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IBM Power Systems ProtecTIER on IBM i Screen Cam Setup Demo and Best Practices August 2011 Nancy Roper Americas Advanced Technical Support nroper@ca.ibm.com ™ © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ Agenda ProtecTIER Family Reminder Screen Cam Demo – Sign on and Look Around – Create a VTL with virtual drives – Set up BRMS – Make Replication Policies – Run the Saves – Switch the Replicated Tapes Around What Next? – Request a Detailed ProtecTIER Presentation – Do a Sizing – Attend Gaithersburg Workshop 2 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ IBM TS7600 ProtecTIER® Deduplication Family Highest Performance New in July 2010 Largest Capacity Good Performance Better Performance Highly Scalable Larger Capacity Highest Performance High Performance Highest Performance Largest Capacity High Capacity Largest Capacity High Availability High Availability Flexible Storage Scalable Low cost Good Performance Entry Capacity Very Low cost Single Node Single Node Single Node Single Node Single Node Up to 85 MB/sec Up to 85 MB/sec 5.9 TB (5.5 TiB) useable 4.4 TB (4.0 TiB) 3 useable Up to 100 MB/sec 7 TB (6.3 TiB) useable Up to 250 MB/sec 18 TB (15.8 TiB) useable Up to 500 MB/sec 36 TB (31.5 TiB) useable Single Node Active-Active Cluster Active-Active Cluster Up to 1400 MB/sec Up to 2000 MB/sec Up to 500 MB/sec 1 PB useable 1 PB useable 36 TB (31.5 TiB) useable The Gateway overall performance figures are for the DD4 ProtecTIERs that GA’d in Dec 2010. The other performance figures are the same for DD3 and DD4 ProtecTIERs © 2011 IBM Corporation ® Overview of Real Life Setup Steps ™ • Create VTL, Drives, Media • Create Replication policy TS7610 Appliance • Install + Power Up • Key in IP Addresses • Watch DVD Videos (done by customer) TS7650 Appliance • Install + Power Up • Key in IP Addresses • On-the-job Training (done with Lab Services) 4 TS7650 Gateway (approx 5-8 wizard screens each) • Install Disk, Create LUNs • Install ProtecTIER, Power Up, Attach Disk • Setup Metadata & Repository • Setup Comms • On-the-job Training (done with Lab Services) All ProtecTIERs • Set up the ProtecTIER Manager GUI • Reset Fibre Cards • Adjust BRMS just like when you add any new tape library © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ ProtecTIER Demo Overview (the screen shots in this demo are from ProtecTIER V2.4) 5 © 2011 IBM Corporation IBM Rochester ProtecTIER Environment ™ • various volumes IBM i – X0926P1 •SRC001 to SRC005 Fc 5761 TS7650 – “Source-RochPT1” “RochPT1” (Single Node System) • various volumes IBM i – X0925P1 4) Make Replication Policies 5) Run the Saves 6) Move the replicated tapes around WAN for IP Replication WAN for PT Mgr GUI Fc 5761 SAN Switch TS7650 – “Target-RochPT2” Cluster Node 1 “RochPT2” (Single Node System) TS7650 Data Repository TS7650 Data Repository “Source-RochPT1” “Target-RochPT2” Virtual Libraries •Test Source •BRMS •IOPless Gen 2 •Another One 6 •TGT001 to TGT002 3) Set up BRMS SAN Switch Cluster Node 1 BRMS Network Virtual Media • various volumes PT Mgr GUI •SRCVTL1 •20 slots •10 Conv IO slots •4 drives on port 1 1) Signon and Look Around •SRC001 to SRC005 2) Create VTL etc Virtual Libraries •Test Replica Virtual Media • various volumes •TGTVTL2 •10 slots •5 Conv IO slots •2 drives on port 1 •TGT001 to TGT002 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ® ™ ProtecTIER Demo Sign on and look around 7 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ 8 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ 9 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ Repeat for 2nd ProtecTIER node 10 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ 11 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ Notice the ProtecTIER is idle right now Notice the entire repository is available right now. Nothing has been saved yet Take a look at the Source ProtecTIER 12 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ Repeat for the Target ProtecTIER 13 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ ProtecTIER Demo Look at the Comms Config 14 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ xx (1) These are the fibre ports that connect the IBM i servers to the ProtecTIER. The fibre ports that connect the disk repository are not displayed via the PT GUI. A dual-node ProtecTIER would have 8 ports (3) Review on remote ProtecTIER too if you want (2) These are Ethernet Links for the ProtecTIER HA Cluster (if you have a 2-node system) and IP Replication (if you have it) 15 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ ProtecTIER Demo Create a VTL / Drive / Media 16 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ Create VTL / Drives / Virtual Media This defines the library Note that this name does not get passed to the IBM i. You should sign on later and rename the TAPMLBxx to this name to make your life simpler 17 Always choose IBM TS3500 for IBM i © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ Create VTL / Drives / Virtual Media These screens plus the next one defines the 4 drives 18 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ Create VTL / Drives / Virtual Media Design your drive attachment configuration carefully before filling out this screen You would normally spread the drives across all ports (but our system only has 1 fibre cable!) 