IBM Tivoli Storage Manager in a clustered environment / Roland Tretau ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tretau, Roland., Author.

Series:

IBM redbooks.

Redbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Electronic data processing--Backup processing alternatives.

Data recovery (Computer science)--Software.

Computer networks--Management.

Tivoli storage manager.

Physical Description:

lii, 1069 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Tivoli Storage Manager in a clustered environmen

Place of Publication:

San Jose, CA : IBM Corp., International Technical Support Organization, c2005.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This IBM Redbooks publication is an easy-to-follow guide that describes how to implement IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Version 5.3 products in highly available clustered environments. The book is intended for those who want to plan, install, test, and manage the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Version 5.3 in various environments by providing best practices and showing how to develop scripts for clustered environments. The book covers the following environments: IBM AIX HACMP, IBM Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms on Linux and AIX, MicrosoftCluster Server on Windows 2000 and Windows 2003, VERITAS Storage Foundation HA on AIX, and Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition. Please note that the additional material referenced in the text is not available from IBM.

Contents:

Front cover

Contents

Figures

Tables

Examples

Notices

Trademarks

Preface

The team that wrote this redbook

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Comments welcome

Part 1 Highly available clusters with IBM Tivoli Storage Manager

Chapter 1. What does high availability imply?

1.1 High availability

1.1.1 Downtime

1.1.2 High availability concepts

1.1.3 High availability versus fault tolerance

1.1.4 High availability solutions

1.2 Cluster concepts

1.3 Cluster terminology

Chapter 2. Building a highly available Tivoli Storage Manager cluster environment

2.1 Overview of the cluster application

2.1.1 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Version 5.3

2.1.2 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Storage Area Networks V5.3

2.2 Design to remove single points of failure

2.2.1 Storage Area Network considerations

2.2.2 LAN and network interface considerations

2.2.3 Private or heartbeat network considerations

2.3 Lab configuration

2.3.1 Cluster configuration matrix

2.3.2 Tivoli Storage Manager configuration matrix

Chapter 3. Testing a highly available Tivoli Storage Manager cluster environment

3.1 Objectives

3.2 Testing the clusters

3.2.1 Cluster infrastructure tests

3.2.2 Application tests

Part 2 Clustered Microsoft Windows environments and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Version 5.3

Chapter 4. Microsoft Cluster Server setup

4.1 Overview

4.2 Planning and design

4.3 Windows 2000 MSCS installation and configuration

4.3.1 Windows 2000 lab setup

4.3.2 Windows 2000 MSCS setup

4.4 Windows 2003 MSCS installation and configuration

4.4.1 Windows 2003 lab setup

4.4.2 Windows 2003 MSCS setup

4.5 Troubleshooting

Chapter 5. Microsoft Cluster Server and the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Server

5.1 Overview

5.2 Planning and design.

5.3 Installing Tivoli Storage Manager Server on a MSCS

5.3.1 Installation of Tivoli Storage Manager server

5.3.2 Installation of Tivoli Storage Manager licenses

5.3.3 Installation of Tivoli Storage Manager device driver

5.3.4 Installation of the Administration Center

5.4 Tivoli Storage Manager server and Windows 2000

5.4.1 Windows 2000 lab setup

5.4.2 Windows 2000 Tivoli Storage Manager Server configuration

5.4.3 Testing the Server on Windows 2000

5.5 Configuring ISC for clustering on Windows 2000

5.5.1 Starting the Administration Center console

5.6 Tivoli Storage Manager Server and Windows 2003

5.6.1 Windows 2003 lab setup

5.6.2 Windows 2003 Tivoli Storage Manager Server configuration

5.6.3 Testing the server on Windows 2003

5.7 Configuring ISC for clustering on Windows 2003

5.7.1 Starting the Administration Center console

Chapter 6. Microsoft Cluster Server and the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Client

6.1 Overview

6.2 Planning and design

6.3 Installing Tivoli Storage Manager client on MSCS

6.3.1 Installation of Tivoli Storage Manager client components

6.4 Tivoli Storage Manager client on Windows 2000

6.4.1 Windows 2000 lab setup

6.4.2 Windows 2000 Tivoli Storage Manager Client configuration

6.4.3 Testing Tivoli Storage Manager client on Windows 2000 MSCS

6.5 Tivoli Storage Manager Client on Windows 2003

6.5.1 Windows 2003 lab setup

6.5.2 Windows 2003 Tivoli Storage Manager Client configurations

6.5.3 Testing Tivoli Storage Manager client on Windows 2003

6.6 Protecting the quorum database

Chapter 7. Microsoft Cluster Server and the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Storage Agent

7.1 Overview

7.2 Planning and design

7.2.1 System requirements

7.2.2 System information

7.3 Installing the Storage Agent on Windows MSCS.

7.3.1 Installation of the Storage Agent

7.4 Storage Agent on Windows 2000 MSCS

7.4.1 Windows 2000 lab setup

7.4.2 Configuration of the Storage Agent on Windows 2000 MSCS

7.4.3 Testing Storage Agent high availability on Windows 2000 MSCS

7.5 Storage Agent on Windows 2003 MSCS

7.5.1 Windows 2003 lab setup

7.5.2 Configuration of the Storage Agent on Windows 2003 MSCS

7.5.3 Testing the Storage Agent high availability

Part 3 AIX V5.3 with HACMP V5.2 environments and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Version 5.3

