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IBMSpectrumProtectVersion4Release2Note:Beforeyouusethisinformationandtheproductitsupports,readtheinformationin"Notices"onpage71.
Firstedition(March2020)ThiseditionappliestoVersion8.
1.
1andlateroftheIBMSpectrumProtectserver,andtoallsubsequentreleasesandmodificationsuntilotherwiseindicatedinneweditionsortechnicalnewsletters.
CopyrightInternationalBusinessMachinesCorporation2014,2020.
USGovernmentUsersRestrictedRights–Use,duplicationordisclosurerestrictedbyGSAADPScheduleContractwithIBMCorp.
ContentsAboutthisdocument.
vSupportforIBMSpectrumProtectblueprintandserverautomatedconfiguration.
vWhat'snewinVersion4.
2.
viiChapter1.
Introduction.
1Chapter2.
Implementationrequirements.
3Hardwareandsoftwareprerequisites.
5Hardwarerequirements.
5Softwarerequirements.
9Planningworksheets.
9Chapter3.
Storageconfigurationblueprints.
13Smallconfiguration.
14Mediumconfiguration.
16Largeconfiguration.
17Chapter4.
Settingupthesystem.
21Step1:Setupandconfigurehardware.
21Step2:Installtheoperatingsystem.
23Step3:ConfiguremultipathI/O.
24Step4:ConfigurefilesystemsforIBMSpectrumProtect.
24Configureafilesystembyusingthescript.
25Configurebyusingthemanualprocedure.
25Step5:Testsystemperformance.
26Step6:InstalltheIBMSpectrumProtectbackup-archiveclient.
29Step7:InstalltheIBMSpectrumProtectserver.
30Obtaintheinstallationpackage.
30InstallIBMSpectrumProtectVersion8.
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1orlater.
30Chapter5.
ConfiguringtheIBMSpectrumProtectserver.
33RemovinganIBMSpectrumProtectblueprintconfiguration.
39Chapter6.
Completingthesystemconfiguration.
41Changingdefaultpasswords.
41Registeringnodesandassociatingthemwithpredefinedclientschedules.
42Reorganizingdatabasetablesandindexes.
43Chapter7.
Nextsteps.
45Optional:Setupnodereplicationandstoragepoolprotection.
45AppendixA.
Performanceresults.
49Smallsystemperformancemeasurements.
49Mediumsystemperformancemeasurements.
50Workloadsimulationtoolresults.
51AppendixB.
Configuringthedisksystembyusingcommands.
53iiiAppendixC.
UsingaresponsefilewiththeBlueprintconfigurationscript.
59AppendixD.
Usingpredefinedclientschedules.
61AppendixE.
Modificationofblueprintconfigurations.
65AppendixF.
Troubleshooting.
67AppendixG.
Accessibility.
69Notices.
71Index.
75ivAboutthisdocumentThisinformationisintendedtofacilitatethedeploymentofanIBMSpectrumProtectserverbyusingdetailedhardwarespecificationstobuildasystemandautomatedscriptstoconfigurethesoftware.
Tocompletethetasks,youmusthaveanunderstandingofIBMSpectrumProtectandscripting.
SupportforIBMSpectrumProtectblueprintandserverautomatedconfigurationTheinformationinthisdocumentisdistributedonan"asis"basiswithoutanywarrantythatiseitherexpressedorimplied.
SupportassistancefortheuseofthismaterialislimitedtosituationswhereIBMSpectrumProtectsupportisentitledandwheretheissuesarenotspecifictoablueprintimplementation.
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2014,2020vviIBMSpectrumProtect:BlueprintandServerAutomatedConfigurationforWindowsWhat'snewinVersion4.
2TheIBMSpectrumProtectBlueprintconfigurationscript,hardwareandsoftwarerequirements,anddocumentationareupdated.
IBMStorwizestoragereferencesareupdatedtothenextgeneration,IBMFlashSystem5000andIBMFlashSystem5100Thesmall,medium,andlargeStorwizereferencesareupdatedtotheFlashSystem5010,5030,and5100,respectively.
TheIBMFlashSystem5000serieswasformerlyknownasIBMStorwizeV5000E.
TheFlashSystem5000seriesisdesignedtodeliverenhancedperformanceandstorageefficiencywithoptimizedeaseofuse.
IBMFlashSystem5100,formerlyStorwizeV5100,isavirtualized,software-definedstoragesystemdesignedtoconsolidateworkloadsintoasinglestoragesystemforeaseofmanagement,reducedcosts,highlyscalablecapacity,optimizedperformance,andhighavailability.
EnhancementstotheautomatedconfigurationscriptsAnewclientworkloadsimulationtoolnamedsesstestisnowavailablewiththeBlueprintdownloads.
Withthistool,youcanstresstestnewBlueprintconfigurationswithsimulatedproductionworkloads.
Theconfigurationscriptscannowbeusedinnon-English-languageoperatingsystemenvironments.
Technicalandotherupdatesweremadethroughoutthebook.
Lookfortheverticalbar(|)inthemargin.
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2014,2020viiviiiIBMSpectrumProtect:BlueprintandServerAutomatedConfigurationforWindowsChapter1.
IntroductionThisdocumentprovidesdetailedstepstobuildasmall,medium,orlargeIBMSpectrumProtectserverwithdisk-onlystoragethatusesdatadeduplicationonMicrosoftWindowsonanx86system.
Byfollowingprerequisitestepsprecisely,youcansetuphardwareandprepareyoursystemtoruntheIBMSpectrumProtectBlueprintconfigurationscript,TSMserverconfig.
pl,forasuccessfuldeployment.
Thesettingsandoptionsthataredefinedbythescriptaredesignedtoensureoptimalperformance,basedonthesizeofyoursystem.
OverviewThefollowingroadmapliststhemaintasksthatyoumustcompletetodeployaserver:1.
Determinethesizeoftheconfigurationthatyouwanttoimplement.
2.
Reviewtherequirementsandprerequisitesfortheserversystem.
3.
Setupthehardwarebyusingdetailedblueprintspecificationsforsystemlayout.
4.
ConfigurethehardwareandinstalltheWindowsoperatingsystem.
5.
PreparefilesystemsforIBMSpectrumProtect.
6.
RuntheIBMSpectrumProtectworkloadsimulationtooltoverifythatyourconfigurationisfunctioningproperly.
7.
InstalltheIBMSpectrumProtectbackup-archiveclient.
8.
InstallalicensedversionoftheIBMSpectrumProtectserver.
9.
RuntheBlueprintconfigurationscripttovalidateyourhardwareconfiguration,andthenconfiguretheserver.
10.
Completepost-configurationstepstobeginmanagingandmonitoringyourserverenvironment.
DeviatingfromtheBlueprintsAvoiddeviationsfromtheBlueprints.
Deviationscanresultinpoorperformanceorotheroperationalproblems.
Somecustomization,includingsubstitutingcomparableserverandstoragemodelsfromothermanufacturers,canbeimplemented,butcaremustbetakentousecomponentswithequivalentorbetterperformance.
Avoidthefollowingdeviations:RunningmultipleIBMSpectrumProtectserverinstancesonthesameoperatingsystemonthesamecomputer.
Reducingthenumberofdrivesbysubstitutinglargercapacitydrives.
Usingthecapacity-savingfeaturesofstoragesystemsincludingthinprovisioning,compression,ordatadeduplication.
ThesefeaturesareprovidedbytheIBMSpectrumProtectsoftwareandredundantuseinthestoragesystemcanleadtoperformanceproblems.
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2014,202012IBMSpectrumProtect:BlueprintandServerAutomatedConfigurationforWindowsChapter2.
ImplementationrequirementsSelecttheappropriatesizeforyourIBMSpectrumProtectenvironmentandthenreviewrequirementsforhardwareandsoftware.
UseTable1onpage3toselecttheserversize,basedontheamountofdatathatyoumanage.
Boththetotalmanageddataanddailyamountofnewdataaremeasuredbeforedatadeduplication.
Dataamountsinthetablearebasedontheuseofdirectory-containerstoragepoolswithinlinedatadeduplication,afeaturethatwasintroducedinIBMSpectrumProtectVersion7.
1.
3.
Theblueprintsarealsodesignedtouseinlinestoragepoolcompression,afeaturethatwasintroducedinIBMSpectrumProtectV7.
1.
5.
Tip:Beforeyouconfigureasolution,learnaboutcontainerstoragepools.
SeeDirectory-containerstoragepoolsFAQs.
Table1.
SelectingthesizeoftheIBMSpectrumProtectserverIfyourtotalmanageddataisinthisrangeAndtheamountofnewdatathatyoubackupisinthisrangeBuildaserverofthissize60TB-240TBUpto10TBperdaySmall360TB-1440TB10-30TBperdayMedium1000TB-4000TB30-100TBperdayLargeThedailyingestionrateistheamountofdatathatyoubackupeachday.
ThedailyingestionamountsinTable1onpage3arebasedontestresultswith128MBsizedobjects,whichareusedbyIBMSpectrumProtectforVirtualEnvironments.
Thedailyingestionamountisstatedasarangebecausebackupthroughput,andthetimethatisrequiredtocompletemaintenancetasks,varybasedonworkload.
Ifaserverisusedtobothacceptbackupdata,andreceivereplicateddatafromotherservers,moreplanningisneeded.
Anydatathatisreceivedthroughreplicationmustbeconsideredaspartofthedailybackupamount.
Forexample,aserverthatreceives25TBofnewbackupdataand15TBofnewreplicationdatadailyhasatotalingestionrateof40TBperday.
Optionally,backupdataanddatareceivedthroughreplicationcanbeplacedinseparatedirectorycontainerstoragepools.
Noteveryworkloadcanachievethemaximumamountintherangefordailybackups.
Therangeisacontinuum,andplacementwithintherangedependsonseveralfactors:MajorfactorsAverageobjectsize.
Workloadswithsmalleraverageobjectsizes,suchasthosethatarecommonwithfileserverbackups,typicallyhavesmallerbackupthroughputs.
Iftheaverageobjectsizeislessthan128KB,dailybackupamountsarelikelytofallinthelower25%oftherange.
Iftheaverageobjectsizeislarger,forexample,512KBormore,backupthroughputsaregreater.
Dailydatareduction.
Whendataisreducedbyusingdatadeduplicationandcompression,lessdatamustbewrittentostoragepools.
Asaresult,theservercanhandlelargeramountsofdailydataingestion.
AdditionalfactorsDatadeduplicationlocation.
Byusingclient-sidedatadeduplication,youreducetheprocessingworkloadontheserver.
Asaresult,youcanincreasethetotalamountofdatathatisdeduplicateddaily.
Networkperformance.
Byusingefficientnetworks,youcanbackupandreplicatemoredatadaily.
Tobetterunderstandthefactorsthataffectthemaximumamountofdailydataingestion,reviewthefollowingfigure:CopyrightIBMCorp.
2014,20203Figure1.
RangefordailydataingestioninalargesystemTotalmanageddataistheamountofdatathatisprotected.
Thisamountincludesallversions.
Arangeisprovidedbecausedataprocessingrespondsdifferentlytodatadeduplicationandcompression,dependingonthetypeofdatathatisbackedup.
ThesmallernumberintherangerepresentsthephysicalcapacityoftheIBMSpectrumProtectstoragepool.
AlthoughtheuseofinlinecompressiondoesnotresultinadditionalgrowthoftheIBMSpectrumProtectdatabase,compressionmightresultintheabilitytostoremoredatainthesameamountofstoragepoolspace.
Inthisway,theamountoftotalmanageddatacanincreasecausingmoredatabasespacetobeused.
Toestimatethetotalmanageddataforyourenvironment,youmusthavethefollowinginformation:Theamountofclientdata(thefront-enddataamount)thatwillbeprotectedThenumberofdaysthatbackupdatamustberetainedAnestimateofthedailychangepercentageThebackupmodelthatisusedforaclienttype,forexample,incremental-forever,fulldaily,orfullperiodicIfyouareunsureofyourworkloadcharacteristics,usethemiddleoftherangeforplanningpurposes.
Youcancalculatethetotalmanageddatafordifferenttypesofclientsingroupsandthenaddthegroupresults.
Clienttypeswithincremental-foreverbackupoperationsUsethefollowingformulatoestimatethetotalmanageddata:Frontend+(Frontend*changerate*(retention-1))Forexample,ifyoubackup100TBoffront-enddata,usea30-dayretentionperiod,andhavea5%changerate,calculateyourtotalmanageddataasshown:100TB+(100TB*0.
05*(30-1))=245TBtotalmanageddataClienttypeswithfulldailybackupoperationsUsethefollowingformulatoestimatethetotalmanageddata:Frontend*retention*(1+changerate)Forexample,ifyoubackup10TBoffront-enddata,usea30-dayretentionperiod,andhavea3%changerate,calculateyourtotalmanageddataasshown:10TB*30*(1+.
03)=309TBtotalmanageddata4IBMSpectrumProtect:BlueprintandServerAutomatedConfigurationforWindowsHardwareandsoftwareprerequisitesBeforeyousetupyoursystemandconfigureIBMSpectrumProtect,youmustmeethardwareandsoftwareprerequisites.
HardwarerequirementsYoumustacquirehardwarethatisbasedonscalesizerequirements.
Youcanchooseequivalentorbettercomponentsthanwhatarelisted.
Thefollowingtopicslistthehardwarerequirementsforasmall,medium,orlargeconfiguration.
Thetablescontaindetaileddescriptions,includingpartnumbersandquantitiesforIBMcomponentsthatareusedinthestorageconfigurationblueprints.
Thesystemmemorysizesthatareprovidedarerecommendationsforoptimalperformance.
Theyarenotminimumrequirements.
Memoryrecommendationsaccountforusingbothdatadeduplicationandnodereplicationwithadatabasethatisnearmaximumcapacity.
Someworkloadscantoleratesmalleramountsofmemory.
Whennodereplicationisnotused,thememoryrecommendationscanbereducedby25%.
Thehardwarespecificationsthatareprovidedarecurrentatthetimeofpublishing.
Partsubstitutionsmightberequired,dependingonhardwareavailabilityovertime.
Becautiousifyouplantosubstituteasmallerquantityoflargerdrives,particularlyforthedatabase.
Asmallerquantityofdrivesmightnotprovidecomparableperformance.
IBMFlashSystemstoragesystemsaredesignedtoprovideasimple,high-performancesolutionformanagingblock-basedstorage.
Forthisreason,FlashSystemstoragesystemsaresuitedforusebytheIBMSpectrumProtectserverforboththedatabaseandstoragepool.
FormoreinformationaboutFlashSystemfeatures,seeIBMFlashStoragefamily.
Thetablesinthefollowingtopicshaveabbreviatedpartlists,whichincludeonlymajorcomponents.
Workwithyourhardwaresuppliertoensurethatyourconfigurationiscomplete.
HardwarerequirementsforsmallsystemsYoumustacquirehardwarethatisbasedonscalesizerequirements.
Youcanchooseequivalentorbettercomponentsthanwhatarelisted.
YoucanuseaLenovoThinkSystemSR650serveroraSupermicroSuperServer2029U-E1CRT:ForLenovoproductinformation,seeLenovoThinkSystemSR650RackServer.
Forhardwarerequirements,seeTable2onpage5.
ForSupermicroproductinformation,seeSupermicroSuperServer2029U-E1CRT.
Forhardwarerequirements,seeTable3onpage6.
Table2.
HardwarerequirementsforasmallsystemthatusesaLenovoserverHardwareRequirementsBlueprintcomponentDetaileddescriptionQuantityPartnumberServerandnetwork16processorcores,1.
7GHzorfaster64GBRAM10GbEthernet8Gbor16GbFibreChanneladapterLenovoThinkSystemSR650LenovoThinkSystemSR65017X06CT01W8-coreIntelXeonBronze31061.
7GHzprocessor2AWEH8GBTruDDR42666MHzmemory8AUU1EmulexVFA5.
22x10GbESFP+PCIeadapter1AT7SEmulex16GbGen6FCdual-portHBA1ATZVRAID530-8iPCIe12Gbadapter1AUNG300GB10KSAS12GbHotSwap512nHDD2AULYChapter2.
Implementationrequirements5Table2.
HardwarerequirementsforasmallsystemthatusesaLenovoserver(continued)HardwareRequirementsBlueprintcomponentDetaileddescriptionQuantityPartnumberDisksforstorage16GbhostinterfaceDatabaseandactivelogdisks:800GBSSDflashdrivesStoragepooldisks:4TBNL-SASIBMFlashSystem5010IBMFlashSystem5010SFFControl12072-2H416GbFibreChanneladapterpair1ALBBV5000ECACHEUPGRADE1ALGA800GB3DWPD2.
5flashdrive4AL8AIBMFlashSystem5000Largeform-factor(LFF)ExpansionEnclosure22072-12G1.
5mSASCable(mSASHD)4ACUA4TB7.
2K3.
5-inchNLHDD24AL39Table3.
HardwarerequirementsforasmallsystemthatusesSupermicroSuperServertechnologyHardwareRequirementsBlueprintcomponentDetaileddescriptionQuantityPartnumberServerandnetworkAtleast16processorcores,1.
7GHz64GBRAM10-GigabitEthernet8Gbor16GbFibreChanneladapterSupermicroSuperServerSupermicroSuperServer2029U-E1CRT1SYS-2029U-E1CRTIntelXeonScalable31068C1.
7GHzprocessor2P4X-SKL3106-SR3GL8GBTruDDR4MemoryDDR4-26661RX8ECCRDIMM8MEM-DR480L-CL02-ER26EmulexLPe16002B-M616GbFibreChannelHBA1AOC-LPE16002B-M6-O4-port10GSFP+,IntelXL7101AOC-STG-I4S300GB10K12GbpsSAS2.
5-inchG3HSHDD2HDD-2A500-ST9500620SSDisksforstorage16GbhostinterfaceDatabaseandactivelogdisks:800GBSSDflashdrivesStoragepooldisks:4TBNL-SASIBMFlashSystem5010IBMFlashSystem5010SFFControl12072-2H416GbFibreChanneladapterpair1ALBBV5000ECACHEUPGRADE1ALGA800GB3DWPD2.
5flashdrive4AL8AIBMFlashSystem5000Largeform-factor(LFF)ExpansionEnclosure22072-12G1.
5M12GbSASCABLE4ACUA4TB7.
2K3.
5-inchNLHDD24AL39HardwarerequirementsformediumsystemsYoumustacquirehardwarethatisbasedonscalesizerequirements.
Youcanchooseequivalentorbettercomponentsthanwhatarelisted.
