Rod, We are currently in the same process of trying to consolidate on VMWare.
We have a TSM client running succesfully on the Linux-Base of the Vmware box, giving us a chance to backup complete Wintel guest operating systems as single files, having the guest OS's suspended of course. This creates the best DR possibilities. We are in the process of using ESS/FlashCopy to do an instant backup of the complete Vmware box, and offload those copies to TSM. Which reduces the suspend time. When doing TSM backups on the Wintel guest operating systems on the VMware, you should treat the windows OS as if it were a stand-alone Intel box running windows, so the TSM support should not be different. But that's my theory. As for license issues; TSM is licensed against the number of CPU's in the physical machine. Now lets run 20 guest OS's on a single 4way Vmware machine. This was confirmed by our local Tivoli rep., but I still have my doubts. Nice theory though. All this is very nice, but we don't have a Tivoli support confirmation yet, so we have no production environments running like this at the time. Greets, Ilja -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: rh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: dinsdag 2 december 2003 16:53 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp: TSM and VMWARE Like many companies, we are attempting to consolidate multiple Wintel servers into VM's using VMware. Does anyone know if IBM supports TSM 5.2 servers and clients running under VMware? I see on VMware's web site that IBM is a "software alliance partner" and TSM is listed as supported. I can't find any IBM site that states this as being true, or the VMware/TSM combinations that are supported or tested. I don't want to get into a situation were I will have to recreate a TSM problem in a standalone environment in order to get support. Is anybody running this combination and received support from TSM? Many thanks, Rod Hroblak ADP __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/ =====DISCLAIMER================================================================= De informatie in dit e-mailbericht is vertrouwelijk en uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde. Wanneer u dit bericht per abuis ontvangt, verzoeken wij u contact op te nemen met de afzender per kerende e-mail. Verder verzoeken wij u in dat geval dit e-mailbericht te vernietigen en de inhoud ervan aan niemand openbaar te maken. Wij aanvaarden geen aansprakelijkheid voor onjuiste, onvolledige dan wel ontijdige overbrenging van de inhoud van een verzonden e-mailbericht, noch voor daarbij overgebrachte virussen. The information contained in this e-mail is confidential and may be privileged. It may be read, copied and used only by the intended recipient. If you have received it in error, please contact the sender immediately by return e-mail; please delete in this case the e-mail and do not disclose its contents to any person. We don't accept liability for any errors, omissions, delays of receipt or viruses in the contents of this message which arise as a result of e-mail transmission.