Chapter 8. Establishing an HACMP infrastructure on AIX

8.1 Overview

8.1.1 AIX overview

8.2 HACMP overview

8.2.1 What is HACMP?

8.3 HACMP concepts

8.3.1 HACMP terminology

8.4 Planning and design

8.4.1 Supported hardware and software

8.4.2 Planning for networking

8.4.3 Plan for cascading versus rotating

8.5 Lab setup

8.5.1 Pre-installation tasks

8.5.2 Serial network setup

8.5.3 External storage setup

8.6 Installation

8.6.1 Install the cluster code

8.7 HACMP configuration

8.7.1 Initial configuration of nodes

8.7.2 Resource discovery

8.7.3 Defining HACMP interfaces and devices

8.7.4 Persistent addresses

8.7.5 Further cluster customization tasks

Chapter 9. AIX and HACMP with IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Server

9.1 Overview

9.1.1 Tivoli Storage Manager Version 5.3 new features overview

9.1.2 Planning for storage and database protection

9.2 Lab setup

9.3 Installation

9.3.1 Tivoli Storage Manager Server AIX filesets

9.3.2 Tivoli Storage Manager Client AIX filesets

9.3.3 Tivoli Storage Manager Client Installation

9.3.4 Installing the Tivoli Storage Manager Server software

9.3.5 Installing the ISC and the Administration Center

9.3.6 Installing Integrated Solutions Console Runtime.

9.3.7 Installing the Tivoli Storage Manager Administration Center

9.3.8 Configure resources and resource groups

9.3.9 Synchronize cluster configuration and make resource available

9.4 Tivoli Storage Manager Server configuration

9.5 Testing

9.5.1 Core HACMP cluster testing

9.5.2 Failure during Tivoli Storage Manager client backup

9.5.3 Tivoli Storage Manager server failure during LAN-free restore

9.5.4 Failure during disk to tape migration operation

9.5.5 Failure during backup storage pool operation

9.5.6 Failure during database backup operation

9.5.7 Failure during expire inventory process

Chapter 10. AIX and HACMP with IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Client

10.1 Overview

10.2 Clustering Tivoli Data Protection

10.3 Planning and design

10.4 Lab setup

10.5 Installation

10.5.1 HACMP V5.2 installation

10.5.2 Tivoli Storage Manager Client Version 5.3 installation

10.5.3 Tivoli Storage Manager Server Version 5.3 installation

10.5.4 Integrated Solution Console and Administration Center

10.6 Configuration

10.7 Testing server and client system failure scenarios

10.7.1 Client system failover while the client is backing up to the disk storage pool

10.7.2 Client system failover while the client is backing up to tape

10.7.3 Client system failover while the client is backing up to tape with higher CommTimeOut

10.7.4 Client system failure while the client is restoring

Chapter 11. AIX and HACMP with the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Storage Agent

11.1 Overview

11.2 Planning and design

11.2.1 Lab setup

11.3 Installation

11.4 Configuration

11.4.1 Configure tape storage subsystems

11.4.2 Configure resources and resource groups

11.4.3 Tivoli Storage Manager Storage Agent configuration

11.5 Testing the cluster.

11.5.1 LAN-free client system failover while the client is backing up

11.5.2 LAN-free client system failover while the client is restoring

Part 4 Clustered IBM System Automation for Multiplatforms Version 1.2 environments and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Version 5.3

Chapter 12. IBM Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms setup

12.1 Linux and Tivoli System Automation overview

12.1.1 Linux overview

12.1.2 IBM Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatform overview

12.1.3 Tivoli System Automation terminology

12.2 Planning and design

12.3 Lab setup

12.4 Preparing the operating system and drivers

12.4.1 Installation of host bus adapter drivers

12.4.2 Installation of disk multipath driver (RDAC)

12.4.3 Installation of the IBMtape driver

12.5 Persistent binding of disk and tape devices

12.5.1 SCSI addresses

12.5.2 Persistent binding of disk devices

12.6 Persistent binding of tape devices

12.7 Installation of Tivoli System Automation

12.8 Creating a two-node cluster

12.9 Troubleshooting and tips

Chapter 13. Linux and Tivoli System Automation with IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Server

13.1 Overview

13.2 Planning storage

13.3 Lab setup

13.4 Installation

13.4.1 Installation of Tivoli Storage Manager Server

13.4.2 Installation of Tivoli Storage Manager Client

13.4.3 Installation of Integrated Solutions Console

13.4.4 Installation of Administration Center

13.5 Configuration

13.5.1 Preparing shared storage

13.5.2 Tivoli Storage Manager Server configuration

13.5.3 Cluster resources for Tivoli Storage Manager Server

13.5.4 Cluster resources for Administration Center

13.5.5 AntiAffinity relationship

13.6 Bringing the resource groups online

13.6.1 Verify configuration

13.6.2 Bringing Tivoli Storage Manager Server resource group online.

13.6.3 Bringing Administration Center resource group online.

Notes:

"This edition applies to IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Version 5.3."

"June 2005."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC:

932363828