YoucanuseaLenovoThinkSystemSR650serveroraSupermicroSuperServer2029U-E1CRT:ForLenovoproductinformation,seeLenovoThinkSystemSR650RackServer.
Forhardwarerequirements,seeTable4onpage7.
6IBMSpectrumProtect:BlueprintandServerAutomatedConfigurationforWindowsForSupermicroproductinformation,seeSupermicroSuperServer2029U-E1CRT.
Forhardwarerequirements,seeTable5onpage7.
Table4.
HardwarerequirementsforamediumsystemthatusesaLenovoserverHardwareRequirementsBlueprintcomponentDetaileddescriptionQuantityPartnumberServerandnetwork20processorcores,2.
2GHzorfaster192GBRAM10GbEthernet8Gbor16GbFibreChanneladapterLenovoThinkSystemSR650LenovoThinkSystemSR65017X06CTO1W10-coreIntelXeonSilver41142.
2GHzprocessor2AWEC16GBTruDDR42666MHzmemory12AUNCEmulexVFA5.
22x10GbESFP+PCIeadapter1AT7SEmulex16GbGen6FCdual-portHBA1ATZVRAID530-8iPCIe12Gbadapter1AUNG300GB10KSAS12GbHotSwap512nHDD2AULYDisksforstorage16GbhostinterfaceDatabaseandactivelogdisks:1.
9TBSSDStoragepool,archivelog,anddatabasebackupdisks:6TBNL-SASIBMFlashSystem5030IBMFlashSystem5030SFFControl12072-3H416GBFibreChanneladapterpair1ALBBV5000ECACHEUPGRADE1ALGA1.
92TB2.
5-inchflashdrive6AL805000HDlargeform-factor(LFF)expansion12072-92G6TB7.
2K3.
5-inchNLHDD92AL473m12GbSAScable(mSASHD)2ACUCTable5.
HardwarerequirementsforamediumsystemthatusesSupermicroSuperServertechnologyHardwareRequirementsBlueprintcomponentDetaileddescriptionQuantityPartnumberServerandnetworkAtleast20processorcores,2.
2GHz192GBRAM10GbEthernet8Gbor16GbFibreChanneladapterSupermicroSuperServerSupermicroSuperServer2029U-E1CRT1SYS-2029U-E1CRTIntelXeonScalable411410C2.
2GHzprocessor2P4X-SKL4114-SR3GK16GBTruDDR4MemoryDDR4-26662RX8ECCRDIMM12MEM-DR416L-HL03-ER26EmulexLPe16002B-M616GFibreChannelHBA1AOC-LPE16002B-M6-O4-port10GSFP+,IntelXL7101AOC-STG-I4S300GB10K12GbpsSAS2.
5-inchG3HSHDD2HDD-2A500-ST9500620SSChapter2.
Implementationrequirements7Table5.
HardwarerequirementsforamediumsystemthatusesSupermicroSuperServertechnology(continued)HardwareRequirementsBlueprintcomponentDetaileddescriptionQuantityPartnumberDisksforstorage16GbhostinterfaceDatabaseandactivelogdisks:1.
9TBSSDStoragepool,archivelog,anddatabasebackupdisks:6TBNL-SASIBMFlashSystem5030IBMFlashSystem5030SFFControl12072-3H416GBFibreChanneladapterpair1ALBBV5000ECACHEUPGRADE1ALGA1.
92TB2.
5-inchflashdrive6AL805000HDlargeform-factor(LFF)expansion12072-92G6TB7.
2K3.
5-inchNLHDD92AL473m12GbSAScable(mSASHD)2ACUCHardwarerequirementsforlargesystemsYoumustacquirehardwarethatisbasedonscalesizerequirements.
Youcanchooseequivalentorbettercomponentsthanwhatarelisted.
YoucanuseaLenovoThinkSystemSR650serveroraSupermicroSuperServer2029U-E1CRT:ForLenovoproductinformation,seeLenovoThinkSystemSR650.
Forhardwarerequirements,seeTable6onpage8.
ForSupermicroproductinformation,seeSupermicroSuperServer2029U-E1CRT.
Forhardwarerequirements,seeTable7onpage9.
TheIBMFlashSystem5030isanacceptablealternativeconfigurationinsteadoftheFlashSystem5100foralargeblueprintsystem.
Table6.
HardwarerequirementsforalargesystemthatusesaLenovoserverHardwareRequirementsBlueprintcomponentDetaileddescriptionQuantityPartnumberServerandnetwork44processorcores,2.
1GHzorfaster384GBRAM10GbEthernet8Gbor16GbFibreChanneladapterLenovoThinkSystemSR650LenovoThinkSystemSR65017X06CTO1W22-coreIntelXeonGold61522.
1GHzprocessor2AWDV32GBTruDDR42666MHzMemory12AUNDEmulexVFA5.
22x10GbESFP+PCIeadapter2AT7SEmulex16GbGen6FCdual-portHBA1ATZVRAID530-8iPCIe12Gbadapter1AUNG300GB10KSAS12GbHotSwap512nHDD31AULYDisksforstorageDatabaseandactivelogdisks:1.
9TBNVMEFLASHDRIVEStoragepool,archivelog,anddatabasebackupdisks:8TBNL-SASdrivesIBMFlashSystem5100TheFlashSystem5030isanacceptablesubstituteforthe5100.
IBMFlashSystem5100SFFControl12077-4H416GbFibreChanneladapterpair1ACBBIBMV510064GBCacheUpgrade2ACGE1.
92TB2.
5-inchNVMEflashdrive8AET2IBMFlashSystem5100HDLFFExpansion22077-92G8TB7.
2K3.
5-inchNLHDD184ACP83M12GbSASCABLEMSASHD4ACUC1.
Twoofthethree300GBinternalharddisksareconfiguredinaRAID1pair,andthethirddriveisassignedasaspare.
Ifaspareisnotneededbasedonbusinessrequirements,thesystemcanbeconfiguredwithonlytwodrives.
8IBMSpectrumProtect:BlueprintandServerAutomatedConfigurationforWindowsTable7.
HardwarerequirementsforalargesystemthatusesSupermicroSuperServertechnologyHardwareRequirementsBlueprintcomponentDetaileddescriptionQuantityPartnumberServerandnetworkAtleast44processorcores,2.
1GHz384GBRAM10-GigabitEthernet8Gbor16GbFibreChanneladapterSupermicroSuperServerSupermicroSuperServer2029U-E1CRT1SYS-2029U-E1CRTIntelXeonScalable615222C2.
1GHzprocessor2P4X-SKL6152-SR3B432GBTruDDR4MemoryDDR4-26662RX4ECCRDIMM12MEM-DR432L-CL01-ER26EmulexLPe16002B-M616GFibreChannelHBA1AOC-LPE16002B-M6-O4-port10GSFP+,IntelXL7102AOC-STG-I4SIBM300GB10K12GbpsSAS2.
5-inchG3HSHDD31HDD-2A500-ST9500620SSDisksforstorageDatabaseandactivelogdisks:1.
9TBNVMEFLASHDRIVEStoragepool,archivelog,anddatabasebackupdisks:8TBNL-SASdrivesIBMFlashSystem5100TheFlashSystem5030isanacceptablesubstituteforthe5100.
IBMFlashSystem5100SFFControl12077-4H416GbFibreChanneladapterpair1ACBBIBMV510064GBCacheUpgrade2ACGE1.
92TB2.
5-inchNVMEflashdrive8AET2IBMFlashSystem5100HDLFFExpansion22077-92G8TB7.
2K3.
5-inchNLHDD184ACP83M12GbSASCABLEMSASHD4ACUC1.
Twoofthethree300GBinternalharddisksareconfiguredinaRAID1pair,andthethirddriveisassignedasaspare.
Ifaspareisnotneededbasedonbusinessrequirements,thesystemcanbeconfiguredwithonlytwodrives.
SoftwarerequirementsYoumustinstalltheWindowsoperatingsystemandtheIBMSpectrumProtectserverandbackup-archiveclient.
Thefollowingversionsarerequired:MicrosoftWindowsServer2016StandardEdition.
IBMSpectrumProtectV7.
1orlaterbackup-archiveclient.
AlicensedversionofIBMSpectrumProtectisrequiredtoruntheBlueprintconfigurationscript.
TorunIBMSpectrumProtectontheMicrosoftWindowsServer2016StandardEditionoperatingsystem,installIBMSpectrumProtectV8.
1.
1orlater.
Atthetimeofpublication,thelatestlevelofIBMSpectrumProtectwasV8.
1.
9.
PlanningworksheetsUsetheplanningworksheetstorecordvaluesthatyouusewhenyoucompletethestepstosetupyoursystemandthenconfiguretheIBMSpectrumProtectserver.
Thepreferredmethodistousethedefaultvaluesthatarelistedintheworksheets.
DefaultvaluesinthefollowingtablescorrespondtothedefaultvaluesthatareusedbytheBlueprintconfigurationscripttoconfiguretheserver.
Byusingthesevaluestocreateyourfilesystemsanddirectories,youcanacceptalldefaultsfortheconfigurationwhenyourunthescript.
Ifyoucreatedirectoriesorplantousevaluesthatdonotmatchthedefaults,youmustmanuallyenterthosevaluesfortheconfiguration.
Chapter2.
Implementationrequirements9Duetothelargenumberofvolumesthatarecreatedfortheserver,theWindowsfeatureofmappingdiskvolumestodirectoriesratherthantodrivelettersisusedwiththeBlueprintconfigurationscript.
Forexample,C:\tsminst1\TSMdbpsace00isamountpointtoavolumewithitsownspace.
ItismappedtoadirectoryundertheC:drive,butdoesnottakeupspacefromtheC:drive.
Theexceptionistheserverinstancedirectory,C:\tsminst1,whichcanbeamountpointoraregulardirectory.
UseTable8onpage10toplanforthefilesystemsanddirectoriesthatyoucreateduringsystemsetup.
Alldirectoriesthatyoucreatefortheservermustbeempty.
Table8.
ValuesneededforpreconfigurationItemDefaultvalueYourvalueDirectorysizeNotesTCP/IPportaddressforcommunicationswiththeserver1500NotapplicableThisvalueisusedwhenyouinstallandconfiguretheoperatingsystemandisassignedbytheBlueprintconfigurationscriptduringconfigurationoftheserver.
Ifyouwanttouseavalueotherthanthedefault,youcanspecifyanumberintherange1024-32767.
DirectoryfortheserverinstanceC:\tsminst150GBIfyouchangethevaluefortheserverinstancedirectoryfromthedefault,modifytheIBMDb2instanceownerIDinTable9onpage11aswell.
DriveforserverinstallationC:30GBThedirectorysizevalueistheminimumavailablespacethatyoumusthave.
ForinformationaboutsystemrequirementsonWindowsoperatingsystems,seetechnote1064234.
DirectoryfortheactivelogC:\tsminst1\TSMalogSmallandmedium:140GBLarge:300GBDirectoryforthearchivelogC:\tsminst1\TSMarchlogSmall:1TBMedium:2TBLarge:4TBDirectoriesforthedatabaseC:\tsminst1\TSMdbspace00C:\tsminst1\TSMdbspace01C:\tsminst1\TSMdbspace02andsoon.
Minimumtotalspaceforalldirectories:Small:Atleast1TBMedium:Atleast2TBLarge:Atleast4TBCreateaminimumnumberoffilesystemsforthedatabase,dependingonthesizeofyoursystem:Small:Atleast4filesystemsMedium:Atleast4filesystemsLarge:Atleast8filesystemsDirectoriesforstorageC:\tsminst1\TSMfile00C:\tsminst1\TSMfile01C:\tsminst1\TSMfile02C:\tsminst1\TSMfile03andsoon.
Minimumtotalspaceforalldirectories:Small:Atleast38TBMedium:Atleast180TBLarge:Atleast500TBCreateaminimumnumberoffilesystemsforstorage,dependingonthesizeofyoursystem:Small:Atleast2filesystemsMedium:Atleast10filesystemsLarge:Atleast30filesystems10IBMSpectrumProtect:BlueprintandServerAutomatedConfigurationforWindowsTable8.
Valuesneededforpreconfiguration(continued)ItemDefaultvalueYourvalueDirectorysizeNotesDirectoriesfordatabasebackupC:\tsminst1\TSMbkup00C:\tsminst1\TSMbkup01C:\tsminst1\TSMbkup02C:\tsminst1\TSMbkup03andsoon.
Minimumtotalspaceforalldirectories:Small:Atleast3TBMedium:Atleast10TBLarge:Atleast16TBCreateaminimumnumberoffilesystemsforbackingupthedatabase,dependingonthesizeofyoursystem:Small:Atleast2filesystemsMedium:Atleast3filesystemsLarge:Atleast3filesystemsThefirstdatabasebackupdirectoryisalsousedforthearchivelogfailoverdirectoryandasecondcopyofthevolumehistoryanddeviceconfigurationfiles.
UseTable9onpage11whenyouruntheBlueprintconfigurationscripttoconfiguretheserver.
Thepreferredmethodistousethedefaultvalues,exceptwherenoted.
Table9.
ValuesneededfortheserverconfigurationItemDefaultvalueYourvalueNotesDb2instanceownerIDtsminst1IfyouchangedthevaluefortheserverinstancedirectoryinTable8onpage10fromthedefault,modifythevaluefortheDb2instanceownerIDaswell.
Db2instanceownerpasswordpAssW0rdThepreferredmethodistoselectadifferentvaluefortheinstanceownerpasswordthanthedefault.
Ensurethatyourecordthisvalueinasecurelocation.
ServernameThedefaultvaluefortheservernameisthesystemhostname.
Serverpasswordpassw0rdThepreferredmethodistoselectadifferentvaluefortheserverpasswordthanthedefault.
Ensurethatyourecordthisvalueinasecurelocation.
AdministratorID(userIDfortheserverinstance)adminAdministratorIDpasswordpassw0rdThepreferredmethodistoselectadifferentvaluefortheadministratorpasswordthanthedefault.
Ensurethatyourecordthisvalueinasecurelocation.
Schedulestarttime22:00Thedefaultschedulestarttimebeginstheclientworkloadphase,whichispredominantlytheclientbackupandarchiveactivities.
Duringtheclientworkloadphase,serverresourcessupportclientoperations.
Theseoperationsareusuallycompletedduringthenightlyschedulewindow.
Schedulesforservermaintenanceoperationsaredefinedtobegin10hoursafterthestartoftheclientbackupwindow.
Chapter2.
Implementationrequirements1112IBMSpectrumProtect:BlueprintandServerAutomatedConfigurationforWindowsChapter3.
StorageconfigurationblueprintsAfteryouacquirehardwareforthescaleofserverthatyouwanttobuild,youmustprepareyourstoragetobeusedwithIBMSpectrumProtect.
Configurationblueprintsprovidedetailedspecificationsforstoragelayout.
Usethemasamapwhenyousetupandconfigureyourhardware.
Specificationsin"Hardwarerequirements"onpage5andthedefaultvaluesinthe"Planningworksheets"onpage9wereusedtoconstructtheblueprintsforsmall,medium,andlargesystems.
Ifyoudeviatefromthosespecifications,youmustaccountforanychangeswhenyouconfigureyourstorage.
Note:TheIBMFlashSystemconfigurationsimplementfully-allocatedvolumesthatdonotusehardwaredatareductiontechniquesincludingcompressionanddeduplication.
TheIBMSpectrumProtectsoftwarewillperformthedatareduction,andredundantlyperformingthesetasksinthestoragesystemwillresultinperformanceproblems.
DistributedarraysYoucanusethedistributedarraysfeaturewithNL-SASdrivestoachievefasterdriverebuildtimesincaseofadiskfailure.
FlashSystemdistributedarrays,whichcontain4-128drives,alsocontainrebuildareasthatareusedtomaintainredundancyafteradrivefails.
Thedistributedconfigurationcanreducerebuildtimesanddecreasetheexposureofvolumestotheextraworkloadofrecoveringredundancy.
Ifyouplantousethe92-driveFlashSystemexpansions,thepreferredmethodistocreatetwo46-drivedistributedRAID6arraysperexpansion.
Ifyouareusingadisksystemthatdoesnotsupportdistributedarrays,youmustusetraditionalstoragearrays.
Forinstructionsaboutconfiguringtraditionalstoragearrays,seetheBlueprintandServerAutomatedConfiguration,Version2Release3guideforyouroperatingsystemattheIBMSpectrumProtectBlueprintswebsite.
Tip:Earlierversionsoftheblueprintsareavailableatthebottomoftheblueprintwebpage.
FlashSystemlayoutrequirementsAmanageddisk,orMDisk,isalogicalunitofphysicalstorage.
Intheblueprintconfigurations,MDisksareinternal-storageRAIDarraysandconsistofmultiplephysicaldisksthatarepresentedaslogicalvolumestothesystem.
Whenyouconfigurethedisksystem,youwillcreateMDiskgroups,ordatastoragepools,andthencreateMDiskarraysinthegroups.
ThemediumandlargeblueprintconfigurationsincludemorethanoneMDiskdistributedarrayandcombinetheMDiskstogetherintoasingleMDiskgrouporstoragepool.
Inpreviousblueprintversions,aone-to-onemappingexistsbetweenMDisksandMDiskgroups.
Sharingacommonstoragepoolformultiplearraysisnotrequiredfordisksystemswhichdonotsupportthisorforconfigurationsthatwereimplementedtotheearlierblueprintdesign.
Volumes,orLUNs,belongtooneMDiskgroupandoneI/Ogroup.
TheMDiskgroupdefineswhichMDisksprovidethestoragethatmakesupthevolume.
TheI/OgroupdefineswhichnodesprovideI/Oaccesstothevolume.
Whenyoucreatevolumes,makethemfullyallocated.
ForIBMFlashSystemhardware,selectthegenericvolumetypewhenyoucreatevolumes.
Table10onpage13andTable11onpage14describethelayoutrequirementsforMDiskandvolumeconfigurationinthestorageblueprints.
Table10.
ComponentsofMDiskconfigurationComponentDetailsServerstoragerequirementHowthestorageisusedbytheIBMSpectrumProtectserver.
DisktypeSizeandspeedforthedisktypethatisusedforthestoragerequirement.
DiskquantityNumberofeachdisktypethatisneededforthestoragerequirement.
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ComponentsofMDiskconfiguration(continued)ComponentDetailsHotsparecoverageNumberofdisksthatarereservedassparestotakeoverincaseofdiskfailure.
Fordistributedarraysthisrepresentsthenumberofrebuildareas.
RAIDtypeTypeofRAIDarraythatisusedforlogicalstorage.
