V1.1 of Rocket Device Adapter Pack for Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager

V1.1 of Rocket Device Adapter Pack for IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager supports hardware snapshots of non-IBM storage on Unix and Linux platforms, helping enable to gain the economies of a single snapshot technology across storage environment.

It can help:

• Manage application-aware snapshots created by Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager on EMC Symmetrix devices.
• Enable faster, simpler recovery of individual files and volumes.

It helps protect applications and databases using integrated application snapshot backup and restore capabilities. Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager integrates with storage system snapshot technology to help create a high performance, low impact solution for data protection.

Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager is designed to:

• Be efficiently installed, configured, and deployed.
• Help improve application availability and service levels through near-instant restore capabilities that can reduce downtime.
• Work as a stand-alone solution.
• Optionally copy data into Tivoli Storage Manager for enhanced data protection, DR, and long term retention.
• Support IBM metro mirror and global mirror on Unix and Linux.
• Support a range of applications, OSs, and storage.

Key prerequisites
Rocket Device Adapter Pack for IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager

Planned availability date: December 13, 2013