Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication for Open Systems

Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication for Open Systems

by Karen Orlando, Otavio Rocha Filho, Danijel Paulin, Antonio Rainero, Deborah Sparks
Released January 2014
Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
ISBN: None

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Book description

This IBM® Redbooks® publication for the Tivoli® Storage Productivity Center for Replication for the Open environment walks you through the process of establishing sessions, and managing and monitoring copy services through Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication. The book introduces enhanced copy services and new session types that are used by the latest IBM storage systems. Tips and guidance for session usage, tunable parameters, troubleshooting, and for implementing and managing Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication’s latest functionality up to v5.2 also are provided. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication’s integration and latest functionality includes Global Mirror Pause with Consistency, Easy Tier® Heat Map Transfer, and IBM System Storage® SAN Volume Controller Change Volumes. As of v5.2, you can now manage z/OS® Hyperswap function from an Open System.

IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication for Open Systems manages copy services in storage environments. Copy services are used by storage systems, such as IBM System Storage DS8000®, SAN Volume Controller, IBM Storwize® V3700, V3500, V7000, V7000 Unified, and IBM XIV® Storage systems to configure, manage, and monitor data-copy functions. Copy services include IBM FlashCopy®, Metro Mirror, Global Mirror, and Metro Global Mirror.

This IBM Redbooks publication is the companion to the draft of the IBM Redbooks publication Tivoli Storage Productivity Center V5.2 Release Guide, SG24-8204. It is intended for storage administrators who ordered and installed Tivoli Storage Productivity Center version 5.2 and are ready to customize Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication and connected storage. This publication also is for anyone that wants to learn more about Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication in an open systems environment.

