Dave Cannon

This session provides a detailed preview of selected future enhancements in the next TSM release and beyond. Topics include deduplication, security and compliance, management of the server database and storage hierarchy, virtual tape library integration, and software deployment.

Alejandro Iribarren

In this talk Alex will give an introduction to CERN and explain CERN's backup environment. He'll talk about their experiences running TSM on GNU/Linux, the challenges they are facing and some of their future plans.

Martin Zimmermann

Martin will talk about the deployment of the new Backup and Recovery Infrastructure at rku.it. From the start without any VTL to an installation with 2 NetApp VTL1400 in their TSM environment. He will cover the planning and the reason for introducing a new Backup technology. As well he will talk about the handling and the administration of the new solution. At the end he will give a complete overview of the new infrastructure and the advantages rku.it is seeing with this new solution.
** NOTICE: this talk will be in German language **

Alexander Dunaevskiy

For many years, LRZ has operated different NetApp NAS systems.These systems are characterized by high reliability and availability.The Snapshot technology by the NetApp systems is well working butwe need an additional protection of the dates on the tapes to long-term protection or to an extra high degree of security of the dates. The NDMP Backup function of TSM offers a powerful solution. In this talk we present the functionality of TSM NDMP Backup from thepoint of view of TSM as well as the NetApp Filer.
We discuss the different schemes of NDMP Backup.
The comparison of the performance between IBM LTO and SUN STK Titanium Tape is presented. An overview of typical problems and their solutions in the NDMP Backup environment is given.
Finally, we present a few easy rules based on wide experiences of LRZ with NDMP Backup.

Stefan Bender

For several versions of GPFS and TSM HSM, IBM has invested in the integration between both products. GPFS has developed special policies to drive backup and migration to address the challenges in large environments. This integration also ensures that the complete storage and data management is centralized in the GPFS policies.

Jim Smith

The Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive client includes a wide variety of options and techniques for backing up your data, including full incremental (progressive) backup, incremental-by-date backup, adaptive subfile backup, journal-based backup, and others. This session will discuss and compare the various backup techniques available with Tivoli Storage Manager. The presentation will address specific scenarios in which these methods should be considered, such as protection of large file systems and performing backups when bandwidth is extremely constrained.

Pier Paolo Ricci

At INFN-CNAF TIER1 one year ago we started an evalutation of theintegration between GPFS and TSM Hierarchical Storage Manager (HSM) in order to realize an HSM system for the experiments at LHC.These tests were performed partly in the framework of beta testing of TSM since we exploited the new specific features implemented in the new version of TSM-HSM (from 6.1). These new features are focused on a more hierarchical view approch of TSM in which high performance and optimized access to the tape backend are considered as a crucial and essential part of the system.
In this paper we describe the tests and the preliminary but significativeresults from an intensive data access activity.

Gerd Becker

The Storage Workgroup of GUIDE SHARE EUROPE (GSE) will have a meeting during the BOF timeslot of TSM2009.

Dave Cannon

Data deduplication offers the possibility of storing more data on disk, thus increasing the likelihood that data can be accessed on disk rather than tape. This session begins with an overview of data reduction methods, including deduplication. Technologies and design considerations for data deduplication solutions are then examined. The speaker will discuss the implementation and design choices for server-side deduplication in TSM V6, and explain how this compares with other TSM data reduction methods. Positioning of TSM deduplication with other IBM deduplication solutions will be covered briefly.

Dave Cannon

During the 16-year history of TSM, the single most extensive technology change has probably been replacement of the legacy database with DB2 in TSM Version 6. This session is a technical review of this change, including historical background and rationale. The speaker will outline benefits and implementation of the new TSM DB2 database in areas such as availability, scalability, performance and administration. The session will also include an overview of the process for upgrading the database to DB2.

Rainer Wolafka

The Integrated Removable Media Manager (IRMM) simplifies the usage of tape for TSM by eliminating the need to define tape paths in TSM. IRMM discovers all tape resources (drives, drive paths, cartridges) and provisions them dynamically during the mount processing of a cartridge. IRMM detects new resources automatically and makes them available to TSM without requiring further configuration changes inside TSM.
IRMM can also increase the availability of tape storage by integrating the resources of multiple tape libraries. TSM administrators still have clear control about to which tape library incoming data is written. However, it is possible to setup IRMM policies, to redirect new data to the resources of one of the remaining tape libraries, in the case one tape library or a whole data center is down.
Selected customer case studies will be presented to illustrate how IRMM helped to satisfy advanced customer requirements for using tape in TSM.

Manfred Thaller

Within research on digital long term preservation the hardware layer - and indeed the technical infrastructure - is frequently taken for granted, research focusing on organizational models and issues. The presentation gives an introductory overview of some activities at the University of Cologne which contrastingly focus on the technical issues and introduces a bottom up model for digital long term preservation which understands it as a series of software layers to be added on top of an existing archiving system, gradually converting a backup solution into a full blown long term repository as the amount of data sensitive for long term preservation grows within an institution.

