Oh VMware gurus: I have a TSM4VE 7.1 datamover on a W2K8 VM that is working great, snapping and backing up around 250 VMs nightly. My VMVSTORTRANSPORT used to be the default, and 6 Windows VMs would backup over NBD, the rest over hotadd, as desired. OK, one of the VMs has an IDE(!) disk, so I understand that one. But the other 5 seem just like the other VMs that back up over hotadd. They're on different datastores and different hosts. Some are W2K3, some W2K8.
Here's the kicker: backing up with the scheduler, running as the Local System user, hotadd works for all VMs but the dirty half-dozen, which fall back to NBD. If I run the scheduler with my (domain admin) ID, they all backup with hotadd, except for (as expected) the lone IDE VM. Sounds like a permissions issue somewhere, but where? In vCenter? Steve STEPHEN STACKWICK | Senior Consultant | 301.518.6352 (m) | stephen.stackw...@icfi.com<mailto:sstackw...@icfi.com> | icfi.com<http://www.icfi.com/> ICF INTERNATIONAL | 7125 Thomas Edison Dr, Suite 100, Columbia, Md 21046 | 443-718-4900 (o)
