Tivoli Storage Productivity Center V4.2 Guide

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IBM Tivoli Storage
Productivity Center V4.2
Release Guide
Learn the new features and functions in
Tivoli Storage Productivity Center V4.2

Understand Storage Resource
Agents and their function

Plan to migrate, implement
and customize this release

Mary Lovelace
Alejandro Berardinelli
H. Antonio Vazquez Brust
Harsha Gunatilaka
Hector Hugo Ibarra
Danijel Paulin
Markus Standau

ibm.com/redbooks

Draft Document for Review February 17, 2011 2:17 am 7894edno.fm

International Technical Support Organization

Tivoli Storage Productivity Center V4.2 Release Update

December 2010

SG24-7894-00

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Note: Before using this information and the product it supports, read the information in “Notices” on
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First Edition (December 2010)

This edition applies to Version4, Release 2 of IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center (product numbers
5608-WB1, 5608-WB2, 5608-WB3, 5608-WC3, 5608-WC4,5608-E14).

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Contents

Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
Trademarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii

Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
The team who wrote this book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
Now you can become a published author, too! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiv
Comments welcome. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv
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Chapter 1. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center V4.2 introduction and overview . . . . . . 1
1.1 Introduction to IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.1.1 Function in Tivoli Storage Productivity Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.2 Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.2.1 Architecture overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.2.2 Data server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.2.3 Device server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.2.4 Tivoli Integrated Portal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.2.5 Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.2.6 DB2 database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.2.7 Agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.2.8 Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.2.9 Integration with other applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
1.3 Tivoli Storage Productivity Center family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
1.3.1 TPC for Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
1.3.2 TPC for Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1.3.3 TPC for Disk Midrange Edition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1.3.4 TPC Basic Edition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1.3.5 Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Standard Edition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1.3.6 TPC for Replication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1.3.7 SSPC 1.5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
1.3.8 IBM System Director Storage Productivity Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
1.4 New function since version 4.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
1.4.1 What is new for Tivoli Storage Productivity Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
1.4.2 What is new for IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication . . . . . . . . 13
1.5 Contents of the book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Chapter 2. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center install on Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
2.1 Tivoli Storage Productivity Center installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
2.1.1 Installation overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
2.1.2 Product code media layout and components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
2.2 Preinstallation steps for Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
2.2.1 Verifying system hardware and software prerequisites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
2.2.2 Verifying primary domain name systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
2.2.3 Activating NetBIOS settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
2.2.4 User IDs and passwords to be used and defined . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
2.3 Installing TPC prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
2.3.1 DB2 installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
2.4 Installing Tivoli Storage Productivity Center components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
2.4.1 Creating the Database Schema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

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2.4.2 Installing Tivoli Storage Productivity Center components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
2.4.3 Agent installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
2.4.4 Disabling TPC or TPC for Replication. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
2.5 Applying a new build . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Chapter 3. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center install on Linux. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
3.1 Tivoli Storage Productivity Center installation on Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
3.1.1 Installation overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
3.1.2 Product code media layout and components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
3.2 Preinstallation steps for Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
3.2.1 Verifying system hardware and software prerequisites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
3.2.2 Prerequisite component for Tivoli Storage Productivity Center V4.2 . . . . . . . . . . 78
3.3 Installing the TPC prerequisite for Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
3.3.1 DB2 installation: GUI install. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
3.4 Installing Tivoli Storage Productivity Center components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
3.4.1 Creating the database schema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
3.4.2 Installing TPC Servers, GUI and CLI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Chapter 4. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center install on AIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
4.1 Tivoli Storage Productivity Center installation on AIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
4.1.1 Installation overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
4.1.2 Product code media layout and components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
4.2 Preinstallation steps for AIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
4.2.1 Verifying system hardware prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
4.2.2 Verifying system software prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
4.2.3 Prerequisite component for Tivoli Storage Productivity Center V4.2 . . . . . . . . . 124
4.3 Installing the prerequisites for AIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
4.3.1 DB2 installation: Command line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
4.4 Installing Tivoli Storage Productivity Center components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
4.4.1 Creating the database schema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
4.4.2 Installing Tivoli Storage Productivity Center components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Chapter 5. Migrate Tivoli Storage Productivity Center base code to current level. . 157
5.1 Migration considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
5.1.1 Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
5.1.2 Database considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
5.1.3 TPC-R considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
5.2 Credentials migration tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
5.3 Agent Manager, Data and Fabric agents consideration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
5.4 Migration scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
5.4.1 Migration from version 3.x. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
5.4.2 Migration from version 4.1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
5.5 Upgrading Storage Resource Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
5.6 Upgrading TPC-R in high availability environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Chapter 6. Agent migration and upgrade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
6.1 CAS and SRA history . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
6.2 Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
6.3 Scenarios to migrate from CAS to SRA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
6.3.1 Installation wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
6.3.2 TPC user interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
6.3.3 Command line interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
6.4 CIMOM to NAPI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

