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IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Implementation Guide
2.1 Planning
Understanding your customers, your environment, your business, your needs,
and your requirements are key to success, in storage management as well as
business in general. Tivoli Storage Manager can help with your storage
management needs and requirements. You will need three things to achieve
success:
򐂰 Realistic goals and objectives
򐂰 Understanding
򐂰 Planning
In this chapter, as well as in the IBM Redbook IBM Tivoli Storage Management
Concepts, SG24-4877, we present a number of planning worksheets that lead
you through gathering the client requirements and the data retention
requirements in an orderly way. We assume that you are somewhat familiar with
IBM Tivoli Storage Management concepts and terms.
We provide planning sheets, option files, server scripts, and administrative
macros to help plan and implement your Tivoli Storage Manager environment.
Blank worksheets are provided in Appendix A, “Planning and sizing worksheets”
on page 723. Appendix B, “Book support material: macros and scripts” on
page 729, contains information about how to download those support materials
and what those materials provide.
2.2 Client environment data
Tivoli Storage Manager exists to provide services to clients, so it makes sense to
begin by gathering data about the client environment. A Tivoli Storage Manager
client is the machine from which Tivoli Storage Manager backs up or archives
data. It could be various types of workstation, mobile computer, file server,
database, or application server. Even though you may know the machine as a
server, to Tivoli Storage Manager it is considered a
client
. The Tivoli Storage
Manager server refers to the machine where the Tivoli Storage Manager server
code runs. The Tivoli Storage Manager server stores and manages all the data
backed up from clients.
Note: For UNIX and Windows clients, Tivoli Storage Manager offers an extra
level of protection called Logical Volume Backup. We use the terms Image
Backup and Logical Volume Backup interchangeably throughout the book to
refer to this feature.