19 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ Create VTL / Drives / Virtual Media This screen creates your virtual media. If you consume all your repository space with scratch cartridges, the size of unused cartridges will vary over time as your de-dup ratio varies. In choosing the cartridge size, remember that an IBM i Tape library can have at most 5000 “elements” (places where cartridges are stored) and every virtual cartridge needs a slot 22 Instead, set the max cartridge size and create enough scratch tapes to get to your “Steady State”, then make more scratch cartridges later © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ Create VTL / Drives / Virtual Media Define the slots and convenience IO for your library Don’t skimp on the slots since you have to take the PT offline to add more. You need more slots on a virtual library than a physical library since all tapes need a slot. On physical libraries, many of the active tapes are not in the library because they are offsite Beware that IBM i has a max of 5000 “elements” in a tape library. Make enough convenience I/O slots to hold all the tapes you want to eject each day 23 An element is anywhere a tape can reside – slots, drives, picker, and convenience io © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ Create VTL / Drives / Virtual Media VTL Creation Confirmation Screen 24 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ Create VTL / Drives / Virtual Media Wait while the library is created, then sign on to the IBM i and reset the tape adapter so the virtual library will auto-configure Switch to the Remote ProtecTIER and create TGTVTL2 the same way 25 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ ProtecTIER Demo Check the VTL / Drive on the IBM i 26 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ xx (4) Run INZBRM *DEVICE to update BRMS (3) Mark the drives “unprotected” (1) Use STRSST to reset the tape adapter attached to the ProtecTIER so it will report in. (2) The ProtecTIER will take the next available TAPMLBxx name. Rename it to match the name you keyed on the PT GUI to keep your environment orderly 27 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ ProtecTIER Demo Check the VTL / Drive /Media on the ProtecTIER 28 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ xx 1) Pick the proper system/node 2) Pick the VTL of interest 3) Move through the tabs to see all the details of the VTL 29 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ xx Look at the drives 30 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ xx Look at the virtual volumes 31 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ xx Look at the media sorted by slot # 32 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ xx Look at the Convenience IO Station 33 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ ProtecTIER Demo Set up BRMS ready to do a save 34 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ xx Note that you can make the cartridges any size you like, not just LTO3 sizes. Performance will match whatever your ProtecTIER configuration allows – you’re not tied to LTO3 speeds. Make a BRMS Media Class. Remember the TS7650 emulates LTO3. If you also have regular LTO3 drives, you need separate media classes for physical vs virtual LTO3 volumes. 35 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ xx Repeat this for any volumes on the remote ProtecTIER Add the virtual volumes into BRMS using ADDMLMBRM. Be sure to initialize them or they will get an odd label that will cause trouble later. You may want to use the actual command vs getting there from WRKMLMBRM 36 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ If desired, make a BRMS Move policy that moves the tapes to the remote VTL and back again. Choose if you want to verify moves or not (either will work with ProtecTIER IP Replication) 37 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ Make a BRMS Media Policy that points to the Virtual LTO3 media class and your new move policy 38 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ Make a BRMS Control Group to do your save. Make sure it points to the new Media Policy you just made and the virtual library Before we run the BRMS Control group, let’s also set up a replication policy on the ProtecTIER 39 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ ProtecTIER Demo (aside) What’s the Shelf? 40 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ Replication Concepts – High Level Local ProtecTIER Replication is done by Volser Remote ProtecTIER Replication Policy #1 A01 A02 A03 B01 B02 B03 C01 C02 C03 A01 A02 A03 C01 C02 C03 If a volser is not listed in a replication policy, it doesn’t replicate Replication Policy #2 Different Replication Policies can be used for different volser ranges – eg different systems or backups or priorities BUT … duplicate volsers are a problem for backup applications … so ProtecTIER has an elegant solution using “Visibility Switching” via “The Shelf” ….. 