IBM N series host software features

This section describes the host software features available for your N series storage system. Host software features are installed directly on the host that supports your N series storage system.

Data ONTAP DSM for Windows MPIO

Data ONTAP Device Specific Module (DSM) for Windows Multipath I/O (MPIO) supports Windows Server host machines running SnapDrive for Windows attached to N series storage systems that are licensed to use the DSM with Fibre Channel (FC) and iSCSI paths.

Open Systems SnapVault Agents

Open Systems SnapVault is designed to be a heterogeneous, disk-to-disk data protection solution. An OSSV primary system corresponds to a backup client in the traditional backup architecture. The SnapVault secondary system is always an N series system running Data ONTAP. OSSV software is designed to protect data residing on the primary system, which can be a storage system attached to a server running an operating system such as AIX, Windows, VMWare or Linux.

Three main components are installed within the OSSV environment:

• The primary system
• The OSSV agent residing on the primary system
• The secondary system (N series) with the SnapVault Secondary feature

A predetermined directory or file system is chosen to be backed up to the secondary storage. The data set is mapped to a secondary system qtree on a secondary storage system.

Operation Manager Core (OMC)

The OMC features are designed to provide a central point of control and to provide alerts, reports, and configuration tools. These tools are designed to help manage storage and content delivery infrastructure, consistent with business requirements, and help maximize availability and reduce total cost of ownership.

Protection Manager

The Protection Manager feature provides backup and replication management software for an N series disk-based data protection environment. It is designed to help protect data and support high productivity by providing policy-based management, including when used in automated data protection configurations.

Protection Manager Disaster Recovery (DR) features

The Protection Manager Disaster Recovery (DR) features provide backup and replication management software for an N series disk-based data protection environment and disaster recovery. Protection Manager DR is designed to help protect data and support high productivity by providing policy-based management, including when used in automated data-protection environments.

Provisioning Manager

Provisioning Manager is an automated, policy-based provisioning software for N series environments. The software is designed to automate manual and repetitive provisioning processes, increasing the productivity of administrators and improving the availability of data by ensuring that provisioned storage complies with data protection policies.

Single Mailbox Recovery

Single Mailbox Recovery (SMBR) adds advanced function to the SnapManager for Exchange feature. Single Mailbox Recovery restores individual mail items from any recent (hourly, daily, or weekly) snapshot. This helps allow rapid search of archived snapshot copies of previously deleted messages that are no longer in the current mailbox. Single Mailbox Recovery also includes Extract Wizards for Microsoft NT Backup, VERITAS Backup Exec, and, optionally, Extract Wizards for CA BrightStor ARCserve, Legato NetWorker, and VERITAS Net Backup. The Extract Wizards are designed to restore both private and public exchange information and stored data from tape or disk backups to any alternate location (machine, volume, or folder), thereby helping to eliminate the need for a recovery server.

SMBR Administrative Server

SMBR Administrative Server provides a framework that can host centralized services for multiple clients and provide both client and server support for Single Mailbox Recovery 5.0, or higher and Single Mailbox Recovery ExtractWizard users. It facilitates server configuration, mailbox permissions, and application auditing services for SMBR environments.

SMBR Content Analysis Wizard

The SMBR Content Analysis Wizard (CAW) is designed to enable you to automate and save search results with Microsoft Exchange by selecting sources, including entire Exchange Database (EDB) files, individual mailboxes from an EDB, or folders from an EDB. Any number of sources is allowed.

SnapDrive™

SnapDrive provides a software application designed to enhance the storage management capabilities in an operating system environment, including easier management of dynamic volume, cluster, snapshot, and replication management.

SnapManager for Exchange

SnapManager for Exchange is designed to help streamline storage management while simplifying configuration, backup, and restore operations for Microsoft Exchange databases.

SnapManager for Hyper V

SnapManager for Hyper-V is designed to designed to integrate with the Microsoft Hyper-V virtual server infrastructure and automate crucial tasks such as back up, restore, recovery, and cloning. It allows connectivity of any number of Microsoft Hyper-V servers to one storage controller.

SnapManager for Microsoft Office SharePoint Archiver

This feature is used with Microsoft SharePoint and SnapManager Sharepoint (SMSP) environments to migrate binary large object data (BLOB) into a CIFS share, accessible outside of the SharePoint data structure. This method of externalizing data helps improve scalability of the SharePoint environment while providing access to the data. These CIFS shares can reside on primary (FC/SAS) storage or on secondary storage (SATA), allowing the core SharePoint data and the externalized data to be stored on a single system.

SnapManager for Microsoft Office SharePoint Migrator

This feature adds the ability to use SMSP functions to migrate data from existing CIFS shares and Exchange public folders to the SharePoint data structure to take advantage of collaboration security provided by SharePoint. Data contained in existing CIFS shares that require increased security for collaboration can be migrated directly to the SharePoint environment. Similarly, the data in Exchange public folders can be migrated to the SharePoint environment while keeping in place all the existing access security components.

SnapManager for Microsoft Office SharePoint FileShare Connector

This feature helps save space on primary SQL Server storage by avoiding the need to bring binary large object (BLOB) data into the SQL content database before externalizing the data. It also allows the bulk migration of unstructured data within SharePoint environments.

SnapManager for Microsoft Office SharePoint Storage Manager

This feature helps optimize SQL Server resources within SharePoint environments. This assists with compliance requirements for content lifecycle management, and allows customers to centrally manage data externalization policies.

SnapManager for Microsoft Office SharePoint Archive Manager

This feature allows the movement of older SharePoint data to cheaper, lower tier storage for long-term data retention. The data can be recalled when needed, saving storage space on the higher tier, main SharePoint storage devices, helping reduce the total cost of ownership of SharePoint environments with an integrated archival solution.

SnapManager for SQL

SnapManager for SQL is designed to help reduce backup and restore times of SQL databases by using backups based upon snapshot copies. SnapManager for SQL enables simultaneous backup of multiple databases using minimal disk space for each additional full backup.

SnapManager for Oracle

SnapManager for Oracle allows connection of one Oracle host server to a storage controller.

SnapManager for Oracle for Windows

SnapManager for Oracle for Windows is designed to integrate with an Oracle database and automate crucial tasks such as backup, restore, database recovery, and cloning. This feature allows connection of one Oracle host server to a storage controller. One of this feature is required for each Oracle host. SnapManager for Oracle for Windows is available for Oracle databases running on Windows.

SnapManager for VI

IBM SnapManager for Virtual Infrastructures (SnapManager VI) is designed to integrate with a virtual server infrastructure and automate crucial tasks such as back up, restore, recovery, and cloning in a VMWare environment.