RAIDarrayquantityandDDMperarrayNumberofRAIDarraystobecreated,andhowmanydiskdrivemodules(DDMs)aretobeusedineachofthearrays.
UsablesizeSizethatisavailablefordatastorageafteraccountingforspacethatislosttoRAIDarrayredundancy.
SuggestedMDisknamesPreferrednametouseforMDisksandMDiskgroups.
UsageIBMSpectrumProtectservercomponentthatusespartofthephysicaldisk.
Table11.
Componentsofvolume(LUN)configurationComponentDetailsServerstoragerequirementRequirementforwhichthephysicaldiskisused.
VolumenameUniquenamethatisgiventoaspecificvolume.
QuantityNumberofvolumestocreateforaspecificrequirement.
Usethesamenamingstandardforeachvolumethatiscreatedforthesamerequirement.
UsesMDiskgroupThenameoftheMDiskgroupfromwhichthespaceisobtainedtocreatethevolume.
SizeThesizeofeachvolume.
IntendedservermountpointThedirectoryontheIBMSpectrumProtectserversystemwherethevolumeismounted.
IfyouplantousedirectoriesotherthanthedefaultsthatareconfiguredbytheBlueprintconfigurationscript,youmustalsousethosedirectoryvalueswhenyouconfigureyourhardware.
Inthiscase,donotusethevaluesthatarespecifiedintheblueprints.
UsageIBMSpectrumProtectservercomponentthatusespartofthephysicaldisk.
SmallconfigurationAsmall-scalesystemisbasedonIBMFlashSystem5010storage.
OnedualcontrolenclosureandtwoexpansionenclosurescontainIBMSpectrumProtectdata.
LogicallayoutFigure2onpage15showsthesmallsystemlayoutandhowserverandstoragehardwareisconnectedtoclients.
AsingleclusterandI/Ogroupareusedinthisconfiguration.
Thesmallsystemconfigurationwastestedwith8GbFibreChannelconnectionsmadedirectlyfromthehosttotheFlashSystem5010systemwithoutaSANswitch.
14IBMSpectrumProtect:BlueprintandServerAutomatedConfigurationforWindowsFigure2.
LogicallayoutforasmallsystemStorageconfigurationTable12onpage15andTable13onpage15showthedetailedlayoutforeachIBMSpectrumProtectstoragerequirementonasmallsystem.
Table12.
MDiskconfigurationServerstoragerequirementDisktypeDiskquantityHotsparecoverageRAIDtypeRAIDarrayquantityUsablesizeSuggestedMDiskgroupandarraynamesUsageDatabase800GBSSD41rebuildareas=1DRAID5114DDM1.
45TBdb_grp0db_array0DatabasecontainerStoragepool4TB7.
2krpmNL-SASHDD24rebuildareas=1DRAID62124DDM67TBstgpool_grp0stgpool_array0Storagepool1.
DistributedRAID5,stripewidth=3,rebuildareas=1.
2.
DistributedRAID6,stripewidth=12,rebuildareas=1.
Table13.
FullyallocatedvolumeconfigurationServerstoragerequirementVolumenameQuantityUsesMDiskgroupSizeIntendedservermountpointUsageDatabasedb_00-db_034db_grp0335.
25GBeachC:\tsminst1\TSMdbspace00C:\tsminst1\TSMdbspace01C:\tsminst1\TSMdbspace02C:\tsminst1\TSMdbspace03Databasecontaineralog1db_grp0145.
25GBC:\tsminst1\TSMalogActivelogarchlog1stgpool_grp01.
19TBC:\tsminst1\TSMarchlogArchivelogbackup_0-backup_12stgpool_grp03.
15TBeachC:\tsminst1\TSMbkup00C:\tsminst1\TSMbkup01DatabasebackupChapter3.
Storageconfigurationblueprints15Table13.
Fullyallocatedvolumeconfiguration(continued)ServerstoragerequirementVolumenameQuantityUsesMDiskgroupSizeIntendedservermountpointUsageStoragepoolfilepool_00-filepool_034stgpool_grp015.
12TBeachC:\tsminst1\TSMfile00C:\tsminst1\TSMfile01C:\tsminst1TSMfile02C:\tsminst1\TSMfile03IBMSpectrumProtectfilesystemsforadirectory-containerstoragepoolMediumconfigurationAmedium-scalesystemisbasedonIBMFlashSystem5030hardware.
OnedualcontrolenclosureandonelargecapacityexpansionenclosurecontainIBMSpectrumProtectdata.
LogicallayoutFigure3onpage16showsthemediumsystemlayoutandhowserverandstoragehardwareisconnectedtoclients.
AsingleclusterandI/Ogroupareused.
ThemediumsystemconfigurationwastestedbyusingaSANswitchwith16GbFibreChannelconnectionsandtwobonded10GbEthernetconnections.
ThetablesshowmultipledistributedarraysthataremembersofthesameFlashSystemstoragepool.
Alternatively,youcancreatesplitthearraysintoseparatestoragepools.
Figure3.
LogicallayoutforamediumsystemStorageconfigurationTable14onpage17andTable15onpage17showthedetailedlayoutsforMDiskandvolumeconfigurationsonamediumsystem.
ThefollowingarrayconfigurationrequiresthedefaultFlashSystemmemoryallocationforRAIDtobeincreased,asdescribedinStep"2"onpage56.
16IBMSpectrumProtect:BlueprintandServerAutomatedConfigurationforWindowsTable14.
MDiskconfigurationServerstoragerequirementDisktypeDiskquantityHotsparecoverageRAIDtypeRAIDarrayquantityUsablesizeSuggestedMDiskgroupandarraynamesUsageDatabase1.
92TBSSD61rebuild-areas=1DRAID6116DDM5.
16TBdb_grp0db_array0DatabaseandactivelogStoragepool6TBNL-SAS924rebuild-areas=2DRAID62246DDMeach197.
91TBeachstgpool_grp0stgpool_array0andstgpool_array1Storagepool,archivelog,anddatabasebackups1.
DistributedRAID6,stripewidth=5,rebuildareas=1.
2.
DistributedRAID6,stripewidth=12,rebuildareas=2.
Table15.
FullyallocatedvolumeconfigurationServerstoragerequirementVolumenameQuantityUsesMDiskgroupSizeIntendedservermountpointUsageDatabasedb_00db_01db_02db_03db_04db_05db_06db_078db_grp0642.
1GBeachc:\tsminst1\TSMdbspace00c:\tsminst1\TSMdbspace01c:\tsminst1\TSMdbspace02c:\tsminst1\TSMdbspace03c:\tsminst1\TSMdbspace04c:\tsminst1\TSMdbspace05c:\tsminst1\TSMdbspace06c:\tsminst1\TSMdbspace07Databasealog1db_grp0147GBc:\tsminst1\TSMalogActivelogarchlog_001stgpool_grp02TBc:\tsminst1\TSMarchlogArchivelogbackup_00backup_01backup_023stgpool_grp015TBeachc:\tsminst1\TSMbkup00c:\tsminst1\TSMbkup01c:\tsminst1\TSMbkup02DatabasebackupStoragepoolfilepool00-filepool1112stgpool_grp029.
22TBeachEvennumberedc:\tsminst1\TSMfile00c:\tsminst1\TSMfile02.
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c:\tsminst1\TSMfile11IBMSpectrumProtectfilesystemsforadirectory-containerstoragepoolLargeconfigurationAlarge-scalesystemisbasedonIBMFlashSystem5100hardware.
Onecontrollerwithtwohigh-densityexpansionscontainsthedata.
TheFlashSystem5030isanacceptablesubstituteforalargeblueprintsystem.
LogicallayoutFigure4onpage18showsthelargesystemlayoutandhowserverandstoragehardwareisconnectedtoclients.
TestingforthelargesystemconfigurationwascompletedbyusingaSANswitchwithtwo16GbFibreChannelconnectionsandfourbonded10GbEthernetconnections.
Chapter3.
Storageconfigurationblueprints17ThetablesshowmultipledistributedarraysthataremembersofthesameFlashSystemstoragepool.
Alternatively,youcancreatesplitthearraysintoseparatestoragepools.
Figure4.
LogicallayoutforalargesystemStorageconfigurationTable16onpage18andTable17onpage18showthedetailedlayoutsforMDiskandvolumeconfigurationsonalargesystem.
Toallocatearraysacross15expansions,thememorythatisavailableforRAIDsmustbeincreasedto125MB,asdescribedinStep"2"onpage56.
Table16.
MDiskconfigurationServerstoragerequirementDisktypeDiskquantityHotsparecoverageRAIDtypeRAIDarrayquantityUsablesizeSuggestedMDiskgroupandarraynamesUsageDatabase1.
92TBSSD81rebuildareas=1DRAID6118DDM8.
64TBdb_grp0db_array0DatabasecontainerandactivelogStoragepool,archivelog,anddatabasebackup8TBNL-SAS1848rebuildareas=2DRAID62446DDMeach265.
44TBeachstgpool_grp0stgpool_array0stgpool_array1stgpool_array2stgpool_array3Storagepool1.
DistributedRAID6,stripewidth=7,rebuildareas=1.
2.
DistributedRAID6,stripewidth=12,rebuildareas=2.
Table17.
FullyallocatedvolumeconfigurationServerstoragerequirementVolumenameQuantityUsesMDiskgroupSizeIntendedservermountpointUsageDatabasedb_00-db_1112db_grp0710GBeachC:\tsminst1\TSMdbspace00-C:\tsminst1\TSMdbspace11Databasealog1db_grp0300GBC:\tsminst1\TSMalogActivelogarchlog1stgpool_grp04TBC:\tsminst1\TSMarchlogArchivelogbackup_00backup_01backup_023stgpool_grp018TBeachC:\tsminst1\TSMbkup00C:\tsminst1\TSMbkup01C:\tsminst1\TSMbkup02Databasebackup18IBMSpectrumProtect:BlueprintandServerAutomatedConfigurationforWindowsTable17.
Fullyallocatedvolumeconfiguration(continued)ServerstoragerequirementVolumenameQuantityUsesMDiskgroupSizeIntendedservermountpointUsageStoragepoolfilepool_00-filepool_3132stgpool_grp031.
33TBeachC:\tsminst1\TSMfile00C:\tsminst1\TSMfile01.
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C:\tsminst1\TSMfile31IBMSpectrumProtectfilesystemsforadirectory-containerstoragepoolChapter3.
Storageconfigurationblueprints1920IBMSpectrumProtect:BlueprintandServerAutomatedConfigurationforWindowsChapter4.
SettingupthesystemYoumustsetuphardwareandpreconfigurethesystembeforeyouruntheIBMSpectrumProtectBlueprintconfigurationscript.
Procedure1.
Configureyourstoragehardwareaccordingtotheblueprintspecificationsandmanufacturerinstructions.
Followtheinstructionsin"Step1:Setupandconfigurehardware"onpage21.
2.
InstalltheWindowsoperatingsystemontheserver.
Followtheinstructionsin"Step2:Installtheoperatingsystem"onpage23.
3.
ConfiguremultipathI/Ofordiskstoragedevices.
Followtheinstructionsin"Step3:ConfiguremultipathI/O"onpage24.
4.
PreparefilesystemsforIBMSpectrumProtect.
Followtheinstructionsin"Step4:ConfigurefilesystemsforIBMSpectrumProtect"onpage24.
5.
TestsystemperformancewiththeIBMSpectrumProtectworkloadsimulationtool,tsmdiskperf.
pl.
Followtheinstructionsin"Step5:Testsystemperformance"onpage26.
6.
InstalltheIBMSpectrumProtectbackup-archiveclient.
Followtheinstructionsin"Step6:InstalltheIBMSpectrumProtectbackup-archiveclient"onpage29.
7.
InstalltheIBMSpectrumProtectlicenseandserver.
Followtheinstructionsin"Step7:InstalltheIBMSpectrumProtectserver"onpage30.
Step1:SetupandconfigurehardwareSetupandconfigurestoragehardwarebyusingtheblueprintspecificationsandhardwaredocumentation.
Procedure1.
Connectyourhardwareaccordingtomanufacturerinstructions.
Foroptimalsystemperformance,useatleast8GbSANfabricforconnections.
IfyouareusingaSANswitch,ensurethatitiscapableof8or16Gbconnectionspeeds.
ForserverSANcablingwith8Gbports,usebothFibreChannelconnectionportsinthedual-portadapteronsmallandmediumsystemsforoptimalthroughput.
Useallfourportsinthetwodual-portadaptersonlargesystems.
ForserverSANcablingwith16Gbports,usebothFibreChannelconnectionportsinthedual-portadapter.
AllconfigurationsshouldsupportaFibreChannelconnectiondirectlytostorageortoaSANswitch.
ForstoragesubsystemSANcabling,connectatleastfourcablestoeachstoragedevice.
2.
CheckforsystemBIOSupdatesfromtheservervendorandapplyanysuggestedchanges.
3.
Configurethedisksystem.
ToconfigureaIBMFlashSystemdisksystem,completethefollowingsteps.
Tips:ForinformationaboutusingthecommandlinetocompleteStepsc-e,seeAppendixB,"Configuringthedisksystembyusingcommands,"onpage53.
Small,medium,andlargesystemsweretestedbyusingIBMFlashSystemsoftwarelevel8.
2.
1.
8.
a)Configurelicensedfunctionsbyfollowingtheinstructionsinyourhardwaredocumentation.
b)Setupdisksinenclosuresaccordingtothemanufacturerinstructionsforthesizeofsystemthatyouarebuilding.
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2014,202021c)CreateRAIDsandLUNs,orvolumes.
Forinformationaboutstorageconfigurationlayout,seethestorageblueprints:"Smallconfiguration"onpage14"Mediumconfiguration"onpage16"Largeconfiguration"onpage17d)DefinetheIBMSpectrumProtectserverasahosttothedisksystem.
e)AssignormapallofthevolumesthatwerecreatedinStep2ctothenewhost.
ToobtaintheFibreChannelworldwideportname(WWPN)tousefortheIBMFlashSystemhostmapping,openaMicrosoftWindowsPowerShellcommandpromptandissuethefollowingcommand:Get-InitiatorPortIfyourhostisunabletoseeanydevicesformthestoragesystemitmaybenecessarytodisablevirtualizationononemoreofthehostportsontheIBMFlashSystem.
4.
IfyouattachIBMFlashSystemandIBMSpectrumProtectserverstoaSANfabric,createzonestoensurethatspecificFibreChannelportsontheIBMSpectrumProtectservercancommunicatewithspecificIBMFlashSystemhostports.
Duringtesting,thefollowingguidelineswerefollowed:a.
AseparatezonewascreatedforeachFibreChannelportontheIBMSpectrumProtectserversothateachzonecontainednomorethanoneserverport.
b.
EachzonecontainedoneIBMFlashSystemhostportfromeachnodecanister.
Beforeyoucreatezones,reviewthefollowingexamplesformediumandlargesystems.
Theexamplesareappropriateforasinglefabricenvironmentinwhichthehostanddisksubsystemsareattachedtoasingleswitch.
Mediumsystema.
OntheIBMSpectrumProtectserver,bothFibreChannelportsonthedualportFibreChanneladapterarecabledandarereferredtoasha1p1andha1p2.
b.
TwoofthehostportsontheIBMFlashSystemserverarecabled(onefromeachnodecanister)andarereferredtoasn1p1andn2p1.
c.
Twozonesarecreatedwiththefollowingmembers:zone1:ha1p1,n1p1,n2p1zone2:ha1p2,n1p1,n2p1Largesystema.
OntheIBMSpectrumProtectserver,allfourFibreChannelportsacrossthetwodualportadaptersarecabled.
Theportsarereferredtoasha1p1,ha1p2,ha2p1,andha2p2.
b.
FourofthehostportsontheIBMFlashSystemserverarecabled(twofromeachnodecanister)andarereferredtoasn1p1,n1p2,n2p1,andn2p2.
c.
Fourzonesarecreatedwiththefollowingmembers:zone1:ha1p1,n1p1,n2p1zone2:ha1p2,n1p2,n2p2zone3:ha2p1,n1p1,n2p1zone4:ha2p2,n1p2,n2p2Foradditionalguidelinesaboutachievingoptimalperformanceandredundancy,seetheSANconfigurationandzoningrulessummaryinIBMKnowledgeCenter.
22IBMSpectrumProtect:BlueprintandServerAutomatedConfigurationforWindowsStep2:InstalltheoperatingsystemInstallMicrosoftWindowsServer2016StandardEditionontheserversystemandpreparethesystemforinstallationandconfigurationoftheIBMSpectrumProtectserver.
BeforeyoubeginTheoperatingsystemisinstalledoninternalharddiskdrives.
ConfigurethedrivesbyusingahardwareRAID1schema.
Forexample,ifyouareconfiguringalargesystem,configurethethree300GBinternaldrivesbyassigningtwodrivestoaRAID1pairandthethirddriveasaspare.
Ifaspareisnotneededtomeetbusinessrequirements,youcanconfigurethesystemwithonlytwodrives.
Procedure1.
InstallWindowsServer2016StandardEdition,accordingtothemanufacturerinstructions.
2.
ChangetheWindowsaccountcontrolpoliciesbycompletingthefollowingsteps.
a)OpentheLocalSecurityPolicyeditorbyrunningsecpol.
msc.
b)ClickLocalPolicies>SecurityOptionsandensurethatthefollowingUserAccountControlpoliciesaredisabled:AdminApprovalModefortheBuilt-inAdministratoraccountRunalladministratorsinAdminApprovalMode3.
ConfigureyourTCP/IPsettingsaccordingtoinstallationinstructionsfortheoperatingsystem.
4.
ApplyWindowsupdatesandenableoptionalfeaturesbycompletingthefollowingsteps:a)ApplythelatestWindowsServer2016updates.
b)InstallandenabletheWindows2012R2featureMicrosoft.
NETFramework3.
5fromtheWindowsServerManager.
c)Ifrequired,updatetheFCandEthernetHBAdevicedriverstonewerlevels.
d)InstallthemultipathI/Odriverthatisappropriateforthedisksystemthatyouareusing.
TheIBMSubsystemDeviceDriver(SDD)versionSDDDSM_x64_2530_121418wasusedfortesting.
e)Installa64-bitPerlinterpreter,whichisrequiredforthediskperformanceandIBMSpectrumProtectblueprintconfiguration.
Forexample,youcaninstallActivePerlfromActiveState.
5.
OpenaTCP/IPportforcommunicationswiththeIBMSpectrumProtectserver.
Tousethedefaultportaddress,openport1500intheWindowsfirewall.
