Main benefit of TB pricing is relief from counting PVUs. Also if customer has lot of servers and many agents in use and “relatively” low amount of TB’s backup data managed by TSM servers. Following products are included in terabyte based pricing.
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Suite for Unified Recovery V6.2 offers terabyte pricing and a feature-rich suite of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager products
Note: TSM for Sharepoint is not included.
IBM announcement letter ENUSZP11-0249.PDF
Citrix announces XenClient 2 with Hardware support extended 3 times more Laptops. Graphics support includes now Intel HW Graphics and Radeon and FirePro from AMD.
Citrix News Release: Citrix Announces XenClient 2 and XenClient XT
IBM Storwize V7000 Version 6.2 Announcement Letter
Highlights:
Added 10GbE iSCSI support
Support for up to nine IBM Storiwize V7000 expansion Enclosures
One Storwize V7000 can now manage up to 32PB of storage
Intermixing support of SAS, Nearline SAS and solid-state drives (SSD)
VMware vStorage API for Array Integration (VAAI) support (Full copy, block zeroing and HW assisted locking)
Interoperability support added for HP StorageWorks P9500, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform, Texas Memory Systems RamSan-620 and EMC VNX models.
Real-time performance monitoring now gathers following system level statistics
- CPU util
- Port util and IO rates
- Volume and MDisk I/O rates
- Bandwidth
- Latency
Samping rate can be as low as 5 secs. Historical data is kept for five minutes. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center can capture more detailed performance information and analyze trends.
Plug-In for VMware vCenter
VMware administrators can monitor and manager Storwize V7000 volumes from VMware.
FlashCopy target as Remote Copy source
Revised licensing rules for Remote Mirroring Software
Availability dates for Storwize V7000 Software V6.2.0 June 10, 2011 and VMware vCenter Plug-In June 30, 2011.
Currently there are several approaches how to backup virtual machines:
Guest
- Install agent every virtual machine
Host based
- Install linux based host to ESX server (not officially supported)
Off host
- VCB proxy server (3.x ESX) or vStorage backup server (4.x ESX)
Hardware based
- Using Storage System based snapshots. However Data Consistency can be challenge.
TSM 6.2 supports file and image level backup using VMware vStorage APIs.
TSM for Virtual Environments
- Changed Block tracking makes possible to do incremental backups (block level).
- Instant restore and file level restore just as fast and easy as in TSM Fastback
- iSCSI target interface to expose restore data for user restores
- Automatically identify new Virtual Machines
- Supports Microsoft VSS
- You can do file, volume, image level recovery from single-pass backup
- Offloads backup load from virtual machines to vStorage backup servers. vStorage backup server can be virtual server.
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National Semiconductor requirements
Creditibility – mentioned by Gartner
Functional requirements
- Software distribution and patching
- HW & SW inventory
- Softtware Asset Management
Why Desktop Architech loves BigFix
Much easier to package
- Don’t need to manually package Adobe updates
- Same package for auto & manual install
Smarter deployments
- can deploy only if IE is closed
Automatically uninstall unwanted SW
- Example: McAfee add-on to Flash install
Better reporting
Why IT Manager loves BigFix
- No complaints from Senior Mgmt
How BigFix exceeded expectations
- Light infrastructure
- Scheduling capabilities
- Easy to package
- “Smart” deployments
- Better reporting
- Good Support
BigFix is now Tivoli Endpoint Manager (TEM)
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Pulse2011 Customer Case Chesapeake Energy Corporation
TSM backups of total 1.4PB from 1560 Servers
5 TSM servers
- 3 Oklahoma City
- 2 Fort Worth
4 Tabe libraries total 34 LTO drives
- 2 Oklahoma City
- 2 Fort Worth
1 80TB XIV in OKC
Quote “XIV is great for TSM”
How TSM reduces managed data in Chesapeake environment
- Incremental Forever
- Compression
- Deduplication at server or client
Other ways to reduce
- Keep fewer backups
- Dont backup
Dedupe what makes sence
Full backups
- DB
- Exchange
- VMware
Incremental Forevers backups
- OS and system state
Other considerations
- Data change rate
- Retention
- Restore reqirements
Selected Oracle backups to dedupe
- Backups are kept fo 2 weeks
- Dedupe at TSM server side
Selected Oracle DB’s about 1TB per day
- RMAN and TDP with compression
- 75% dedupe
350 Windows servers with TSM 6.2 client with client compression
- C-drive and system state
- 5.4TB compresed incremental forever data managed
- After client dedupe -> 2.1TB -> 62% reduction
Cost when not deduping
- Disk space
- Tapes -> onsite and offsite
- Lbrary ceels and tape drives needed
Costs when deduping
- Additional disk space
- Savings -> Less tape -> offsite
- Savings -> Fewer library cells, tape drives
- Savings -> Dedupe is included with TSM (every edition)
AIX used in TSM servers no performance issues with TSM Server side deduplication
Dedupe data that helps meet our Goal. It should:
- Reduce managed space
- Ectend the use of existing HW resources
- Meet and improve restore requirements
- Simpify
- Dedupe is “free”, no additional cost. Comes with TSM
Chesepeake uses capacity based pricing model with TSM. Savings in not needing to count PVUs and took back control of backup costs. Online data grows lke crazy but backup costs are under control and growth is under control by utilizing TSM capabilities.
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Rachel Dines Forrester analyst mentioned at Pulse2011 Storage Management Track Kickoff session Advanced technologies that make (backup) storage more efficient:
Read Rachel Dines’s blog | Forrester Blogs
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You can Electronic Arts games for Nokia phones for free. Check from Ovi Store (Games may not be available in all markets).
Nokia Bubbles in cool and efficient way to unlock your phone and initiate some of the following actions:
This means that Nokia Meamo OS phones are actually Android compatible.
Android dual-boot could make Nokia N900 jack of two trades — Engadget
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