Originally posted by: herajohn

I don't know about you, but I could not bake to save my life - that is, until I discovered ready-made puff pastry dough in my local supermarket. Now making apple strudel is child's play and everyone thinks I'm some sort of expert pastry chef

The new dynamic target allocation functionality that is available on IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot for VMware is somewhat like ready-made puff pastry dough, whereby it removes a huge slice of the 'setting up' work in relation to backing up your data stores and virtual machines on SAN Volume Controller. This gives VMware administrators great independence and saves significant time and effort where they no longer have to request their storage administrator to manually prepare these target volumes.

IBM® Spectrum Protect™ Snapshot, formerly Tivoli® Storage FlashCopy® Manager, delivers high levels of protection for key applications and databases using advanced integrated application snapshot backup and restore capabilities. It lets you perform and manage frequent, near-instant, non-disruptive, application-aware backups and restores using integrated application and VM-aware snapshot technologies – in both IBM and non-IBM storage systems.

To get a better understanding of this new dynamic target allocation functionality that was delivered in IBM® Spectrum Protect™ Snapshot 4.1.3, check out the following YouTube video:

Configuring Spectrum Protect Snapshot for SVC dynamic target allocation