Glossary
This glossary provides terms and definitions for the IBM® Storage Defender Copy Data Management product family.
A
- account
- The definition associating a resource pool with a role for a user. A user account has access to the resources and features defined in the resource pool as well as the permissions to interact with those resources and features as defined in the role.
- appliance
- The virtual machine containing the IBM Storage Defender Copy Data Management application and Inventory, accessible through VMware vSphere client. The appliance is also referred to as the virtual appliance or virtual machine.
B
- Backup job
- A job that leverages Copy Data Management technology for replicating and intelligently reusing snapshots, vaults, and mirrors.
C
- clone mode
- A Restore job mode where virtual machines are created in a fenced network for use cases requiring permanent or long-running copies.
- Copy Data Management
- The ability to understand where data copies or backups are located in your IT environment, and leverage the most appropriate backup for any given use case.
D
- dashboard
- A feature of the Management Interface that displays an overview of your IBM Storage Defender Copy Data Management environment when you first invoke IBM Storage Defender Copy Data Management.
F
- File Analytics Reports
- A category of reports that help you review your storage needs and examine your storage capacity. Use the File Analytics Reports to drill down to information about the size of files, the age of files, and type of files on your storage systems.
- FlashCopy
- An IBM technology that creates point-in-time snapshots.
G
- Global Mirror
- An IBM technology that provides data replication between two locations.
I
- IBM provider
- An IBM storage controller such as an SVC.
- IBM Storage Defender Copy Data Management
- An application that delivers visibility, insight, and control into your IT environment.
- IBM Storage Defender Copy Data Management System Management Reports
- A category of reports that offer an in-depth view of the status of your IBM Storage Defender Copy Data Management configuration, including cataloged storage system information and jobs.
- Instant Access
- A method of copy data management that provides instant writable access to copied data. A snapshot is mapped to a target server where it can be accessed, copied, or put immediately into production use as needed.
- Instant Virtualization
- A method of copy data management that creates a virtual machine by directly mapping snapshots for fast startup.
- Inventory
- The IBM Storage Defender Copy Data Management database where object metadata is stored for rapid retrieval and reporting. Cataloging objects located on a resource enables browsing, searching, analyzing, copying, and using data in IBM Storage Defender Copy Data Management. The IBM Storage Defender Copy Data Management Inventory resides on the appliance.
- Inventory Browser
- A feature enabling you to explore cataloged resources and their underlying objects and object metadata. Drill into the Inventory Browser to logically view the details of the objects underlying a storage system, virtual host, or application. The Browse and Search features provide visibility into your IT environment.
- Inventory job
- A job for gathering and recording objects and object metadata about specified resources.
J
- Job definition
- A defined set of tasks and rules that govern the execution of a job. A job definition can be applied to one or more jobs. IBM Storage Defender Copy Data Management includes support for the following job types: Inventory jobs, Backup jobs, Restore jobs, Report jobs, and Script jobs.
L
- LDAP provider
- A server that accesses centralized data including user and authentication information.
M
- management interface
- The browser-based portal through which the IBM Storage Defender Copy Data Management application is viewed and managed.
- mirror
- An efficient block-level data replication technique that produces exact replicas for disaster recovery.
N
- NetApp provider
- A NetApp storage system such as a FAS.
O
- object
- A resource that has metadata about it stored in the Inventory. Examples of objects are files, directories, qtrees, and volumes.
P
- production mode
- A Restore job mode which restores a resource to the production environment from secondary storage or a remote disaster recovery site.
- Protection Compliance Reports
- A category of reports that help ensure your data is protected through user-defined recovery point objective parameters.
- provider
- An object repository, physical or virtual, from which object metadata is retrieved.
- Provider Browser
- A feature enabling you to view a list of registered resources and their underlying resources. The Provider Browser scans the actual resource and returns native properties.
R
- RBAC
- A feature that allows an administrator to set the resources and permissions available to IBM Storage Defender Copy Data Management user accounts.
- register
- The process that allows IBM Storage Defender Copy Data Management to recognize a resource. The resource can subsequently be cataloged through an Inventory job.
- report job
- A job that runs predefined or customized reports summarizing information about objects and object metadata managed by cataloged resources. A report job is a type of System job and provides insight into your IT environment.
- resource pool
- A defined set of resources, such as providers, features, and screens, that are available to a user. The resource pool is associated with a role when defining a user account.
- Restore job
- A job that leverages Copy Data Management technology for reusing and recovering resources from snapshots, vaults, and mirrors.
- RMAN
- Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN), a command-line and Enterprise Manager-based tool, is the method preferred by Oracle DBAs for backup and recovery of Oracle databases, including maintaining an RMAN repository.
- role
- A defined set of actions that can be performed by a user. The role is associated with a resource pool when defining a user account.
- role-based access control
- A feature that allows an administrator to set the resources and permissions available to IBM Storage Defender Copy Data Management user accounts.
S
- schedule
- A defined set of triggers and parameters that govern when a job is run.
- Script job
- A job that runs a set of commands on the IBM Storage Defender Copy Data Management appliance. The script job is one way to extend the functionality ofIBM Storage Defender Copy Data Management.
- Search
- A feature used to find objects on resources that are cataloged in IBM Storage Defender Copy Data Management. IBM Storage Defender Copy Data Management searches the entire Inventory and returns all objects with a name that matches or contains the search entry. Additionally, you can search with filters such as object name, category, object type, and location. The Search feature and the Inventory Browser provide visibility into your IT environment.
- site
- A grouping of resources generally by location. Resources are grouped by site to help with resource management and assignment.
- SLA Policy
- Allows storage and virtualization administrators to create customized templates for the key processes involved in the creation and use of Backup jobs. Copy types, destinations, and parameters are configured in SLA Policies, which can be used and re-used in Backup jobs.
- SMTP provider
- A message server that submits email notifications at the end of jobs.
- snapshot
- A point in time image of a resource.
- Storage Protection Reports
- A category of reports that help ensure your data is protected and display the status of your replication process. Use the Storage Protection Reports to view qtrees that are protected using NetApp SnapVault or NetApp SnapMirror functionality and volumes that are protected using NetApp SnapMirror functionality. You can also view unprotected qtrees and volumes to help plan your data protection strategies.
- Storage Utilization Reports
- A category of reports that help you review your storage needs and examine your storage capacity. View the total and free space available as well as the total capacity of your volumes and aggregates.
- Super User
- The initial native user provided with the application. The Super User can perform all IBM Storage Defender Copy Data Management operations.
T
- tenant
- A tenant is a grouping of resources and users that are administered by a tenant administrator. An IBM Storage Defender Copy Data Management administrator creates tenants, assigns resources to be made available to the tenants, and creates the tenant administrator. The tenant administrator can then further control and restrict resources for users in the tenant group, as well as add additional users to the tenant through LDAP.
- test mode
- A Restore job mode where temporary virtual machines are created in a fenced network for such uses as development/testing, snapshot verification, and disaster recovery verification.
U
- user
- An IBM Storage Defender Copy Data Management user, either native to IBM Storage Defender Copy Data Management or imported through LDAP. The word "user" in lowercase refers generically to any type of user.
V
- vault
- An efficient block-level data replication technique that produces snapshot copies on secondary storage for long term scenarios such as archiving.
- VMware provider
- A VMware host such as an ESX/ESXi or a vCenter server.
W
- workflow
- A grouping of subpolicies that are sequentially joined together for creating Backup and Restore jobs. A workflow is defined visually by the storage administrator in the management interface.