This IBM® Redbooks® publication provides details of changes, updates, and new functions in IBM Tivoli® Storage Manager Version 6.1. We cover all the new functions of Tivoli Storage Manager that have become available since the publication of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Version 5.4 and Version 5.5 Technical Guide, SG24-7447. This book is for customers, consultants, IBM Business Partners, and IBM and Tivoli staff who are familiar with earlier releases of Tivoli Storage Manager and who want to understand what is new in Version 6.1. Hence, because we target an experienced audience, we use certain shortcuts to commands and concepts of Tivoli Storage Manager. If you want to learn more about Tivoli Storage Manager functionality, see IBM Tivoli Storage Management Concepts, SG24-7447, and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Implementation Guide, SG24-5416. This publication should be used in conjunction with the manuals and readme files provided with the products and is not intended to replace any information contained therein.

This IBM Redbooks publication is an easy-to-follow guide that describes how to implement IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Version 5.3 products in highly available clustered environments. The book is intended for those who want to plan, install, test, and manage the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Version 5.3 in various environments by providing best practices and showing how to develop scripts for clustered environments. The book covers the following environments: IBM AIX HACMP, IBM Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms on Linux and AIX, MicrosoftCluster Server on Windows 2000 and Windows 2003, VERITAS Storage Foundation HA on AIX, and Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition. Please note that the additional material referenced in the text is not available from IBM.