Hi all,
I am at the Tivoli Storage Manager Roadshow in San Jose, California and thought
you might like some highlights of a few
of TSM's new features. They seem to be on-track to having the best product
available. I was very impressed
with the changes being made. Especially the exploitation of SAN technology to
move data between storage
pools. And in 2Q2000 - Server-free data movement within the SAN environment.
Here are some highlights:
New Rebranded Tivoli Storage Management
· Base Product: Tivoli Storage Manager
The Server and Backup/Archive clients
Includes Enterprise Administration and Server-to-Server features.
The Server to Server feature may seem nominal to smaller customers, but it
allows the splitting
of storage pool hierarchies, i.e.- splitting up drives in a tape library.
Also, it provides expandability.
Optionally priced server features are: Network Enabler, Extended Device
Support, User
Registration, Open Systems Support(S/390).
Integration with Tivoli Enterprise and other Tivoli Products.
Complimentary Products
Tivoli Disaster Recovery Manager (DRM)
It does not include the Disk Image Dump. A new bare metal restore
procedure is being developed
now. It will be out in the next few months. They found that very few
customers were using this
product. They will use OEM technology on this…
Tivoli Data Protection for: Oracle, Informix, MS SQL Server, MS Exchange,
Lotus Domino (R5),
Lotus Notes and SAP R/3(1Q2000). Sybase will still use BMC’s SQL Backtrack.
Note: “Tivoli Data Protection for” is the new name for Connect Agents.
Tivoli Data Protection for Workgroups (NT and Novell – 12/99)
This is a new product. It can run without the TSM server. This will also
provide Bare Metal Restore
for NT and Novell. I still don’t have all the details, but Tivoli is
positioning this product to the SMB
market.
Tivoli Space Manager (HSM)
New Features
· Performance Feature: Rapid Recovery
This is a portable backup set created at the server. If you have the same
media device at the client,
you can send a backup tape to the client and restore its data “rapidly”,
removing any strain from the
network or TSM server – it will have nothing to do with the restore.
I think that this feature will not be used much. A customer with a 3494
will not have a 3590 drive
out at the client. But for DRM purposes, you could backup all of your NT
and all of your UNIX
servers to small SCSI tape devices and have those same, inexpensive
devices at your clients.
This feature is not good for a high volume of clients, but for critical
business servers.
· Performance Feature: Instant Archive
This is awesome! You can schedule an Administrative job that will create an
archive from existing
backups within the TSM server. Instead of using server cycles and network
bandwidth, let TSM
move data from previously backed up data(i.e.- daily incrementals), to a
new archive in any storage
pool.
The Instant Archive feature allows for Volume Level Tracking and is Policy
Managed.
· Performance Feature: Logical Volume Dumps
Raw Logical Volume support –
This feature will support Full+ Incremental. Tivoli does not want us to
advertise this because it
goes against the “Progressive Backup” philosophy, but they know that it
can add flexibility in
selling. In situations that applications reside on raw volumes, this
feature can be used in cases
there is not a connect agent – or should I say – TDP (Tivoli Data
Protection…) I did not get a
firm answer to the question: Even in cases that there is a connect agent,
is the new Logical Volume
Dump a good, safe replacement?
· Performance Option: Self Tuning
Supposedly it will self tune the server. Are they trying to take consulting
dollars away from us? I
doubt they will. We will see on this one…
· SAN Integration
This is the future. This will integrate a backup solution application
(TSM), with SAN technology.
We can bundle ESS/Shark with TSM. Companies are asking about SAN now. They
will
implementing it in the next year. If we have techs that can implement
ESS, SAN…And techs doing
TSM – we will be the service leader in SAN and backup systems
implementation! Wait until you
hear how Tivoli will exploit SAN technology…
· LAN-Free Data Movement: Tape Pooling (1Q2000)
Utilizing Fiber Channel technology in all of its SAN exploitation, Tivoli
Storage Manager will
allow the SAN to be attached to a tape library and TSM will let the SAN
intelligence move the
data between disk and tape pools.
· LAN-Free Data Movement: Client Transfer (1Q2000)
This feature will work in a SAN environment or on non-SAN attached disk.
The client API will move the data.
The server will manage the storage hierarchy, reclamation and DRM, but the
data is moved between
the client and the storage pool, saving TSM server cycles and reduces the
network load.
· Server-Free Data Movement (2Q2000)
Let the SAN do it all. TSM will exploit the SAN technology and will allow
the following
server-free processes:
Backup/Restore, Archive/Retrieve
Tivoli Space Manager (HSM)
Storage pool migrationa nd tape reclamation
Disaster Recovery
Return on Investment will go up for LAN and CPU. You will be able to take
backups off of your
LAN and server. Of course, this is in a SAN, shared disk environment.
· Mobile Support
Check this out – Almaden Research has patented an Adaptive Differencing
Technology that will be
integrated into the backup archive client (doesn’t cost extra). This
technology allows TSM to
backup clients on a byte and block level difference. In other words – TSM
will backup only the
changed bytes of a file – not the whole file every time it is changed! Now
when you backup over
modem, you are sending a minimal amount of data. Also, this can save on
LAN bandwidth in a
typical TSM environment we see today – without SAN.
TSM will be State of the Art from Enterprise to Mobile. No more 3rd party
mobile backup software.
Tivoli Integration
Of course, TSM will have many hooks to plug into TME.
I hope this did something for you...
Thank You,
Don Caronna
Think Tank Systems, LLC
IBM CATE Certified Technician
Tivoli ADSM Certified Technician/Solutions Provider
Office: (562) 653-2520
Fax: (562) 653-2560
Email: dcaronna AT ttank DOT com
Web: http://www.ttank.com
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