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Chapter 7. Native API . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
7.1 NAPI and other changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
7.1.1 Changed panels and/or tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
7.2 Behind the scenes - The External Process Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
7.3 Solution Design for device access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
7.3.1 Planning for NAPI and NAPI Discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
7.3.2 Planning for CIMOM Discovery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
7.3.3 Planning for Configure Devices Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
7.3.4 Planning for Monitoring Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
7.4 Using Configure Devices wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
7.4.1 Add/configure a IBM DS8000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
7.4.2 Add/configure a IBM SAN Volume Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
7.4.3 Add and configure a IBM XIV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
7.4.4 Add and configure a CIMOM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
7.5 Adding Fabrics and Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
7.5.1 Add/configure a Brocade Fabric/Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
7.5.2 Add/configure a McData Fabric/Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
7.5.3 Add/configure a Cisco Fabric or Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
7.5.4 Add/configure a Qlogic Fabric/Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
7.5.5 Add/configure a Brocade/McData Fabric/Switch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
7.6 Other enhancements and changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

Chapter 8. Storage Resource Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
8.1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
8.2 SRA Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
8.2.1 User Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
8.2.2 Platform Dependencies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
8.2.3 Communication Requirements and Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
8.3 SRA installation methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
8.3.1 Local graphical installer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
8.4 SRA deployment from TPC GUI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
8.5 Local/CLI install of SRA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
8.5.1 Steps to install the Storage Resource Agents through CLI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
8.6 Database Monitoring with SRA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
8.6.1 Register the database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
8.6.2 Set up probes and scans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
8.6.3 Database capacity reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
8.6.4 Database usage reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
8.7 NetApp/NSeries Monitoring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
8.7.1 Overview of NAS support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
8.7.2 Configure TPC to manage IBM N Series or NetApp Filer through Windows Storage
Resource Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
8.7.3 Configure TPC to manage IBM N Series or NetApp Filer through UNIX Storage
Resource Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
8.7.4 Retrieving and Displaying Data about NAS Filer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
8.8 VMware Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
8.9 VMware Virtual Machine Reporting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
8.10 Batch Reporting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
8.11 SRA Fabric Functionality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
8.11.1 HBA Library Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
8.11.2 SRA Fabric Enhancements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326
8.11.3 Fabric Agent Assignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326
8.12 Agent resource utilization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

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8.13 HBA Information Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
8.14 Collecting SRA Support Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
8.15 Clustering support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

Chapter 9. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk Midrange Edition . . . . . . . . . 331
9.1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332
9.2 Supported devices and firmware levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332
9.3 Licensing methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332
9.4 Key benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

Chapter 10. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
10.1 What’s new . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336
10.2 Open HyperSwap replication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336
10.2.1 Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
10.2.2 Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
10.2.3 How to setup Open HyperSwap session. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339
10.2.4 How to perform Open HyperSwap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352
10.2.5 TPC-R high availability with Open HyperSwap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
10.3 Copy set soft removal of hardware relationship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
10.4 Log packages download from TPC-R GUI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
10.5 Path Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370
10.6 SVC enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376
10.6.1 SAN Volume Controller space-efficient volumes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376
10.6.2 SAN Volume Controller incremental FlashCopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377
10.7 DS8000 enhancements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385
10.7.1 DS8000 extent space efficient volumes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385
10.7.2 Global Mirror session enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388
10.7.3 Multiple Global Mirror sessions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

