Re: TSM for VE - 2 TSM servers, 1 plugin
Hi Stephen, Im using also TDP Ve, and I installed plugin per VC, Each plugin is installed on a separate guest with vmclient , But all of them are working with the same Datamover, Thus when I open my VC I can see all the plugins Most important it's that all od the machine will be in the DNS, or it can resolve them with Local host file Amos -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Stackwick, Stephen Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2012 6:12 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM for VE - 2 TSM servers, 1 plugin The VMs are in the same VMware datacenter, but the they are split across a WAN link. I make no claims about the wisdom of this as far as VMware goes, and can't change it at any rate. But that's the situation I'm stuck with. Now, even if they *were* in 2 VMware datacenters, would you then have 2 plugins appearing in vCenter? (Damn, I wish I could remember which letter was which case...) I can see in the configuration that there's a possibility of entering multiple datacenters, but still there's only one TSM server, right? Is that a limitation for now? Steve STEPHEN STACKWICK | Senior Consultant | 301.518.6352 (m) | sstackw...@icfi.com | icfi.com ICF INTERNATIONAL | 410 E. Pratt Street Suite 2214, Baltimore, MD 21202 | 410.539.1135 (o) From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] on behalf of Kenneth Bury [kenbu...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2012 11:46 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM for VE - 2 TSM servers, 1 plugin How are your VMs arranged at the datacenter level? Are you splitting the VMs across TSM servers when they are in the same datacenter? If you look at the graphic in the documentation you basically have datacenters associated with one plug-in and it is associated with one TSM server. -- Ken Bury
Re: Data Domain community resources?
No, but I'd like to FIND one -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Allen S. Rout Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2012 5:18 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Data Domain community resources? So there's enough TSM use of DD, and TSM admins using DD, that we've had a few conversations about them here. But really, they're kind of off topic for this list. Do any of you know about a similar list / community / whatever focused on DD issues? I'm interested in doing some comparing of notes, specifically on Oracle questions. I'm not chasing If your response to this is "No, but I'd like to FIND one", then please reply to me off the list; if sufficient numbers do so, I'll gin up a list here. - Allen S. Rout
Re: Moving to TSM Capacity based licensing from PVU - experiences
Hi Rick, We Have th e same problem :-(, in my environment we got 10 TSM servers and more than 3000 clients and more that 1.3 PTB of data in the Pools And because we use Datadomain 0.5 PTB it in the DD, and its increase the Price, (When the DD is 40TB occupied), never the less IBM told me if I will use IBM Dedupe The will charge only for the size of the Dedupe Pool, I think all the lic by TB its not correct for us because I need to pay for 400 TB more because of the DD amos -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Rick Adamson Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 3:44 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Moving to TSM Capacity based licensing from PVU - experiences Ian, Our company looked into it and thought it may save some $$ and at the same time simplify the OVERLY complex PVU license model used for TSM/IBM. I'll start by saying to make sure you understand what TSM products are included in the "capacity" license proposal. From memory I don't remember the exact ones but it does not apply to all TSM licenses. This obviously means that the capacity license model may be attractive to some and unattractive to others. Your IBM rep should be able to clarify this. Also, in our environment we use a Data Domain backend which as you may know prefers all incoming data to be uncompressed and unencrypted. Since the TSM servers have no knowledge of the DD processes it reports the raw storage numbers before compression and deduplication which negatively affected the capacity licensing pricing. We opened discussions on this issue with IBM but they refused to budge or negotiate an adjustment for the "actual" storage used. Needless to say that position was not too warmly received and we 86'ed the whole discussion. Interestingly, had we used IBM storage/deduplication on the backend they would use the actual storage, but no such provision for Data Domain. Good luck ~Rick -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Ian Smith Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 7:13 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Moving to TSM Capacity based licensing from PVU - experiences Hi, We are in the midst of discussions on moving to capacity-based licensing from the standard PVU-based method for our site. We have a large number of clients ( licensed via TSM-EE, TDP agents, and on client-device basis ) and around 1PB of primary pool data. As I understand it, there is no published metric for the conversion from PVU to per TB licensing so I would be really interested and grateful if anyone would like to share their experiences of that conversion in a private email to me. Many thanks in advance. Ian Smith Oxford University England
Re: Restore VM problems at D/R
It look like that: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IC79885 Amos -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Bill Boyer Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 6:31 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Restore VM problems at D/R I'm able to restore some, but most of them. especially from the same datacenter fail with a very specific error message: " A specified parameter was not correct" Windows 2008 R2 server with the TSM 6.3 client loaded trying to restore VM's at a hot site. I just batch tried 39 different VM's and they all failed with this error. VMware vStorage API error. TSM Function visdkWaitForTask TSM File vmvisdk.cpp (3785) API return code 60 API error message "A specified parameter was not correct" And vCenter doesn't tell me any more than that, either!! Anyone seen this error or figured out a way to "guess" what vCenter doesn't like Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. (610) 927-4407 "Enjoy life. It has an expiration date." - ??