Lothar Wollschläger

This session describes how we use TSM to back up the LUSTRE file system of our new general purpose supercomputers JUROPA and HPC-FF. The configuration of the new supercomputers will be explained and how they are integrated in our supercomputer environment. Next the TSM servers will be described and how they work together. We look at the TSM Servers responsible for backing up the LUSTRE file system, the configuration of the backup clients and how the user can restore his datasets.

Hana Darzi

Back-Up of Exchange 2007 server without TDP for Exchange. The Exchange database is on Netapp Storage. It is a clustered system, the database copy is on another Netapp Storage. I take a consist snapshot with Netapp tools. Then using iscsi technology on dedicated backup host, I mount all the Exchange database volumes. Now it is ready for archiving with TSM BA client. In Windows Backup host I have a script that mounts the snapshot volumes and archive the data. The TSM server has a scheduler that operates this script.

Jasper Gundry-White

IBM TS7650 ProtecTIER Deduplication provides an innovative data protection platform for Tivoli Storage Manager. With its advanced HyperFactor data deduplication technology, the IBM TS7650 Virtual Tape Library (VTL) greatly improves the speed and reliability of backup and recovery operations while significantly reducing the total cost of ownership of a disk-based backup and recovery environment. Case studies in EMEA like e.g. banks and other small and big customers demonstrate the pratical impact of deduplication and VTL.

Oliver Augenstein

With BR*-Tools 7.10 SAP has introduced the ability to backup and restore SAP databases at a volume level . This enables TSM to provide ultra fast backups and restores of very large SAP systems and more intelligent retry methods which can help to improve overall backup success rates.
This talk will be an in depth presentation of the TSM backup solution for SAP and illustrates how to best protect SAP environments with TSM technology.

Josef Weingand

If talking about Backup Storage, nowadays, everyone talks about VTL and Data DeDuplication (DDD). We will discuss how VTLs and DDD fits in TSM and what are the benefits and disadvantages of VTL/DDD. We will compare it to clasic TSM architecture with tape and show which storage architectures should be used based on data types.

Stephan Peinkofer

The amount of data that can be stored in a HSM file system is virtually unlimited. However, when the number of files is rapidly and constantly increasing, the performance of meta-data operations like searching for migrate able files becomes a critical issue which limits the number of files which can be stored in a single HSM file system. Unfortunately, it seems that HSM file system vendors have mostly ignored this issue in the past and so there are virtually no precise recommendations for how large a HSM file system in terms of number of files can grow while still delivering a reasonable performance. Therefore we developed a reusable scalability analysis framework which was used to compare the scalability of the native IBM TSM/HSM client on GPFS and the SUN SAM/QFS file system.
We will present:
- Some background information on the long-term archiving project for which this tool was developed
- The differences between TSM/HSM and SAM/QFS
- The findings of the scalability analysis

Peter Ludlow

Scaling out to cater for backup (and more importantly restore) for throughput has until recently been limited to SAN based Storage Agents backing themselves up direct to SAN attached tapes. In this paper I will explore the use of Storage Agents as Proxy servers to facilitate 'clusters' of LAN based clients using a set of such Storage Agents to remove the IP load from the TSM Server. In addition I will discuss the use of a Proxy Storage Agent using a high speed backend 10GigE connection to an NFS mounted 'FILE' library. If this NFS mounted device happens to de-duplicate data, then this is an added bonus. Using IP/NFS reduces the cost and complexities normally associated with FC/SAN attachments.

Oliver Augenstein

Due to rapid storage growth rates of enterprise applications, it is becoming increasingly challenging for system administrators to meet their recovery time objectives. To make things worse, business is accepting fewer application outages and smaller maintenance windows for mission critical applications. While in the past, technological advances allowed system administrators to boost data transfer rates fast enough to meet those challenges, we are now seeing conventional tuning methods (such as adding more resources) reaching their limits. During this session, we will discuss how TSM leverages snapshot technologies to reduce dramatically RTOs for various business-critical applications (such as DB2, SQL Server, Oracle, Exchange, and SAP), and how it introduces a new degree of freedom enabling system administrators to schedule backups throughout the day without impacting application availability. We will also show how the flexibility gain helps to decrease the number of failed backups and allows to better leverage tape resources.

Kurt Gerecke

The presentation gives all attendies an update in tape drive technologies and why tape will have a renaissance within the next years. Further the presentation informs about all IBM news regarding tape libraries, new functions and new capabilities with the IBM high density technique.

Josef Weingand

I will cover technical news on IBM Tape, VTL and Data DeDuplication and the implementation and usage considerations for TSM, such as:
-IBM Tape Device Driver Hints&Tips
-IBM TS1130 implementation and migration with TSM
-IBM TS3500 / 3584 Tape Library
 *ALMS Hints&Tips
 *New Reporting Tool

Bruno Lix

Based on data from several universities, acceptance and significance of Backup and Archive sevices in universities is investigated. The result is, that these services are in heavy use all across the university. They have grown into essential cornerstones of IT infrastructure. IT strategy has to take this adequately into account.

