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Abstracts of TSM 2015 Technical Talks
The abstracts of the technical talks are sorted by topic/headline.
This presentation is a small training on how to use SQL in TSM with some nice options what can make an engineers life more easy. Besides these slides, in the PDF will be some explanation per slide as reference. Also beside these slides will be my personal pack available to download with a lot of examples of selects directly to use or to implement as scripts. Think about the average speeds and amount of data over Lan and via Lanfree per day per node, amount of errors per tape or drive per timeframe, copy paths for an extra tapedrive or storage agent, etc etc
Storing and managing archive data poses special challenges to users and organizations. Archived data typically has to be stored for long period of time and managed according to regulatory requirements. IBM System Storage Archive Manager (SSAM) – a special version of Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) – is made for long archiving. It provides retention protection by preventing changes and deletions during the retention period and enables efficient management of archived data though migration and backup.
This presentation explains what SSAM is and how it differentiates from TSM. It also demonstrates how SSAM solutions can be build and presents some typically use cases based on practical experience.
This session will discuss the current trends and recommendations for V7 servers with regards to health, daily maintenance, and other considerations for a successful and trouble-free IBM Spectrum Protect deployment. The current trends and best practice recommendations are from the development team's experiences along with observed "best practices" seen in the field today. As IBM Spectrum Protect has evolved over the years, often environments are not changed or revised relative to newer capabilities; this session will discuss some of those areas that should be re-examined and revised relating to current capabilities.
So you have deployed a set of tools and processes to back up and restore your VMware virtual machines. What's next? What happens if disaster strikes at your site? Have you considered disaster recovery? Are you prepared to have your resources available in a secondary site with minimal downtime? This session focuses on disaster recovery of VMware virtual server environments using IBM Spectrum Protect software using node replication, advanced snapshot backup and restore capabilities and hardware replication techniques.
The data deduplication and node replication technologies provided by IBM Spectrum Protect make scalable data protection solutions using disk a practical reality. Join this session to learn about designing disk-based backup solutions that meet modern data protection challenges. Take a deep dive into the IBM Spectrum Protect blueprints that provide reference architectures and deployment automation for solutions built upon IBM Storwize and IBM Elastic Storage Server technologies including insight into the rationale behind key design decisions. This session also explores recent enhancements that significantly improve the scalability of disk solutions.
The control and evidence of all backups is a very important issue for Robert Bosch GmbH as a global company with a big TSM data protection environment. The increasing requirements of audit and compliance were the main reason for starting the project "Completeness of Data Protection @ Bosch". The objective of this project was the centralized and complete monitoring of all backups on all backup servers worldwide. Oliver Klenk will explain aspects of the solution and show the basics of the implementation. He will afterwards talk about his experiences, results and additional benefits for Robert Bosch GmbH.
This session will provide a functional overview on the integration between IBM Spectrum Protect and IBM Spectrum Scale (GPFS). The focus will be on scalable backup solutions for unstructured data (mmbackup for file data with the IBM Spectrum Protect backup-archive client) and structured data (Spectrum Protect Snapshot for DB2 pureScale, custom application support). Recent enhancements will be described. In addition, the usage of IBM Spectrum Protect in combination with the IBM Spectrum Scale function Active File Management (AFM) will be explained. Beside these topics, a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect based data protection solutions and IBM Spectrum Archive (LTFS) will be part of the session.
Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager for VMware offers improved data protection features for virtualized environments. It leverages the FlashCopy and Snapshot technologies of storage systems to provide near-instant backup and restore. This session provides a product overview and discusses product functionality and installation requirements.
This session provides a deep dive into IBM Spectrum Protect Data Protection for VMware and Snapshot for VMware. Discussion topics include: incremental forever backup, recovery options including instant access, instant restore, and individual file recovery in addition to considerations such as scheduling, policy, tape, deduplication, security, reporting and monitoring.
Virtual machines have different characteristics than physical machines that must be considered when planning backup and recovery. Given these differences, there are a number of methodologies that can be employed to meet recovery time and recovery point objectives. This session explores options available for virtual server backup and recovery based on the virtual machine's workload using IBM Spectrum Protect products featuring Data Protection for VMware, Snapshot for VMware, and Data Protection for Microsoft Hyper-V.
Brief introduction in GPFS; advantages for TSM server when using GPFS as filesystem platform (easy filesystem layout, high availability, flexibility in using storage capacities, cloudlike); TSM storage pools on IBM ElasticStorageServer (low cost, very fast, flexible); experiences gained from a 1 Pbyte project; hints & tips for configuring a TSM on GPFS environment;
The GSE Working group Storagemanagement is comprised by two parts, traditional IBM Mainframe storage management with z/OS and storage management in an open systems environment. In the open part we always discuss experiences, problems and solutions all around IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, but storage highlights from all vendors are also discussed, The working group is integrated into the Guide Share Europe framework. The user group meetings will be hold twice a year, mostly three days. During the TSM Symposium we will hold our experience exchange during the BOF on Thursday. All attendees of the symposium are invited to share their experience with us.
