About 20% of our servers are physical so that does not help there. Also we back up almost all of our VM's with the conventional TSM client. We do some TSM for VE backup (mainly for critical systems that we need to be able to recover quickly) but the amount of effort to troubleshoot backup issues is much higher on TSM for VE and you are also forced to back up ALL of the data that changes every night including swap files and temp files since TSM for VE cannot do any exclusions yet (like Veeam does).
On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 5:51 PM, Del Hoobler <hoob...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > Let me ask a related question. Does the hypervisor world mitigate the need > for this? I am seeing fewer and fewer requests for this type of recovery > because of the capabilities of hypervisors and hypervisor-based backups. > > > > Del > > ---------------------------------------------------- > > > "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> wrote on 12/13/2016 > 05:42:38 PM: > > > From: Tom Alverson <tom.alver...@gmail.com> > > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > > Date: 12/13/2016 05:44 PM > > Subject: Re: ISP 81 Discontinued functions > > Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> > > > > The worst part about this is the extremely poor setup IBM has for doing > an > > offline restore. They give you the instructions to create your own boot > > disk. I read it over and could not believe IBM did not have a nice > > pre-made recovery boot disk like Symantec, AVAMAR and Networker do. Are > > there any plans for IBM to do this? Has anyone successfully made one of > > these do it yourself recovery disks? > > > > Tom > > > > On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 10:59 AM, Hans Christian Riksheim > <bull...@gmail.com > > > wrote: > > > > > Hi Del. > > > > > > Why no prior warning? This was news to me until the 8.1 GA. We have > several > > > environments where BMR is based on online systemstate restore(which > works > > > very well) and now these customers say that they are ready to roll out > > > Win2016. Now there is a rush to look at solutions to this sudden > problem > > > including testing that cumbersome PE procedure to avoid a time window > with > > > no tested method for BMR. > > > > > > Hans Chr. > > > > > > On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 4:15 PM, Del Hoobler <hoob...@us.ibm.com> > wrote: > > > > > > > Hi Hans Chr., > > > > > > > > Microsoft has had this position since 2008, but IBM still tried to > > > support > > > > it due to customer requests. It led to too many situations where a > system > > > > was unstable after a restore. > > > > > > > > > > > > Del > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> wrote on 12/13/2016 > > > > 06:42:55 AM: > > > > > > > > > From: Hans Christian Riksheim <bull...@gmail.com> > > > > > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > > > > > Date: 12/13/2016 06:43 AM > > > > > Subject: Re: ISP 81 Discontinued functions > > > > > Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> > > > > > > > > > > I am not sure if I follow. Has Microsoft communicated a change in > its > > > > > support for systemstate restores or is it just IBMs decision to > not > > > > bother > > > > > with it anymore? > > > > > > > > > > Hans Chr. > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 9:08 PM, Del Hoobler <hoob...@us.ibm.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Hi Martin, > > > > > > > > > > > > It's true IBM Spectrum Protect did support online system state > > > > restores > > > > > > before, but it is against Microsoft's best practices to support > it. > > > > IBM > > > > > > Spectrum Protect 8.1 is more strictly enforcing the documented > best > > > > > > practices from Microsoft for system state restores. > > > > > > > > > > > > IBM did not drop the API support for LoP BE specifically so that > Data > > > > > > Protection for SAP HANA on Power BE continues to be supported. > > > > However, > > > > > > IBM's strategic direction is LoP LE ( > > > > > > > > > > https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l- > > > power-little-endian-faq-trs/ > > > > > > ). Both SAP and Data Protection for SAP HANA have LoP LE support > on > > > > the > > > > > > roadmap for 1H17. Your investment in Linux on Power is safe, it > is > > > > just > > > > > > that the software will switch to LE architecture from current BE > > > > > > architecture in the future. > > > > > > > > > > > > Del > > > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > > > > > "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> wrote on > 12/12/2016 > > > > > > 10:18:18 AM: > > > > > > > > > > > > > From: Martin Janosik <martin.jano...@cz.ibm.com> > > > > > > > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > > > > > > > Date: 12/12/2016 10:19 AM > > > > > > > Subject: Re: ISP 81 Discontinued functions > > > > > > > Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I'm also a bit nervous and curoius at the same time about > > > > discontinued > > > > > > > functions, namely: > > > > > > > Online system state restores - You can no longer restore the > system > > > > > > state > > > > > > > on a system that is online. Instead, use the Automated System > > > > Recovery > > > > > > > (ASR) based recovery method to restore the system state in > offline > > > > > > Windows > > > > > > > Preinstallation Environment (PE) mode. > > > > > > > and > > > > > > > The following operating systems are no longer supported by the > > > > > > > backup-archive client: > > > > > > > Linux on Power Systems™ (big endian). You can still use the > IBM > > > > Spectrum > > > > > > > Protect API on Linux on Power Systems (big endian). > > > > > > > > > > > > > > What is the idea behind "to be competive with x86 platform and > get > > > > > > > compativility certification for SAP HANA with Linux on Power > > > > platform > > > > > > (Big > > > > > > > Endian)" (ref. > > > > > > > https://blogs.saphana.com/2015/08/21/announcing-general- > > > > > > > availability-of-sap-hana-on-ibm-power-systems/ > > > > > > > ) and then 1.5 year later drop support of BAclient for OS"? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > We deployed 10+ big SAP HANA on Power8 instances last year, > and now > > > > we > > > > > > will > > > > > > > be getting "not supported" for new releases? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > M. Janosik > > > > > > > > > > > > > > "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> wrote on > > > 12/09/2016 > > > > > > > 02:45:34 PM: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > From: Chavdar Cholev <chavdar.cho...@gmail.com> > > > > > > > > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > > > > > > > > Date: 12/09/2016 02:47 PM > > > > > > > > Subject: [ADSM-L] ISP 81 Discontinued functions > > > > > > > > Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Does some one check discontinued functions in new version... > > > > > > > > especially part of no VM backup as standard function in BA > > > > client.... > > > > > > > > It is not good at all. TDP for Virtual environment for > hyper-V > > > > creats > > > > > > > diff > > > > > > > > hdds (.avhdx) > > > > > > > > and my customers will not be happy with this, because you > have to > > > > > > merge > > > > > > > > these file, > > > > > > > > when you need to expand .vhdx disk for example .... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > :( > > > > > > > > Regards > > > > > > > > Cahvdar > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
