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Technical Changes for Version 5 Release 1--March 2002

The following changes have been made to the product for this edition:

Tivoli Storage Manager Device Driver
The Tivoli Storage Manager Server device driver is now available on HP-UX. It replaces the use of the SCSI Pass-through driver for autochangers, and can be used to optimally support SCSI tape and optical drives.

See Administrator's Guide and Quick Startfor more information.

LAN-Free Data Movement
Tivoli Storage Manager supports LAN-free data movement in storage area network (SAN) environments. The support allows client data to move directly from the client system to a server-managed storage device on the SAN. This enhancement reduces data movement on the LAN so that more bandwidth is available to other applications.

See Tivoli Storage Manager Managed System for SAN Storage Agent User's Guide for more information.

Changes in Defining Drives and Libraries

See Administrator's Guide for more information.

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 data in a single node with selected file spaces. You can also use MOVE NODEDATA to consolidate data for offsite disaster recovery storage, or move data to another storage pool.

See Administrator's Guide for more information.

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 Administrator's Guide for more information.

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 Manger, you can ensure server availability.

See Administrator's Guide for more information.

Tivoli Data Protection for New Network Data Management Protocol Support

The new Tivoli Data Protection for NDMP product now supports NDMP backup and restore for IBM network-attached storage (NAS) file servers. Previously only Network Appliance NAS file servers were supported. TDP for NDMP is a separately priced and licensed product.

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 IBM and 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.

New Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) support now extends to the Sun Solaris (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 IBM and 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.

New Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) support now extends to the HP-UX (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 IBM and 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 Administrator's Guide for more information.

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:

See Administrator's Guide and TSM Managed System for SAN Storage Agent User's Guide for more information.

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 Administrator's Guide for more information.

Server Performance Enhancements
There are two new Tivoli Storage Manager performance enhancements:

See Administrator's Guide for more information.

Support for Windows XP/2002 Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Clients
Support is now added for Windows XP and Windows 2002 Tivoli Storage Manager backup-archive clients that run in 64-bit mode. These two Windows platforms are a Unicode-only version of the client.

See Administrator's Guide for more information.

Communication Method
Tivoli Storage Manager for Windows no longer supports the Internetwork Packet Exchange (IPX)/SPX and NETBIOS communication methods. The COMMETHOD server option is updated to reflect this change.


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