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IBM Tivoli Storage Manager

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Product enhancements in V5.3

O/S platform support improvements:
Server updates:
HP-UX on Itanium 11iv2
Linux Power 5 (i&p) RHEL 3.3 SLES 9
Linux xSeries, zSeries USS 1.5 1.6, SuSE 9
Client updates:
HP-UX on Itanium 11iv2
zSeries 1.5, 1.6
Aix 5.3
Linux xSeries, zSeries, pSeries, iSeries: SuSE 9
Storage/device support improvements:
Dynamic mapping of SAN-attached devices on AIX, Linux, and Solaris
Restructured device driver modules on Linux servers to provide broader support for the rapidly changing kernel levels
Native StorageTek ACSLS Library Drive Sharing and LAN-Free support
NDMP directory level backup
NDMP Back up of snapshots for Network Appliance Snapshots and quota trees
NDMP Individual files restore from backups of directories and snapshots
New drive support:
Certance Ultrium 2
HP StorageWorks SDLT 600
IBM 3580 Ultrium 3
Sony SDX-700V
New library support:
Breece Hill 10-PAK
Certance CLL 3200
Exabyte VXA-2 PacketLoader 1x10 1U
Overland NEO 8000
Plasmon Gx24
Plasmon Gx32
Plasmon Gx72
Plasmon Gx80
New management features:
New Administration Center:
A task oriented interface
A single interface to sign onto and manage multiple Tivoli Storage Manager servers
Wizards
An Interface based on architecture for future integration among IBM products
A tutorial
Calendar-based scheduling
Ability to schedule migration and reclamation
Script commands for processing of server commands in parallel
Encryption for applications using the Tivoli Storage Manager API and the Tivoli Storage Manager for application products
Proxy node can backup or restore data on behalf of another node
A GUI wizard to visually select files and directories and patterns to include or exclude
Files backed up can be deleted
32-bit x86 Linux client is supported on AMD64 and EA64T
Tool to estimate Tivoli Storage Manager database reorganization and space recovery
Improved management features:
Multi-process Reclamation and Migration
FILE storage pools can span multiple file systems, parallel migration and reclamation, better performance by minimizing fragmentation, direct I/O on platforms that support direct I/O
Device type DISK and FILE space trigger for automatic allocation of storage pool space
Collocation by Group of Nodes
Eliminate the need to reply to many operator messages
Upgraded data encryption from 56-bit DES to 128-bit AES (Advanced Encryption Standard)
Open file support for Windows 2000 and Windows XP using a single drive
Multiple Session Journal Based Backup
Ability to manage the activity log based on its size
Windows, Linux and Solaris can use the shared memory protocol
LAN-free clients performance improvement and the CPU resource used by the client reduction
Client and server defaults optimized
Backup from the VMWare console of .dsk files
Tivoli Data Warehouse reports to answer the following questions:
Which clients are using the most server storage?
How has client use of storage changed over time?
How has client use of storage changed over time by platform?
How has server storage space utilization changed over time?
Tutorial:
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager 5.3 Flash tutorial
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Tivoli Storage Manager for Enterprise Resource Planning:
Display mySAP performance data in DP Admin Assistant
Simulated Backup/Restore for performance bottleneck analysis via DP Admin Assistant
Redirected restore to an alternate system to enable database cloning
Support current level of RMAN API (SBT API v2.0)
Support for Linux on Intel Itanium Oracle
ERP on AIX 5.3 64-bit
Tivoli Storage Manager for Hardware:
ESS: mySAP Peer to Peer Remote Copy (PPRC) support
FlashCopy backup from PPRC target volumes
FlashCopy restore from one of multiple copies on ESS
ESS mySAP with Oracle/DB2 on AIX
Support DB2 EEE partitions backed up and restored in parallel
Ability to have separate configuration parameters per DB2 EEE partition
Tivoli Storage Manager for Databases:
The Data Protection for Informix client is not included in Tivoli Stor- age Manager for Databases V5.3. The next releases of IBM Informix Dy- namic Server (IDS) and Extended Parallel Server (XPS) are intended to be enabled to back up to IBM Tivoli Storage Manager and will not require IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Databases. Customers using versions of IDS, XPS, and Red Brick available now, who want the Data Protection for Informix component, can obtain it by separately purchasing Tivoli Stor- age Manager for Databases V5.2.
Oracle on HP-UX running on 64-bit Itanium processors
Oracle 9i RAC on AIX 5 with GPFS (1Q04)
Oracle 10g (2Q04)
Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail:
New Web GUI
Native TDP for Domino GUI on Windows enhanced to improve memory management when displaying a list of backups available for restore
Lotus Domino translation to Russian, Polish, Hungarian and Czech
Lotus Domino on Solaris 9
Lotus Domino on AIX 5.3
Lotus Domino on zOS v1R6
Lotus Domino on xLinux and zLinux
Tivoli Storage Manager for Application Servers:
WAS 5.x on Linux/390 support
Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Management:
HSM Console
Linux Intel x86 GPFS
Partial file recall, recall only portion needed
Recall using multiple nodes
AIX GPFS
Partial file recall, recall only portion needed
Recall using multiple nodes
AIX JFS2


Product enhancements in V5.3.2

O/S platform support improvements:

Solaris 10 Support (no Zone-containers) for TSM B/A and API (already provided in 2Q on a fixtest level)
Veritas VxFS 4.0 Support on Solaris for TSM B/A and HSM
Red Hat 4 Support for TSM B/A and API on zSeries Linux
JFS ACL Support for xSeries Linux
HP/UX 11i V2 Support for TSM B/A and API

Server updates:

Failover support for Windows
Tape failover of SCSI and Fibre devices used by TSM
Support of the Veritas Cluster Service (VCS)
Support of the Storage Agent, Library Manager and Library Client in the cluster
Prepare tapes for z/os Lan-free
ACSLS support on Linux and HP
Auto-label support for non SCSI libraries (i.e. 3494)
New function for the user interface
Support for Disaster Recovery Manager (DRM)
Support for the EXPIRE INVENTORY command
Support for Storage Pool space triggers
Support for MIGRATE and RECLAIM Storage Pool commands
Support for the ENABLE and DISABLE SESSIONS commands
Improvements to usability and performance
Increase performance
Use client-side selection in tables to improve performance
Eliminate the GO button from all tables
Increase performance of table model construction
Create scrollable tables
Create ability for user to do column configuration
Support ISC Bookmarks (Favorites)

Client Updates:

Journal Based Backup on AIX Platform
Single client backup for SAN FS
LVSA OFS and Image Windows 2003 support
MAC OS X support
Change HFS paths to UNIX paths
Drop the GUI based scheduler and supporting daemon
Netware CLIB to LIBC Conversion
ACL support for z/OS USS b/a client for the z/FS and HFS file systems
LVSA OFS and Image Windows 2003 support
Improve client message content

Tivoli Storage Manager for Hardware:

Data Protection for Disk Storage and SAN VC for Oracle v5.3.1
Data Protection for ESS and Disk Storage for mySAP v5.3.1
Data Protection for SAN VC for mySAP v5.3.1
Added support for new IBM Total Storage hardware:
DS6000
DS8000
San Volume Controller

Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Management:

GPFS 2.3 support for AIX GPFS HSM and Linux GPFS HSM
AIX 5.3 Support for AIX HSM JFS2 and AIX HSM GPFS
Veritas VxFS 4.0 Support on Solaris for TSM B/A and HSM
SUSE SLES 9 Support for TSM HSM GPFS for xSeries Linux

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