Chapter 11. XIV Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395
11.1 Supported Firmware Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396
11.2 Adding an XIV to TPC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396
11.3 XIV Performance Counters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396
11.4 XIV storage provisioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397

Chapter 12. SAN Planner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401
12.1 Purpose of SAN Planner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402
12.2 What’s New in TPC 4.2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402
12.3 Pre-requisites for using SAN Planner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402
12.4 Supported storage subsystems in SAN Planner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403
12.5 Storage Resource Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403
12.5.1 Storage Resource Group Monitoring and Alerting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403
12.6 Creating a Space-Only SAN Planner Recommendation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405
12.7 Creating a DR Planner Recommendation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422
12.8 SAN Planner with SAN Volume Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446

Chapter 13. Job Management Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459
13.1 Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460
13.2 Job Management Dictionary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460
13.2.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Schedule460
13.2.2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Run460
13.2.3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Job460
13.3 Job Management changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461
13.3.1 Default Jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462

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13.3.2 CLI and Event Driven Jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462
13.4 Job Management Panel explained . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462
13.4.1 Entities details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466
13.4.2 Schedules details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466
13.4.3 Runs and Jobs details. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467
13.5 Walk through examples. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467
13.5.1 List Schedule log files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467
13.5.2 View and act on recommendation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472

Chapter 14. Fabric enhancements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477
14.1 FCoE support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478
14.2 Additional switch models supported . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478
14.2.1 Brocade 3016 / 5410 / 5470 / 5480 / 7800 / M5440 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478
14.2.2 Brocade Silk Worm 7800 (IBM 2005-R06) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478
14.2.3 Brocade DCX-4S Backbone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478
14.2.4 Brocade 8000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478
14.2.5 Cisco Nexus 5000 Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479
14.3 Additional HBA and CNA models supported . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479
14.4 Integration with Brocade Data Center Fabric Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480
14.4.1 Supported functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480
14.4.2 Adding a DCFM server into Tivoli Storage Productivity Center . . . . . . . . . . . . 480

Chapter 15. IBM Total Productivity Center database considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . 489
15.1 Database tuning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490
15.1.1 Setting DB2 variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490
15.1.2 Tune the database manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492
15.1.3 Change DB2 active logs directory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494
15.2 TPC repository database sizing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496
15.2.1 Storage subsystem performance data sizing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498
15.3 Repository calculation templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505
15.3.1 Worksheet - Sizing SVC performance collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506

Chapter 16. IBM Total Productivity Center database backup on Windows . . . . . . . . 513
16.1 Before you start . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514
16.2 Scripts provided . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514
16.3 Database backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514
16.4 Database backup method considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515
16.4.1 Offline backup advantages and disadvantages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515
16.5 Common backup setup steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516
16.6 Offline backup to filesystem setup steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518
16.7 Offline backup to Tivoli Storage Manager setup steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519
16.7.1 Add new variables to Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520
16.7.2 Configure Tivoli Storage Manager option file and password. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521
16.7.3 Reboot the TPC server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523
16.7.4 Create an offline backup to Tivoli Storage Manager script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524
16.8 Online backup to Tivoli Storage Manager setup steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524
16.8.1 DB2 parameter changes for archive logging to Tivoli Storage Manager. . . . . . 525
16.8.2 Create online backup script for Tivoli Storage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527
16.9 Online backup to a filesystem setup steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528
16.9.1 Set up DB2 archive logging to a filesystem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528
16.9.2 Create online backup script to filesystem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530
16.10 Performing offline database backups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531
16.10.1 Performing an offline backup to a filesystem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531
16.10.2 Performing an offline backup to Tivoli Storage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531

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16.11 Performing online database backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532
16.11.1 Performing an online database backup to Tivoli Storage Manager . . . . . . . . 532
16.11.2 Performing an online backup to a filesystem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533
16.12 Other backup considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533
16.13 Managing database backup versions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534
16.13.1 Managing backup versions for a filesystem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534
16.13.2 Managing archive log files on a filesystem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535
16.13.3 Managing backup versions that you store in Tivoli Storage Manager. . . . . . . 536
16.14 Verifying a backup file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541
16.15 Restoring the TPC database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541
16.15.1 Restoring from offline backups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 542
16.15.2 Restoring from online backups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 546
16.15.3 Potential agent issues after the restore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551
16.16 Backup scheduling and automation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551
16.16.1 Frequency of full TPCDB backups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552
16.16.2 TPCDB backup automation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552

