I know you may know this, but for others who may not realize it: That's not exactly the system you want to "test to see" if you have problems. Unless you have a separate non-live environment, or are in a non-regulatory and non-SLA driven environment. I had to put out this warning because if you "test" with a production environment and wind up not backing up important data, and/or losing previously backed up data it could cost you more than a whole data center full of standalone servers. Not to mention the possible down time, and hence lost backups if you have a problem.
Your free to do as you wish, however, once you move to an "unsupported" platform you're SOL if you have problems you can't support on your own. IBM has a way of being nice about telling you "Sorry about your luck" and ending the call. So, I'd highly suggest that you keep TSM on a supported platform for production work. See Ya' Howard > -----Original Message----- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf > Of Buddy Howeth > Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 3:45 AM > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Servers supported on virtual machines--anything > new? > > 90% of our servers are VMs with the exception of TSM. We are running > 5.4 > with 166 clients. We are considering converting our TSM server to a VM > also but it was not recommended by the IBM storage expert we worked > with. > We will likely do it anyway to test it and see if we have any problems.
