Hardware and Software Requirements: Version 4.1.3 IBM Spectrum Protect™ Snapshot - All Unix Components

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Tip: Beginning with Version 4.1.3, IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy® Manager is now IBM Spectrum Protect™ Snapshot. Some applications such as the software fulfillment systems and IBM License Metric Tool use the new product name. However, the software and its product documentation continue to use the Tivoli Storage Manager product name. To learn more about the rebranding transition, see http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21963634.


The following IBM Spectrum Protect™ Snapshot components share core hardware and software requirements. Therefore, the requirements for all of the following components are grouped in a single requirements document. The components are:

• IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot for DB2
• IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot for Oracle
• IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot for Oracle (with SAP® environments)
• IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot for Custom Applications

Note: The HP-UX and Solaris platforms have not updated to the 4.1.3 functional code level. These platforms have been stabilized at the 4.1.1 functional code level. The hardware and software requirements associated with the 4.1.1 level of these platforms are documented in:

Hardware and Software Requirements: Version 4.1.1 FlashCopy® Manager - All Unix and Linux Components http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21684506

Links to the Hardware & Software requirements for the other components that are a part of IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot V4.1.3, are at the following URL: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21965088

Links to the hardware and software requirements for other releases of IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot, and its components, are located in the "All Requirements Document" located at the following URL:
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21427692

The IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot V4.1.3 download document provides information about how and where to obtain the Spectrum Protect Snapshot V4.1.3 packages. The information is located here: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24040398

Information regarding virtualization technologies supported by IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot is available in the IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot Support technote at the following URL:
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21433737


This document is divided into linked sections for ease of navigation. Use the following links to jump to different sections of the document:

• Pre-installation Checklist
• Installation Planning Worksheet

Requirements Common to All Components

• on the AIX Platform
• on the Linux x86_64 Platform
• External Disk Storage Options
• for Off-loaded Backups

Overview of Storage Architecture Support for IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot
Additional Requirements Specific to IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot for DB2
Additional Requirements Specific to IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot for Oracle
Additional Requirements Specific to IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot for Oracle (with SAP® environments)
Additional Requirements Specific to IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot for Custom Applications

The requirements for the IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot Prerequisite Checker are documented in the tech note at http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27043307

Note: For requirements marked with two asterisks (**) special attention needs to be paid to limitations documented at: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?&uid=swg21650880

Requirements Common to All Components

The following sections provide a quick overview of the basic requirements for IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot.



Requirements Common to All Components on the AIX Platform

Hardware:

• Compatible System p® server hardware that is supported by the operating system and the application
• At least 1 GB of disk space (additional temporary space is required during installation)
• At least 1 GB of additional disk space for each database instance that is protected by Spectrum Protect Snapshot

Software:

• One of these operating system options, as supported by the application:
• 64-bit AIX 6.1, and later 6.1.x levels
• 64-bit AIX 7.1, and later 7.1.x levels
• File systems supported:
  JFS, JFS2
  for DB2 pureScale and Custom Applications only: GPFS
• The gzip utility must be installed on the system and must be available in the PATH environment variable.

Additional Operating Environments Supported:

• High Availability Cluster Multiprocessing (HACMP™) and PowerHA®

Requirements Common to All Components on the Linux x64 Platform

Hardware:

• Intel EM64T, AMD Opteron, or higher machine that is supported by the operating system and the application
• At least 400 MB of disk space (additional temporary space is required during installation)
• At least 400 MB of additional disk space for each database instance that is protected by Spectrum Protect Snapshot

Software:

• One of these operating system options, as supported by the application:
• 64-bit SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11, and later 11.x levels
• 64-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.1 up to 5.11
• 64-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.1 up to 6.6
• **Supported Logical Volume Manager: LVM2
• File systems supported:
  ext2, ext3, ext4
  for DB2 pureScale and Custom Applications only: GPFS

Requirements Common to All Components: External Disk Storage Options

IBM Storwize® V7000 v1 Disk System
IBM Storwize® V7000 Version 6.4
IBM Storwize® V7000 Version 7.1
IBM Storwize® V7000 Version 7.2
IBM Storwize® V7000 Version 7.3
IBM Storwize® V7000 Version 7.4
IBM Storwize® V7000 Version 7.5

IBM Storwize® v3700 Version 6.4
IBM Storwize® v3700 Version 7.1
IBM Storwize® v3700 Version 7.2
IBM Storwize® v3700 Version 7.3
IBM Storwize® v3700 Version 7.4
IBM Storwize® v3700 Version 7.5

IBM Storwize® v5000 Version 7.1
IBM Storwize® v5000 Version 7.2
IBM Storwize® v5000 Version 7.3
IBM Storwize® v5000 Version 7.4
IBM Storwize® v5000 Version 7.5

IBM Storwize® V7000 Unified v1.3 Disk System (block level support only)
IBM Storwize® V7000 Unified v1.4 Disk System (block level support only)
IBM Storwize® V7000 Unified v1.5.x Disk System (block level support only)

IBM Flex System™ v7000 Version 6.4
IBM Flex System™ v7000 Version 7.1
IBM Flex System™ v7000 Version 7.2

IBM FlashSystem™ V840
IBM FlashSystem™ V9000


IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC) hardware with one of the following SVC levels:

• IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller v6.1.0, and later 6.1.x levels
• IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller v6.2.0, and later 6.2.x levels
• IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller v6.3.0, and later 6.3.x levels
• IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller v6.4.0, and later 6.4.x levels
• IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller v7.1.0, and later 7.1.x levels
• IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller v7.2.0, and later 7.2.x levels
• IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller v7.3.0, and later 7.3.x levels
• IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller v7.4.0, and later 7.4.x levels
• IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller v7.5.0, and later 7.5.x levels

