Configuring for the TSM Configuration option

Configure Tivoli® Storage FlashCopy® Manager to protect and manage application data by using a Tivoli Storage Manager server.

To configure Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager with the Tivoli Storage Manager configuration wizard, complete the following steps:

1. Start the Management Console. Click Start > All Programs > Tivoli FlashCopy Manager > FlashCopy Manager Management Console.

   If the Management Console is not configured according to the licenses that are identified, a welcome page is displayed. You can select the type of configuration to complete.

2. From the start page, click Configuration. Alternatively, from the tree view, go to the Configuration node. Then, double-click Wizards.
3. In the results pane, double-click TSM Configuration to open the Tivoli Storage Manager Configuration Wizard.
4. Follow the instructions on the pages of the wizard and click Next to move to the next page.
   1. In the Data Protection Selection page, select the applications that you want to protect. Click Next.
   2. Review the results of the requirements check and ensure that you address any errors or warnings.

      Click Show Details to view a list of individual requirement results.

      • If you are configuring an application for which you do not have the necessary license, the license requirement check fails. You must either go back to the Data Protection Selection page and clear the selected application to proceed with the configuration, or obtain the necessary license.
      • If you do not have all the user roles that are required for individual mailbox restore operations, click the Warnings link and follow the wizard prompts to add the missing Exchange roles. If you are a member of the Exchange Organization Management group and have sufficient Role Based Access Control (RBAC) permissions, you can automatically add the missing roles. If you are not a member of the Exchange Organization Management group and have insufficient RBAC permissions, you must manually add the missing roles.
   3. In the TSM Node Names page, specify the Tivoli Storage Manager node names that exist on the same system to use for the applications that you want to protect.
      • In the VSS Requestor field, enter the node name that communicates with the VSS service to access the Exchange, SQL, or custom application and file system data.
      • In the Data Protection for SQL field, enter the node name where the Data Protection application is installed. This name is the node name that is used to store the Data Protection for SQL Server backups.
      • If you are configuring Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager with SQL Server 2012 and later versions, enter a node name in the AlwaysOn Node field. This name is the node name that is used to back up the availability databases in an AlwaysOn Availability Group. By default, the Windows Failover Cluster name is used.
      • In the Data Protection for Exchange field, enter the node name where the Data Protection application is installed. This name is the node name that is used to store the Data Protection for Exchange backups. If you configure the DAG Node on this wizard page, Exchange Server DAG database backups are not stored under the Data Protection for Exchange node. They are stored under the DAG node.
      • In the DAG Node field, enter the node name that you want to use to back up databases in an Exchange Server DAG. With this setting, backups from all DAG members that are configured to use the DAG node are backed up to a common file space on the Tivoli Storage Manager server. The database copies are managed as a single entity, regardless of which DAG member they were backed up from. This setting can prevent Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager from making too many backups of the same database.

        Ensure that you configure all of your DAG members that have copies of the same database to all use the same DAG node. On the Tivoli Storage Manager server, ensure that you register the DAG node name. All of the DAG member nodes (the Data Protection nodes) must be granted proxynode authority to run backups on behalf of the DAG node. All of the DSM Agent nodes (the backup-archive client nodes) must also be granted proxynode authority. If you do not want to manually update these properties, you can use the configuration wizard to set the properties on the Tivoli Storage Manager server.

      • In the Files System and Custom Configuration field, enter the node name that you want to use to back up custom application and file system data.

      Create a node name that can help you distinguish the type of backup that is run. For example, if your host name is MALTA, you can name the VSS Requestor node name MALTA, and you can create a Data Protection node name that is called MALTA_EXC. For an SQL configuration, the AlwaysOn node name does not have to be related to the VSS Requestor or the Data Protection for SQL Server node name. For example, you can name it TSM_ALWAYSON. For an Exchange configuration, the DAG node name does not have to be related to the VSS Requestor or the node name. For example, you can name it TSMDAG.

   4. Enter information for the Tivoli Storage Manager server that you are connecting to and click Next to continue.
      • In the Tivoli Storage Manager Server Address field, enter the TCP/IP domain name or a numeric IP address for the Tivoli Storage Manager server that contains the backups. Obtain this information from your Tivoli Storage Manager server administrator.
      • In the Tivoli Storage Manager Server Port field, enter the port number for the Tivoli Storage Manager server that contains the backups. Obtain this information from yourTivoli Storage Manager administrator.
      • Specify whether to have the wizard to configure the Tivoli Storage Manager server for you by generating a configuration macro file.

        If you click No, the macro file is available at the final page of the wizard so that it can be provided to the Tivoli Storage Manager administrator as an example of one way to configure the Tivoli Storage Manager server to support application data protection.

        If you click Yes, the wizard starts the macro during the Configuration step in the wizard. Review the macro file and update it if needed.

        After you click Yes, enter the following information in the appropriate field:

        • The name of the Tivoli Storage Manager administrator account.
        • The password for the Tivoli Storage Manager administrator.
        • Click Test Communications if you want to test your connection with the Tivoli Storage Manager server. This option is not available until the VSS Requestor is installed.
        • Click Review/Edit to review or update the Tivoli Storage Manager macro file. Alternatively, you can review the macro file and directly run the commands on the Tivoli Storage Manager server.
   5. Select the Default configuration setting. When you select the Default configuration setting, in addition to configuring the applications that you selected, the VSS Requestor is configured. The client and agent services are also registered and configured, and a schedule to support historical managed capacity is defined.
   6. Review the results of the configuration process. Click Show Details to view a list of individual configuration results.
5. Click Finish in the Completion page to complete the wizard.
6. Optional: For a VSS configuration, verify that the Run VSS diagnostics when this wizard exits option is selected. When this option is selected, after you complete the wizard, a diagnostic process tests the VSS snapshots on your system.
   Attention: If the configuration is for space-efficient target volumes for SAN Volume Controller or Storwize V7000, testing VSS snapshots deletes previous backups that are created for the volumes that are selected in the test wizard.
7. Verify that Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager is correctly configured. Select a workload in the Protect and Recover Data node in the tree view and issue one of the following commands in the Automate view.
   • For file systems and custom applications:

     fcmcli query component
     fcmcli query config

   • For SQL Server:

     tdpsqlc query tdp
     tdpsqlc query tsm
     tdpsqlc query sql

   • For Exchange Server:

     tdpexcc query tdp
     tdpexcc query tsm
     tdpexcc query exchange

   You can also view the configuration settings by clicking Properties for each configured workload.