Chapter 17. IBM Total Productivity Center database backup on AIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553
17.1 Before you start . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 554
17.3 Database backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 554
17.7.1 Add new variables to AIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559
17.7.3 Restart DB2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561
17.8.2 Create an online backup script for Tivoli Storage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566

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Chapter 18. IBM Total Productivity Center database backup on Linux . . . . . . . . . . . 591
18.1 Before you start . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 592
18.3 Database backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 592
18.7.1 Add new variables to Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597
18.7.3 Restart DB2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 599
18.8.2 Create an online backup script for Tivoli Storage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604

Chapter 19. Useful information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629
19.1 User defined properties for Fabrics and Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 630
19.2 IBM Software Support Lifecycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 630
19.3 IBM Support Assistant. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 631
19.4 Certificate errors in Windows Internet Explorer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 631
19.4.1 Step 1: Adress mismatch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 632
19.4.2 Step 2: New certificate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 632
19.5 Tivoli Storage Productivity Center support matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 636
19.6 DB2 hints. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639
19.6.1 SQL5005C System Error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639
19.6.2 User ID to stop and start DB2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639

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Appendix A. DB2 table space considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641
Selecting an SMS or DMS table space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 642
Advantages of an SMS table space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 642
Advantages of a DMS table space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 642

Appendix B. Worksheets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645
User IDs and passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 646
Server information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 646
User IDs and passwords for key files and installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647
LDAP information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 648
Storage device information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 649
IBM System Storage Enterprise Storage Server/DS6000/DS8000. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 649
IBM DS4000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 650
IBM SAN Volume Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651

Appendix C. Configuring X11 forwarding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 653
Preparing the display export . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 654
Preparation of the AIX server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 654
Preparation of the Windows workstation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655
Launching an Xming X Window session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659
VNC Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 662

Related publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665
IBM Redbooks publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665
Other publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665
Online resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665
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Preface

IBM® Tivoli® Storage Productivity Center V4.2 is a feature-rich storage management
software suite. The integrated suite provides detailed monitoring, reporting, and management
within a single console.

This IBM Redbooks® publication is intended for storage administrators and users who are
installing and exploiting the features and functions in IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center
V4.2. The information in the the book can be used to plan for, install and customize the
components of Tivoli Storage Productivity Center in your storage infrastructure. There are
Important functional enhancements in this release:
Storage Resource Agent - now supports file level and database level storage resource
management (SRM) reporting for a broad set of platforms.
IBM XIV® Storage System support updated - adds discovery, provisioning, and
performance management support .
Storage Area Network (SAN) configuration planning - now includes best practice
provisioning of replication relationships and supports basic provisioning of non-IBM
storage systems.
Open HyperSwap® for the IBM AIX® environment - delivers application failover (no
disruption of application I/O) across a synchronous mirror distance.

Step-by-step procedures are provided to help perform tasks such as migrate to Storage
Resource Agents, utilize Native APIs, understand and use SAN configuration planning
functions, and maintain your DB2® database repository.

The team who wrote this book
This book was produced by a team of specialists from around the world working at the
International Technical Support Organization, San Jose Center.

Mary Lovelace is a Consulting IT Specialist at the International Technical Support
Organization. She has experience with IBM in large systems, storage and Storage
Networking product education, system engineering and consultancy, and system support.
She has written redbooks about Tivoli Storage Productivity Center, Tivoli Stprage Manager,
Scale Out Network Attached Storage and z/OS® storage products.

Alejandro Berardinelli has been an IT Specialist within IBM Uruguay since 2005. Today his
primary focus is on Tivoli® Storage Manager and Tivoli Storage Productivity Center
deployments and support for multiple platforms, including AIX®, Linux®, Windows®, and
z/OS. He also performs IBM storage implementations involving IBM DS8000, DS5000, tape
subsystems and Brocade and CISCO switches. He has provided storage support for several
customers in South America. Alejandro has a Computer Engineer degree from UDELAR.

