The most significant aspect of any disaster recovery plan is the restoration of data. The hope is that you can restore the data to a state that mimics the most recent completed transaction or saved version. This requires a recovery point objective (RPO) generated by your data protection utility with a timestamp close after that transaction or version. The less data you recreate after any failure, the less time the recovery point objective (RTO) takes to get back up and running. Both the RPO and RTO are integral parts of any disaster recovery.... [More]

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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is a high-performance data protection and recovery solution for your VMWare and Hyper-V virtual environments. It ensures that your virtual machines and their contents are protected quickly, completely, and safely.   One important feature in IBM Spectrum Protect Plus the capability to offload data from IBM Spectrum Protect Plus to an IBM Spectrum Protect implementation for long-term retention and archiving of your VM images. Currently, IBM Spectrum Protect Plus only supports the offloading of VMWare VMs, but the... [More]

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Do you wish you had all the answers when it comes to IBM Spectrum Protect? Do you need to install the Operations Center or configure a backup-archive client? Do you want to know the best way to monitor your IBM Spectrum Protect storage environment? We’ve put together some useful links to help guide you through the documentation. IBM Knowledge Center To get the latest IBM Spectrum Protect documentation, go to IBM Knowledge Center: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGSG7/landing/welcome_ssgsg7.html Tip: Beginning with Version... [More]

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Everything and Forever. The nirvana of data protection and retention. Also known as the most common answer given to backup administrators from their users. This is where ambitious requirements meet real-world resource and financial constraints. Let’s see how Spectrum Protect Plus handles Operational Recovery as well as Data Reuse .   Outside of long term archiving requirements, organizations typically need only 90 days of backup data retention to satisfy 95% of restore requests – the Tier 1 of data protection needs. In the... [More]

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Watch this video to see how you can quickly set the location for your storage systems and then use the Cognos® Business Intelligence tool to create a report which shows the storage capacity by location. Let's cut to the chase As a storage administrator, you want to configure the properties of your storage resources so that you can filter or sort the resources in the GUI or in an external application if you export the data. Previously, you modified the properties of each resource individually. Now in IBM Spectrum Control™... [More]

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As storage solutions evolve, customers are faced with a bewildering range of possibilities, which continually evolve, including cloud, disk, and tape storage. It's intriguing that so many IBM Spectrum Protect customers continue to rely on a traditional storage medium: tape. Estimates suggest that 50% to 90% of IBM Spectrum Protect customers use tape for at least some of their storage protection requirements. Why? Although hybrid cloud solutions are gaining popularity, tape still offers significant advantages: Protection against... [More]

In this video, you can learn about the performance troubleshooting techniques that you can use in IBM Spectrum Control™ . Watch Bob, the storage administrator, as he investigates a problem raised with a critical medical database application within his organization. Watch Bob use the following techniques to investigate the problem in IBM Spectrum Control: Troubleshoot performance from the point of view of an application. Change which metrics are displayed in the performance charts. View the relationships between resources very easily.... [More]

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If you are looking for the latest IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot documentation and would like some tips for how to find what you are looking for, why not checkout this article? Learn how to get started, toggle between versions, or use the image maps to go directly to the information you need, http://ibm.co/29pRMfR . 

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If you were thinking about installing IBM Spectrum Protect TM Snapshot  V4.1.6, you will be interested in the Prerequisite Checker. Save yourself time and effort by running the checker tool in your environment before you install the product. This will help you to preempt some common issues before you proceed to the installation process. To learn more about the Prerequisite Checker and how to run it, check out this article IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot Prerequisite Checker   

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