PureApplication Meet the Experts Meeting. Location: Raleigh, North Carolina Date: September 24-25, 2014 Speaker: Jim Robbins IBM Corporation

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1 PureApplication Meet the Experts Meeting Location: Raleigh, North Carolina Date: September 24-25, 2014 Speaker: Jim Robbins

2 Agenda Supported scope Concepts and terminology Feature list 2

3 Backup and restore scope System backups - Intended for catastrophic failure situations of management nodes System backup is a capture of the system management node data, cloud environment and workload catalog at a point in time Recommended use would be in a catastrophic failure where both PureSystems Managers (PSM) or Virtual Systems Managers (VSM) in the rack are unrecoverable If only a single PSM or VSM is lost, the replacement can be rebuilt using the HA cluster Component Backups Safe way to restore accidentally deleted (or corrupted) artifacts Export of artifacts such as pattern definitions, IP groups, cloud groups Supports selective restoration Component backups are independent of system backups Can use different backup servers, different backup schedules, optional encryption Recommend not encrypting component backups: allows you to put artifacts under change control on the third-party SCM 3

4 Backup location Backup location A Unix-like machine running an SSH server Windows + Cygwin + OpenSSH is acceptable Recommend using a SAN (which can then be backed up to tape) Hardware Requirements: capable of five simultaneous SCP file transfers, each averaging 750 KB/s (minimum) Have as many as you need, no longer limited to just one backup server 4

5 Backup profiles Backup profile What you want to backup (system or components) When to run the backups (scheduled or manual) Where to store the backup files (the backup location/server) 5

6 System and component backups System backup profiles Backup location must support encryption Recommend to schedule the profile to run daily (off-peak hours) A portion of the system backup process will put the system into maintenance mode Component Backup Profiles Choose which types of artifacts to backup May use either encrypted Backup Locations or not (users & user groups must be encrypted) Component backups do not put the system into maintenance mode 6

7 Backup schedules and restore locations Backup schedule Automatically run a backup profile on the days/times you decide Schedules can be temporarily disabled (without losing day/time settings) Utilize backup history, events, and notifications for failures Restore Locations A server hosting restorable content (your backup files) Each backup location is automatically a restore Location Ability to perform cross-rack component restoration Define an alternate restore location by pointing it at a different system's backup server Supports restoring both encrypted and not-encrypted component backups 7

8 Backup and restore features Additional components supported in component backup Cloud group, IP group, environment profile definitions DB2 fixpacks & database images Pattern components, pattern definitions, pattern types, system plug-ins Storage volume groups Users, user groups Multiple backup profiles, backup locations, alternate restore locations Expanded Information Center documentation of REST API s and CLI s Automatic must gather log collection set for PMR (collected on failure) Rewritten FSM system backup for less maintenance mode downtime 8

9 Backup and restore user interface Separate panel for all backup and restore needs Graphical widgets for backup size/time estimation, backup location free space and used space, and restore time estimation Backup history views Shows progress of running backup profiles 9

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