IBM XIV® Storage System Hardware:

• IBM XIV® 2nd Generation Storage System v10.0.0.b, and later 10.x levels
• IBM XIV® 3rd Generation Storage System 11.x levels

IBM XIV® Storage System Software:

• IBM XIV® Management Tools 3.x for all IBM XIV® Generations
• IBM XIV® Management Tools 4.2 and later 4.2.x levels for all IBM XIV® Generations
  or
• XIV® CLI 2.3.1 and later 2.x and 3.x levels for IBM XIV® 2nd Generation
• XIV® CLI 3.0.1 and later 3.x levels for IBM XIV® 3rd Generation
• XIV® CLI 4.2 and later 4.2.x levels for IBM XIV® 3rd Generation

IBM Spectrum Accelerate™ Version 11.5.x



IBM System Storage DS8000 hardware:

• IBM System Storage DS8000™ (DS8100, DS8300, DS8700, DS8800 or DS8870) with DS8000 Release Version 3.1 or later versions. Earlier versions might be supported by certain microcode level updates. Refer to the Pre-installation Checklist for details.
  

IBM System Storage N Series and NetApp hardware:

• IBM System Storage N Series or NetApp data storage systems
• Supported Data ONTAP versions:
• 7.3, or later 7.3.x levels
• 8.1, or later 8.1.x levels
• Volumes must be attached via SAN, iSCSI or NFS.

Requirements Common to All Components for Off-loaded Backups to IBM Spectrum Protect

• Any IBM Spectrum Protect Server version currently supported by IBM Spectrum Protect
• Any version of the IBM Spectrum Protect Storage Agent, currently supported by IBM Spectrum Protect , is required for LAN-free restore operations. The IBM Spectrum Protect Storage Agent is a component of the IBM Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks product.
• Data Protection for Oracle 6.3.x levels, or later releases and versions is required when performing Off-loaded Backups using the Spectrum Protect Snapshot for Oracle component. Data Protection for Oracle is a component of the IBM Spectrum Protect for Databases product.
• IBM Spectrum Protect for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) V6.3, and later 6.3.x levels, releases, and versions is required in the following situations:
• When you are running Off-loaded Backups in SAP® with Oracle environments.
• When you are running Off-loaded Backups in SAP® with Oracle environments using Oracle RMAN.
• IBM Spectrum Protect for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) V6.3, and later 6.3.x levels, releases, and versions is optional when running Off-loaded Backups in SAP® with DB2 environments.
  Note: For an off-loaded backup of a DB2 pureScale database, IBM Spectrum Protect for ERP is not supported.
• IBM Spectrum Protect Backup-Archive Client V6.3.x, and later 6.3.x levels, releases, and versions is required when running Off-loaded Backups using the Spectrum Protect Snapshot for Custom Applications.
• Any IBM Spectrum Protect API supported by Data Protection for Oracle and/or IBM Spectrum Protect for Enterprise Resource Planning and/or DB2 native IBM Spectrum Protect agent as applicable to your environment.

Overview of Storage Architecture Support for IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot

For more information about storage architecture support for Spectrum Protect Snapshot as it relates to platform and restore functionality, refer to the following document:

http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21455924

Additional Requirements Specific to IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot for DB2

Database Options:

• 64-bit DB2 Enterprise Server Edition V9.7 (Solaris, HP-UX: Fix Pack 2) and later 9.7.x Fix Packs
• 64-bit DB2 Enterprise Server Edition V10.1 Fix Pack 2 and later 10.1.x Fix Packs
• 64-bit DB2 Enterprise Server Edition V10.5 and later 10.5.x Fix Packs
  Note: For support of DB2 pureScale, DB2 10.5 Fix Pack 4 or later 10.5.x Fix Pack is required.
  
• SAP® environments must meet all requirements specified by SAP®.

Additional Requirements Specific to IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot for Oracle

Database Options:

• 64-bit Oracle Database Standard Edition 11gR1, 11gR2
• 64-bit Oracle Database Enterprise Edition 11gR1, 11gR2
• **64-bit Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) option
• **Supported database storage: File systems supported by IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot, or Oracle ASM

Additional Requirements Specific to IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot for Oracle (with SAP® environments)

Supported environments must meet all requirements specified by SAP®.

Database Options:

• 64-bit Oracle Enterprise Edition 11gR2 at a level certified by the respective SAP® release

SAP® Environment Requirements:

• SAP BR*Tools 7.10 patch level 14, and later patch levels
• SAP BR*Tools 7.20 (patch level 6, and later patch levels are recommended)
• SAP BR*Tools 7.40

Note: IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot interfaces with the SAP BR*Tools through the backint interface (BC-BRI volume based)

Additional Requirements Specific to IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot for Custom Applications

Application Options:

• Any application running in an environment supported by Spectrum Protect Snapshot

GPFS File system:

• Spectrum Protect Snapshot for Unix and Linux V4.1.3 supports GPFS file system snapshots for Custom Applications. This support is limited to local snapshot backup and restore only. Offloaded backups to IBM Spectrum Protect are not supported.

Pre-installation Checklist

Before starting the installation of IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot for Unix® and Linux, please review the pre-installation checklist and make sure all requirements specific to your environment are met.

IBM_Spectrum_Protect_Snapshot_V4130_Preinstall_Checklist_rev01.pdf


Installation Planning Worksheet

For a list of considerations and decisions to be taken before installing IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot for Unix® and Linux, please refer to the attached Installation Planning Sheet.

IBM_Spectrum_Protect_Snapshot_V4130_Installation_Planning_Sheet.pdf