Configure Tivoli® Storage FlashCopy® Manager to
protect and manage application data by using a Tivoli Storage
Manager server.
About this task
The following configuration
instructions apply to the following environments:
- Data Protection for SQL Server,
if the required license is located
- Data Protection for Exchange,
if the required license is located
- File system and custom applications
Procedure
To configure Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager with
the Tivoli Storage
Manager configuration
wizard, complete the following steps:
- Start the Management Console. Click .
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.
- From the start page, click Configuration. Alternatively, from the tree view, navigate to the Configuration node.
Then, double-click Wizards.
- In the results pane, double-click TSM
Configuration to open the Tivoli Storage Manager
Configuration Wizard.
- Follow the instructions on the pages
of the wizard and click Next to move to the
next page.
- In the Data Protection Selection page,
select the applications that you want to protect. Click Next.
- 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.
- 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 is the node name that is used to store
the Data Protection for SQL Server backups.
- If you are configuring Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager for
SQL Server 2012, enter a node name in the AlwaysOn Node field.
This 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 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.
- 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 button 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.
- 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.
- Review the results of the configuration process. Click Show
Details to view a list of individual configuration results.
- Click Finish in
the Completion page to complete the wizard.
- 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 SVC or Storwize V7000, testing VSS snapshots deletes
previous backups that are created for the volumes that are selected
in the test wizard.
- 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.
Results
You are now ready to use
Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager to
protect and manage data that is backed up to a
Tivoli Storage
Manager server.