Hi, In earlier versions of backup/archive Clients you've been able to perform full backup operations of VM Guests using just the backup/archive client installed (without the neccessity to have a TDP for VE license). This functionality has been dropped in backup/archive client 8.1.
Now you need a IBM Spectrum Protect for VE licensing to backup your VMs and the only supported backup methods are IFF and IFI in 8.1. (which are the functionalities nearly all of the customers use). It has absolutely no impact on the functionalities of IBM Spectrum Protect for VE, which is still one of the key products in the Spectrum Protect Suite. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Best regards Markus Von: Anders Räntilä <[email protected]> An: [email protected] Datum: 15.03.2017 08:00 Betreff: Re: [ADSM-L] 8.1 Client Backup/Archive Backup/Archive discontinued in Virtual Environment?? Gesendet von: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[email protected]> Hans, If you can run "dsmc backup vm ..." you have not upgraded the client. You are still on 7.x If you try to run the command on a client version 8.1 (without ISP4VE) you will get: ANS2731E The BACKUP VM command failed because the Data Protection for VMware license file does not exist or is not valid. /Anders Räntilä -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Hans Christian Riksheim Sent: den 14 mars 2017 23:03 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] 8.1 Client Backup/Archive Backup/Archive discontinued in Virtual Environment?? Del, we have upgraded to 8.1 and run our vm backups exactly like before. What do you mean that "dsmc backup vm" is legacy? Will this method of doing VM backups be discontinued in future versions of the product? Regards, Hans Chr. On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 9:30 PM, Del Hoobler <[email protected]> wrote: > This is not referring to running the BA Client in guest. > > This is referring to the legacy commands like: > DSMC BACKUP VM > DSMC RESTORE VM > DSMC QUERY VM > > > Del > > ---------------------------------------------------- > > > "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[email protected]> wrote on 03/14/2017 > 03:19:48 PM: > > > From: "Alford, Ben" <[email protected]> > > To: [email protected] > > Date: 03/14/2017 03:20 PM > > Subject: 8.1 Client Backup/Archive Backup/Archive discontinued in > > Virtual Environment?? > > Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[email protected]> > > > > The IBM site: www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEQVQ_8.1.0/ > > client/r_new_for_version.html<http://www.ibm.com/support/ > > knowledgecenter/SSEQVQ_8.1.0/client/r_new_for_version.html> says: > > Discontinued functions > > The following functions are discontinued in this release: > > Virtual machine operations on the backup-archive client > > Virtual machine operations are available only if you are using the > > client as a data mover for the IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual > > Environments products (Data Protection for VMware or Data Protection > > for Microsoft Hyper-V). > > You can no longer run virtual machine operations without installing > > IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments. > > What does "Virtual machine operations" mean? Do TSM's basic > > backup/archive functions stop if the 8.1 client is running as a VM > > guest and Spectrum Protect for VE is not installed??? > > Ben Alford > > IT Manager, Office of Information Technology > > The University of Tennessee > > >