H. Antonio Vazquez Brust is an Argentina based IT Architect and works as a Technical
Solution Architect for IBM Complex Engagement Services. His job roles prior to joining CES,
include AIX, Linux®, AS/400®, Windows®, networking and SAN administration. Antonio has
a diploma in Computer Sciences and worked for IBM for six years.

Harsha Gunatilaka is a Software Engineer for Tivoli Storage Software in Tucson, AZ. He is
currently part of the IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center development and test team. He is
an IBM Certified Deployment Professional on Tivoli Storage Productivity Center and has

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experience with a wide array of IBM storage products and software. He holds a degree in
Management Information Systems from the University of Arizona.

Hector Ibarra is an Infrastructure IT Architect specialized in cloud computing and storage
solutions based in Argentina and currently working at the IBM Argentina Delivery Center
(DCA). Hector has been designated as ITA Leader for The VMware Center of Competence in
2006. He specializes in virtualization technologies and has assisted several global IBM
clients to deploy virtualized infrastructures across the world.

Since 2009 he has been working as the Leader for the DCA Strategy and Architecture
Services department from where major projects are driven..

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team in the CEE region. He has 13 years of experience in IT. Before joining IBM Croatia in
2003 he worked for a financial company in Croatia and was responsible for IBM mainframe
and storage administration. His areas of expertise include IBM high-end disk and tape
storage subsystems and architecture and design of various HA/DR/BC solutions for
mainframe and open systems. .

Markus Standauis an IT Specialist from Germany who joined IBM in 1996. He has worked
for IBM Global Services for eight years in the field of storage services and is currently working
as a Field Technical Sales Support Specialist. He studied at the University of Cooperative
Education in Stuttgart, Germany, and is a graduate engineer in Information Technology. His
areas of expertise include Backup and Recovery, Disaster Recovery, and OnDemand
Storage Services, as well as IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center since Version 2.1.

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1

Chapter 1. Tivoli Storage Productivity
Center V4.2 introduction and
overview
In this chapter, we introduce IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center, providing a high level
technical overview of the product, its architecture and base components. We discuss the
following topics:
Introduction to IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center
Function
Architecture
Product family
New function since V4.1
Contents of this book

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1.1 Introduction to IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center
The IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center suite of storage infrastructure management tools
can help customers improve time to value, as well as reduce the complexity of managing their
storage environments by centralizing, simplifying and optimizing storage tasks associated
with storage systems, storage networks, replication services and capacity management.

1.1.1 Function in Tivoli Storage Productivity Center
Tivoli Storage Productivity Center includes:
Storage resource management (SRM):
– Reporting of volumes and file systems on a server level
– Reporting on NAS and NetWare file systems
– Reporting of databases capacity and usage
– Constraint and quota reporting
Storage subsystem management:
– Volume allocation and assignment (provisioning)
– Asset reporting
– Performance reporting
– DS8000® element management
Fabric management:
– Zoning
– Asset reporting
– Performance reporting
Replication management
Alerting

In addition to these basic functions, Tivoli Storage Productivity Center includes more
advanced functions that provide you with a set of analytics functions such as:
Topology Viewer
Data path explorer
Configuration history
Storage optimizer
SAN planner
Configuration analytics

Consider that the type of license you have will determine the function that is available to you.

Table 1-1 on page 3 provides a summary of the functions provided in Tivoli Storage
Productivity Center.



Table 1-1 Tivoli Storage Productivity Center summary of functions
Data Management Disk Management Fabric Management Tape Management

Host centric For Storage subsystems For Fabrics For tape libraries
Discovery of storage Discovery of storage Discovery of storage Discovery of storage
resources resources resources resources
Monitoring of storage Monitoring of storage Monitoring of storage Monitoring of storage
resources resources resources resources
Filesystem extension Configuration (for Configuration (for
Enterprise-wide example, creating example, zoning)
reporting volumes) Performance
Application centric Performance management
Monitoring of relational management
databases DB2, Oracle,
SQL server, Sybase
Chargeback

1.2 Architecture
The IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center consists of several key components. In this
section we show how this components are related and we describe them briefly. We also
describe the different interfaces that you can use to access Tivoli Storage Productivity Center
and finally its integration with other products.