Forexample,issuethefollowingcommand:netshadvfirewallfirewalladdrulename="TSMserverport1500"dir=inaction=allowprotocol=TCPlocalport=1500Ifyouwanttouseaportotherthanthedefault,youcanspecifyanumberintherange1024-32767.
Ifyouopenaportotherthanthedefault,youmustspecifythatportwhenyouruntheconfigurationscript.
6.
Optional:IfyouplantousethissystemasanIBMSpectrumProtectOperationsCenterhub,openthedefaultportforsecure(https)communications.
Theportnumberis11090.
Forexample,issuethefollowingcommand:netshadvfirewallfirewalladdrulename="TSMOperationsCenterport11090"dir=inaction=allowprotocol=TCPlocalport=11090Chapter4.
Settingupthesystem23Step3:ConfiguremultipathI/OEnableandconfiguremultipathingfordiskstorage.
Procedure1.
EnsurethattheMultipathI/Ofeatureisinstalled.
Ifneeded,installadditionalvendor-specificmultipathdrivers.
2.
ToverifythatdisksarevisibletotheoperatingsystemandaremanagedbymultipathI/O,issuethefollowingcommand:c:\programfiles\IBM\SDDDSM\datapath.
exequerydevice3.
Reviewthemultipathoutputandensurethateachdeviceislistedandthatithasasmanypathsasyouexpect.
Youcanusesizeanddeviceserialinformationtoidentifywhichdisksarelisted.
Forexample,byusingpartofthelongdeviceserialnumber(34,inthisexample)youcansearchforthevolumeonthedisk-systemmanagementinterface.
The2TBsizeconfirmsthatthediskcorrespondstoastoragepoolfilesystem.
DEV#:4DEVICENAME:Disk5Part0TYPE:2145POLICY:OPTIMIZEDSERIAL:60050763008101057800000000000034LUNSIZE:2.
0TBPath#Adapter/HardDiskStateModeSelectErrors0ScsiPort2Bus0/Disk5Part0OPENNORMAL001ScsiPort2Bus0/Disk5Part0OPENNORMAL2717602ScsiPort3Bus0/Disk5Part0OPENNORMAL2849403ScsiPort3Bus0/Disk5Part0OPENNORMAL004.
CreatealistofdiskdeviceIDsbyusingtheserialnumbersthatarereturnedfromthemultipathoutputinthepreviousstep.
Forexample,thedeviceIDforyour2TBdiskis60050763008101057800000000000034SavethelistofdeviceIDstouseinthenextstep.
5.
Tobringnewdisksonlineandcleartheread-onlyattribute,rundiskpart.
exewiththefollowingcommands.
Repeatforeachofthedisks:diskpartselectDisk1onlinediskattributediskclearreadonlyselectDisk2onlinediskattributediskclearreadonlyselectDisk49onlinediskattributediskclearreadonlyexitStep4:ConfigurefilesystemsforIBMSpectrumProtectYoucanusethestoragepreparationscripttoautomatefilesystemconfigurationoryoucancompletetheprocessbyusingmanualsteps.
AboutthistaskYoumustformatNTFSfilesystemsoneachofthediskLUNsthattheIBMSpectrumProtectserverwilluse.
Completethestepsinoneofthefollowingsections.
24IBMSpectrumProtect:BlueprintandServerAutomatedConfigurationforWindowsConfigureafilesystembyusingthescriptTousetheconfigurationscript,storage_prep_win.
pl,extracttheBlueprintconfigurationscriptpackageandthenrunthescript.
Procedure1.
Openacommandpromptandchangetothedirectorywhereyoudownloadedthetsmconfig_v42.
zipfile.
2.
FromtheWindowsExplorer,right-clickthetsmconfig_v42.
zipfileandselectExtractAlltoextractallfolders.
Theprocesscreatesadirectorythatiscalledtsmconfig.
Thisdirectorycontainsthestoragepreparationscript,theworkloadsimulationtool,andtheBlueprintconfigurationscript.
3.
Changetothetsmconfigdirectorybyissuingthefollowingcommand:cdtsmconfig4.
RunthePerlscriptandspecifythesizeofsystemthatyouareconfiguring.
Forexample,foramediumsystem,issuethefollowingcommand:perlstorage_prep_win.
plmediumIfyoudidnotmapthediskstothehostaccordingtothespecificationsin"Step3:ConfiguremultipathI/O"onpage24,thescriptrequirescustomization.
5.
Afterthescriptfinishes,verifythatfilesystemsaremountedatthecorrectLUNandmountpoint.
Listallfilesystemsbyissuingthemountvolcommandandthenreviewtheoutput.
Forexample:\\\Volume{8ffb9678-3216-474c-a021-20e420816a92}\C:\tsminst1\TSMdbspace00\YoucanconfirmtheamountoffreespaceforeachvolumebyusingWindowsExplorer.
6.
Afterthediskconfigurationiscomplete,restartthesystem.
ConfigurebyusingthemanualprocedureYoucanpreparefilesystemsmanuallybyusingcommands.
Procedure1.
CreatemountpointdirectoriesforIBMSpectrumProtectfilesystems.
Issuethemdcommandforeachdirectorythatyoumustcreate.
Usethedirectoryvaluesthatyourecordedinthe"Planningworksheets"onpage9.
Forexample,tocreatetheserverinstancedirectorybyusingthedefaultvalue,issuethefollowingcommand:mdc:\tsminst1Repeatthemdcommandforeachfilesystem.
Ifyoudonotusethedefaultpathsforyourdirectories,youmustmanuallylistdirectorypathsduringconfigurationoftheIBMSpectrumProtectserver.
2.
CreateavolumeforeverydiskLUNthatismappedtoadirectoryundertheserverinstancedirectory.
TousetheWindowsvolumemanager,clickServerManager>FileandStorageServices.
Youcanalsouseacommandinterfacewiththediskpart.
execommandforthistask.
CompletethefollowingstepsforeachdiskthatcorrespondstotheLUNmappingthatwascreatedinthepreviousstep:a)Bringthediskonline.
b)InitializethedisktotheGPTbasictype,whichisthedefault.
Chapter4.
Settingupthesystem25c)Createasimplevolumethatoccupiesallofthespaceonthedisk.
FormatthefilesystembyusingNTFS,andassignalabelthatmatchesthepurposeofthevolume,suchasTSMfile00.
Donotassignthenewvolumetoadriveletter.
Instead,mapthevolumetoadirectoryundertheinstancedirectory,suchasC:\tsminst1\TSMfile00.
Tip:Determinethevolumelabelanddirectorymappinglabelsbasedonthesizeofthediskthatisreported.
3.
IfyouusedtheWindowsvolumemanagertocreatevolumes,thefilesystemsarealreadyformatted.
Ifyouusedthediskpart.
execommandtocreatethevolumes,youmustseparatelyformateachfilesystembyusingtheformatcommandandthecorrectallocationunitsize.
Forthedatabaseandactivelog,a4Kunitsizeisused.
Forexample:formatc:\tsminst1\TSMfile00/fs:NTFS/v:TSMfile00/A:4096/qForallothertypes,a64Kunitsizeisused.
Forexample:formatc:\tsminst1\TSMfile00/fs:NTFS/v:TSMfile00/A:64K/qTip:Formattingmighttakemuchlongerthanexpectedonsomedisksystemsbecauseoftheimplementationofdeletionnotifications.
Totemporarilydisabledeletionnotifications,youcanissuethefollowingcommandbeforeyouformatthefilesystem:fsutilbehaviorsetDisableDeleteNotify1Afteryouformatthefilesystem,tore-enabledeletionnotifications,youcanissuethefollowingcommand:fsutilbehaviorsetDisableDeleteNotify04.
VerifythatfilesystemsaremountedatthecorrectLUNandcorrectmountpoint.
Listallfilesystemsbyissuingthemountvolcommandandthenreviewtheoutput.
Forexample:\\\Volume{8ffb9678-3216-474c-a021-20e420816a92}\C:\tsminst1\TSMdbspace00\5.
Afterthediskconfigurationiscomplete,restartthesystem.
WhattodonextYoucanconfirmtheamountoffreespaceforeachvolumebyusingWindowsExplorer.
Step5:TestsystemperformanceBeforeyouinstalltheIBMSpectrumProtectserverandclient,usetheworkloadsimulationtool,tsmdiskperf.
pl,toidentifyperformanceissueswithyourhardwaresetupandconfiguration.
AboutthistaskTheIBMSpectrumProtectworkloadsimulationtoolcantesttheperformanceoftheIBMSpectrumProtectserverdatabaseandstoragepooldisks.
Thetool,whichisaPerlscript,usesaprogramthatiscalledwdeedee.
exethatissimilartotheUNIXddcommand.
Thewdeedee.
exeprogramisincludedintheBlueprintconfigurationscriptpackage,andrunsanon-destructiveworkloadonthesystem.
UsetheWindowstypeperf.
execommandtomonitortheworkload.
Sampledatafromthetypeperf.
execommandisextractedforthespecificdisksthatwereinvolvedinthetest.
Then,peakandaveragemeasurementsforinput/outputoperationspersecond(IOPS)andthroughputarecalculated.
Thescriptusesthewdeedee.
exeprogramacrossmultiplethreadstodrivetheI/ObyusingdirectI/O.
Tips:26IBMSpectrumProtect:BlueprintandServerAutomatedConfigurationforWindowsThetypeperf.
exetoolmonitorsandreportsonallI/Ofortherelateddisks,evenactivitythatisbeingdrivenbyapplicationsotherthantheworkloadtool.
Forthisreason,ensurethatotheractivityisstoppedbeforeyourunthetool.
Newstoragearraysgothroughaninitializationprocess.
Allowthisprocesstoendbeforeyoumeasurediskperformance.
OnStorwizedisksystems,youcanmonitortheinitializationprogressintheRunningTasksview.
Theworkloadsimulationtoolcanrunthefollowingtypesofworkloads:StoragepoolworkloadThestoragepoolworkloadsimulatesIBMSpectrumProtectserver-sidedatadeduplication,inwhichlarge,256KBblock-sizesequentialreadandwriteoperationsareoverlapped.
Thewriteprocesssimulatesincomingbackupswhilethereadoperationsimulatesidentificationofduplicatedata.
Thetoolcreatesareadandwritethreadforeveryfilesystemthatisincludedinthetest,allowingmultiplesessionsandprocessestobestripedacrossmorethanonefilesystem.
YoucanalsosimulateastoragepoolworkloadthatconductsonlyreadI/OoronlywriteI/Ooperations:Simulaterestoreoperationsbyspecifyingthemode=readonlyoption.
Simulatebackupoperationsbyspecifyingthemode=writeonlyoption.
DatabaseworkloadThedatabaseworkloadsimulatesIBMSpectrumProtectdatabasediskaccessinwhichsmall,8KBreadandwriteoperationsareperformedrandomlyacrossthedisk.
Forthisworkload,10GBfilesarepre-createdoneachofthespecifiedfilesystemsandthenreadandwriteoperationsareruntorandomrangeswithinthesefiles.
Multiplethreadsareissuedagainsteachfilesystem,sendingI/Orequestssimultaneously.
Forthedatabaseworkload,configurationstypicallyhaveonefilesystemforeachpoolonthestoragearray.
Includealldatabasefilesystemswhenyouaretestingthedatabaseworkload.
Tousethetooleffectively,experimentwithtestrunsbyincludingdifferentquantitiesoffilesystemsinthesimulationuntiltheperformanceofthesystemdiminishes.
Dependingondiskspeedandthenumberoffilesystemsthatyouaretesting,thetimethatisrequiredtorunthescriptcanbe3-10minutes.
ProcedureTousetheworkloadsimulationtool,completethefollowingsteps:1.
Plantotesteitherthestoragepoolfilesystemsorthedatabasefilesystems.
2.
Collectalistofthefilesystemsthatareassociatedwithyourchosentypeofstorage.
Breakthefilesystemsintogroupsaccordingtowhichpooltheybelongtoonthedisksystem.
Groupingisusedtoensurethatphysicaldisksfromallvolumesonallarraysforthestoragetypeareengagedinthetest.
Toreviewgroupingsforfilesystems,seethevolumeconfigurationtablesinChapter3,"Storageconfigurationblueprints,"onpage13.
3.
Torunthetool,changetothetsmconfigdirectorybyissuingthefollowingcommand:cdtsmconfigIfyoudidnotextracttheBlueprintconfigurationscriptcompressedfiletopreparefilesystemsforIBMSpectrumProtect,followtheinstructionsin"Configureafilesystembyusingthescript"onpage25.
4.
Runaninitialtestoftheworkloadthatincludesonefilesystemofthestoragetypefromeachpoolonthestoragearray.
Forexample,tosimulatetheIBMSpectrumProtectstoragepoolworkloadonamedium-scalesystem,issuethefollowingcommand:perltsmdiskperf.
plworkload=stgpoolfslist=c:\tsminst1\TSMfile00,c:\tsminst1\TSMfile01,c:\tsminst1\TSMfile02,c:\tsminsChapter4.
Settingupthesystem27t1\TSMfile03,c:\tsminst1\TSMfile04,c:\tsminst1\TSMfile05,c:\tsminst1\TSMfile06,c:\tsminst1\TSMfile07Forexample,tosimulatebackupoperations(byusingonlywriteI/O)foranIBMSpectrumProtectstoragepoolworkloadonamedium-scalesystem,issuethefollowingcommand:perltsmdiskperf.
plworkload=stgpoolfslist=c:\tsminst1\TSMfile00,c:\tsminst1\TSMfile01,c:\tsminst1\TSMfile02,c:\tsminst1\TSMfile03,c:\tsminst1\TSMfile04,c:\tsminst1\TSMfile05,c:\tsminst1\TSMfile06,c:\tsminst1\TSMfile07mode=writeonlyTosimulatethedatabaseworkloadonasmall-scalesystemandincludeallfourofthedatabasefilesystems,issuethefollowingcommand:perltsmdiskperf.
plworkload=dbfslist=c:\tsminst1\TSMdbspace00,c:\tsminst1\TSMdbspace01,c:\tsminst1\TSMdbspace02,c:\tsminst1\TSMdbspace03Recordthereportedresultsforeachtestrun.
5.
Ifyouhaveimplementedastorageconfigurationwithmultiplearraysthatarenotcombinedintosinglestoragepool,reruntheprevioustest,butmodifyittoincludeoneadditionalfilesystemfromeachpool.
Forexample,ifyouhavetwopoolsonthearraythatisdedicatedtothestoragepool,yourtestsequencewillincludeacountoffilesystemsat2,4,6,8,10,andsoon.
6.
Continuerepeatingthesetestswhilethereportedperformancemeasurementsimprove.
Whenperformancediminishes,capturetheresultsofthelasttestthatindicatedimprovement.
Usetheseresultsasthemeasurementsforcomparison.
ResultsTheperformanceresultsthatareprovidedwhenyouruntheworkloadsimulationtoolmightnotrepresentthemaximumcapabilitiesofthedisksubsystemthatisbeingtested.
Theintentistoprovidemeasurementsthatcanbecomparedagainstthelabresultsthatarereportedformediumandlargesystems.
Theworkloadsimulationtoolisnotintendedtobeareplacementfordiskperformanceanalysistools.
Instead,youcanuseittospotconfigurationproblemsthataffectperformancebeforeyourunIBMSpectrumProtectworkloadsinaproductionenvironment.
Problemswillbeevidentifthemeasurementsfromtestrunsaresignificantlylowerthanwhatisreportedfortestlabsystems.
IfyouareusinghardwareotherthantheStorwizecomponentsthatareincludedinthisdocument,useyourtestresultsasaroughestimateofhowotherdisktypescomparewiththetestedconfigurations.
ExampleThisexampleshowstheoutputfromastoragepoolworkloadtestonasmallsystem.
Fourfilesystemsareincluded.
Thefollowingcommandisissued:perltsmdiskperf.
plworkload=stgpoolfslist=c:\tsminst1\TSMfile00,c:\tsminst1\TSMfile01,c:\tsminst1\TSMfile02,c:\tsminst1\TSMfile03Theoutputshowsthefollowingresults::IBMSpectrumProtectdiskperformancetest(Programversion4.
2)::Workloadtype:stgpool:Numberoffilesystems:8:Mode:readwrite:Filestowriteperfs:5:Filesize:2GB:28IBMSpectrumProtect:BlueprintandServerAutomatedConfigurationforWindows::BeginningI/Otest.
:Thetestcantakeupwardsoftenminutes,pleasebepatient.
.
.
:StartingwritethreadID:1onfilesystemc:\tsminst1\TSMfile00:StartingreadthreadID:2onfilesystemc:\tsminst1\TSMfile00:StartingwritethreadID:3onfilesystemc:\tsminst1\TSMfile01:StartingreadthreadID:4onfilesystemc:\tsminst1\TSMfile01:StartingwritethreadID:5onfilesystemc:\tsminst1\TSMfile02:StartingreadthreadID:6onfilesystemc:\tsminst1\TSMfile02:StartingwritethreadID:7onfilesystemc:\tsminst1\TSMfile03:StartingreadthreadID:8onfilesystemc:\tsminst1\TSMfile03:Allthreadsarefinished.
Stoppingtypeperfprocesswithid1452SUCCESS:TheprocesswithPID1452hasbeenterminated.
:RESULTS::Devicesreportedonfromoutput::\LogicalDisk(C:\tsminst1\TSMfile00)\*:\LogicalDisk(C:\tsminst1\TSMfile01)\*:\LogicalDisk(C:\tsminst1\TSMfile02)\*:\LogicalDisk(C:\tsminst1\TSMfile03)\*::AverageRThroughput(KB/sec):176579.
84:AverageWThroughput(KB/sec):168082.
13:AvgCombinedThroughput(MB/sec):336.
58:MaxCombinedThroughput(MB/sec):445.
55::AverageIOPS:2025.
07:PeakIOPS:2800.
32at08/05/201514:23:59::Totalelapsedtime(seconds):100WhattodonextCompareyourperformanceresultsagainsttestlabresultsbyreviewingsampleoutputsforstoragepoolanddatabaseworkloadsonbothmediumandlargesystems:Forthestoragepoolworkload,themeasurementforaveragecombinedthroughputinMBpersecondcombinesthereadandwritethroughput.
Thisisthemostusefulvaluewhenyoucompareresults.
Forthedatabaseworkload,thepeakIOPSmeasurementsaddthepeakreadandwriteoperationspersecondforaspecifictimeinterval.
Thisisthemostusefulvaluewhenyoucompareresultsforthedatabaseworkload.
