It's not the schedule. There are several things that can cause VE to do the whole enchilada, rather than only the used space.
One I specifically remember is you have to be at Hardware level 7 on the VM; another is a missing license file for VE. And there are also some VM's guests where VMware can't give/get you the correct CBT information to prevent doing that; I've seen that on some odd variants of Linux guests, but couldn't tell you why. You can also have older VM's that don't have the CBT flag turned on. You can go in the VM and turn it on, but I think the VM has to be down, and the first full backup should have turned it on anyway. If you've got a clean Win2k8 guest around, try a backup of one of those as a test, see if you get the same results If none of that rings a bell I'd open a PMR, they can probably identify the problem pretty quickly. (And can I ask why you haven't upgraded to VE 7.1? Much cleaner implementation, FWIW.) Wanda -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Lee, Gary Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2014 11:25 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] tsm for ve backup question TSM for ve 6.4, tsm server 6.2.5 on RHEL 6.1 Data movers on RHEL 6.1. Ran our first backup of a production vmware host. We thin provision our vms. One is provisioned at around 1 tB. However, according to our vmware admin, it is using only around 238 gB of disk at this time. When we ran the backup, It appeared to back up the entire 1 tB of something. The schedule for the backup is below. Is this a limitation of the product, or simply misconfiguration. TSM I can deal with, vmware, I know little about. Any pointers to good reference info would be appreciated. I have looked in the TSM for ve users's guide, but don't' see anything. Schedule follows Policy Domain Name: VMWARE-PROD Schedule Name: HOST-ESX06-NIGHTLY Description: Action: Backup Subaction: VM Options: -vmfulltype=vstor -vmbackuptype=fullvm -asnodename=DC_BSU_RB -domain.vmfull="VMHOST=vmhost06.bsu.edu;-VM=SQLEMAIL01," -MODE=IFIncremental Objects: Priority: 5 Start Date/Time: 08/25/2014 18:00:00 Duration: 1 Hour(s) Schedule Style: Enhanced Period: Day of Week: Sun,Mon,Tue,Wed,Thu,Fri,Sat Month: Any Day of Month: Any Week of Month: Any Expiration: Last Update by (administrator): BLBROWN2 Last Update Date/Time: 08/25/2014 14:20:20 Managing profile:
