Remember, TSM (a.k.a. WDSF, ADSM) was originally _invented_ as a virtualized application, under the system now known as z/VM, and was supporetd there until V3.7. It should still have the fundamental design to deal with running in a virtual machine. It does need resources such as tapes to be dedicated to it, and it may take some work to get those resources connected right. But a virtual machine should actually be considered TSM's historic native environment.
Roger Deschner University of Illinois at Chicago rog...@uic.edu "We all live in a virtual machine, a virtual machine, a virtual machine" --from the SHARE songbook, sung to the tune of the Beatles' "Yellow Submarine" On Wed, 3 Feb 2010, Xav Paice wrote: >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. >
