IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager Tutorial

IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager Tutorial

As databases & mail servers are becoming more critical, crash consistent snapshot is no more doing the trick for the 24×7 enterprise. Enterprises are no more able to risk losing these few non committed transactions that might be in processing while the snapshot happen. These missing transactions can be very expensive to lose, or even can render your database snapshot useless.
IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager work with IBM Storage FlashCopy Functionality to provide a transaction consistent snapshot that can be used for an instantaneous restore at a later time or just to send backup to tape with a very short backup window.
As IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager has just been released few weeks back & not much resource on it are available, I have decided to share my own guide with you online. Below is the tutorial agenda & I will try to get all these chapters online as soon as possible. My tutorial will focus on protecting MS SQL on DS8000, but it can be used as a guide for most other IBM storages & for protecting MS Exchange as well.

1) http://princephanindra.blogspot.com/2011/07/1-ibm-system-storage-ds8000-copy.html
 
   1.1 http://princephanindra.blogspot.com/2011/07/1.html
   1.2 http://princephanindra.blogspot.com/2011/07/12-ibm-system-storage-ds8000-flashcopy.html
   1.3 http://princephanindra.blogspot.com/2011/07/ibm-tivoli-storage-flashcopy-manager_28.html
2) http://princephanindra.blogspot.com/2011/07/ibm-tivoli-flashcopy-manager-for-sql.html
  
   2.1 http://princephanindra.blogspot.com/2011/07/ibm-tivoli-storage-flashcopy-manager_6969.html
   2.2 http://princephanindra.blogspot.com/2011/07/ibm-tivoli-storage-flashcopy-manager_8025.html
3) http://princephanindra.blogspot.com/2011/07/ibm-system-storage-ds8100-preperation.html
   3.1 http://princephanindra.blogspot.com/2011/07/creating-vssfree-and-vssreserved-pools.html
   3.2 http://princephanindra.blogspot.com/2011/07/ibm-system-storage-ds8000-cim-agent.html
   3.3 http://princephanindra.blogspot.com/2011/07/ds8000-cim-agent-for-hmc-enablement.html
   3.4 http://princephanindra.blogspot.com/2011/07/ibm-system-storage-ds8000-cim-agent-for.html