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IBM Spectrum Protect 8.1 Snapshot
IBM Spectrum Protect 8.1 for ERP
4th Quarter 2016 Technical Updates
Virtual Environments, Data Protection, and Snapshots
Sean Sperry
8.1 Spectrum Protect Overview
8.1 announce: 12/6/2016 eGA: 12/9/2016
Product Wide Renaming
SERVER and OC 8.1
Conversion from Legacy Tape / VTL / File to Directory / Cloud VE 8.1
Containers tape copy reclamation
LDAP and Security update
VM Tagging
Currency Continuing vSphere Web Client Integration
Continuing Large VM Support
Client 8.1 Install (COI / DE removal)
Currency and Windows 2016
Access Web Client without Java Plugin
Improve query detail output (UNIX) ERP & Snapshot
Oracle 12 Support + DB2 11 Toleration
HSM for Windows 8.1
Windows server 2016 support Oracle and DB2 RFEs
HSM for Windows Search & Retrieve Dialog Enhancements ERP HANA: Multi Tenant database
Include/Exclude processing optimization Remote Mirror Support for SVCDTA
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Tags in Data Protection for VMware 8.1
The evolution of using
VMware tags to control
backup and recovery
continues in version 8.1
Provides for increased ease
of use for the VMware
administrator through the
use of the vSphere Web
Client
More control of features in
8.1 including:
Inheritance
Scheduling
Application Protection
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8.1 Tag Categories and Values
Step 2 Creating IBM Spectrum Protect tags in the VMware inventory using one of the following:
VMware admin: From the vSphere Web Client GUI, selecting an inventory object and changing its backup policy automatically creates and
applies the appropriate data protection tags to the object.
VMware Admin or Protect Admin: If customer does not want to use vSphere Web Client GUI to set tags, tags can be created by scripts.
Run the 'dsmc set vmtags' to create tags, and then run custom scripts to set IBM Spectrum Protect categories and tags.
Step 3 Protect admin: install and configure the list of data movers by
Setting VMTAGDATAMOVER YES in the options files of all data movers.
Setting VMDEFAULTTAGDATAMOVER <default_dm_nodename> in the options file of the default data mover.
Step 5 VMware admin: for each datacenter, choose the container object(s) to physically set tags for each configuration
category. Right click the container identified in step 2 and bring up the Manage Data Protection panel. Edit properties in all
categories and click OK. Result: Child objects of the container inherit the tag from the container unless the child object has a local
tag from the same category.
At version 8.1, changes in the way VMs are stored on the Spectrum Protect
server allow for improved performance
Increased parallelism in both backup and restore for large VMDKs
VMMAXPARALLEL
Defines the maximum number of VMs backed up
in parallel
VMMAXRESTORESESSIONS
Defines the number of total restore sessions
across all VMs (DEFAULT=1)
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Windows Snapshot R/W Mount Benefits
SQL Server
Attach SQL Server databases for granular restore
or access as a clone for reporting or DevOps
Exchange
Much faster item-level recovery of Exchange mail
items by eliminating the copy of the Exchange
database file into the Recovery Database during
Individual Mailbox Restore
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Spectrum Protect Snapshot Unix DB2
Allow parallel processing in non-SAP environments
- Parallel backup for multiple partitions
- Cloning of an online database
- db2set DB2_PARALLEL_ACS=ON|OFF
- DB2 v10.5 fp8 and later
Snapshot for Oracle was improved to support the disks that are used for Oracle ASM and
contain a single partition, multiple partitions, or a combination of both types
All disk partitions for the instance being snapshoted must be ASM partitions, and
contain data for the same Oracle instance
Snapshot for Custom Applications allows offloading to Protect server for databases not
owned by a single user
RUN_OFFLOAD_BACKUP_AS_ROOT added to profile
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IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot Remote Mirroring
FlashCopy
1 2 1 2
Metro/Global Mirror
Production
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Production Standby
Both Metro Mirror and Global Mirror are suported with the SVCDTA
For the new SVCDTA adapter, Global Mirroring is solely supported in
cycling mode for both Unix/Linux and VMware
Spectrum Protect Snapshot enforces a refresh of the primary site change
volume at any time (no need to wait for next cycling period)
FlashCopy
1 2 1 2
Metro/Global Mirror
Production
Volume
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Production Standby
Parallel-stream restores
SAP HANA supports multiple sessions for
backup and restore since SPS 11
Protection and
Disaster Recovery
IBM FlashSystem A9000
IBM FlashSystem A9000R
DevOps, Test/Dev
LEVER AG E
IBM FlashSystem V9000
Automated Copy
IBM Storwize V3k,V5x, V7x
Management
Discover
Also supports: Catalog
Search
SAN Volume Controller
Spectrum Virtualize Hybrid Cloud
SLA compliance
Spectrum Accelerate Automate
Policy-based
XIV Storage Arrays
VersaStack
EMC VNX and Unity Cloud integrated
Transform
NetAPP DevOps enabled
Applications