IBM Software Data Sheet

Tivoli

IBM Tivoli Storage

FlashCopy Manager
Online, near-instant snapshot backup and restore
of critical business applications

In today’s business world, where application servers are operational

Highlights 24 hours a day, the data on these servers must be fully protected. You
can’t afford to lose any data, but you also can’t afford to stop these critical
● Perform near-instant application-aware systems for hours so you can protect the data adequately. As the amount
snapshot backup and restore, with mini-
mal performance impact for IBM DB2®, of data that needs protecting continues to grow exponentially and the
Oracle, SAP, Microsoft SQL Server and need to keep the downtime associated with backup to an absolute mini-
Exchange mum, IT processes are at their breaking point.
● Protect other applications through a
scripting interface, and perform Data volume snapshot technologies, such as IBM FlashCopy®, can help
advanced operations such as quality minimize the impact caused by backups and provide near instant restore
assurance testing through database
cloning capabilities. Many storage systems are now equipped with volume snap-
shot tools, however these hardware-based snapshot technologies provide
● Protect data on a wide range of
only “crash-consistent” copies of data. Many business-critical applications,
platforms, including AIX®, HP-UX,
Linux, Solaris, VMware and Windows including those that rely on a relational database, need an additional snap-
shot process to ensure that all parts of a data transaction are flushed from
● Satisfy advanced data protection
and data reduction needs
memory and committed to disk prior to the snapshot to ensure you have
through optional integration with a usable, consistent copy of the data.
IBM Tivoli® Storage Manager.
IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager can help deliver the highest lev-
els of protection for mission critical IBM DB2, SAP, Oracle, Microsoft
Exchange and Microsoft SQL Server applications via integrated applica-
tion-aware snapshot backup and restore capabilities. This is achieved
through the exploitation of advanced IBM storage hardware snapshot
technology to create a high performance, low impact application data
protection solution. Custom application support enables FlashCopy
Manager capabilities to be extended to any application or file system
on the supported platforms.
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As a comprehensive solution for protecting and restoring critical applications, IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager has a wide range of functionality available
from the main menu.

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IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager is an easy to install, management of multiple snapshot backup versions together
configure and deploy package that seamlessly integrates with a simple and guided installation and configuration process
with IBM System Storage® DS8000®, IBM System Storage provide an easy to use and quick to deploy data protection
SAN Volume Controller, IBM XIV® Storage System and solution that enables the most stringent database recovery
IBM Storwize® V7000 products. For Microsoft Windows time requirements to be met.
environments, Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager also protects
Microsoft applications on any other storage systems that Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager also includes advanced data
support Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS). protection and recovery features for VMware vSphere 4 and
vSphere 5 virtualized server environments. In addition to creat-
The snapshots captured by Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager ing volume-level snapshots from within virtual machines, it
can be retained as backups on local disk. Through optional offers the ability to protect an entire vSphere environment from
integration with Tivoli Storage Manager, customers can a single backup server through integration with the VMware
leverage the full range of advanced data protection and data APIs for Data Protection (VADP) and by creating volume
reduction capabilities such as data deduplication, progressive level snapshots of the VMFS datastores. Those snapshots of
incremental backup, hierarchical storage management and the VMFS datastores can be used to restore individual virtual
centrally managed policy based administration. machine images, virtual volumes owned by a virtual machine,
or individual files from a virtual volume of a particular virtual
Since a snapshot operation typically takes much less time than machine.
the time for a tape backup, the window during which the appli-
cation must be aware of a backup can be reduced. This facili- In Windows environments, Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager
tates more frequent backups—which can reduce the time spent can exploit SQL Server data compression when sending data
performing forward recovery through transaction logs—and to Tivoli Storage Manager, to reduce storage and network
increases the flexibility of backup scheduling and eases adminis- bandwidth requirements, and can restore the backups of SQL
tration. Application availability is also significantly improved and Exchange databases to flat files.
due to the reduction of the load on the production servers.
Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager supports clustered
Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager exploits storage snapshot application environments (MSCS or VCS on Windows and
capabilities to provide high speed, low impact application HACMP™ on AIX) as well as Microsoft Exchange 2007 and
integrated backup and restore functionality for the supported Exchange 2010 continuous replication configurations.
application and storage environments. Automated policy based

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Application*** Storage Solution Optional

Oracle 10g and 11g DS8000 Tivoli Storage
DB2 UDB v9.5+ Storwize V7000* FlashCopy Manager –
SAP BRTools 7.10+ SVC* AIX, HP-UX,
XIV Linux-x64, or
Solaris Client

VMware vSphere
Microsoft Exchange DS8000
2003, 2007 or 2010 DS5000 Tivoli Storage Storage Manager
Microsoft SQL 2005 DS4000 FlashCopy Manager -
or 2008 DS3000 Windows Client
Storwize V7000*
SVC*
XIV
Other**

* Plus any storage supported by SVC

** Any VSS-capable storage is supported by the Windows Client
*** And other applications through custom scripting

IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager provides advanced protection for critical applications on IBM System Storage.

Item Level Recovery for Microsoft Key benefits

Exchange ● Improve backup and recovery times from hours to a
Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager contains built-in capabilities few minutes.
to restore individual mailbox and mail items of Microsoft ● Improve productivity by simplifying management and
Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010 servers from a snapshot automating routine administrative tasks.
backup, including messages, calendars, contacts and other mail ● Leverage existing investments in IBM storage systems
objects. and core data protection and recovery systems such as
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager.

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Simplified deployment and advanced When used with IBM XIV Storage System, FlashCopy
application of snapshot capabilities Manager similarly exploits XIV’s highly efficient, auto
IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager includes all the func- provisioned snapshots. Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager
tion needed to install, configure and execute application-aware also integrates with IBM System Storage DS3000, DS4000 and
snapshot protection. Included in the solution are easy to use DS5000 via the Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Services
wizards that guide the installation and configuration process. (VSS) interface to provide application-consistent recovery
Additionally, Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager will check to of critical Windows applications.
ensure that all the needed pre-requisite software is installed and
configured. Optional Tivoli Storage Manager
Integration
In addition to backup and recovery functions, Tivoli Storage The optional integration with IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
FlashCopy Manager provides database cloning support to help allows Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager users to take advan-
users perform tasks that are not directly tied to backup and tage of the robust data protection and data reduction capabili-
recovery procedures such as quality assurance, education, ties, such as data deduplication, of Tivoli Storage Manager:
application development, and data mining.
● Enhanced data protection scalability with a relational
Integration with IBM Storage System database, based on IBM DB2 technology, designed to
Hardware Snapshot Technology store many more objects and manage more data
Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager exploits the incremental
● Near real-time monitoring and operational reporting
FlashCopy backup capabilities of the IBM System Storage capabilities
DS8000, IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC)
● Built-in source-side and target-side data deduplication that
and IBM Storwize V7000 to provide application-consistent pro- help eliminate redundant data; this can enable significantly
tection of critical data, enabling faster, more reliable recoveries. more backup data to be stored on disk and can reduce
network traffic
Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager works with any of the more
● Centralized backup and archive of the data stored on the
than 130 storage devices that can be virtualized under SVC networked computers throughout an organization
and will automatically detect snapshot deletions that are done
● Automated, progressive incremental backup-restore and
outside of Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager. Tivoli Storage archive-retrieve of the data from more than a dozen
FlashCopy Manager also enables the near-instant restore different platforms
capabilities of SAN Volume Controller when there are
● Automated, policy-based disaster preparation, planning,
multiple backup generations on space efficient target volumes and recovery
(for Microsoft Windows).

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