- Changes in Defining Drives and Libraries
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Device special file names and external library managers are now specified
in the DEFINE PATH and UPDATE PATH commands, rather than in the DEFINE DRIVE,
UPDATE DRIVE, DEFINE LIBRARY, and UPDATE LIBRARY commands.
See Chapter 5, Configuring Storage Devices. Also see Tivoli Storage Manager
Administrator's Reference.
- Moving Data by Node
- You can use the MOVE NODEDATA command to move data in a sequential-access
storage pool for one or more nodes, or move selected file spaces for a single
node. You can also use MOVE NODEDATA to move data to another storage
pool.
See Chapter 9, Managing Storage Pools and Volumes.
- Support for Simultaneous Writes to Primary and Copy Storage Pools
- You can specify copy storage pools in a primary storage pool
definition. When a client backs up, archives, or migrates a file, the
file is written to the primary storage pool and is simultaneously stored into
each copy storage pool.
See Chapter 9, Managing Storage Pools and Volumes.
- High Availability Cluster Multiprocessing
- Tivoli Storage Manager can now use High Availability Cluster
Multiprocessing (HACMP). HACMP provides the leading AIX-based
clustering solution, which allows automatic system recovery during system
failure detection. By using HACMP together with Tivoli Storage Manager,
you can ensure server availability.
- Tivoli Data Protection for New Network Data Management Protocol Support
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New Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) support now extends to the AIX
(32-bit and 64-bit) Tivoli Storage Manager server platform. The new
Tivoli Data Protection for NDMP product supports NDMP backup and restore for
network-attached storage (NAS) file servers from Network Appliance.
NDMP allows a network storage-management application to control the backup and
restore of an NDMP-compliant file server without installing third-party
software on that server. The NAS file server does not require
installation of TSM software. The TSM server uses NDMP to connect to
the NAS file server to initiate, control, and monitor a file system backup or
restore operation. The NDMP support for NAS file servers enables higher
performance backup to tape devices without moving the data over the
LAN. TDP for NDMP is a separately priced and licensed product.
See Chapter 6, Setting Up Tivoli Data Protection for NDMP.
- Data Validation with Cyclic Redundancy Checking
- Tivoli Storage Manager provides the option of specifying whether a cyclic
redundancy check (CRC) is performed during a client session with the server,
or for storage pools. The server validates the data by using a cyclic
redundancy check which can help identify data corruption. Data
validation can be enabled for one or all of the following:
- New Licensing Method
- The new licensing method enables you to register the exact number of
licenses that are required, rather than in increments of 1, 5, 10, and
50.
See Registering Licensed Features.
- Server Performance Enhancements
- There are two new Tivoli Storage Manager performance enhancements:
- AIX Asynchronous I/O Support. This feature is available via a new
option in the server options file.
- AIX Direct I/O Support. This feature is available via a new option
in the server options file.
See Using Server Performance Options.