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1.3 Introduction to Tivoli Storage Manager 5.3

Figure 1-4 Tivoli Storage Manager components

This slide shows a complete overview of all Tivoli Storage Manager components. It includes

the new Integrated Solution Console with the Tivoli Storage Manager Administration Center.

Throughout this workshop, we present this slide at the beginning of each new section to

identify the area under discussion.

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Local Area Network

Storage Area Network

Integrated Solution Console

with TSM Admin Center

Servers, Clients,

Application Systems

TSM Server ,

Database and Log

Storage

Repository

ISC can be run on a seperate

Server or on the same server as the

TSM Server

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Figure 1-5 Tivoli Storage Manager 5.3 release focus

Tivoli Storage Manager Version 5.3 is designed to provide significant improvements to ease

of use, and ease of administration and serviceability characteristics. These enhancements

can help users improve administrative productivity and their ability to use Tivoli Storage

Manager. In addition, the product is designed to be easier for new administrators and users to

use.

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•Tivoli Storage Manager 5.3: What is in this release?

This release is focused on the themes of usability, serviceability,

and maintainability.

The product has been reviewed from a quality perspective, and

causal analysis has been performed to see what is necessary to

improve it. The changes support the infrastructure and include the

addition of new functions that our clients have requested and been

waiting for.

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Figure 1-6 Features overview

The features of Tivoli Storage Manager 5.3 include:

򐂰 Improved application availability

– IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for space management

Hierarchical storage management (HSM) for AIX® journaled file system 2 (JFS2),

enhancements to HSM for AIX, and Linux® General Parallel File System (GPFS)

– IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for application products update

򐂰 Optimized storage resource utilization

– Improved device management, storage area network (SAN)-attached device dynamic

mapping, native STK ACSLS drive sharing, local area network (LAN)-free operations,

improved tape checkin and checkout, label operations, and new device support

– Disk storage pool enhancements, collocation groups, proxy node support, improved

defaults, reduced LAN-free CPU utilization, parallel reclamation, and migration

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•Improved application availability

•Optimized storage resource utilization

•Enhanced storage personnel productivity

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򐂰 Enhanced storage personnel productivity

– New Administrator Web graphical user interface

– Task-oriented interface with wizards to simplify such tasks as scheduling, managing

server maintenance operations (storage pool backup, migration, reclamation), and

configuring devices

– Health Monitor which shows status of scheduled events, the database and recovery

log, storage devices, and activity log messages

– Calendar-based scheduling for increased flexibility of client and administrative

schedules

– Operational reporting for increased ability to monitor server operation