41 © 2011 IBM Corporation Replication Concepts – Visibility Switching and “The Shelf” ™ Local ProtecTIER A01 A02 A03 B01 B02 B03 C01 C02 C03 Each ProtecTIER has a “shelf” where the non-active copies of the tape are stored After Replication, if the tapes are more likely to be used at the primary site, then leave the remote copies on the remote shelf If the tapes are more likely to be used at the remote site, then ProtecTIER can work with the backup application to move them into the remote library automatically Local Shelf 42 Remote ProtecTIER Remote Shelf Tapes can also be moved manually. It’s also possible (but unusual) to keep both copies on their respective shelf, or both in their respective library A01 A02 A03 C01 C02 C03 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ® ™ ProtecTIER Replication – Replication Queue SRC-VTL1 TGT-VTL2 001 001 Replication Queue SRC-SHELF TGT-SHELF 001 • Tapes always replicate from a Virtual VTL to a shelf • For replicated tapes, the data is kept on BOTH systems, but is only accessible to the tape management system from 1 site at a time • A replication policy that has a VTL as a target lets the Tape Management System move the replicated tape into the remote VTL • Depending on your replication policy, tapes can start replicating the minute a byte of data hits the virtual volume, or they can wait till the timeframe you set as your replication window. Note that you need to allow bandwidth for replication. 43 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ xx Initially, our shelf is empty 44 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ ProtecTIER Demo Set up the System-wide Replication timeframe 45 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ Check the System Wide Replication Timeframes Ongoing Replication is easiest for testing, so click the top radio button for our demo Replication throttles are available for both physical and nominal transmissions 46 Be sure to size the repository for enough bandwidth if you plan to run both saves and replication at once © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ ProtecTIER Demo Set up a Replication Policy 47 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ 48 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ (2) Click on Replication to create a new policy (1) There are 2 replication policies here already from someone else. They handle different tape volsers from the ones we are using. 49 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ Creating a Replication Policy 50 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ Creating a Replication Policy Our first Replication Policy will leave the tapes on the Shelf at the Remote Site (vols SRC001 to SRC002) Normally, tapes in a “shelf” replication policy would use a BRMS save that did NOT have a move policy (but we accidentally gave them a BRMS move policy in this demo!) 51 Thereafter, we’ll repeat the steps to make a 2nd Replication Policy that moves the tapes into the Remote VTL (vols SRC003 to SRC005). These tapes would normally HAVE a BRMS Move policy © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ Creating a Replication Policy When we repeat the steps to make a 2nd Replication Policy that moves the tapes into the Remote VTL, we’ll assign it to vols SRC003 to SRC005 52 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ Creating a Replication Policy Confirmation Screen for first Replication Policy 53 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ Here’s how it will look once the 2 new replication policies are created Highlight each policy on the pane above to look at the details on the right 54 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ ProtecTIER Demo Watching the Backups Run 55 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ Kick off the first BRMS Backup, then look on the ProtecTIER. Virtual Volume SRC001 is mounted on virtual drive #3 56 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ xx Go to the Cartridge Tab and you can see virtual volume SRC001 filling. 57 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ xx Go to the System Screen and see the activity on the ProtecTIER fibre ports. DD3 ProtecTIER ports were 4 Gbit, DD4 ports are 8 Gbit. Remember your SAN needs to be 8 Gbit to take advantage of the DD4 ports 58 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ Eventually as you run a few backups, you can see some stats on dedup ratios 59 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ The remote ProtecTIER has similar stats for the replicated data 60 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ ProtecTIER Demo Watching the Replication Run 61 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ xx On the local ProtecTIER, you can see the replication activity pending 62 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ xx On the local ProtecTIER, now you can see the replication activity running 63 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ xx Go to the remote ProtecTIER and notice our virtual volume, SRC001, is now on the shelf there, filling gradually since we told it to start replicating as soon as there was data on the tape vs waiting for a replication window 64 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ xx Run another BRMS save and SRC002 will also replicate to the remote shelf Oops! SRC001 and SRC002 have a “shelf” replication policy, so we should have done a BRMS save with no move policy. 