Gregory, Are you using the TSM for Virtual Environments TDP along with these scripts or something else?
Thanks, Chad Subject: Re: TSM snapshots for VMs Hello Chad, In our environment, we use TSM for TSM backups. Each ESX Server is member of one proxynode. We built a backup script from a config file. this file contains VMs to be backuped dsmc i -asnode=ESXPROD /vmfs/volumes/SERVER/SERVER.vmx vmware-cmd /vmfs/volumes/SERVER/SERVER.vmx createsnapshot Snapshot_SERVER Desc_SERVER 0 0 dsmc i -asnode=ESXPROD -filelist=/vmfs/volumes/file_list_SERVER.txt vmware-cmd /vmfs/volumes/SERVER/SERVER.vmx removesnapshots The file_list_SERVER.txt contains the list of file to ba backuped. /vmfs/volumes/SERVER/SERVER-flat.vmdk /vmfs/volumes/SERVER/VERVER.vmdk I hope that will help Cordialement, Grégory Molin gregory.mo...@afnor.org<mailto:gregory.mo...@afnor.org> -----Message d'origine----- De : ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] De la part de Harris, Chad E Envoyé : lundi 21 mars 2011 14:52 À : ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU<mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> Objet : [ADSM-L] TSM snapshots for VMs Fellow TSM admins, I am curious if anyone else out here has been given the task to provide backups of the VMware infrastructure via TSM. I know it might be too early to be asking this question due to the newness of the TSM VMware TDP, but any insights that can be given will be helpful and gratefully appreciated. Our current virtual environment has somewhere in the neighborhood of 1700 (+) VMs. Currently the Virtualization team has been utilizing another product (which shall remain nameless) to perform weekly full snapshots. This product has worked reasonably well up until this point in time but now they are finding that they have outgrown the products ability to provide these snapshots. The problem sounds easy enough to fix right; however the problem we are having is that the Virtualization team has traditionally only been providing backups for the first 35 GB of the primary disk, so essentially they were only providing snapshot restorations for the OS and nothing else. I realize that we could go in and have the system admins install and configure TSM on ever-single VM that needs these snapshots and then utilize include-exclude parameters to only backup what needs to be backed up but we were more interested in the idea of using proxy servers to run the virtual snapshots. Taking all of this into consideration our question is this, is there a way to configure the settings on the proxy server so that it will only backup the primary disk on each virtual server? Thanks, Chad Harris "ATTENTION. Ce message et les pièces jointes sont confidentiels et établis à l'attention exclusive de leur destinataire (aux adresses spécifiques auxquelles il a été adressé). Si vous n'êtes pas le destinataire de ce message, vous devez immédiatement en avertir l'expéditeur et supprimer ce message et les pièces jointes de votre système. This message and any attachments are confidential and intended to be received only by the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify immediately the sender by reply and delete the message and any attachments from your system. "