1.2.1 Architecture overview
Figure 1-1 illustrates an architectural overview for IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center.

Figure 1-1 Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Version 4.2 - Architecture Overview

Chapter 1. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center V4.2 introduction and overview 3


1.2.2 Data server
This component is the control point for product scheduling functions, configuration, event
information, reporting, and graphical user interface (GUI) support. It coordinates
communication with and data collection from agents that scan file systems and databases to
gather storage demographics and populate the database with results. Automated actions can
be defined to perform file system extension, data deletion, and Tivoli Storage Manager
backup or archiving, or event reporting when defined thresholds are encountered. The Data
server is the primary contact point for GUI user interface functions. It also includes functions
that schedule data collection and discovery for the Device server.

1.2.3 Device server
This component discovers, gathers information from, analyzes performance of, and controls
storage subsystems and SAN fabrics. It coordinates communication with and data collection
from agents that scan SAN fabrics and storage devices.

1.2.4 Tivoli Integrated Portal
IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center V4 is integrated with IBM Tivoli Integrated Portal (TIP).
This integration provides functionalities like single sign-on and the use of Tivoli Common
Reporting.

Single sign-on
Enables you to access Tivoli Storage Productivity Center and then Tivoli Storage Productivity
Center for Replication using a single user ID and password.

Tivoli Common Reporting
Tivoli Common Reporting (TCR) is a component provided by TIP. It is one possible option to
implement customized reporting solutions using SQL database access, providing output in
HTML, PDF or Microsoft® Excel.

Note that Tivoli Common Reporting is intended to provide a platform to reproduce custom
reports in an easy way or for reports that are to be run repeatedly—typically on a daily,
weekly, or monthly basis. It does not provide any online report creation or report
customization features.

1.2.5 Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication
Starting with TPC V4.1, the IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication product is
starting to get integrated into TPC. Currently the integration is limited to basic functions such
as providing Launch in Context links in the TPC GUI, as well as crosschecks when a volume
is deleted with TPC and mapping of user roles.

1.2.6 DB2 database
A single database instance serves as the repository for all Tivoli Storage Productivity Center
components. This repository is where all of your storage information and usage statistics are
stored. All agent and user interface access to the central repository is done through a series
of calls and requests made to the server. All database access is done using the server
component to maximize performance and to eliminate the need to install database
connectivity software on your agent and UI machines.



1.2.7 Agents
Outside of the server, there are several interfaces that are used to gather information about
the environment. The most important sources of information are the TPC agents (Storage
resource agent, Data agent and Fabric agent) as well as SMI-S enabled storage devices that
use a CIMOM agent (either embedded or as a proxy agent).

Storage Resource agent, CIM agents, and Out of Band fabric agents gather host, application,
storage system, and SAN fabric information and send that information to the Data Server or
Device server.

Note that Data agents and Fabric agents are supported in Tivoli Storage Productivity Center
V4.2. However, no new functions were added to those agents for this release. For optimal
results when using Tivoli Storage Productivity Center, migrate the Data agents and Fabric
agents to Storage Resource agents.

1.2.8 Interfaces
As TPC gathers information from your storage (servers, subsystems, and switches) across
your enterprise, it accumulates a repository of knowledge about your storage assets and how
they are used. You can use the reports provided in the user interface view and analyze that
repository of information from various perspectives to gain insight into the use of storage
across your enterprise.

The user interfaces (UI) enable users to request information and then generate and display
reports based on that information. Certain user interfaces can also be used for configuration
of TPC or storage provisioning for supported devices.