65 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ ProtecTIER Demo Manual Move from Shelf 66 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ Manually Moving a Replicated Tape Suppose you needed to restore some data from a tape that was on the remote shelf, eg SRC001. You can move it into the library manually and do your restore. Plan to move it back to the shelf again when done. 67 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ ProtecTIER Demo MOVMEDBRM 68 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ xx Now kick off 2 more backups so SRC003 and SRC004 will get some data. They have a different replication policy that will send them into the remote VTL eventually via the BRMS MOVMEDBRM process 69 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ xx Now we have 4 tapes in the local VTL with data on them (plus 1 scratch) In the background, they have also replicated to the remote VTL SRC001 / SRC002 have the shelf as their replication destination SRC003 / SRC004 have the VTL as their replication destination 70 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ xx Initially, the 4 tapes we have written on are all inside the local virtual library 71 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ xx Now run MOVMEDBRM. BRMS will move all the tapes out of the local library and onto the local shelf. In real life, you likely wouldn’t have assigned a BRMS move policy to the tapes that have a “Shelf” Replication Policy (SRC001 and SRC002) since you’d like your primary copy to stay available in the local library 72 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ All 4 tapes disappear from the local virtual library. Just the one remaining scratch tape (SRC005) is still there. 73 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ Now sign on to the remote IBM i and look at the remote Virtual Library. Like magic, a copy of SRC003 and SRC004 are now in that library. Notice that SRC001 and SRC002 didn’t move into the library since they have a Shelf replication policy 74 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ Run ADDMLMBRM to make the tapes available in the library, just like you would do if physical tapes had arrived back and you wanted to put them into the physical library. 75 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ Our two replicated tapes are now in the remote library, ready to use for restores or duplication to physical volumes. Notice that the two scratch tapes we made at the remote site are there too in case we need to failover and start running saves at that site 76 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ On the ProtecTIER, you can see the two replicated tapes in the remote library too. Notice that they are marked “read only” 77 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ The tapes will move back to the primary site the first time MOVMEDBRM runs after they expire BRMS knows the proper location of SRC004 and SRC005. SRC001 and SRC002 are mixed up because we accidentally gave them a move policy 78 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ Tadaa! Now you’re an expert On the ProtecTIER GUI! 79 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ What Next? 80 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ If you would like to consider ProtecTIER for your shop … Detailed ProtecTIER Presentation Backup Environment Review Attend the ProtecTIER Hands-on Workshop Ask your ProtecTIER team to engage an IBM i / ProtecTIER specialist to review your backup environment with you • Two-Day Hands-on Workshop in Gaithersburg, Maryland. • Runs 1-2 times per month • No charge to attend Text Invite your local IBM ProtecTIER Sales Team to give you a moredetailed presentation 81 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ ProtecTIER on IBM i Resources Advanced Technical Support (pre-sales level 3) Americas Lead – Nancy Roper in Canada Europe Lead - Jana Jamsek in Slovenia Asia Lead – Chooi Ling Lee and Jane Lau in Singapore Lab Services (billable install guys – cost for short setup engagement is included in ProtecTIER deal for TS7650 Appliance and Gateway) Mervyn Venter Rob Wilson (open systems guy with some IBM i experience) 82 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ Recap – ProtecTIER on IBM i Demo Screen Cam Demo • Sign on and Look Around • Create a VTL with virtual drives • Set up BRMS • Make Replication Policies • Run the Saves • Switch the Replicated Tapes Offsite What next? • Detailed Presentation • Sizing • Gaithersburg Workshop 83 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® ™ Questions? 84 © 2011 IBM Corporation ® Special Notices ™ This document was developed for IBM offerings in the United States as of the date of publication. 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