Table of contents

  1. Notices
    1. Trademarks
  2. Preface
    1. Authors
    2. Now you can become a published author, too!
    3. Comments welcome
    4. Stay connected to IBM Redbooks
  3. Chapter 1: Introduction to Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication
    1. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication overview
    2. Terminology
    3. Architecture
    4. Copy services overview
    5. Session types and usage
      1. Practice sessions
      2. Data copying symbols
      3. FlashCopy sessions
      4. Snapshot sessions
      5. Metro Mirror Single Direction sessions
      6. Metro Mirror Failover/Failback sessions
      7. Metro Mirror Failover/Failback with Practice sessions
      8. Global Mirror Single Direction sessions
      9. Global Mirror Failover/Failback
      10. Global Mirror Failover/Failback with Change Volumes sessions
      11. Global Mirror Failover/Failback with Practice sessions
      12. Global Mirror Either Direction with Two-Site Practice sessions
      13. Metro Global Mirror sessions
      14. Metro Global Mirror with Practice sessions
      15. Session states
      16. Session commands (1/2)
      17. Session commands (2/2)
    6. New features and enhancements in Tivoli Storage Replication Center for Replication by release
      1. New in V5.1
      2. New in V5.1.1
      3. New in V5.1.1.1
      4. New in V5.2
    7. Introduction to Storage Systems
      1. IBM System Storage DS8000
      2. IBM Storwize Family
      3. IBM XIV Storage System
  4. Chapter 2: Planning and installation
    1. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication installation planning
      1. Pre-installation steps
      2. Licensing
      3. Hardware and software requirements
      4. Configuration planning
      5. User accounts
      6. HyperSwap configuration for z/OS and Open systems
    2. Installing Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication
      1. Overview
      2. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center installation packages
      3. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center installation (1/3)
      4. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center installation (2/3)
      5. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center installation (3/3)
  5. Chapter 3: General administration and high availability
    1. Accessing Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication
      1. Accessing Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication GUI
      2. Accessing Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication CLI
    2. GUI overview
      1. GUI panels (1/2)
      2. GUI panels (2/2)
    3. CLI Overview
      1. Configuring the CLI
      2. Setting up automatic login to the CLI
      3. Remote CLI installation
      4. CLI automation (1/2)
      5. CLI automation (2/2)
    4. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication interaction with Tivoli Storage Productivity Center
    5. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication security and user administration
      1. Adding Tivoli Storage Productivity Center users and groups to Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication
      2. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication role-based access control
      3. Managing user access
      4. Modifying access to a user role
      5. Removing access to a user role
    6. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication advanced tools
      1. Packaging log files
      2. Setting the auto refresh rate for the browser
      3. Managing the Metro Mirror heartbeat
    7. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication Console
    8. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication High Availability
      1. Setting up a Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication standby server (1/2)
      2. Setting up a Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication standby server (2/2)
      3. Takeover (1/2)
      4. Takeover (2/2)
      5. Best practices
    9. Starting and stopping the Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication server
      1. Verifying the status of components
      2. Starting and stopping Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication
    10. Using CSV files for importing and exporting sessions
      1. Exporting CSV files
      2. Importing CSV files (1/2)
      3. Importing CSV files (2/2)
      4. Working with CSV files under Microsoft Excel
    11. Backing up and restoring a repository
    12. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication SNMP management
      1. SNMP Alerts
      2. SNMP setup
    13. Adding and connecting to storage systems
      1. DS8000 Connection page
      2. XIV System Storage Connection window
    14. Adding and connecting host systems
      1. AIX Host System
      2. z/OS Host System
  6. Chapter 4: Using Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication with DS8000
    1. Capabilities overview
      1. FlashCopy
      2. Metro Mirror
      3. Global Mirror (1/2)
      4. Global Mirror (2/2)
      5. Metro Global Mirror (1/2)
      6. Metro Global Mirror (2/2)
    2. New functions for DS8000
      1. FlashCopy consistency groups for FlashCopy sessions
      2. Global Mirror pause with consistency
      3. Easy Tier Heat Map Transfer (1/2)
      4. Easy Tier Heat Map Transfer (2/2)
      5. Global Mirror Info Tab for DS8000 sessions
      6. Global Mirror Historical Data (1/2)
      7. Global Mirror Historical Data (2/2)
      8. Managing z/OS HyperSwap from Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication for Open Systems
    3. Managing DS8000 sessions
      1. DS8000 Path management
      2. Setting up a session (1/5)
      3. Setting up a session (2/5)
      4. Setting up a session (3/5)
      5. Setting up a session (4/5)
      6. Setting up a session (5/5)
      7. Session tunable parameters (1/3)
      8. Session tunable parameters (2/3)
      9. Session tunable parameters (3/3)
      10. Scenarios requiring a full copy (1/2)
      11. Scenarios requiring a full copy (2/2)
    4. Use cases
      1. Practicing disaster recovery by using FlashCopy sessions
      2. Two-site planned outages scenarios
      3. Three-site planned outages scenarios (1/3)
      4. Three-site planned outages scenarios (2/3)
      5. Three-site planned outages scenarios (3/3)
    5. Troubleshooting
      1. Managing loss of connection to storage system
      2. Managing suspending events (1/2)
      3. Managing suspending events (2/2)
  7. Chapter 5: Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication with SAN Volume Controller and Storwize family
    1. Introduction
      1. The Storwize family of Storage Products
      2. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication and the Storwize family
    2. SAN Volume Controller
    3. Storwize Products
      1. Storwize V7000
      2. Storwize V7000 Unified
      3. Storwize V3700 and V3500
    4. New Functions
      1. Global Mirror Failover/Failback with Change Volumes session
      2. Support for the SAN Volume Controller 6.4 option to move volumes between I/O groups
    5. Session Types and Setup
      1. FlashCopy sessions
      2. Metro Mirror sessions
      3. Global Mirror sessions
    6. Why and when to use certain session types
      1. When to use FlashCopy
      2. When to use Metro Mirror
      3. When to use Global Mirror
    7. Disaster Recovery use cases
      1. SAN Volume Controller Stretched Cluster
      2. Global Mirror Forwarding I/O Group
    8. Troubleshooting
      1. Storwize family replication error codes
      2. Troubleshooting replication links
  8. Chapter 6: Using Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication with XIV
    1. Overview
      1. XIV consistency groups
      2. XIV connections
    2. XIV session types
      1. Snapshot sessions
      2. Metro Mirror Failover/Failback sessions (1/3)
      3. Metro Mirror Failover/Failback sessions (2/3)
      4. Metro Mirror Failover/Failback sessions (3/3)
      5. Global Mirror Failover/Failback sessions
    3. Adding XIV volume protection
    4. Disaster Recovery use cases
    5. Troubleshooting (1/2)
    6. Troubleshooting (2/2)
  9. Chapter 7: Managing z/OS HyperSwap from Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication for Open Systems
    1. Overview of z/OS HyperSwap
    2. Prerequisites
      1. Hardware
      2. Software
      3. Connectivity
      4. Enabling a host name or IP address connection to a z/OS host system
      5. Enabling z/OS HyperSwap and adding a Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication user to z/OS host
    3. z/OS HyperSwap sessions
      1. Basic HyperSwap sessions
      2. HyperSwap enabled Metro Mirror Failover/Failback sessions
      3. HyperSwap enabled Metro Global Mirror sessions
      4. HyperSwap enabled Metro Global Mirror with Practice sessions
      5. Hardened Freeze
    4. Description and usage of HyperSwap enabled sessions
      1. Setting up a HyperSwap enabled session
    5. Use cases (1/2)
    6. Use cases (2/2)
  10. Chapter 8: Hints and tips
    1. Introduction
    2. VMware, DS8000, and Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication
      1. Hosting by using virtual servers
      2. VAAI and DS8000
    3. DS8000 LSS symmetry
    4. HyperSwap enabled sessions troubleshooting
    5. Stuck in a particular state
    6. High availability server platforms
    7. Simple Network Management Protocol setup
    8. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication logging
      1. Collecting logs by using GUI
      2. Collecting logs by using CLI
      3. Collecting logs manually
    9. Auto refresh rate
    10. User authentication issues
      1. An error is displayed when you try to log on
      2. An error occurs when you try to add a user
    11. IBM Software Support Lifecycle
    12. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center support matrix
  11. Appendix A: Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication and Advanced Copy Services
    1. Integration with Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication
  12. Appendix B: Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication integration
    1. Integration with Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication
  13. Related publications
    1. IBM Redbooks
    2. Other publications
    3. Online resources
    4. Help from IBM
  14. Back cover

Product information

  • Title: Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication for Open Systems
  • Author(s): Karen Orlando, Otavio Rocha Filho, Danijel Paulin, Antonio Rainero, Deborah Sparks
  • Release date: January 2014
  • Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
  • ISBN: None