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IBM ProtecTIER Implementation and Best Practices Guide

An IBM Redbooks publication

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Published on 06 June 2016, updated 16 August 2016

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ISBN-10: 0738441694
ISBN-13: 9780738441696
IBM Form #: SG24-8025-03


Authors: Karen Orlando, Mara Miranda Bautista, Emmanuel Barajas Gonzalez and Carlos A. Martinez Vazquez

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    Abstract

    This IBM® Redbooks® publication provides best practice guidance for planning, installing, configuring, and employing the IBM TS7600 ProtecTIER® family of products. It provides the latest best practices for the practical application of ProtecTIER Software Version 3.4. This latest release introduces the new ProtecTIER Enterprise Edition TS7650G DD6 model high performance server. This book also includes information about the revolutionary and patented IBM HyperFactor® deduplication engine, along with other data storage efficiency techniques, such as compression and defragmentation.

    The IBM System Storage® TS7650G ProtecTIER Deduplication Gateway and the IBM System Storage TS7620 ProtecTIER Deduplication Appliance Express are disk-based data storage systems: The Virtual Tape Library (VTL) interface is the foundation of ProtecTIER and emulates traditional automated tape libraries.

    For your existing ProtecTIER solution, this guide provides best practices and suggestions to boost the performance and the effectiveness of data deduplication with regards to your application platforms for your VTL and FSI (systems prior to version 3.4).

    When you build a ProtecTIER data deduplication environment, this guide can help IT architects and solution designers plan for the best option and scenario for data deduplication for their environments. This book can help you optimize your deduplication ratio, while reducing the hardware, power and cooling, and management costs.

    This Redbooks publication provides expertise that was gained from an IBM ProtecTIER System Client Technical Specialist (CTS), Development, and Quality Assurance teams.

    This planning should be done by the Sales Representative or IBM Business Partner, with the help of an IBM System CTS or IBM Solution Architect.

    Table of Contents

    Part 1. General best practices

    Chapter 1. IBM ProtecTIER basics

    Chapter 2. Deduplication considerations

    Chapter 3. Networking essentials

    Chapter 4. Virtual Tape Library guidelines

    Chapter 5. ProtecTIER File System Interface: General introduction

    Chapter 6. Host attachment considerations for Virtual Tape Library

    Part 2. Back-end storage subsystems

    Chapter 7. Back-end storage overview

    Chapter 8. IBM FlashSystem 900 with System Storage TS7650G ProtecTIER Deduplication Gateway

    Chapter 9. IBM Storwize Family and SAN Volume Controller

    Chapter 10. IBM XIV Storage System

    Chapter 11. IBM System Storage DS8000

    Chapter 12. Backup management introduction

    Chapter 13. IBM Spectrum Protect

    Chapter 14. Symantec NetBackup and BackupExec

    Chapter 15. EMC NetWorker

    Chapter 16. HP Data Protector

    Chapter 17. IBM i and Backup, Recovery, and Media Services

    Chapter 18. Commvault

    Chapter 19. Veeam FSI-CIFS

    Part 3. Application considerations

    Chapter 20. Application considerations and data types

    Part 4. Replication and disaster recovery

    Chapter 21. ProtecTIER replication

    Chapter 22. Disaster recovery deployment with backup applications

    Part 5. Appendixes

    Appendix A. Hints and tips

    Appendix B. ProtecTIER compatibility

    Appendix C. ProtecTIER parsers

    Appendix D. Managing cartridge sizes with ProtecTIER

     

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