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Workspace Spectrum Protect Snapshot
Categories Product functionality
Created by Guest
Created on May 16, 2014

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Tivoli FCM for VMware

See this idea on ideas.ibm.com

using FCM 3.2.0
We are an SAP shop which on a frequent basis refreshes PRD to QAS environments. We wanted to use FCM to perform this landscape "refresh" . One of the requirements though is to preserve the "TARGET" environment (unmount FS and rename VG) prior to restoring from PRD source (only restoring virtual disks tied to sapdata mounts) to QAS system. Seems like that process will only work (1) time before getting "FMM0129E vmdk already exist" error.
So the process is: take backup, rename vg, restore, validate, remove disks.
What we typically do on target:
Prepping server for import
1. Unmount filesystems
Umount –a or reboot (have db stopped prior to unmounts)
2. Inactivate vg
vgchange -an qa1log
vgchange -an qa1data
vgchange -an qa2data
vgchange -an qa2log
3. Export vg
vgexport qa1log
vgexport qa1data
vgexport qa2data
vgexport qa2log
4. VG rename
a. vgrename qa1log qa1log_old
b. vgrename qa1data qa1data_old
c. vgrename qa2log qa2log_old
d. vgrename qa2data qa2data_old

Once the Database has been successfully started when then remove the disks from Linux guest as well as from vCenter (delete hard disks)

Idea priority High
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jun 12, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Storage
    Product - Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Tivoli
    Product family - Storage
    Product - Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jul 14, 2014

    Thank you for submitting this request. We appreciate the suggestion and will provide an updated response after further discussions with our internal product teams.

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