Detailed System Requirements
Abstract
This document details the system requirements for IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management 2.2.16
Content
This document is divided into linked sections for ease of navigation. Use the following links to jump to the section of the document that you require:
- General
- Configuration
- NetApp ONTAP requirements
- Pure Storage requirements
- VMware requirements
- Third-Party license requirements
Ensure that you have the required system configuration and browser to deploy and run IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management.
Upgrades to new versions of IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management continue to use the previous network configuration found at this location: /opt/vmware/share/vami/vami_config_net.
IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management support for third-party operating systems, applications, services, and hardware depend on the respective vendor. If a third-party product or version moves into extended support, self-service support, or end-of-life, IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management supports the product or version at the same level as the vendor. See also IBM Support General Guidelines and Limitations - IBM support for software on unsupported operating systems
Virtual machine installation
IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management is installed as a virtual appliance. Before you deploy to the host, ensure you have the following:
- IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management is distributed as an OVF template, with an OVA file extension.
- vSphere 6.0, 6.5, 6.7, or 7.0.
Note: For later versions of vSphere, the vSphere Web Client might be required to deploy IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management appliances. - Network information and VMware host information
- Either an available static IP address to use or access to DHCP
For initial deployment, configure your virtual appliance to meet the following minimum requirements:
- 64-bit quad-core machine
- 48 GB memory
The appliance has three virtual disks that total 400 GB storage:
- 50 GB for operating system and application, which includes 16 GB for the swap partition, 256 MB for the boot partition, and the remainder for the root partition
- 100 GB for configuration data related to jobs, events, and logs
- 250 GB for Inventory data
It is recommended that the IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management appliance, storage arrays, hypervisors, and application servers in your environment use NTP. If the clocks on the various systems are significantly out of sync, you might experience errors during application registration, inventory, backup, or restore jobs. For more information about identifying and resolving timer drift, see the following VMware knowledge base article: Time in virtual machine drifts due to hardware timer drift
Browser Support
Run IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management from a computer that has access to the installed virtual appliance.
IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management was tested and certified against the following web browsers. Newer levels are also supported.
- Microsoft Edge 20.10240
- Firefox 49.0
- Chrome 53.0.27
If your resolution is less than 1024 x 768, some items might not fit on the window. Pop-up windows must be enabled in your browser to access the Help system and some IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management operations.
IBM Storage requirements
- IBM storage systems running IBM Spectrum™ Virtualize Software version 7.3 or later and 8.1.2 or later, including IBM SAN Volume Controller, IBM Storwize, and IBM FlashSystem V9000 and 9100 systems.
Outdated SAN Volume Controller (SVC) firmware might result in a storage-warm start. SVC firmware needs to be updated to the most current supported version to ensure system reliability. - HyperSwap is supported on both IBM Storwize V7000 and FS9100 for both physical and virtual server types for volume, virtual machine, and SQL applications.
- Only Safeguarded Copy is supported on IBM storage systems running IBM Spectrum™ Virtualize Software version 8.5.1 or later.
Notes:
- IBM providers must be registered by an IBM user with administrator-level privileges.
- If you are using IBM storage systems running IBM Spectrum Accelerate level 11.5.3 or later, including FlashSystem A9000/A9000R and IBM XIV storage systems use IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management 2.2.13.
Any NetApp ONTAP storage system model running listed Data ONTAP versions operating in 7-Mode is supported. The following versions of Data ONTAP are supported:
- Data ONTAP 8.1.0 or later operating in 7-Mode
- Data ONTAP 8.2.0 or later operating in 7-Mode
- Clustered Data ONTAP 8.1 or later
- Clustered Data ONTAP 8.2 or later
- Clustered Data ONTAP 8.3 or later
- Clustered Data ONTAP 9.4 or later
- Data ONTAP 9.x
Note: IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management does not support new features introduced in ONTAP 9.x. IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management was tested against Data ONTAP 9.3.
IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management supports NetApp MetroCluster configurations running ONTAP 9.x or later. After successful completion of MetroCluster Switchover or Switchback operations, mirror or vault relationships must be reestablished through an IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management job. See Create a Backup Job Definition -NetApp ONTAP in the IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management User’s Guide.
Clustered Data ONTAP providers must be registered with a cluster administrator account. Cluster peering must be enabled. Peer relationships enable communication between SVMs. See on NetApp's Support site: NetApp ONTAP's Cluster and Vserver Peering Express Guide
Note: Ensure that TLS protocol is enabled on the NetApp storage system by setting the tls.enable option to ON. For TLS to take effect on HTTPS, ensure that the httpd.admin.ssl.enable option is also set to ON. See on NetApp's Support site: Enabling or disabling TLS
NetApp ONTAP File Inventory Job requirements:
IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management uses SnapDiff in the NetApp ONTAP file level jobs to run cataloging based on snapshot differences. SnapDiff cataloging is supported on storage system models running the following versions of Data ONTAP:
The following options must be enabled on the volume of the NetApp storage system to catalog:
- create_ucode and convert_ucode: These options are turned off by default.
- Inode to Pathname: The Inode to Pathname function creates relationships between file names and relative paths. If Inode to Pathname is disabled on a volume, you must enable it, then delete existing snapshots on the volume. When new snapshots are created with Inode to Pathname enabled, the volume can be cataloged.
Internationalization requirements:
- The language code must be set and the UTF-8 variant must be specified on the NetApp storage system. For example, en_US.UTF-8. Only the English locale for vol0 for UTF-8 is supported.
- The IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management application and documentation are available in English only. However, cataloging, searching, and reporting functions support international metadata.
- FlashArray//c
- FlashArray//m
- FlashArray//x
- FlashArray-4xx series
- REST API version 1.16 or later
- Purity 5.2.X or later
- vSphere 6.0 and 6.0 update and patch levels
- vSphere 6.5 and 6.5 update and patch levels
- vSphere 6.7 and 6.7 update and patch levels
- vSphere 7.0 update and patch levels
Ensure the most current version of VMware Tools is installed in your environment.
Third-Party license requirements
For NetApp ONTAP storage systems, a FlexClone license is required to fully use Instant Disk Restore and Instant VM Restore features. If your workflow includes vault and mirror protection, SnapVault and SnapMirror licenses are also required on both source and destination resources. Similarly, if your workflow includes individual file recovery a SnapRestore license is required. Individual file recovery is only supported at the primary site.
For IBM storage systems, Remote Mirroring and FlashCopy licenses are required.
For VMware, a Storage vMotion license is required. IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management backup and restore at the VM level for Microsoft Exchange. Separate mailbox recovery software and associated license are required for individual mailbox recovery.
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