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- IBM® Tivoli® Storage Manager is now IBM
Spectrum Protect
- IBM
Spectrum Protect Version 8.1 is the next generation of
Tivoli Storage Manager. This new release represents more
than a name change in the user interface and documentation. It is an evolution to a higher level of
data protection that is designed to meet the complex demands of today's world.
For more
information, see Meet
IBM
Spectrum Protect.
- An administrative user ID is no longer created by default with the REGISTER
NODE server command
- Beginning with IBM
Spectrum Protect V8.1, the
REGISTER NODE server command does not automatically create an administrative user
ID that matches the node name. This product update is designed to optimize user authentication to a
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) server.
This product update does not affect existing
client nodes, but can affect the process of registering new client nodes, including but not limited
to nodes for IBM
Spectrum Protect backup-archive clients. In
some cases, you might have to create an administrative user ID when you register a node. You can
create the administrative user ID by issuing the REGISTER NODE command and
specifying the USERID parameter. For information about the types of clients that
are affected, see technote 7048963.
If you plan to use the web client, you must manually
create an administrative user ID when you register a new node. For more information, see Register your workstation with a server.
- Run the web client independently of the web browser
- Instead of running the IBM
Spectrum Protect web client as a
Java™ Applet, the web client is delivered as a Java Web Start application, which can be started and managed
independently of the web browser.
For more information about starting the web
client, see Starting a web client session.
- Backup management enhancements, including new data protection tags, are available for tagging
support
- New data protection tags are available for tagging support
- New data protection tags are added to help you manage virtual machine backup operations with the
IBM Spectrum Protect extension in the VMware vSphere Web
Client. In addition to using tags to exclude virtual machines from scheduled backup operations and
assign retention or management classes, introduced in V7.1.6, you can assign the new tags to vSphere
inventory objects to do the following tasks:
- Include virtual machines in scheduled backup operations
- Assign a data mover to a virtual machine
- Specify a list of virtual disks to back up
- Assign a backup schedule to virtual machines in a container
- Specify the data consistency to achieve for snapshot attempts during virtual machine backup
operations
- Provide application protection to virtual machines that run Microsoft SQL Server or Microsoft
Exchange Server software
For more information, see Supported data protection tags.
- Set a default data mover for tagging
- You can set a default data mover for protecting virtual machines in vSphere inventory objects
that are tagged with data protection tags. New virtual machines that are added to the tagged
container and are protected by a schedule but do not have a data mover tag are backed up by the
default data mover.
For more information, see Vmtagdefaultdatamover.
- Data protection tags can be inherited from higher-level vSphere inventory objects
- You can use tag inheritance to manage data protection for virtual machines in your vSphere
inventory.
For more information, see Inheritance of data protection settings.
- Virtual machines can be added to a backup schedule by using the IBM Spectrum Protect extension
- You can select a backup schedule for virtual machines from the IBM Spectrum Protect extension in the VMware vSphere Web Client. The
backup schedule specifies how often and when to automatically back up the virtual machines in a
vSphere inventory object.
For more information, see Selecting a schedule for backing up virtual
machines.
You can also view and manage backup schedules from the IBM Spectrum Protect extension. For more information, see Managing backup schedules in the vCenter.
- Snapshot differential backup is no longer supported on AIX®
- You can no longer run snapshot differential backups of NetApp filer volumes on the backup-archive client on the IBM AIX operating system. You can run snapshot differential backups only on Linux and Windows clients.
- Discontinued functions
- The following functions are discontinued in this release:
- Virtual machine operations on the backup-archive client
- Virtual machine operations are available only if you are using the client as a data mover for
the IBM
Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments products (Data Protection for VMware or Data Protection for Microsoft Hyper-V).
You can no longer run virtual
machine operations without installing IBM
Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments.
- VMware vStorage API is no longer part of the client installation
- The VMware vStorage API runtime files component that is used for VMware operations is no longer
part of the backup-archive client installation. It is installed as part of the Data Protection for VMware installation package.
- Virtual machine operations that are discontinued for the data mover
- File-level virtual machine backups
- You can no longer run file-level VMware virtual machine backups on the data mover. Instead, use
incremental-forever full or incremental-forever incremental backup operations.
- Periodic full backups and incremental backups
- You can no longer run periodic full backups and incremental backups of virtual machines on the
data mover. Instead, use incremental-forever full or incremental-forever incremental backup
operations.
- VMware vCloud Director support
- You can no longer back up or restore vCloud vApps with the data mover. To back up or restore
vApps, you must use Data Protection for VMware V7.1.
- Online system state restores
- You can no longer restore the system state on a system that is online. Instead, use the
Automated System Recovery (ASR) based recovery method to restore the system state in offline Windows Preinstallation Environment (PE) mode.
For more
information, see:
- Adaptive subfile backup
- Adaptive subfile backup operations are discontinued, but you can still restore existing subfile
backup data.
- Data Encryption Standard (DES) 56-bit data encryption
- For increased security, use Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) 128-bit or AES 256-bit data
encryption for backup and archive operations.
For more information, see Encryptiontype.
- GPFS™ support for the Windows client
- The Windows backup-archive client can no longer back up
or restore files in a Windows only GPFS cluster. However, you can still use the AIX or Linux backup-archive client to protect data in
GPFS clusters that contain mixed nodes, which can include AIX, Linux, and Windows.
- Data Protection for IBM Domino® plug-in
- The Data Protection for IBM Domino plug-in is stabilized at
V7.1.0 and is no longer supported by the backup-archive client. If the Data Protection for IBM Domino plug-in is installed and configured on the
same server as the IBM
Domino Server and the V8.1 backup-archive client, you can
no longer back up and restore IBM
Domino databases and transaction log files with the web
client.
- The guitreeviewafterbackup option
- The guitreeviewafterbackup option is no longer supported in this release and is
removed from the Preferences Editor. If this option is present in the client options file when you
run the client, the option is ignored and no client error messages are displayed.
- Discontinued support of client operating systems
- To take advantage of new product features, install the V8.1 backup-archive client on one of the
supported operating systems. For the current list of supported operating systems, see technote 1243309.
The following operating systems are no longer supported by the
backup-archive client:
- Windows 32-bit operating systems (client and API).
- Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 7, and Windows 8 operating systems.
- HP-UX operating systems. You can still use the IBM
Spectrum Protect API on an HP-UX operating system.
- Linux on Power Systems™ (big endian). You can still use the IBM
Spectrum Protect API on Linux
on Power Systems (big endian).
- Solaris SPARC operating systems. You can still use the IBM
Spectrum Protect API on Solaris SPARC operating systems.
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