The following interfaces are available for TPC:
TPC GUI:
This is the central point of TPC administration. Here you have the choice of configuring
TPC after installation, define jobs to gather information, initiate provisioning functions,
view reports, and work with the advanced analytics functions.
Java™ Web Start GUI:
When you use Java Web Start, the regular TPC GUI will be downloaded to your
workstation and started automatically, so you do not have to install the GUI separately.
The main reason for using the Java Web Start is that it can be integrated into other
products (for example, TIP). By using Launch in Context from those products, you will be
guided directly to the select panel. The Launch in Context URLs can also be assembled
manually and be used as bookmarks.
TPCTOOL:
This is a command line (CLI) based program which interacts with the TPC Device Server.
Most frequently it is used to extract performance data from the TPC repository database in
order to create graphs and charts with multiple metrics, with various unit types and for
multiple entities (for example, Subsystems, Volumes, Controller, Arrays) using charting
software. Commands are entered as lines of text (that is, sequences of types of
characters) and output can be received as text. Furthermore, the tool provides queries,
management, and reporting capabilities, but you cannot initiate Discoveries, Probes and
performance collection from the tool.
Database access:
Starting with TPC V4, the TPC database provides views that provide access to the data
stored in the repository, which allows you to create customized reports. The views and the



required functions are grouped together into a database schema called TPCREPORT. For
this, you need to have sufficient knowledge about SQL. To access the views, DB2
supports various interfaces, for example, JDBC and ODBC.

1.2.9 Integration with other applications
In this section, we describe Tivoli Storage Productivity Center integration with IBM Tivoli
Storage Manager for backup or archival of files, IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console® (TEC) or any
other SNMP manager for alert notification.

Integration with Tivoli Storage Manger
Use the Archive/Backup function available within the Reporting facility to define IBM Tivoli
Storage Manager archive or backup jobs to run against the files that you select from reports.
This function enables you to select a specific file or group of files from Data Manager reports
that you want to archive or backup using Tivoli Storage Manager. Some of this reports include
largest files, most obsolete files, duplicate files and constraint violations.

The results of the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager backup-archive commands are viewable
through the graphical user interface. In the case of constraints configured to archive-backup
violating files, the results are included in the agent scan job logs (scans are responsible for
enforcing constraints). In the case of file report driven archive-backup operations, a new type
of job (archive-backup job) is created. The results of the backup operations in this case are
found in archive-backup job logs.

SNMP
For users planning to use the Simple Network Managment Protocol (SNMP) trap alert
notification capabilities of Tivoli Storage Productivity Center, SNMP Management Information
Base (SNMP MIB) files are included on the installation media. The MIB is provided for use by
your SNMP management console software (for example, IBM Tivoli NetView® or HP
Openview). This will allow you to better view TPC-generated SNMP traps from within your
management console software.

Integration with Tivoli Enterprise Console Netcool/OMNIbus
Tivoli Storage Productivity Center can use the Event Integration Facility (EIF) to send
messages to the IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console (TEC) or the follow-on product
Netcool/OMNIbus. This can allow one of the two central monitoring applications to consider
Tivoli Storage Productivity Center alerts in causal analysis for problems. TEC/OMNIbus is
added as a destination for alerts, in addition to SNMP Trap and Windows Event Log.

1.3 Tivoli Storage Productivity Center family
In this section we describe the Tivoli Storage Productivity Center components.

1.3.1 TPC for Data
Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Data provides over 400 enterprise-wide reports,
monitoring and alerts, policy-based action and file-system capacity automation in a
heterogeneous environment. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Data is designed to help
improve capacity utilization of file systems and databases and add intelligence to data
protection and retention practices.



1.3.2 TPC for Disk
Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk is designed to provide storage device configuration
and management from a single console. It includes performance capabilities to help monitor
and manage performance, and measure service levels by storing received performance
statistics into database tables for later use. Policy-based automation enables event action
based on business policies. It sets performance thresholds for the devices based on selected
performance metrics, generating alerts when those thresholds are exceeded. Tivoli Storage
Productivity Center for Disk helps simplify the complexity of managing multiple SAN-attached
storage devices.

1.3.3 TPC for Disk Midrange Edition
Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk Midrange Edition is designed help reduce the
complexity of managing storage devices by allowing administrators to configure, manage and
monitor performance of their entire storage infrastructure from a single console. Tivoli
Storage Productivity Center for Disk Midrange Edition provides the same features and
functions as Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk, but is limited to managing IBM
System Storage® DS3000, DS4000®, DS5000 and FAStT devices. It provides performance
management, monitoring and reporting for these devices.