Toreviewthesampleoutputs,seeAppendixA,"Performanceresults,"onpage49.
Step6:InstalltheIBMSpectrumProtectbackup-archiveclientInstalltheIBMSpectrumProtectforWindowsbackup-archiveclientsothattheadministrativecommand-lineclientisavailable.
AboutthistaskInstallthebackup-archiveclientandAPIontheserversystem.
ProcedureInstallthebackup-archiveclientbyfollowingtheinstructionsinInstallingthebackup-archiveclientsinIBMKnowledgeCenter.
Tip:Ifavailable,youcandisplaydifferentversionsofthesametopicbyusingtheversionsmenuatthetopofthepage.
Chapter4.
Settingupthesystem29Step7:InstalltheIBMSpectrumProtectserverBeforeyoucanruntheBlueprintconfigurationscript,youmustinstalltheIBMSpectrumProtectserverandlicense.
AboutthistaskToensurethattheservercanrunontheMicrosoftWindowsServer2016StandardEditionoperatingsystem,youmustinstallIBMSpectrumProtectVersion8.
1.
1orlater.
Totakeadvantageofthelatestproductupdates,installthelatestproductlevel.
Atthetimeofpublication,thelatestavailablelevelwasV8.
1.
9.
BeforeyouinstallIBMSpectrumProtect,reviewthelistofnewfeatures,includinganysecurityenhancements,foryourselectedrelease.
Foranoverview,seeWhat'snewinV8releases.
Forinformationaboutsecurityupdates,seeWhatyoushouldknowaboutsecuritybeforeyouinstallorupgradetheserver.
ObtaintheinstallationpackageYoucanobtaintheIBMSpectrumProtectVersion8.
1.
1orlaterinstallationpackagefromanIBMdownloadsitesuchasPassportAdvantageorIBMFixCentral.
Procedure1.
DownloadtheserverinstallationpackagefromPassportAdvantageorFixCentral.
2.
Forthelatestinformation,updates,andmaintenancefixes,gototheIBMSupportPortalforIBMSpectrumProtect.
3.
Completethefollowingsteps:a)Verifythatyouhaveenoughspacetostoretheinstallationfileswhentheyareextractedfromtheproductpackage.
Seethedownloaddocumentforthespacerequirements:IBMSpectrumProtect:Techdoc4042944IBMSpectrumProtectExtendedEdition:Techdoc4042945b)Changetothedirectorywhereyouplacedtheexecutablefile.
Inthenextstep,thefilesareextractedtothecurrentdirectory.
Thepathmustcontainnomorethan128characters.
Besuretoextracttheinstallationfilestoanemptydirectory.
Donotextractthefilestoadirectorythatcontainspreviouslyextractedfiles,oranyotherfiles.
c)Toextractthefiles,double-clicktheexecutablefile,orenterthefollowingcommandatthecommandprompt:package_namewherepackage_nameislikethisexample:8.
1.
1.
000-IBM-SPSRV-WindowsX64.
exeInstallIBMSpectrumProtectVersion8.
1.
1orlaterInstallIBMSpectrumProtectVersion8.
1.
1orlaterbyusingthecommandlineinconsolemode.
BeforeyoubeginCompletethefollowingsteps:1.
Verifythattheoperatingsystemissettothelanguagethatyourequire.
Bydefault,thelanguageoftheoperatingsystemisthelanguageoftheinstallationwizard.
2.
VerifythattheuserIDthatwillbeusedfortheinstallationhaslocalAdministratorauthority.
30IBMSpectrumProtect:BlueprintandServerAutomatedConfigurationforWindowsProcedure1.
Changetothedirectorywhereyoudownloadedthepackage.
2.
Starttheinstallationwizardinconsolemodebyissuingthefollowingcommand:install.
bat-cOptional:Generatearesponsefileaspartofaconsolemodeinstallation.
Completetheconsolemodeinstallationoptions,andintheSummarywindow,specifyGtogeneratetheresponses.
ResultsIferrorsoccurduringtheinstallationprocess,theerrorsarerecordedinlogfilesthatarestoredintheIBMInstallationManagerlogsdirectory,forexample:C:\ProgramData\IBM\InstallationManager\logsWhattodonextAfteryouinstallIBMSpectrumProtect,andbeforeyoucustomizeitforyouruse,gototheIBMSupportPortalforIBMSpectrumProtect.
ClickDownloaddrivers,firmwareandPTFs(FixCentral)andapplyanyapplicablefixes.
Tip:Formoreinformationaboutinstallation,seeInstallingtheservercomponentsinIBMKnowledgeCenter.
Chapter4.
Settingupthesystem3132IBMSpectrumProtect:BlueprintandServerAutomatedConfigurationforWindowsChapter5.
ConfiguringtheIBMSpectrumProtectserverRuntheBlueprintconfigurationscript,TSMserverconfig.
pl,toconfiguretheIBMSpectrumProtectserver.
BeforeyoubeginYoucanruntheBlueprintconfigurationscriptininteractiveornon-interactivemode.
Ininteractivemode,youprovideresponsesforeachstepinthescriptandacceptdefaultsorentervaluesfortheconfiguration.
Innon-interactivemode,thescriptusesaresponsefilethatcontainsanswerstothescriptprompts.
Torunthescriptinnon-interactivemode,useoneoftheresponsefilesthatareincludedintheblueprintconfigurationcompressedfile.
Forinstructionsabouthowtousearesponsefile,seeAppendixC,"UsingaresponsefilewiththeBlueprintconfigurationscript,"onpage59.
Aspartofthesystemsetupandsoftwareinstallationsteps,updatestosystemenvironmentvariablesaremade.
Inorderforthesechangestotakeeffect,youmustlogoutandlogbackintoWindowsbeforeyouruntheBlueprintconfigurationscripttoconfiguretheserver.
AboutthistaskWhenyoustartthescriptandselectthesizeofserverthatyouwanttoconfigure,thescriptverifiesthefollowinghardwareandsystemconfigurationprerequisites:Sufficientmemoryisavailableforserveroperations.
Processorcorecountmeetsblueprintspecifications.
Allrequiredfilesystemsarecreated.
Theminimumnumberoffilesystemtypesexistandtheminimumleveloffreespaceisavailableineachfilesystem.
Ifallprerequisiteschecksarepassed,thescriptbeginsserverconfiguration.
Thefollowingtasksarecompletedtoconfiguretheserverforoptimalperformance,basedonthescalesizethatyouselect:ADb2databaseinstanceiscreated.
Thedsmserv.
optoptionsfilewithoptimumvaluesiscreated.
Theserverdatabaseisformatted.
AWindowsserviceiscreatedsothattheserverstartsautomaticallyonsystemstart.
Definitionsthatarerequiredfordatabasebackupoperationsarecreated.
Adirectory-containerstoragepoolwithoptimalperformancesettingsfordatadeduplicationisdefined.
Youcanusethe-legacyoptionwiththeblueprintconfigurationscripttoforcethecreationofadeduplicatedstoragepool,whichusesaFILEdeviceclass.
Policydomainsforeachtypeofclientworkloadaredefined.
Schedulesforclientbackuparecreated.
Servermaintenanceschedulesthataresequencedforoptimaldatadeduplicationscalabilityarecreated.
Theclientoptionsfileiscreated.
Theblueprintconfigurationscriptincludesacompressionoptionthatenablescompressionforboththearchiveloganddatabasebackups.
Youcansavesignificantstoragespacebyusingthisoption,buttheamountoftimethatisneededtocompletedatabasebackupsincreases.
Thepreferredmethodistoenabletheoptionifyouareconfiguringasmallblueprintsystembecauselimitedspaceisconfiguredforthearchiveloganddatabasebackups.
CopyrightIBMCorp.
2014,202033Thedefaultsettingforthecompressionoptionisdisabled.
Tip:Donotconfusetheblueprintconfigurationscriptcompressionoptionwithinlinecompressionofdataincontainerstoragepools,whichisenabledbydefaultwithIBMSpectrumProtectV7.
1.
5andlater.
CompletethefollowingstepsastheAdministratortoruntheBlueprintconfigurationscript.
Afteryoucompletethesystemsetup,youmustlogoutandthenlogbackintoWindowsbeforeyouconfiguretheserver.
Procedure1.
Openacommandprompt.
2.
IfyoudidnotextracttheBlueprintconfigurationscriptcompressedfiletopreparefilesystemsforIBMSpectrumProtect,followtheinstructionsin"Configureafilesystembyusingthescript"onpage25.
3.
Changetothetsmconfigdirectorybyissuingthefollowingcommand:cdtsmconfig4.
Runtheconfigurationscriptinoneofthefollowingmodes:Toruntheconfigurationscriptininteractivemodeandenteryourresponsesatthescriptprompts,issuethefollowingcommand:perlTSMserverconfig.
plIfyouwanttoenablecompressionforthearchiveloganddatabasebackupsonasmallsystem,issuethefollowingcommand:perlTSMserverconfig.
pl-compressionDependingonhowyoupreconfiguredthesystem,youcanacceptthedefaultvaluesthatarepresentedbythescript.
Usetheinformationthatyourecordedinthe"Planningworksheets"onpage9asaguide.
Ifyouchangedanyofthedefaultvaluesduringthepreconfigurationstep,manuallyenteryourvaluesatthescriptprompts.
Toruntheconfigurationscriptinnon-interactivemodebyusingaresponsefiletosetconfigurationvalues,specifytheresponsefilewhenyourunthescript.
Forexample:–Tousethedefaultresponsefileforamediumsystem,issuethefollowingcommand:perlTSMserverconfig.
plresponsefilemed_win.
txt–Tousethedefaultresponsefileforasmallsystemandenablecompressionforthearchiveloganddatabasebackups,issuethefollowingcommand:perlTSMserverconfig.
plresponsefilesmall_win.
txt-compressionIfyouencounteraproblemduringtheconfigurationandwanttopausetemporarily,usethequitoption.
Whenyourunthescriptagain,itresumesatthepointthatyoustopped.
Youcanalsoopenotherterminalwindowstocorrectanyissues,andthenreturntoandcontinuethescript.
Whenthescriptfinishessuccessfully,alogfileiscreatedinthecurrentdirectory.
5.
Savethelogfileforfuturereference.
ThelogfileisnamedsetupLog_datestamp.
logwheredatestampisthedatethatyourantheconfigurationscript.
Ifyourunthescriptmorethanonceonthesameday,aversionnumberisappendedtotheendofthenameforeachadditionalversionthatissaved.
Forexample,ifyouranthescriptthreetimesonJuly27,2013,thefollowinglogsarecreated:setupLog_130727.
logsetupLog_130727_1.
logsetupLog_130727_2.
log34IBMSpectrumProtect:BlueprintandServerAutomatedConfigurationforWindowsResultsAfterthescriptfinishes,theserverisreadytouse.
ReviewTable18onpage35andthesetuplogfilefordetailsaboutyoursystemconfiguration.
Table18.
SummaryofconfiguredelementsItemDetailsDb2databaseinstanceTheDb2instanceiscreatedbyusingtheinstanceuserIDandinstancehomedirectory.
Db2instancevariablesthatarerequiredbytheserverareset.
TheDb2-locklistparameterremainsatthedefaultsettingofAutomatic(forautomaticmanagement),whichispreferredforcontainerstoragepools.
Ifyouaredefininganon-containerstoragepool,youcanusethe-locklistparameterwiththeIBMSpectrumProtectblueprintconfigurationscript,TSMserverconfig.
pl,toreverttomanuallysetting-locklistvalues.
IBMSpectrumProtectAPIAnAPItsmdbmgr.
optfileiscreatedwithrequiredparameters.
TheAPIpasswordisset.
ServersettingsTheserverisconfiguredtostartautomaticallywhenthesystemisstarted.
Aninitialsystemleveladministratorisregistered.
Theservernameandpasswordareset.
ThefollowingvaluesarespecifiedforSETcommands:–SETACTLOGRETENTIONissetto90.
–SETEVENTRETENTIONissetto180.
–SETSUMMARYRETENTIONissetto180.
Chapter5.
ConfiguringtheIBMSpectrumProtectserver35Table18.
Summaryofconfiguredelements(continued)ItemDetailsIBMSpectrumProtectserveroptionsfileThedsmserv.
optfileissetwithoptimalparametervaluesforserverscale.
Thefollowingserveroptionsarespecified:ACTIVELOGSIZEissetaccordingtoscalesize:–Smallsystem:131072–Mediumsystem:131072–Largesystem:262144Ifyouenabledcompressionfortheblueprintconfiguration,ARCHLOGCOMPRESSissettoYes.
COMMTIMEOUTissetto3600seconds.
Ifyouareusingthe-legacyoptionfordatadeduplication,DEDUPDELETIONTHREADSissetaccordingtoscalesize:–Smallsystem:8–Mediumsystem:8–Largesystem:12DEDUPREQUIRESBACKUPissettoNO.
DEVCONFIGisspecifiedasdevconf.
dat,whichiswhereabackupcopyofdeviceconfigurationinformationwillbestored.
EXPINTERVALissetto0,sothatexpirationprocessingrunsaccordingtoschedule.
IDLETIMEOUTissetto60minutes.
MAXSESSIONSissetaccordingtoscalesize:–Smallsystem:250maximumsimultaneousclientsessions–Mediumsystem:500maximumsimultaneousclientsessions–Largesystem:1000maximumsimultaneousclientsessionsTheeffectivevaluefortheSETMAXSCHEDSESSIONSoptionis80%ofthevaluethatwasspecifiedfortheMAXSESSIONSoption:–Smallsystem:200sessions–Mediumsystem:400sessions–Largesystem:800sessionsNUMOPENVOLSALLOWEDissetto20openvolumes.
VOLUMEHISTORYisspecifiedasvolhist.
dat,whichiswheretheserverwillstoreabackupcopyofvolumehistoryinformation.
Inadditiontovolhist.
dat,whichwillbestoredintheserverinstancedirectory,asecondvolumehistoryoptionisspecifiedtobestoredinthefirstdatabasebackupdirectoryforredundancy.
IBMSpectrumProtectserveroptionsfile:databasereorganizationoptionsServeroptionsthatarerelatedtodatabasereorganizationarespecifiedinthefollowingsections.
ServersatV7.
1.
1orlater:ALLOWREORGINDEXissettoYES.
ALLOWREORGTABLEissettoYES.
DISABLEREORGINDEXisnotset.
DISABLEREORGTABLEissettoBF_AGGREGATED_BITFILES,BF_BITFILE_EXTENTS,ARCHIVE_OBJECTS,BACKUP_OBJECTSREORGBEGINTIMEissetto12:00.
REORGDURATIONissetto6.
Directory-containerstoragepoolAdirectory-containerstoragepooliscreated,andallofthestoragepoolfilesystemsaredefinedascontainerdirectoriesforthisstoragepool.
ThefollowingparametersaresetintheDEFINESTGPOOLcommand:STGTYPEissettoDIRECTORY.
MAXWRITERSissettoNOLIMIT.
ForserversatV7.
1.
5orlater,compressionisautomaticallyenabledforthestoragepool.
36IBMSpectrumProtect:BlueprintandServerAutomatedConfigurationforWindowsTable18.
Summaryofconfiguredelements(continued)ItemDetailsStoragepoolifthe-legacyoptionisspecifiedAFILEdeviceclassiscreatedandtunedforconfigurationsize:–AllstoragepoolfilesystemsarelistedwiththeDIRECTORYparameterintheDEFINEDEVCLASScommand.
–TheMOUNTLIMITparameterissetto4000forallsizesystems.
–TheMAXCAPparameterissetto50GBforallsizesystems.
Thestoragepooliscreatedwithsettingsthataretunedforconfigurationsize:–Datadeduplicationisenabled.
–ThevalueoftheIDENTIFYPROCESSparameterissetto0sothatduplicateidentificationcanbescheduled.
–Thresholdreclamationisdisabledsothatitcanbescheduled.
–TheMAXSCRATCHparametervalueistunedbasedontheamountofstoragethatisavailableintheFILEstoragepool.
Chapter5.
ConfiguringtheIBMSpectrumProtectserver37Table18.
Summaryofconfiguredelements(continued)ItemDetailsServerschedulesThefollowingservermaintenanceschedulesaredefined:Areplicationscheduleisdefinedtorun10hoursafterthestartofthebackupwindow.
Thisscheduleisinactiveunlessreplicationisenabled.
Then,youmustactivatetheschedule.
Sessionsarebasedonsystemsize:–Smallsystem:20–Mediumsystem:40–Largesystem:60Databasebackupisscheduledtorununtilitiscomplete.
Theschedulestarts14hoursafterthebeginningoftheclientbackupwindow.
AdeviceclassthatisnamedDBBACK_FILEDEViscreatedforthedatabasebackup.
Iftheconfigurationscriptisstartedwiththecompressionoption,theBACKUPDBcommandrunswithcompress=yes.
Thedeviceclassiscreatedtoallowamountlimitof32.
Thefilevolumesizeissetto50GB.
Thedeviceclassdirectoriesincludeallofthedatabasebackupdirectories.
Thenumberofdatabasebackupsessionsisbasedonsystemsize:–Smallsystem:2–Mediumsystem:4–Largesystem:12Inaddition,theSETDBRECOVERYcommandisissued.
Itspecifiesthedeviceclass,thenumberofstreams,andthepasswordfordatabasebackupoperations.
Afterasuccessfuldatabasebackupoperation,theDELETEVOLHISTORYcommandisusedtodeletebackupsthatwerecreatedmorethan4daysprior.
Expirationprocessingisscheduledtorununtilitiscomplete.
Theschedulestarts17hoursafterthebeginningoftheclientbackupwindow.
TheRESOURCEparameterissetaccordingtoscalesizeandtypeofdatadeduplicationstoragepool:Directory-containerstoragepools:–Smallsystem:10–Mediumsystem:30–Largesystem:40Non-containerstoragepools:–Smallsystem:6–Mediumsystem:8–Largesystem:10Ifyouareusingthe-legacyoptionfordatadeduplication,thefollowingschedulesarealsodefined:Duplicateidentificationissetforadurationof12hours.
Theschedulestartsatthebeginningoftheclientbackupwindow.
TheNUMPROCESSparameterissetaccordingtoscalesize:–Smallsystem:12–Mediumsystem:16–Largesystem:32Reclamationprocessingissetforadurationof8hours.
Thereclamationthresholdis25%.
Theschedulestarts14hoursafterthebeginningoftheclientbackupwindow.
