Protecting the Tivoli Storage Manager server infrastructure
- 5.2 Protecting the Tivoli Storage Manager server database
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5.3 Additional server infrastructure protection
- 5.3.1 Protecting the Tivoli Storage Manager database log files
- 5.3.2 Protecting the volume history file
- 5.3.3 Protecting the device configuration file
- 5.3.4 Protecting the server options file
- 5.3.5 Protecting information about the database and recovery logs
- 5.3.6 Protecting the Secure Sockets Layer digital certificate file
- 5.3.7 Disaster Recovery Manager: Protecting the disaster recovery plan
- 5.4 Summary
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Chapter 6. Tivoli Storage Manager Technologies and Solutions
- 6.1 Providing a set of data protection and restore tools
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6.2 Disk-to-disk data protection solution using deduplication
- 6.2.1 Benefits deduplication provides
- 6.2.2 Solution architecture
- 6.2.3 Disk-to-disk data protection
- 6.2.4 Solution description
- 6.2.5 How Tivoli Storage Manager performs deduplication
- 6.2.6 Data reduction and data deduplication
- 6.2.7 Server-side and client-side deduplication
- 6.2.8 Prerequisites for configuring Tivoli Storage Manager deduplication
- 6.2.9 Exceptions to using Tivoli Storage Manager deduplication
- 6.2.10 Compare Tivoli Storage Manager deduplication and appliance deduplication
- 6.2.11 Factors when deciding between Tivoli Storage Manager and appliance deduplication
- 6.2.12 Conditions for effective use of Tivoli Storage Manager deduplication
- 6.2.13 Traditional Tivoli Storage Manager architectures compared with deduplication architectures
- 6.2.14 Resource requirements for Tivoli Storage Manager deduplication
- 6.2.15 Database and log size requirements
- 6.2.16 Tivoli Storage Manager database log size estimation
- 6.2.17 Estimating capacity for deduplicated storage pools
- 6.2.18 Estimating storage pool capacity requirements
- 6.2.19 Database I/O requirements
- 6.2.20 Hardware requirements for Tivoli Storage Manager client deduplication
- 6.2.21 Processor
- 6.2.22 Memory
- 6.2.23 Solution guidelines
- 6.2.24 Deciding between client and server deduplication
- 6.3 Data protection solution using node replication feature
- 6.4 Tivoli Storage Manager together with ProtecTIER
- 6.5 Tivoli Storage Manager as a virtual appliance
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Chapter 7. Protecting your data with Tivoli Storage Manager
- 7.1 Common virtualization challenges
- 7.2 Virtualization: VMware Data Protection solution
- 7.3 Virtualization: Hyper-V host-based backup
- 7.4 Virtualization: In-guest backup
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7.5 Application and email servers
- 7.5.1 Tivoli Storage Manager for Databases: Data Protection for Oracle
- 7.5.2 Tivoli Storage Manager for Databases: Data Protection for Microsoft SQL
- 7.5.3 Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail: Data Protection for Domino
- 7.5.4 Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail: Data Protection for MicrosoftExchange Server
- 7.5.5 Tivoli Storage Manager for Enterprise Resource Planning
- 7.5.6 Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager
- 7.6 Big data: Structured, very large databases
- 7.7 Big data: Unstructured
- 7.8 Remote office backup
- 7.9 Employee workstation backup
- Appendix A. Practical approach to creating a Tivoli Storage Manager solution
- Appendix B. Hierarchical storage management (HSM)
- Appendix C. VSS and Tivoli Storage Manager related product concepts
- Appendix D. Additional material
- Related publications
- Back cover
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IBM System x Reference Architecture for Hadoop: IBM InfoSphere BigInsights Reference Architecture
- Introduction
- Business problem and business value
- Reference architecture use
- Requirements
- InfoSphere BigInsights predefined configuration
- InfoSphere BigInsights HBase predefined configuration
- Deployment considerations
- Customizing the predefined configurations
- Predefined configuration bill of materials
- References
- The team who wrote this paper
- Now you can become a published author, too!
- Stay connected to IBM Redbooks
- Notices
Product information
- Title: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager as a Data Protection Solution
- Author(s):
- Release date: August 2014
- Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
- ISBN: None
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