1.3.4 TPC Basic Edition
IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Basic Edition is focused on providing basic device
management services for IBM System Storage DS3000, DS4000, DS5000, DS6000™,
DS8000, XIV, IBM SAN Volume Controller and heterogeneous storage environments. This
tool provides storage administrators a simple way to conduct device management for multiple
storage arrays and SAN fabric components from a single integrated console. IBM Tivoli
Storage Productivity Center Basic Edition also does discovery and asset management of
tape libraries, specifically IBM 3494 and 3584 Tape Libraries.

1.3.5 Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Standard Edition
IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Standard Edition is one of the industry’s most
comprehensive storage resource management solutions by combining the consolidated
benefits of the four previouse components as one bundle.

In addition to the benefits and features of Data, Disk, Disk Midrange Edition and Basic
Edition, IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Standard Edition includes advanced analytics
for storage provisioning, change management and performance optimization capabilities. It
also offers additional management, control and performance reporting for the fibre channel
SAN infrastructure.

1.3.6 TPC for Replication
The IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication helps to manage the advanced
copy services provided by the IBM Enterprise Storage Server® (ESS) Model 800, IBM
System Storage DS8000, IBM DS6000 and IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller
(SVC).

Details of the Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication V4.2 are found in Chapter 10,
“Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication” on page 335.



1.3.7 SSPC 1.5
The IBM System Storage Productivity Center (SSPC) is a hardware appliance that
consolidates IBM storage administration and configuration utilities into a single console.

The new features, functions and enhancements that are included in IBM System Storage
Productivity Center (SSPC) Version 1.5 are described in this section.
Machine type MC5
SSPC machine type and model number 2805-MC5 is available with an Intel® Quad-core
Xeon processor that runs at 2.53 GHz.
Tivoli Storage Productivity Center 4.2.1
IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Basic Edition 4.2.1 and IBM Tivoli Storage
Productivity Center for Replication Basic Edition 4.2.1 are preinstalled on the System
Storage Productivity Center server.
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard operating system for 64-bit processors
Tivoli Storage Productivity Center 4.2.1 uses the Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard
operating system for 64-bit processors.
Optional preinstalled host bus adapter card
To provide additional storage on the SSPC server, SSPC V1.5 offers an optional host bus
adapter (HBA) so that you can move the Tivoli Storage Productivity Center database from
the SSPC server to an internal redundant hard disk drive or to an IBM System Storage
DS8000. You can connect the DS8000 storage system to the SSPC server directly or
through a storage area network (SAN). You can order the HBA to be preinstalled on the
SSPC server or as a Feature Code 3570 for your IBM service representative to install.
After you configure multipath input and output (I/O) and zone the SAN into a partition for
the SSPC and the DS8000 storage system, you can move the Tivoli Storage Productivity
Center database to the storage system. The procedure includes prerequisites.
Optional redundant hard disk drives
Order a second pair of hard disk drives as Feature Code 5190 if you want to move the
Tivoli Storage Productivity Center from the SSPC server and make additional storage
available. Contact your IBM service representative to install the redundant hard disk
drives.
Documentation about international power requirements
Power-cord options are available for attaching the SSPC to a power-distribution unit
(PDU) for a rack or to a country- or region-specific wall outlet. Options are provided in
tables listing power cords and receptacles.
DB2 9.7
Tivoli Storage Productivity Center supports IBM DB2 9.7.
System Storage DS8000 Release 6.0
You can monitor IBM System Storage DS8000 6.0 or earlier releases with SSPC.
SAN Volume Controller Console Release 6.1
SSPC supports IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller 6.1, but the software is no
longer preinstalled on the SSPC server. Instead, you can start the console from the web
browser on the SSPC desktop.
When you configure SAN Volume Controller to Tivoli Storage Productivity Center, you
must supply a private Secure Shell (SSH) key file in OpenSSH format or PuTTY (.ppk)
format that is not protected by a password. In previous versions of SSPC, the PuTTY


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