TheRECLAIMPROCESSparameterissetaspartofthestoragepooldefinition,accordingtoscalesize:–Smallsystem:10–Mediumsystem:20–Largesystem:3238IBMSpectrumProtect:BlueprintandServerAutomatedConfigurationforWindowsTable18.
Summaryofconfiguredelements(continued)ItemDetailsPolicydomainsThefollowingpolicydomainsarecreated:STANDARD–Thedefaultpolicydomainservername_DATABASE–Policydomainfordatabasebackupsservername_DB2–PolicydomainforDb2databasebackupsservername_FILE–Policydomainforfilebackupsthatusethebackup-archiveclientservername_MAIL–Policydomainformailapplicationbackupsservername_ORACLE–PolicydomainforOracledatabasebackupsservername_VIRTUAL–Policydomainforvirtualmachinebackupsservername_HANA–PolicydomainforSAPHANAbackupsservername_OBJECT-PolicydomainforAmazonSimpleStorageService(S3)objectdatafromIBMSpectrumProtectPlusoffloadoperationsPolicydomainsotherthantheSTANDARDpolicyarenamedbyusingadefaultvaluewiththeservername.
Forexample,ifyourservernameisTSMSERVER1,thepolicydomainfordatabasebackupsisTSMSERVER1_DATABASE.
ManagementclassesManagementclassesarecreatedwithinthepolicydomainsthatarelistedinthepreviousrow.
Retentionperiodsaredefinedfor7,30,90,and365days.
Thedefaultmanagementclassusesthe30-dayretentionperiod.
ClientschedulesClientschedulesarecreatedineachpolicydomainwiththestarttimethatisspecifiedduringconfiguration.
Thetypeofbackupschedulethatiscreatedisbasedonthetypeofclient:Fileserverschedulesaresetasincrementalforever.
Dataprotectionschedulesaresetasfulldaily.
Somedataprotectionschedulesincludecommandfilenamesthatareappropriateforthedataprotectionclient.
Formoreinformationabouttheschedulesthatarepredefinedduringconfiguration,seeAppendixD,"Usingpredefinedclientschedules,"onpage61.
RemovinganIBMSpectrumProtectblueprintconfigurationIfyourblueprintconfigurationfails,youcanuseacleanupscripttoremovetheIBMSpectrumProtectserverandstoreddata.
BeforeyoubeginAttention:Theautomatedscriptcleanupserversetup.
plisdestructiveandwillcompletelyremoveanIBMSpectrumProtectserverandallstoreddata.
AboutthistaskThescriptcanbeusedtocleanupyoursystemduringinitialtestingandtroubleshootingforblueprintconfigurations.
Ifaconfigurationattemptfails,runningthescriptremovestheserverandallassociatedIBMSpectrumProtectdata.
Thescriptusesthefile,serversetupstatefileforcleanup.
txt,whichisgeneratedwhenyouruntheBlueprintconfigurationscript,TSMserverconfig.
pl.
Thecleanupscriptisavailableinthediagfolderoftheblueprinttsmconfigdirectory.
ProcedureTocleanupyoursystembyusingthescript,completethefollowingsteps:1.
Editthecleanupserversetup.
plscriptbycommentingouttheexitonthefirstline.
Forexample:Chapter5.
ConfiguringtheIBMSpectrumProtectserver39#exit;#Thisscriptisdestructive,sobydefaultitexits.
Comment-outthislinetoproceed.
2.
Copythecleanupserversetup.
plscriptintothefolderwheretheTSMserverconfig.
plscriptislocated.
3.
Issuethefollowingcommand:perlcleanupserversetup.
pl40IBMSpectrumProtect:BlueprintandServerAutomatedConfigurationforWindowsChapter6.
CompletingthesystemconfigurationCompletethefollowingtasksafteryourIBMSpectrumProtectserverisconfiguredandrunning.
AboutthistaskFormoreinformationabouttheconfigurationtasks,seethedocumentationforyourIBMSpectrumProtectserverversioninIBMKnowledgeCenter.
Tip:TodisplayadifferentversionofthesametopicinIBMKnowledgeCenter,youcanusetheversionsmenu,ifavailable,atthetopofthepage.
ChangingdefaultpasswordsIfyouacceptedthedefaultvalueforanyofthepasswordsthatareconfiguredbytheBlueprintconfigurationscript,youmustchangethosepasswordstomoresecurevalues.
AboutthistaskBydefault,thescriptsetsavalueofpassw0rdforthefollowingpasswords:InitialIBMSpectrumProtectadministratorIBMSpectrumProtectserverDb2instanceownerProcedureToupdatepasswordinformationfortheserverandadministrator,useservercommands.
Formoreinformation,seetheSETSERVERPASSWORD,UPDATEADMIN,andUPDATESERVERservercommands.
ToupdatetheWindowsuserandDb2instanceownerpasswords,usetheWindowsoperatingsystemnetusercommand.
Completethefollowingsteps:1.
UpdatetheWindowsuserpasswordbyissuingthenetusercommand.
Forexample,updatethepasswordtonew!
PA$$:netusertsminst1new!
PA$$2.
ToupdatetheDb2instanceownerpassword,attheDb2commandprompt,issueacommandthatissimilartothefollowingexample.
Ensurethatyouspecifyauniquepassword:db2iupdttsminst1/u:tsminst1,new!
PA$$Createasystem-leveladministrator.
Then,removeorlocktheadministratorthatisnamedADMINbyusingtheREMOVEADMINorLOCKADMINcommand.
Changethepasswordthatisusedtoprotecttheserverencryptionkeyfordatabasebackupoperations.
Issuethefollowingcommand:setdbrecoverydbback_filedevpassword=newpasswordwherenewpasswordisthepasswordthatyouset.
Attention:Youmustrememberthepassword,oryouwillbeunabletorestoredatabasebackups.
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2014,202041RegisteringnodesandassociatingthemwithpredefinedclientschedulesWhenyouarereadytoregisternodestotheIBMSpectrumProtectserver,usetheREGISTERNODEcommand.
Then,youcanassociatenodeswithapredefinedclientschedule.
BeforeyoubeginWhenyouregisternodes,thehostnameoftheprotectedsystemistypicallyusedforthenodename.
Inthefollowingexample,assumethatyouwanttoregisteranodenamednewnode1totheTSMSERVER1_FILEdomainforbackup-archiveclientbackups,andassociatethenodewithapredefinedclientschedule.
Youcanusetheadministrativecommandlinetoissueservercommandsfortheoperation.
WhenyouissuetheREGISTERNODEservercommand,increasethedefaultvalueforthemaximumnumberofmountpointsthatanodeisallowedtouseontheserver.
Specifyavalueof99fortheMAXNUMMPparameterinsteadofusingthedefault.
Completethefollowingexamplestepstoregisternewnode1,associateitwithaschedule,andthenverifythatthescheduleisreadytouseforbackups.
Procedure1.
Registernewnode1totheTSMSERVER1_FILEdomain.
Specifyavaluefortheclientnodepassword,forexample,pw4node1.
SettheMAXNUMMPparameterto99:registernodenewnode1pw4node1dom=TSMSERVER1_FILEmaxnummp=992.
Touseapredefinedclientschedule,determinewhichscheduletoassociatenewnode1withbyqueryingthelistofavailableschedules.
IssuetheQUERYSCHEDULEcommand.
Theoutputlistsalldefinedschedules.
Forexample,thefollowingoutputshowsthedetailsfortheFILE_INCRFOREVER_10PMschedule:Domain*ScheduleNameActionStartDate/TimeDurationPeriodDayTSMSERVER1_FILEFILE_INCRFOREVER_10PMIncBk07/24/201322:00:0060M1DAny3.
Defineanassociationbetweennewnode1andtheFILE_INCRFOREVER_10PMschedule.
Youmustspecifythedomainforthenodeandschedule.
Forexample:defineassociationTSMSERVER1_FILEFILE_INCRFOREVER_10PMnewnode14.
Verifythatnewnode1isassociatedwiththecorrectschedulebyissuingtheQUERYASSOCIATIONcommand.
Forexample,issuethefollowingcommand,specifyingthescheduledomainandtheschedulename:queryassociationTSMSERVER1_FILEFILE_INCRFOREVER_10PMTheoutputshowsthatnewnode1isassociatedwiththequerieddomainandschedulename.
PolicyDomainName:TSMSERVER1_FILEScheduleName:FILE_INCRFOREVER_10PMAssociatedNodes:NEWNODE15.
DisplaydetailsabouttheclientschedulebyissuingtheQUERYEVENTcommand.
Specifythedomainandnameofthescheduleforwhichyouwanttodisplayevents.
Forexample,issuethefollowingcommand:queryeventTSMSERVER1_FILEFILE_INCRFOREVER_10PM42IBMSpectrumProtect:BlueprintandServerAutomatedConfigurationforWindowsTheoutputshowsthatthebackupfornewnode1isscheduled,buthasnotyetoccurred.
ScheduledStartActualStartScheduleNameNodeNameStatus08/23/201322:00:00FILE_INCRFOREVER_10PMNEWNODE1Future6.
Afteryouregisteranodeandassignittoaschedule,configuretheclientandclientscheduleontheclientsystemandthenstarttheschedulerdaemonontheclientsystemsothatthebackupoperationstartsatthescheduledtime.
ToconfiguretheclientschedulesthatarepredefinedbytheBlueprintconfigurationscript,seeAppendixD,"Usingpredefinedclientschedules,"onpage61.
Formoreinformationaboutstartingtheclientscheduler,seetheIBMSpectrumProtectclientdocumentationinIBMKnowledgeCenter.
ReorganizingdatabasetablesandindexesScheduledatabasetableandindexreorganizationtoensurethattheserverisrunningefficiently.
AboutthistaskIftablesortheindexesthatareassociatedwithtablesarenotreorganized,unexpecteddatabaseandloggrowthandreducedserverperformancecanoccurovertime.
ForserversatV7.
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7orlater,theBlueprintconfigurationscriptenablesonlinedatabasetableandindexreorganizationformosttablesbysettingtheALLOWREORGTABLEandALLOWREORGINDEXserveroptionstoYES.
TablereorganizationisdisabledforsomelargertablesbyspecifyingtheDISABLEREORGTABLEserveroption.
Forthetablesinthefollowinglist,youcanrunofflinereorganizationbyusingtheProcedure:BF_AGGREGATED_BITFILESBF_BITFILE_EXTENTSARCHIVE_OBJECTSBACKUP_OBJECTSRestriction:RunofflinereorganizationfortheBF_BITFILE_EXTENTStableonlyifyoursystemincludesoneormoreprimarystoragepoolsthatwereconvertedtodirectory-containerstoragepools.
Torunofflinereorganization,youmusthaveafilesystemwithenoughtemporaryspacetoholdanentiretableduringreorganization.
Spacewithinthefilesystemsthatareusedfordatabasebackupscanbefreedforthispurpose.
BecausetheIBMSpectrumProtectserverdatabasegrowsovertime,theremightbeinsufficientspaceinthedatabasebackupfilesystemstouseasfreespaceforthereorganizationprocess.
Toreleasespaceindatabasebackupfilesystems,youcanremoveoldbackupversions.
Completethefollowingstepstopreparetemporaryspaceinthedatabasefilesystems,andthenrunofflinereorganization.
Procedure1.
Removetheoldestdatabasebackups.
Forexample,toremovethetwooldestdatabasebackups,issuethefollowingcommand:deletevolhistorytype=dbbtodate=today-42.
BackupthecurrentversionofthedatabasewiththeBACKUPDBcommand:backupdbdevc=DBBACK_FILEDEVtype=fullnumstreams=33.
Locatethedatabasebackupfilesystemwiththemostfreespacetouseforthereorganization.
Chapter6.
Completingthesystemconfiguration434.
Completetheprocedureforofflinetablereorganization.
Duringthisstep,youmightbepromptedtobackupthedatabasebutitisunnecessaryforyoutodoso.
Followtheinstructionsintechnote1683633.
44IBMSpectrumProtect:BlueprintandServerAutomatedConfigurationforWindowsChapter7.
NextstepsAfteryoucompletethesetupandconfigurationforyourIBMSpectrumProtectimplementation,youcanmonitoryoursystemandplanformaintenance.
MonitoryoursystemwiththeIBMSpectrumProtectOperationsCenterFormoreinformationabouttheOperationsCenter,seethefollowingtopics.
GettingstartedwiththeOperationsCenterInstallingandupgradingtheOperationsCenterMonitoringwiththeOperationsCenterMonitoringstoragesolutionsAccesstheadministrativecommand-lineclientTheadministrativecommand-lineclientisinstalledwhenyousetupyoursystemtoruntheIBMSpectrumProtectBlueprintconfigurationscript.
Youcanusetheadministrativeclienttoissueservercommands.
FormoreinformationaboutusingtheDSMADMCcommandtostartandstoptheadministrativeclient,seeIssuingcommandsfromtheadministrativeclient.
ReviewdocumentationFordocumentationinIBMKnowledgeCenter,seethefollowinglinks.
Tip:Ifavailable,youcandisplaydifferentversionsofthesametopicinIBMKnowledgeCenterbyusingtheversionsmenuatthetopofthepage.
IBMSpectrumProtectserverandclientsoftwareV7.
1.
8documentationV8.
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9documentationIBMFlashSystem5000diskstoragesystemsIBMFlashSystem5000welcomepageAdditionaldocumentationisavailableatotherlocations:IBMRedbooksforLenovoSystemxLenovoPressIBMSpectrumProtectwikiWelcometothewikiOptional:SetupnodereplicationandstoragepoolprotectionTwoIBMSpectrumProtectserversthatareconfiguredbyusingtheblueprintconfigurationscriptcanbeupdatedtoruntheREPLICATENODEandPROTECTSTGPOOLcommands.
Ifyouenableareplicationschedule,itenablesbothnodereplicationandstoragepoolprotection.
Beforeyoubegin1.
Ifyouarenotfamiliarwiththeconceptsofnodereplicationandstoragepoolprotection,reviewthefollowinginformation:NodereplicationYoucanusenodereplicationtocreateadditionalcopiesofdataonanotherserver.
Tolearnthebasicconceptsofnodereplication,seeReplicatingclientdatatoanotherserverinIBMKnowledgeCenter.
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2014,202045StoragepoolprotectionYoucanusestoragepoolprotectiontoprotectdatainadirectory-containerstoragepoolbystoringthedatainanotherdirectory-containerstoragepoolonthetargetserver.
Tolearnthebasicconceptsofstoragepoolprotection,seeProtectingdataindirectory-containerstoragepoolsinIBMKnowledgeCenter.
2.
Considerwhetherreplicationwillruninonedirectionfromasourcetotargetserver,orifeachserverwillreplicatetotheotherserver(actingasbothasourceandatarget).
TheBlueprintconfigurationscriptcreatesaninactivereplicationscheduleonallservers.
Activatethereplicationscheduleonlyonsourcereplicationservers.
3.
Tooptimizenodereplicationoperations,ensurethatthesourceandtargetreplicationservershavethesamehardwareconfiguration,forexample:Allocatethesameamountofstoragecapacityonbothserversforthedatabase,logs,andstoragepools.
Usethesametypeofdisksforthedatabaseandactivelog.
Forexample,usesolid-statedisksforboththedatabaseandactivelogonbothservers.
Ensurethatbothservershavethesamenumberofprocessorcoresandasimilaramountofread-onlymemory(RAM).
Ifbothserversareusedforclientbackupoperations,allocatethesamenumberofprocessorcorestobothservers.
However,ifthetargetserverisusedonlyforreplication,butnotforclientbackupoperations,youcanallocatehalfasmanyprocessorcores(butnofewerthansix)tothetargetserver.
AboutthistaskYoucansetupnodereplicationandstoragepoolprotectionbyusingtheAddServerPairwizardintheOperationsCenterorbyfollowingtheProcedure.
ProcedureThefollowingmanualexampleassumesthattwoservers,TAPSRV01andTAPSRV02,wereconfiguredbyusingtheblueprintspecifications.
TheproceduresetsupnodereplicationandstoragepoolprotectionsothatclientnodesbackupdatatoTAPSRV01andthisdataisreplicatedtoTAPSRV02.
Thesestepsconfigureasinglestoragepoolthatwillbeusedforholdingbothbackupdataandreplicateddata.
Configurationsarealsopossiblewhereseparatestoragepoolsareusedforbackupdataandreplicateddata.
1.
Setupserver-to-servercommunication.
OnTAPSRV01,issuethefollowingcommand:defineservertapsrv02serverpassword=passw0rdhla=tapsrv02.
yourdomain.
comlla=1500OnTAPSRV02,issuethefollowingcommand:defineservertapsrv01serverpassword=passw0rdhla=tapsrv01.
yourdomain.
comlla=15002.
Testthecommunicationpath.
OnTAPSRV01,issuethefollowingcommand:pingservertapsrv02OnTAPSRV02,issuethefollowingcommand:pingservertapsrv01Ifthetestissuccessful,youseeresultssimilartothefollowingexample:ANR1706IPingforserver'TAPSRV02'wasabletoestablishaconnection.
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ExportpolicydefinitionsfromTAPSRV01toTAPSRV02.
IssuethefollowingcommandonTAPSRV01:exportpolicy*toserver=tapsrv024.
DefineTAPSRV02asthereplicationtargetofTAPSRV01.
IssuethefollowingcommandonTAPSRV01:setreplservertapsrv025.
Enablereplicationforcertainnodesorallnodes.
Toenablereplicationforallnodes,issuethefollowingcommandonTAPSRV01:updatenode*replstate=enabled6.
Enablestoragepoolprotectionforyourdirectory-containerstoragepool.
Forexample,issuethefollowingcommand:updatestgpoolsourcestgpoolprotectstgpool=targetstgpool7.
Oneachsourcereplicationserver,activatetheadministrativeschedulethattheBlueprintconfigurationscriptcreatedtorunreplicationeveryday.
Issuethefollowingcommand:updatescheduleREPLICATEtype=adminactive=yesRestriction:Ensurethatyoucompletethissteponlyonsourcereplicationservers.
However,ifyouarereplicatingnodesinbothdirections,andeachserverisasourceandatarget,activatethescheduleonbothservers.
WhattodonextTorecoverdataafteradisaster,followtheinstructionsinRepairingandrecoveringdataindirectory-containerstoragepools.
Chapter7.
Nextsteps4748IBMSpectrumProtect:BlueprintandServerAutomatedConfigurationforWindowsAppendixA.
PerformanceresultsYoucancompareIBMsystemperformanceresultsagainstyourIBMSpectrumProtectstorageconfigurationasareferenceforexpectedperformance.
Observedresultsarebasedonmeasurementsthatweretakeninatestlabenvironment.
