Configuring by using the IBM Storage Protect Configuration Wizard

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Click Show Details to view a list of individual requirement results. If you are configuring an application for which you do not have the necessary license, the license requirement check fails. You must either go back to the Data Protection Selection page and clear the selected application to proceed with the configuration, or obtain the necessary license.

• In the VSS Requestor field, enter the node name that communicates with the VSS service to access the Exchange Server, SQL Server, or custom application and file system data.In the VSS Requestor field, enter the node name that communicates with the VSS service to access the Exchange data.In the VSS Requestor field, enter the node name that communicates with the VSS Service to access the SQL Server data. This node name is the IBM Storage Protect VSS requestor node name, also known as the DSM agent node name.
• In the Data Protection for SQL field, enter the node name where the Data Protection application is installed. This node name is used to store the Data Protection for SQL Server backups.
• If you are configuring IBM Storage Protect SnapshotData Protection for SQL Server for SQL Server 2012 and later versions, enter a node name in the AlwaysOn Node field. This node name is used to back up the availability databases in an AlwaysOn Availability Group. By default, the Windows™ Failover Cluster name is used.
• If the IBM Storage Protect for Virtual Environments Recovery Agent license is available, enter the data center node name. The data center node is the virtual node that maps to a data center.
• In the Data Protection for Exchange field, enter the node name where the Data Protection application is installed. This node name is used to store the Data Protection for Exchange Server backups. If you configure the DAG Node on this wizard page, Exchange Server DAG database backups are not stored under the Data Protection for Exchange Server node. The backups are stored under the DAG node.
• In the DAG Node field, enter the node name that you want to use to back up databases in an Exchange Server DAG. With this setting, backups from all DAG members that are configured to use the DAG node are backed up to a common file space on the IBM Storage Protect server. The database copies are managed as a single entity, regardless of which DAG member they are backed up from. This setting can prevent Data Protection for Exchange Server IBM Storage Protect Snapshot from making too many backups of the same database.

  Ensure that you configure all of your DAG members that have copies of the same database so that all use the same DAG node. On the IBM Storage Protect server, ensure that you register the DAG node name. All of the DAG member nodes (the Data Protection nodes) must be granted proxynode authority to run backups on behalf of the DAG node. All of the DSM Agent nodes (the VSS requestor nodes) must also be granted proxynode authority. If you do not want to manually update these properties, you can use the configuration wizard to set the properties on the IBM Storage Protect server.

• In the Files System and Custom Configuration field, enter the node name that you want to use to back up custom application and file system data.

Create a node name that can help you to distinguish the type of backup that runs. For example, if your host name is MALTA, you can name the VSS requestor node name MALTA, and you can create a Data Protection node name that is called MALTA_EXCMALTA_SQL. For an SQL Server configuration, the AlwaysOn node name does not have to be related to the VSS Requestor or the Data Protection for SQL Server node name. For example, you can name it TSM_ALWAYSON. For an Exchange configuration, the DAG node name does not need to relate to the VSS Requestor or the Data Protection for Exchange Server node name. For example, you can name it TSMDAG.

• In the IBM Storage Protect Server Address field, enter the TCP/IP domain name or a numeric IP address for the IBM Storage Protect server that contains the backups. Obtain this information from your IBM Storage Protect server administrator.
• In the IBM Storage Protect Server Port field, enter the port number for the IBM Storage Protect server that contains the backups. Obtain this information from your IBM Storage Protect administrator.
• Specify whether to have the wizard configure the IBM Storage Protect server for you by generating a configuration macro file.

  If you click No, the macro file is available at the final page of the wizard and can be provided to the IBM Storage Protect administrator as an example of one way to configure the IBM Storage Protect server to support application data protection.

  If you click Yes, the wizard starts the macro during the Configuration step in the wizard. Review the macro file and update it if needed.

  After you click Yes, enter the following information in the appropriate fields and perform the following actions:

  • The name of the IBM Storage Protect administrator account.
  • The password for the IBM Storage Protect administrator.
  • Click Test Communications if you want to test your connection with the IBM Storage Protect server. This button is not available until the VSS requestor is installed.
  • Click Review/Edit to review or update the IBM Storage Protect macro file. Alternatively, you can review the macro file and directly run the commands on the IBM Storage Protect server.

When you select the Default configuration setting, the VSS Requestor is configured in addition to the applications that you selected. The client and agent services are also registered and configured, and a schedule to support historical managed capacity is defined.