IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Suite for Unified Recovery V7.1.2

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Suite for Unified Recovery V7.1.2 now includes application integrated hardware snapshot capabilities that enable improved application availability and service levels through high-performance, near-instant restore capabilities that reduce downtime.

Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager V4.1.2 enhancements:

Frequent, nondisruptive file set protection exploiting General Parallel File software snapshots.
Usability enhancements for its VMware configuration wizard to automate connection to third-party storage arrays.
Usability enhancements for Exchange protection by providing powershell commandlets for archive mailbox restore and public folder restore.
Additional support includes vSphere 6 support, excluding the ability to provide snapshot support for VMs located on VMware Virtual Volumes.

Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments V7.1.2 enhancements:

Support for vSphere 6, excluding the ability to protect VMs located on VMware Virtual Volumes.
The ability to automatically retry on snapshot failure
Enables users to more easily perform fully integrated exchange database-level and item-level restores from VMware image backups
Automatic identification and processing of VMware Site Recovery Manager resources that do not require protection
Removal of products from Tivoli Storage Manager Suite for Unified Recovery

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack for Exchange, and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack for Bare Machine Recovery are being removed from:

TSM Suite for Unified Recovery V7.1.2
TSM Suite for Unified Recovery Entry V7.1.2
TSM Suite for Unified Recovery – Front End V7.1.2
TSM Suite for Unified Recovery Entry – Front End V7.1.2

If you are entitled to the products above, you will be able to leverage the hardware snapshot capability through Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager included within the products above. This satisfies many of the same use cases that require application aware snapshots with near-instant recovery capability.

Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager is designed to deliver high levels of data protection for business-critical applications through integrated application snapshot backup and restore capabilities. The applications supported are DB2, Oracle, Exchange, SQL Server, and the vSphere platform. In addition, DB2 and Oracle databases are supported for use either with or without SAP environments. Other applications can be supported on IBM AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, and Windows platforms through script customization.

These capabilities are achieved through the utilization of storage-specific hardware snapshot technology to help create a high performance, low impact application data protection solution. Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager is easy to install, configure, deploy, and integrates with various IBM and non-IBM storage systems.

In addition to the supported devices, Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager on the Windows platform supports any storage system that is Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS) capable, by using the VSS system provider or a VSS hardware provider who adheres to the Microsoft VSS Provider interface.

TSM supports: