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
- New Administration Center:
- 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
- IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for...
- 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
- ESS: mySAP Peer to Peer Remote Copy (PPRC) support
- 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
- Tivoli Storage Manager for Enterprise Resource Planning:
- Server updates:
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