TestsystemswereconfiguredaccordingtotheBlueprintsinthisdocument.
Backup-archiveclientscommunicatedacrossa10GbEthernetconnectiontotheIBMSpectrumProtectserver,anddeduplicateddatawasstoredindirectory-containerstoragepools.
Becausemanyvariablescaninfluencethroughputinasystemconfiguration,donotexpecttoseeexactmatcheswiththeresults.
Storagepoolcompressionwasincludedinthetestconfigurationonwhichtheseperformanceresultsarebased.
Thefollowingtypicalfactorscancausevariationsinactualperformance:AverageobjectsizeofyourworkloadNumberofclientsessionsthatareusedinyourenvironmentAmountofduplicatedataThisinformationisprovidedtoserveonlyasareference.
ForapproximateperformanceresultsonlargeBlueprintsystems,seetheBlueprintandServerAutomatedConfigurationforLinuxx86,Version4Release1atIBMSpectrumProtectBlueprints.
SmallsystemperformancemeasurementsDatawasrecordedforasmallsystemintheIBMtestlabenvironment.
Table19.
DataintakeprocessesMetricLimitorrangeNotesMaximumsupportedclientsessions250Dailyamountofnewdata(beforedatadeduplication)Upto10TBperday1Thedailyamountofdataishowmuchnewdataisbackedupeachday.
BackupingestionrateServer-sideinlinedatadeduplication2.
2TBperhourClient-sidedatadeduplication3.
0TBperhour1Thedailyamountofnewdataisarange.
Formoreinformation,seetheguidanceinChapter2,"Implementationrequirements,"onpage3.
Table20.
ProtecteddataMetricRangeNotesTotalmanageddata(sizebeforedatadeduplication)60TB-240TBTotalmanageddataisthevolumeofdatathattheservermanages,includingallversions.
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DatarestoreprocessesMetricNumberofrestoreprocessesLimitThroughputofrestoreprocesses1316.
8GBperhour2537.
3GBperhour4840.
2GBperhour61188.
8GBperhour81814.
1GBperhourMediumsystemperformancemeasurementsDatawasrecordedforamediumsystemintheIBMtestlabenvironment.
Table22.
DataintakeprocessesMetricLimitorrangeNotesMaximumsupportedclientsessions500Dailyamountofnewdata(beforedatadeduplication)10-30TBperday1Thedailyamountofdataishowmuchnewdataisbackedupeachday.
BackupingestionrateServer-sideinlinedatadeduplication4.
9TBperhourClient-sidedatadeduplication6.
2TBperhour1Thedailyamountofnewdataisarange.
Formoreinformation,seeChapter2,"Implementationrequirements,"onpage3.
Table23.
ProtecteddataMetricRangeNotesTotalmanageddata(sizebeforedatadeduplication)360TB-1440TBTotalmanageddataisthevolumeofdatathattheservermanages,includingallversions.
50IBMSpectrumProtect:BlueprintandServerAutomatedConfigurationforWindowsTable24.
DatarestoreprocessesMetricNumberofrestoreprocessesLimitThroughputofrestoreprocesses1439.
1GBperhour2732.
4GBperhour41032.
2GBperhour61611.
7GBperhour82160.
9GBperhour102511.
2GBperhour122757.
7GBperhourWorkloadsimulationtoolresultsSampledatafromtheworkloadsimulationtoolisprovidedforblueprinttestlabsystems.
Bothastoragepoolworkloadandadatabaseworkloadweretestedoneachsystem.
Forworkloadsimulationresultsonlargeblueprintsystems,seetheBlueprintandServerAutomatedConfigurationforLinuxx86,Version4Release1atIBMSpectrumProtectBlueprints.
Smallsystem-storagepoolworkloadThestoragepoolworkloadtestincludedeightfilesystems.
Thefollowingcommandwasissued:perltsmdiskperf.
plworkload=stgpoolfslist=c:\tsminst1\TSMfile00,c:\tsminst1\TSMfile01,c:\tsminst1\TSMfile02,c:\tsminst1\TSMfile03,c:\tsminst1\TSMfile04,c:\tsminst1\TSMfile05,c:\tsminst1\TSMfile06,c:\tsminst1\TSMfile07Theseresultswereincludedintheoutput::AverageRThroughput(KB/sec):197150.
91:AverageWThroughput(KB/sec):201662.
67:AvgCombinedThroughput(MB/sec):389.
47:MaxCombinedThroughput(MB/sec):631.
88::AverageIOPS:2373.
00:PeakIOPS:3090.
72at04/29/201914:21:57::Totalelapsedtime(seconds):396Smallsystem-databaseworkloadThedatabaseworkloadtestincludedfourfilesystems.
Thefollowingcommandwasissued:perltsmdiskperf.
plworkload=dbfslist=c:\tsminst1\TSMdbspace00,c:\tsminst1\TSMdbspace01,c:\tsminst1\TSMdbspace02,c:\tsminst1\TSMdbspace03Theseresultswereincludedintheoutput::AverageRThroughput(KB/sec):19178.
03:AverageWThroughput(KB/sec):18900.
63:AvgCombinedThroughput(MB/sec):37.
19:MaxCombinedThroughput(MB/sec):48.
20::AverageIOPS:4760.
30:PeakIOPS:6169.
49at04/29/201912:34:50::Totalelapsedtime(seconds):842AppendixA.
Performanceresults51Mediumsystem-storagepoolworkloadThestoragepoolworkloadtestincluded16filesystems.
Thefollowingcommandwasissued:perltsmdiskperf.
plworkload=stgpoolfslist=c:\tsminst1\TSMfile00,c:\tsminst1\TSMfile01,c:\tsminst1\TSMfile02,c:\tsminst1\TSMfile03,c:\tsminst1\TSMfile04,c:\tsminst1\TSMfile05,c:\tsminst1\TSMfile06,c:\tsminst1\TSMfile07,c:\tsminst1\TSMfile08,c:\tsminst1\TSMfile09,c:\tsminst1\TSMfile10,c:\tsminst1\TSMfile11,c:\tsminst1\TSMfile12,c:\tsminst1\TSMfile13,c:\tsminst1\TSMfile14,c:\tsminst1\TSMfile15Theseresultswereincludedintheoutput::AverageRThroughput(KB/sec):742055.
20:AverageWThroughput(KB/sec):770712.
96:AvgCombinedThroughput(MB/sec):1477.
31:MaxCombinedThroughput(MB/sec):1876.
90::AverageIOPS:8998.
50:PeakIOPS:10834.
15at05/03/201915:24:42::Totalelapsedtime(seconds):233Mediumsystem-databaseworkloadAtthetimeofpublication,databaseworkloadresultsforamediumsystemwerenotavailable,butworkisunderwaytoobtaintheresults.
52IBMSpectrumProtect:BlueprintandServerAutomatedConfigurationforWindowsAppendixB.
ConfiguringthedisksystembyusingcommandsYoucanusetheIBMFlashSystemcommandlinetoconfigurestoragearraysandvolumesonthedisksystem.
Exampleproceduresareprovidedforthe5010(small),V5030(medium),andV5100(large)systems.
RefertoChapter3,"Storageconfigurationblueprints,"onpage13forlayoutspecifications.
Smallsystem1.
Connecttoandlogintothedisksystembyissuingthesshcommand.
Forexample:sshsuperuser@your5010hostname2.
ListdriveIDsforeachtypeofdisksothatyoucancreatethemanageddisk(MDisk)arraysinStep"4"onpage53.
Issuethelsdrivecommand.
Theoutputcanvary,basedonslotplacementforthedifferentdisks.
Theoutputissimilartothefollowingexample:idstatususetech_typecapacity.
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enclosure_idslot_id.
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0onlinecandidatetier0_flash1.
45TB131onlinecandidatetier0_flash1.
45TB142onlinecandidatetier0_flash1.
45TB113onlinecandidatetier0_flash1.
45TB124onlinecandidatetier0_flash1.
45TB155onlinecandidatetier_nearline3.
6TB266onlinecandidatetier_nearline3.
6TB217onlinecandidatetier_nearline3.
6TB278onlinecandidatetier_nearline3.
6TB2109onlinecandidatetier_nearline3.
6TB2510onlinecandidatetier_nearline3.
6TB2411onlinecandidatetier_nearline3.
6TB2212onlinecandidatetier_nearline3.
6TB2913onlinecandidatetier_nearline3.
6TB21114onlinecandidatetier_nearline3.
6TB2315onlinecandidatetier_nearline3.
6TB21216onlinecandidatetier_nearline3.
6TB2817onlinecandidatetier_nearline3.
6TB3618onlinecandidatetier_nearline3.
6TB31219onlinecandidatetier_nearline3.
6TB3920onlinecandidatetier_nearline3.
6TB3421onlinecandidatetier_nearline3.
6TB31122onlinecandidatetier_nearline3.
6TB3523onlinecandidatetier_nearline3.
6TB3224onlinecandidatetier_nearline3.
6TB31025onlinecandidatetier_nearline3.
6TB3826onlinecandidatetier_nearline3.
6TB3127onlinecandidatetier_nearline3.
6TB3728onlinecandidatetier_nearline3.
6TB333.
CreatetheMDiskgroupsfortheIBMSpectrumProtectdatabaseandstoragepool.
Issuethemkmdiskgroupcommandforeachpool,specifying256fortheextentsize:mkmdiskgrp-namedb_grp0-ext256mkmdiskgrp-namestgpool_grp0-ext2564.
CreateMDiskarraysbyusingmkdistributedarraycommands.
SpecifythecommandstoaddtheMDiskarraystothedatapoolsthatyoucreatedinthepreviousstep.
Forexample:mkdistributedarray-namedb_array0-levelraid5-driveclass2-drivecount4-stripewidth3-rebuildareas1-strip256db_grp0mkdistributedarray-namestgpool_array0-levelraid6-driveclass1-drivecount24-stripewidth12-rebuildareas1-strip256stgpool_grp0CopyrightIBMCorp.
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Createthestoragevolumesforthesystem.
Issuethemkvdiskcommandforeachvolume,specifyingthevolumesizesinMB.
Forexample:mkvdisk-mdiskgrpdb_grp0-size343296-namedb_00-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpdb_grp0-size343296-namedb_01-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpdb_grp0-size343296-namedb_02-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpdb_grp0-size343296-namedb_03-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpdb_grp0-size148736-namealog-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpstgpool_grp0-size1244928-namearchlog-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpstgpool_grp0-size3303398-unitmb-namebackup_00-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpstgpool_grp0-size3303398-unitmb-namebackup_01-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpstgpool_grp0-size15859710-unitmb-namefilepool_00-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpstgpool_grp0-size15859710-unitmb-namefilepool_01-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpstgpool_grp0-size15859710-unitmb-namefilepool_02-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpstgpool_grp0-size15859710-unitmb-namefilepool_03-iogrp0-nofmtdisk6.
Createalogicalhostobjectbyusingthemkhostcommand.
SpecifytheFibreChannelWWPNsfromyouroperatingsystemandspecifythenameofyourhost.
ToobtaintheWWPNsfromyoursystem,followtheinstructionsin"Step1:Setupandconfigurehardware"onpage21.
Forexample,tocreateahostthatisnamedhostonewithalistthatcontainsFCWWPNs10000090FA3D8F12and10000090FA49009E,issuethefollowingcommand:mkhost-namehostone-fcwwpn10000090FA3D8F12:10000090FA49009E-iogrp0-type=generic-force7.
MapthevolumesthatyoucreatedinStep"5"onpage54tothenewhost.
Issuethemkvdiskhostmapcommandforeachvolume.
Forexample,issuethefollowingcommandswherehostnameisthenameofyourhost:mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi0db_00mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi1db_01mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi2db_02mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi3db_03mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi4alogmkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi5archlogmkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi6backup_0mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi7backup_1mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi8filepool_00mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi9filepool_01mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi10filepool_02mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi11filepool_03Mediumsystem1.
Connecttoandlogintothedisksystembyissuingthesshcommand.
Forexample:sshsuperuser@your5010hostname2.
IncreasethememorythatisavailablefortheRAIDsto125MBbyissuingthechiogrpcommand:chiogrp-featureraid-size125io_grp03.
ListdriveIDsforeachtypeofdisksothatyoucancreatetheMDiskarraysinStep"5"onpage55.
Issuethelsdrivecommand.
Theoutputcanvary,basedonslotplacementforthedifferentdisks.
Theoutputissimilartothefollowingexample:IBM_Storwize:tapv5kg:superuser>lsdriveidstatususetech_typecapacityenclosure_idslot_iddrive_class_id0onlinemembertier_nearline5.
5TB12601onlinemembertier_nearline5.
5TB14402onlinemembertier_nearline5.
5TB1103onlinemembertier_nearline5.
5TB13404onlinemembertier_nearline5.
5TB120054IBMSpectrumProtect:BlueprintandServerAutomatedConfigurationforWindows5onlinemembertier_nearline5.
5TB125091onlinemembertier_nearline5.
5TB12092onlinemembertier1_flash1.
7TB24193onlinemembertier1_flash1.
7TB21194onlinemembertier1_flash1.
7TB23195onlinemembertier1_flash1.
7TB26196onlinemembertier1_flash1.
7TB25197onlinemembertier1_flash1.
7TB2214.
CreatetheMDiskgroupsfortheIBMSpectrumProtectdatabaseandstoragepool.
Issuethemkmdiskgroupcommandforeachpool,specifying1024fortheextentsize:mkmdiskgrp-namedb_grp0-ext1024mkmdiskgrp-namestgpool_grp0-ext10245.
CreateMDiskarraysbyusingmkdistributedarraycommands.
SpecifythecommandstoaddtheMDiskarraystothedatapoolsthatyoucreatedinthepreviousstep.
Forexample:mkdistributedarray-namedb_array0-levelraid6-driveclass1-drivecount6-stripewidth5-rebuildareas1-strip256db_grp0mkdistributedarray-namestgpool_array0-levelraid6-driveclass0-drivecount46-stripewidth12-rebuildareas2-strip256stgpool_grp0mkdistributedarray-namestgpool_array1-levelraid6-driveclass0-drivecount46-stripewidth12-rebuildareas2-strip256stgpool_grp06.
Createthestoragevolumesforthesystem.
Issuethemkvdiskcommandforeachvolume,specifyingthevolumesizesinMB.
Forexample:mkvdisk-mdiskgrpdb_grp0-size656999-namedb_00-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpdb_grp0-size656999-namedb_01-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpdb_grp0-size656999-namedb_02-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpdb_grp0-size656999-namedb_03-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpdb_grp0-size656999-namedb_04-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpdb_grp0-size656999-namedb_05-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpdb_grp0-size656999-namedb_06-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpdb_grp0-size656999-namedb_07-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpdb_grp0-size150528-namealog-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpstgpool_grp0-size2097152-namearchlog-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpstgpool_grp0-size15728640-namebackup_00-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpstgpool_grp0-size15728640-namebackup_01-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpstgpool_grp0-size15728640-namebackup_02-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpstgpool_grp0-size30648320-unitmb-namefilepool_00-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpstgpool_grp0-size30648320-unitmb-namefilepool_01-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpstgpool_grp0-size30648320-unitmb-namefilepool_02-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpstgpool_grp0-size30648320-unitmb-namefilepool_03-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpstgpool_grp0-size30648320-unitmb-namefilepool_04-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpstgpool_grp0-size30648320-unitmb-namefilepool_05-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpstgpool_grp0-size30648320-unitmb-namefilepool_06-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpstgpool_grp0-size30648320-unitmb-namefilepool_07-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpstgpool_grp0-size30648320-unitmb-namefilepool_08-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpstgpool_grp0-size30648320-unitmb-namefilepool_09-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpstgpool_grp0-size30648320-unitmb-namefilepool_10-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpstgpool_grp0-size30648320-unitmb-namefilepool_11-iogrp0-nofmtdisk7.
Createalogicalhostobjectbyusingthemkhostcommand.
SpecifytheFibreChannelWWPNsfromyouroperatingsystemandspecifythenameofyourhost.
ToobtaintheWWPNsfromyoursystem,followtheinstructionsin"Step1:Setupandconfigurehardware"onpage21.
Forexample,tocreateahostthatisnamedhostonewithalistthatcontainsFCWWPNs10000090FA3D8F12and10000090FA49009E,issuethefollowingcommand:mkhost-namehostone-fcwwpn10000090FA3D8F12:10000090FA49009E-iogrp0-type=generic-forceAppendixB.
Configuringthedisksystembyusingcommands558.
MapthevolumesthatyoucreatedinStep"6"onpage55tothenewhost.
Issuethemkvdiskhostmapcommandforeachvolume.
Forexample,issuethefollowingcommandswherehostnameisthenameofyourhost:mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi0db_00mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi1db_01mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi2db_02mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi3db_03mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi4db_04mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi5db_05mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi6db_06mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi7db_07mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi8alogmkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi9archlogmkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi10backup_00mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi11backup_01mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi12backup_02mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi13filepool_00mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi14filepool_01mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi15filepool_02mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi16filepool_03mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi17filepool_04mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi18filepool_05mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi19filepool_06mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi20filepool_07mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi21filepool_08mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi22filepool_09mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi23filepool_10mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi24filepool_11Largesystem1.
Connecttoandlogintothedisksystembyissuingthesshcommand.
Forexample:sshsuperuser@your5030hostname2.
IncreasethememorythatisavailablefortheRAIDsto125MBbyissuingthechiogrpcommand:chiogrp-featureraid-size125io_grp03.
ListdriveIDsforeachtypeofdisksothatyoucancreatetheMDiskarraysinStep"5"onpage56.
Issuethelsdrivecommand.
Theoutputcanvary,basedonslotplacementforthedifferentdisks.
Theoutputissimilartowhatisreturnedforsmallandmediumsystems.
4.
CreatetheMDiskgroupsfortheIBMSpectrumProtectdatabaseandstoragepool.
Issuethemkmdiskgroupcommandforeachpool,specifying1024fortheextentsize:mkmdiskgrp-namedb_grp0-ext1024mkmdiskgrp-namestgpool_grp0-ext10245.
Createarraysbyusingthemkdistributedarraycommand.
SpecifythecommandstoaddtheMDiskarraystothedatapoolsthatyoucreatedinthepreviousstep.
