Quoted from the IBM link, the table refers to virtualisation where "the resources are then purely virtual (not dedicated) and/or are not discrete". My confusion, and I'd love someone to clear this up, is where we have RHEL running KVM. Red Hat clearly stated in their customer seminar on RHEV-M that if an app is supported on RHEL 5.4, it's supported under KVM on RHEL 5.4. If I add a PCI card (e.g. multi port HBA with tape attached) to a virtual machine, that is discrete and dedicated, that could be supported but it's a pretty grey area. Anyone care to confirm or deny?
As Wanda put very accurately (off list), "when they say something is supported, it means if you call and report a problem, they will work on the problem" - that's the application vendor's support rather than the OS vendor's view of what's certified. Any software vendor is going to want to limit the support to things they can test in the lab - Tivoli might test TSM on RHEL, but maybe not RHEL under RHEV/KVM. That link also mentions non i386 virtualisation - such as LPARs and DSD. My apologies to the OP if this hijacks the conversation - I think it's on topic as you didn't mention which hypervisor you will select. ----- "Wanda Prather" <wprat...@jasi.com> wrote: > From: "Wanda Prather" <wprat...@jasi.com> > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Sent: Wednesday, 3 February, 2010 6:13:05 AM (GMT+1200) Auto-Detected > Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Virtual TSM > > Yes, you can restore a TSM data base to a new TSM server. > > However, think twice before virtualizing - Tivoli doesn't support the > TSM > server on a VM if you have tape drivers (i.e., physical tape or VTL). > See > below. > > http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=663&context=SSGSG7&q1=server+support+vmware&uid=swg21239546&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&lang=en > > > On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Micka <tsm-fo...@backupcentral.com> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm looking at virtualising our TSM server.
