Product enhancements in V5.1
- O/S platform support improvements
- TSM Backup/Archive client for Windows XP®
- TSM Backup/Archive client for Windows.net
- TSM Backup/Archive client for Netware® 6.0
- TSM Backup/Archive client for MacOS® X
- Storage/Device support improvements
- Solaris TSM Client Backup and Archive Support for Sun/LSCI's QFS - "Quick File System"
- Support for Network Appliance NAS Filers via new NDMP support in TSM
- DISC now provides barcode for the optical platters
- TSM device driver able to get the barcode from each platter and provide the barcode to the application
- Full Storage Manager device driver support for HP platform
Performance improvements
- New performance features
- New option to stage data to disk in preparation for restore and to consolidate data at the node level on tape volumes to decrease restore time
- Online image backup and restore for Linux and Windows clients provides non-disruptive backups and fast restores - Point in time backup or restore of an NTFS volume. A single pointer is put into the TSM database and the entire file-system is treated as a single object. It is restored as a single object as well. Very low overhead to the TSM database
- Improved performance features
- Improved performance with AIX direct I/O - Helps reduce CPU utilization and improves I/O throughout by bypassing the VMM cache when writing to TSM JFS volumes
- Synchronous writes to copy storage pools
- Improved performance for local Backup Set restore
- B/A Client multi-session restore functionality
- Simultaneous write of data to multiple copy storage pools - Storage pool can be any currently
- Existing performance features expanded to more OS
- LAN-Free backup (disk-to-tape via SAN) now works on TSM servers running HP/UX®
Management improvements
- New management features
- Optional checksum capability adds an additional layer of data verification between the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager server and client running in unstable hardware environments
- New backup set options
- Move NODEDATA - moves node's data from volumes in a sequential-access storage pool. Allows for consolidating data for that node within the storage pool
- Reduces the number of volume mounts required for a restore
- Can move data into another storage pool
- Can move data to a disk storage pool in preparation for a client restore
- TSM now recognized by Tivoli Inventory - Tivoli Inventory offers enterprise wide inventory and asset management and is closely integrated with Tivoli Software Distribution
- Improved management features
- Wizards for minimal config of Windows Server
- AIX TSM B/A and HSM Client Support HACMP - The AIX Backup/Archive and HSM clients can continue to operate in the case of an HACMP node failover and fallback (when a failed node rejoins the cluster)
- Consistent return codes returned to batch applications
- Usability updates to Web client - conformance to government accessibility standards
- Existing management features expanded to more OS
- HSM client support for AIX 32-bit HACMP JFS
- HSM client support for AIX 64-bit HACMP JFS
- HSM client support for Solaris 8
- HP and Solaris platforms modified to use iFor/LS LUM (License Use Management)
24x365 Business-critical application protection improvements
(previously known as Data Protection Modules - "TDPs")
- Feature expansion
- LAN-Free disk-to-tape over SAN for Oracle and Informix on HP/UX