TSM can help to build a high performance backup environment together with Elastic Storage Server as an excellent backend storage platform. This presentation describes an approach of managing backup data with TSM while leveraging the great interoperability and reliability of a TSM and Elastic Storage Server solution. In addition the benchmark results are shown and explained, which were conducted in a Proof of Concept setup.
IBM Spectrum Scale, based on IBM GPFS technology, is a proven, scalable, high-performance data and file management solution that's being used extensively across multiple industries worldwide. Spectrum Scale provides simplified data management and integrated information lifecycle tools capable of managing petabytes of data and billions of files, in order to arrest the growing cost of managing ever growing amounts of data. Elastic Storage Server is a fully integrated server-based storage system for TSM, Analytics and HPC, which combines Spectrum Scale software with IBM's latest generation of Power8 processors to deliver a complete high-performance, high-value Spectrum Scale solution including server, storage, software and services as well as IBM's native RAID software, instead of hardware RAID controllers, and a graphical user interface (GUI) to simplify deployment and management.
IBM Spectrum Protect is the ideal data protection solution on which optimized hybrid cloud services can be built and delivered. This session describes the IBM Spectrum Protect multifaceted cloud strategy including key use cases, technologies, approaches to a simplified client experience and accelerated client benefit. Use cases include hosting an IBM Spectrum Protect server and / or IBM Spectrum Protect server storage in the cloud (e.g. SoftLayer), Backup as a Service (BaaS), Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS), and protecting data hosted in the cloud (e.g. SoftLayer or OpenStack.) This session reviews what's available today and what cloud related items are planned in the IBM Spectrum Protect roadmap.
This session will explore IBM's direction for the next generation of data deduplication. Increased performance, better deduplication efficiency, and improved recoverability will be explored in the context of a new data storage model. If you're using deduplication today or are interested in deploying it, this is a session you won't want to miss.
This session will examine the best practices for using node replication in IBM Spectrum Protect. It will examine possible configurations, and how the recent enhancement of dissimilar policies may affect those configurations. The session will also examine recent improvements to file recoverability using node replication.
Get an overview of IBM's strategic direction for data protection solutions over the next few years plus an overview of planned and potential enhancements in the IBM Spectrum Protect product family. The session focuses on how these new enhancements can solve application and business challenges.
I give you an update on IBM Tape, VTL and DeDuplication Products, such as:
- IBM TS1150 and LTO6 and preview to LTO7
- IBM TS3500 & TS4500 Tape Library
- Tape Monitoring and Data Integrity
- IBM ProtecTier Data DeDuplication
Recently IBM demonstrated a 220 TB Tape Cartridge. I will show the future of Tape Technology and the enhancement made in Tape Storage. Also I give an outlook in Hard-Disk and in Flash Technology. The roadmap in areal density and capacity growth in those different technology will force us to rethink our backup storage architecture in the future. I will discuss and compare those different storage technologies areal density, roadmap, bit error rate, cost and power consumption. I will calculate some example related to backup environment where not only huge data are stored but also many data processed daily.
This session examines deployment and storage layout recommendations, database reorganization, administrative SQL processing, and other topics relating to the server database.
The presentation is a wrap up of the new functionalities in Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server and Data Protection for SQL Server. How do the products work and can be combined with additional TSM Products (FCM and TSM4VE).
The presentation will include the new Database Availability Group and AlwaysOn high availability functionalities of Microsoft and how to integrate TSM Data Protection products.
With the popularity of virtual server environments such as VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, and KVM, come deployments of all shapes and sizes from basic file servers to clustered database applications. One data protection method is not adequate to address the many unique data protection requirements in these environments. This session discusses strategies to protect applications and databases deployed in virtual server environments and examines the best way to choose the appropriate tools for protecting these environments: Data Protection for VMware, IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot for VMware, and traditional data protection agents. The session primarily focuses on Microsoft SQL and Microsoft Exchange deployments in VMware.
This session will provide a detailed preview of selected future enhancements. We will discuss potential future direction in the areas of optimized data storage, replication, data lifecycle management, simplified administration, and data protection for virtual machines.
Explore the administration and management of your IBM Spectrum Protect environment through the Operations Center. This session looks at typical administrative use cases and how they are solved using the Operations Center. The lecture also examines other related use cases to understand their priority and importance.
Managing enterprise data protection and retention environments becomes more and more challenging. Data is growing over time and question comes up, how to manage enterprise backup environments while maintaining flexibility and scalability. The Modular Data Retention Concept helps you to manage backup data before it arrives on the storage layer. The real question is not how to easily / painlessly expand storage capacity but rather am I storing the right data?