Tom O'Brien

The TSM family of products has been driving forward with significant releases to help you deal with the enormous data growth in your organization as well as providing an industry-leading solution for remote office protection. TSM continues this momentum with significant enhancements in the roadmap to extend data reduction, increase integration, simplify management and enhance data protection for virtual servers. This session will cover the 2009-2010 roadmap for the TSM family of products.

Tom O'Brien

Small offices and remote branch offices of larger businesses have unique data protection challenges such as limited resources and skills dedicated to data protection and, in the case of remote offices, limited available bandwidth. Tivoli Storage Manager Fastback, the newest addition to the IBM Tivoli Storage management portfolio, can help you address these challenges. TSM FastBack provides near-instant recovery and immediate access to data after any type of data loss. It is a full-featured data protection product that is easy to use, install and configure and is designed with the small business and remote branch office in mind. This session will include an overview of the capabilities of TSM FastBack and how it can be used in a TSM environment.

Tom O'Brien

As business needs evolve, IT solutions must evolve with them and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager is no exception. Tivoli Storage Manager Version 6 is designed to greatly improve scalability and manageability with changes including improvements in the server database, administration, reporting, monitoring, NAS and Windows support. This session will provide an overview of the features and functions in TSM

Stefan Bender

HSM is a technology to move old data from your fast, but expensive and energy-consuming disks to less expensive storage media like tape. HSM integrates seamlessly into the storage architecture, ensuring transparent access to migrated data. This session will provide an overview of the available HSM products in the Tivoli portfolio. It will cover differences between backup, archive and HSM, and how HSM helps to recover your system. It will also talk about implementing an HSM solution in a large GPFS environment.

Cyrus Nilchian

This lecture gives a brief introduction into TSM's data protection solution portfolio including data protection for MS Exchange and MS SharePoint.
The focus of this lecture are the new features introduced in TSM version 6 and their technical implementation.To name a few of these functions: Individual Mailbox Recovery for MS Exchange, Near Zero Impact Backup for MS Exchange leveraging the VSS interface, Business Intelligence Matrix for MS SharePoint data protection, Platform Level Backup for MS SharePoint with individual object recovery and Data Coalescing for MS SharePoint backups.

Cyrus Nilchian

This 'Birds Of the Feather' session gives a brief introduction into TSM's data protection solutions for MS Exchange and MS SharePoint introduced in TSM 6.
All new functions, such as Individual Mailbox Recovery for MS Exchange as well as TSM for SharePoint's new Business Intelligence Matrix, will be highlighted and a live demo of both products will be conducted. The attendees have the opportunity to freely ask questions and discuss any topic concerning TSM's data protection portfolio.

Matt Anglin

This best practices and planning session will discuss the technology and functional considerations surrounding the new DB2 server database. The speaker will open by covering planning considerations for TSM Version 6, including recommendations for hardware, disk, and memory. Next we will explore how the upgrade from TSM V5.x to TSM V6 works, including how this processing handles database errors in an existing TSM V5.x server. The session will cover operational considerations of the DB2 database and log, including database reorganization, statistics gathering, the new log model, and database backup. We will close with a discussion of issues or problems seen by IBM service relating to deployment and upgrade for TSM V6.

Denise Tacay

This session presents how backup data in the Petabyte range was migrated onto a new hardware in the RWTH Aachen University. This subject comes along with many points that had to be regarded, but also with the possibility to improve the existing structure. In particular we will describe how a single domain is migrated and how a logical TSM server can be switched from one machine to another.

Gerd Becker

What methods can we use, to backup NAS Filers like IBM N series / NetApp with Tivoli Storage Manager.Details about Snapshots, NDMP, Filer-to-Server, Snap Mirror to Tape, Incemental with Snapdiff. This presentation will show, how it fits all together to design a powerful backup and disaster recovery solution

Jim Smith

Virtual machines have different characteristics than physical machines that must be considered when planning backup and recovery. Given these differences, there are a number of methodologies that can be employed to meet recovery time and recovery point objectives. This session will explore the options available for virtual machine backup/recovery with Tivoli Storage Manager. We will discuss general approaches for virtual machine protection and take a close look at VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) technology.

Matt Anglin

This deep dive and best practices session will discuss the TSM Version 6 data deduplication capabilities. After a brief overview of the technology and algorithms, we will discuss how to get started with deduplication and get it operational. We will conclude with a discussion on management implications such as what to monitor, how deduplication affects other TSM server functions, and how to recover from lost data in a deduplicating storage pool. Throughout the session, recommendations will be given based on what has been learned from the field since TSM Version 6 was delivered.