Forexample:mkdistributedarray-namedb_array0-levelraid6-driveclass0-drivecount8-stripewidth7-rebuildareas1-strip256db_grp0mkdistributedarray-namestgpool_array0-levelraid6-driveclass1-drivecount46-stripewidth12-rebuildareas2-strip256stgpool_grp0mkdistributedarray-namestgpool_array1-levelraid6-driveclass1-drivecount46-stripewidth12-rebuildareas2-strip256stgpool_grp0mkdistributedarray-namestgpool_array2-levelraid6-driveclass1-drivecount46-stripewidth12-rebuildareas2-strip256stgpool_grp0mkdistributedarray-namestgpool_array3-levelraid6-driveclass1-drivecount46-stripewidth12-rebuildareas2-strip256stgpool_grp06.
Createthestoragevolumesforthesystem.
Issuethemkvdiskcommandforeachvolume,specifyingthevolumesizesinMB.
56IBMSpectrumProtect:BlueprintandServerAutomatedConfigurationforWindowsForexample:mkvdisk-mdiskgrpdb_grp0-size727040-unitmb-namedb_00-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpdb_grp0-size727040-unitmb-namedb_01-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpdb_grp0-size727040-unitmb-namedb_02-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpdb_grp0-size727040-unitmb-namedb_03-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpdb_grp0-size727040-unitmb-namedb_04-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpdb_grp0-size727040-unitmb-namedb_05-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpdb_grp0-size727040-unitmb-namedb_06-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpdb_grp0-size727040-unitmb-namedb_07-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpdb_grp0-size727040-unitmb-namedb_08-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpdb_grp0-size727040-unitmb-namedb_09-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpdb_grp0-size727040-unitmb-namedb_10-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpdb_grp0-size727040-unitmb-namedb_11-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpdb_grp0-size307200-unitmb-namealog-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpstgpool_grp0-size4200000-unitmb-namearchlog-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpstgpool_grp0-size18874368-unitmb-namebackup_00-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpstgpool_grp0-size18874368-unitmb-namebackup_01-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpstgpool_grp0-size18874368-unitmb-namebackup_02-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpstgpool_grp0-size32856064-unitmb-namefilepool_00-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpstgpool_grp0-size32856064-unitmb-namefilepool_01-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpstgpool_grp0-size32856064-unitmb-namefilepool_02-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpstgpool_grp0-size32856064-unitmb-namefilepool_03-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpstgpool_grp0-size32856064-unitmb-namefilepool_04-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpstgpool_grp0-size32856064-unitmb-namefilepool_05-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpstgpool_grp0-size32856064-unitmb-namefilepool_06-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpstgpool_grp0-size32856064-unitmb-namefilepool_07-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpstgpool_grp0-size32856064-unitmb-namefilepool_08-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpstgpool_grp0-size32856064-unitmb-namefilepool_09-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpstgpool_grp0-size32856064-unitmb-namefilepool_10-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpstgpool_grp0-size32856064-unitmb-namefilepool_11-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpstgpool_grp0-size32856064-unitmb-namefilepool_12-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpstgpool_grp0-size32856064-unitmb-namefilepool_13-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpstgpool_grp0-size32856064-unitmb-namefilepool_14-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpstgpool_grp0-size32856064-unitmb-namefilepool_15-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpstgpool_grp0-size32856064-unitmb-namefilepool_16-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpstgpool_grp0-size32856064-unitmb-namefilepool_17-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpstgpool_grp0-size32856064-unitmb-namefilepool_18-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpstgpool_grp0-size32856064-unitmb-namefilepool_19-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpstgpool_grp0-size32856064-unitmb-namefilepool_20-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpstgpool_grp0-size32856064-unitmb-namefilepool_21-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpstgpool_grp0-size32856064-unitmb-namefilepool_22-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpstgpool_grp0-size32856064-unitmb-namefilepool_23-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpstgpool_grp0-size32856064-unitmb-namefilepool_24-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpstgpool_grp0-size32856064-unitmb-namefilepool_25-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpstgpool_grp0-size32856064-unitmb-namefilepool_26-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpstgpool_grp0-size32856064-unitmb-namefilepool_27-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpstgpool_grp0-size32856064-unitmb-namefilepool_28-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpstgpool_grp0-size32856064-unitmb-namefilepool_29-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpstgpool_grp0-size32856064-unitmb-namefilepool_30-iogrp0-nofmtdiskmkvdisk-mdiskgrpstgpool_grp0-size32856064-unitmb-namefilepool_31-iogrp0-nofmtdisk7.
Createalogicalhostobjectbyusingthemkhostcommand.
SpecifytheFibreChannelWWPNsfromyouroperatingsystemandspecifythenameofyourhost.
ForinstructionsaboutobtainingtheWWPNsfromyoursystem,see"Step1:Setupandconfigurehardware"onpage21.
Forexample,tocreateahostthatisnamedhostonewithalistthatcontainsFCWWPNs10000090FA3D8F12and10000090FA49009E,issuethefollowingcommand:mkhost-namehostone-fcwwpn10000090FA3D8F12:10000090FA49009E-iogrp0-type=generic-force8.
MapthevolumesthatyoucreatedinStep"6"onpage56tothenewhost.
Issuethemkvdiskhostmapcommandforeachvolume.
Forexample,issuethefollowingcommandswherehostnameisthenameofyourhost:mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi0db_00mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi1db_01mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi2db_02mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi3db_03mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi4db_04mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi5db_05mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi6db_06AppendixB.
Configuringthedisksystembyusingcommands57mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi7db_07mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi8db_08mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi9db_09mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi10db_10mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi11db_11mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi12alogmkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi13archlogmkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi14backup_00mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi15backup_01mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi16backup_02mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi17filepool_00mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi18filepool_01mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi19filepool_02mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi20filepool_03mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi21filepool_04mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi22filepool_05mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi23filepool_06mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi24filepool_07mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi25filepool_08mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi26filepool_09mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi27filepool_10mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi28filepool_11mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi29filepool_12mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi30filepool_13mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi31filepool_14mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi32filepool_15mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi33filepool_16mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi34filepool_17mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi35filepool_18mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi36filepool_19mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi37filepool_20mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi38filepool_21mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi39filepool_22mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi40filepool_23mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi41filepool_24mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi42filepool_25mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi43filepool_26mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi44filepool_27mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi45filepool_28mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi46filepool_29mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi47filepool_30mkvdiskhostmap-hosthostname-scsi48filepool_3158IBMSpectrumProtect:BlueprintandServerAutomatedConfigurationforWindowsAppendixC.
UsingaresponsefilewiththeBlueprintconfigurationscriptYoucanruntheBlueprintconfigurationscriptinnon-interactivemodebyusingaresponsefiletosetyourconfigurationchoices.
ThreeresponsefilesareprovidedwiththeBlueprintconfigurationscript.
Ifyouplantosetupasystembyusingalldefaultvalues,youcanruntheconfigurationscriptinnon-interactivemodebyusingoneofthefollowingresponsefiles:Smallsystemresponsefilesmall_win.
txtMediumsystemresponsefilemed_win.
txtLargesystemresponsefilelarge_win.
txtThefilesarepre-filledwithdefaultconfigurationvaluesforthesmall,medium,andlargesystemsanddonotrequireupdates.
Ifyouwanttocustomizeyourresponsesforasystem,usethefollowingtablewithyour"Planningworksheets"onpage9toupdateoneofthedefaultresponsefiles.
ThevaluesthatareusedintheresponsefilecorrespondtovaluesthatyourecordedintheYourvaluecolumnoftheworksheet.
ResponsefilevalueCorrespondingvaluefromtheplanningworksheetserverscaleNotrecordedintheplanningworksheet.
EnteravalueofSforasmallsystem,Mforamediumsystem,orLforalargesystem.
db2userDb2instanceownerIDdb2userpwDb2instanceownerpasswordinstdirmountpointDirectoryfortheserverinstancedb2dirpathsDirectoriesforthedatabasetsmstgpathsDirectoriesforstorageactlogpathDirectoryfortheactivelogarchlogpathDirectoryforthearchivelogdbbackdirpathsDirectoriesfordatabasebackupbackupstarttimeSchedulestarttimetsmsysadminidIBMSpectrumProtectadministratorIDtsmsysadminidpwIBMSpectrumProtectadministratorIDpasswordtcpportTCP/IPportaddressforcommunicationswiththeIBMSpectrumProtectserver.
EnterthevaluethatyouspecifiedforStep"5"onpage23.
servernameServernameserverpasswordServerpasswordCopyrightIBMCorp.
2014,20205960IBMSpectrumProtect:BlueprintandServerAutomatedConfigurationforWindowsAppendixD.
UsingpredefinedclientschedulesTheBlueprintconfigurationscriptcreatesseveralclientschedulesduringserverconfiguration.
Tousetheseschedules,youmustcompleteconfigurationstepsontheclientsystem.
Table25onpage61liststhepredefinedschedulesthatarecreatedontheserver.
Theschedulenamesanddescriptionsarebasedonthedefaultbackupschedulestarttimeof10PM.
Ifyouchangedthisstarttimeduringserverconfiguration,thepredefinedclientschedulesonyoursystemarenamedaccordingtothatstarttime.
InformationaboutupdatingclientschedulestousewiththeIBMSpectrumProtectserverisprovidedinthesectionsthatfollowthetable.
Forcompleteinformationaboutschedulingclientbackupoperations,seeyourclientdocumentation.
Table25.
PredefinedclientschedulesClientSchedulenameScheduledescriptionIBMSpectrumProtectforDatabases:DataProtectionforOracleORACLE_DAILYFULL_10PMOracleDailyFULLbackupthatstartsat10PMIBMSpectrumProtectforDatabases:DataProtectionforMicrosoftSQLServerSQL_DAILYFULL_10PMMicrosoftSQLDailyFULLbackupthatstartsat10PMIBMSpectrumProtectbackup-archiveclientFILE_INCRFOREVER_10PMFileincremental-foreverbackupthatstartsat10PMIBMSpectrumProtectforMail:DataProtectionforIBMDominoDOMINO_DAILYFULL_10PMDailyFULLbackupthatstartsat10PMIBMSpectrumProtectforMail:DataProtectionforMicrosoftExchangeServerEXCHANGE_DAILYFULL_10PMFULLbackupthatstartsat10PMIBMSpectrumProtectforVirtualEnvironments:DataProtectionforMicrosoftHyper-VHYPERV_FULL_10PMHyper-Vfullbackupthatstartsat10PMDataProtectionforOracleDataProtectionforOracledoesnotincludeasamplebackupfile.
Youcancreateascriptor.
batcommandfileandupdatetheOBJECTSparameterforthepredefinedschedulebyusingtheUPDATESCHEDULEservercommand.
Specifythefullpathtothecommandfileontheclientsystemunlessyousavethecommandfileintheclientinstallationdirectory.
Then,youmustprovideonlythefilename.
Forexample,toupdatetheORACLE_DAILYFULL_10PMschedulethatisintheDATABASEdomain,issuethefollowingcommand.
Specifythenameofthecommandfilethatyouwanttouseintheclientinstallationdirectory.
Inthisexample,thecommandfileisnamedschedcmdfile.
bat.
updatescheduledatabaseoracle_dailyfull_10pmobj=schedcmdfile.
batDataProtectionforMicrosoftSQLServerThesampleschedulefilethatisincludedwithDataProtectionforMicrosoftSQLServerisnamedsqlfull.
cmd.
ThisfilecanbecustomizedforusewithIBMSpectrumProtectserver.
Ifyousavethefiletotheclientinstallationdirectoryontheclientsystem,youdonothavetoupdatethepredefinedscheduletoincludethefullpathtothefile.
CopyrightIBMCorp.
2014,202061Backup-archiveclientWhenyouusethepredefinedscheduleforbackup-archiveclients,theserverprocessesobjectsastheyaredefinedintheclientoptionsfile,unlessyouspecifyafiletorunacommandormacro.
Forinformationaboutsettingthedomain,include,andexcludeoptionsforbackupoperations,seetheonlineproductdocumentation:Clientoptionsreference(V6.
4)Clientoptionsreference(V7.
1)Clientoptionsreference(V8.
1)DataProtectionforIBMDominoThesampleschedulefilethatisincludedwithDataProtectionforIBMDominoisnameddomsel.
cmd.
ThisfilecanbecustomizedforusewithIBMSpectrumProtectserver.
Ifyousavethefiletotheclientinstallationdirectoryontheclientsystem,youdonothavetoupdatethepredefinedscheduletoincludethefullpathtothefile.
DataProtectionforMicrosoftExchangeServerThesampleschedulefilethatisincludedwithDataProtectionforMicrosoftExchangeServerisnamedexcfull.
cmd.
ThisfilecanbecustomizedforusewithIBMSpectrumProtectserver.
Ifyousavethefiletotheclientinstallationdirectoryontheclientsystem,youdonothavetoupdatethepredefinedscheduletoincludethefullpathtothefile.
DataProtectionforMicrosoftHyper-VNosampleschedulefileisprovidedwithDataProtectionforMicrosoftHyper-V.
Tocreatea.
cmdfilethatcanbackupmultiplevirtualmachines,completethefollowingsteps:1.
Updatetheclientoptionsfiletoincludethefollowingsettings:commmethodtcpiptcpport1500TCPServeraddressnodenamepasswordaccessgeneratevmbackuptypehypervfull2.
Foreachvirtualmachinethatyouwanttobackup,createaseparatescriptfile.
Auniquefileisneededtoensurethatalogissavedforeachbackup.
Forexample,createafilethatisnamedhvvm1.
cmd.
Includethebackupcommand,thenameofthevirtualmachine,theclientoptionsfile,andthelogfilethatyouwanttocreateonthefirstline.
Onthesecondline,includethewordexit.
Forexample:dsmcbackupvm"tsmhyp1vm3"-optfile=dsm-hv.
opt>>hv_backup_3.
logexitRepeatthisstepforeachvirtualmachinethatyouwanttobackup.
3.
Createabackupschedulefile,forexample,hv_backup.
cmd.
4.
Addanentrytohv_backup.
cmdforeachvirtualmachinescriptfilethatyoucreated.
Forexample:starthvvm1.
cmdchoice/T10/CX/DX/N>NULstarthvvm2.
cmdchoice/T10/CX/DX/N>NULstarthvvm3.
cmdchoice/T10/CX/DX/N>NULhvvm4.
cmd5.
IssuetheUPDATESCHEDULEservercommandtoupdatethepredefinedHYPERV_FULL_10PMschedule.
SpecifythefullpathfortheHyper-VbackupschedulefilelocationintheOBJECTSparameter.
62IBMSpectrumProtect:BlueprintandServerAutomatedConfigurationforWindowsIBMSpectrumProtectforVirtualEnvironmentsTocreatenewschedules,usetheDataProtectionforVMwarevCenterplug-inGUI.
AppendixD.
Usingpredefinedclientschedules6364IBMSpectrumProtect:BlueprintandServerAutomatedConfigurationforWindowsAppendixE.
ModificationofblueprintconfigurationsIfyouwanttocustomizetheconfigurationsthataredetailedinthisdocument,plancarefully.
Considerthefollowingbeforeyoudeviatefromtheblueprintspecifications:Ifyouwanttoextendtheusablestorageforyoursystembyaddingstorageenclosures,youmustalsoaddstoragefortheIBMSpectrumProtectdatabase.
Increasethedatabasestoragebyapproximately1%oftheadditionaltotalamountofmanageddatathatwillbeprotected(sizebeforedatadeduplication).
YoucanuseWindowsoperatingsystemsotherthanMicrosoftWindowsServer2016StandardEdition,butthefollowingcaveatsapply:–TheversionandoperatingsystemmustbesupportedforusewiththeIBMSpectrumProtectserver.
–Additionalconfigurationstepsormodificationstostepsforinstallationandconfigurationmightbeneeded.
Ifyouuseotherstoragesystems,performancemeasurementsthatarereportedfortheblueprintconfigurationsarenotguaranteedtomatchyourcustomization.
Ingeneral,noguaranteescanbemadeforacustomizedenvironment.
Testtheenvironmenttoensurethatitmeetsyourbusinessrequirements.
CopyrightIBMCorp.
2014,20206566IBMSpectrumProtect:BlueprintandServerAutomatedConfigurationforWindowsAppendixF.
TroubleshootingAtthetimeofpublication,thefollowingissuewasknown.
SlowthroughputafterserverinstallationInsomecases,followinganewinstallationofIBMSpectrumProtect,theservermightexperienceslowthroughput.
ThisconditioncanbecausedbyadelayintheDb2runstatsoperation,whichoptimizeshowqueriesareperformed.
AnindicationofthisissueisthattheDb2processdb2syscisusingalargeamountofCPUprocessingascomparedtotheamountofprocessingthatisusedbytheserver.
Toresolvethisproblem,youcanstartrunstatsprocessingmanually.
Issuethefollowingcommandfromtheadministrativecommand-lineinterface:dsmadmc>runstatsallCopyrightIBMCorp.
2014,20206768IBMSpectrumProtect:BlueprintandServerAutomatedConfigurationforWindowsAppendixG.
AccessibilityfeaturesfortheIBMSpectrumProtectproductfamilyAccessibilityfeaturesassistuserswhohaveadisability,suchasrestrictedmobilityorlimitedvision,touseinformationtechnologycontentsuccessfully.
OverviewTheIBMSpectrumProtectfamilyofproductsincludesthefollowingmajoraccessibilityfeatures:Keyboard-onlyoperationOperationsthatuseascreenreaderTheIBMSpectrumProtectfamilyofproductsusesthelatestW3CStandard,WAI-ARIA1.
0(www.
w3.
org/TR/wai-aria/),toensurecompliancewithUSSection508(www.
access-board.
gov/guidelines-and-standards/communications-and-it/about-the-section-508-standards/section-508-standards)andWebContentAccessibilityGuidelines(WCAG)2.
0(www.
w3.
org/TR/WCAG20/).
Totakeadvantageofaccessibilityfeatures,usethelatestreleaseofyourscreenreaderandthelatestwebbrowserthatissupportedbytheproduct.
TheproductdocumentationinIBMKnowledgeCenterisenabledforaccessibility.
TheaccessibilityfeaturesofIBMKnowledgeCenteraredescribedintheAccessibilitysectionoftheIBMKnowledgeCenterhelp(www.
ibm.
com/support/knowledgecenter/about/releasenotes.
htmlview=kc#accessibility).
KeyboardnavigationThisproductusesstandardnavigationkeys.
InterfaceinformationUserinterfacesdonothavecontentthatflashes2-55timespersecond.
Webuserinterfacesrelyoncascadingstylesheetstorendercontentproperlyandtoprovideausableexperience.
Theapplicationprovidesanequivalentwayforlow-visionuserstousesystemdisplaysettings,includinghigh-contrastmode.
Youcancontrolfontsizebyusingthedeviceorwebbrowsersettings.
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