This session provides a systematic approach for designing a data protection solution for VMware virtual machines. It also covers the technology selection within IBM Spectrum Protect of when to use hardware snapshots (Spectrum Protect Snapshot for VMware), Data Protection for VMware, or a combination of the two. The design process that is presented includes how to plan for transitioning from a traditional, in-guest backup agent to a VADP technology, sizing the solution components, establishing backup schedules and scope, and planning for ongoing support VM and file level restores.
This session will examine methods to ensure availability of the IBM Spectrum Protect server environment. It will explore techniques for making the IBM Spectrum Protect server highly available, including clustering on AIX and Linux, and DB2's HADR function, and compute and storage hosted in the "cloud". It will compare and contrast database backup methodologies, including traditional database backup and snapshot backup. Finally, we will explore the protection of storage pool data, including replication and storage pool backup.
Disk only, Tape less, D2T, D2D2T, Tape, DeDuplication, Flash, Cloud: nowadays many storage tiers are available for storing backup data. But which Storage Solution/Architecture should you use for your TSM Environment? Several requirements, such as cost, data growth, security, investment protection, RTO and RPO needs to be considered if choosing a backup storage tier. Does one storage tiers fits all? I will show you how to choose the right storage tier for your requirements and also how to combine different storage tiers in order to get the best Backup Storage Solution for your TSM environment. One existing example will be Flape – the combination of Flash and Tape!
Disk plays an increasingly important role for TSM. What used to be just enough cache to hold your daily backup load is quickly becoming the major technology to store primary TSM data permanently - and for good reason.
However building pools up to many petabytes in size, maintaining them, monitoring them and being able to scale up even further at the press of a button used to be quite a challenge.
We’ll demonstrate how to do it efficiently, quickly and above all easily with in-depth experience and real-world examples. Another, closely related topic will be the introduction of an astonishingly simple way to dramatically speed up backups and, yes, restores of huge file server systems using TSM but no NDMP, SnapDiff or any other proprietary technology on your file server.
TSLM (Tape System Library Manager) overview, installation and configuration. Get benefit of virtualization and load-balancing within your IBM Tape infrastructure.
TSLM Tape Library sharing and handling done for TSM with TSLM.
Hints and tips for your TSM environment.
Prof. Matthias S. Müller, RWTH Aachen
RWTH Aachen University is changing the way it handles Research Data.
The objective of this presentation is to illustrate the scope and the reason for this change as well as how TSM fits in this changed scenario.
New experiences with TSM for VE Version 7 and 7.1.1
- Installation
- TSM for VE Web User Interface
- Scheduling
- Collocation by group of Filespaces
- Some TSM Server scripts
Alex Iribarren, Daniele Francesco Kruse, Julien Leduc
This talk discusses how TSM is deployed at CERN and specifically how it is monitored. The monitoring and management system we developed is called Druid and is an application based on Splunk. We will describe how the different components of Druid - the agent, the server and the command line - automatize certain administration tasks, and make others much quicker and easier than before. We will illustrate how Druid exploits the power of Splunk search engine and alerting system to allow TSM administrators to spot and diagnose issues with the backup service.
The TSM Index and Table reorganization is used by DB2 is not very well known by the audience.
We would bring these Internal TSM (DB2 Reorganization) with several samples to the TSM conference people.
It will be covering the following:
- Table and Index reorganization
- TSM <=> DB2 function
- Table / Index information
- Offline reorg
- Online reorg
- Benefit
- What to do if ....
- new options / outlook
Optimizing Spectrum Protect Server Tablespaces for Size and Performance Over the time, coming from IBM Tivoli Storage Manager server V6.1, the tablespace layout has undergone several changes that are not automatically applied during a server update. This presentation provides details on when to do the tablespace conversion, the steps required for the conversion and some numbers on the time it can take to complete the convert. We demonstrate some real life examples and provide best practices developed from conversions done in production environments.
Exploiting storage snapshot technology is a key method for protecting growing data volumes within very stringent recovery time objectives. This session describes recent enhancements in IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot on Unix, VMware and Windows platforms that expand the applicability of storage snapshots in data protection strategies. Topics include enhanced installation and configuration for improved time to value, and expanded support for 3rd party storage devices. You will also learn about improvements in Exchange individual mailbox recovery, database cloning for Oracle ASM environments and extended integration with storage remote mirroring functions to enable snapshot restore speeds in disaster recovery scenarios when the primary storage device is lost.
Join us to learn more about recent product enhancements in the IBM Spectrum Protect portfolio and how these enhancements can help you better protect one of your most critical business assets -- your data.
A (hopefully) interactive session about one of the ways to work with Oracle's RMAN in combination with TSM.
Do's and dont's for configuring, backing up and restoring.
A short session about administrating TDPO from scratch.