Re: TSM for VE 6.4 Questions/Recommendations

2013-01-25 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
Hi, good tips. Any way of excluding backup of those machines that are not running(guestState: notRunning) with any rule? Regards, Hans Chr. On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Arbogast, Warren K wrote: > Hi Ken, > We have been using TSMVE 6.4 for a couple months, I wouldn't call the > follow

TSM for VE 6.4 Questions/Recommendations

2013-01-24 Thread jmayhew
Mike, I installed TSM for VE 6.4 shortly after it was released and then had a DR test in early December. During the DR test we were restoring from a tape library with 12 LTO-4 drives. Since approximately 98% is virtualized using VMware most of the restores were coming from TSM for VE. Although

Re: TSM for VE 6.4 Questions/Recommendations

2013-01-24 Thread Arbogast, Warren K
Hi Mike, We have a capacity based license, and are happy not to be chasing PVUs. We use one management class for all the data movers. An interesting feature of TSMVE is that one can restore a guest from one data center node to the other. That's handy since one can't do a storage vmotion betw

Re: TSM for VE 6.4 Questions/Recommendations

2013-01-23 Thread Mike De Gasperis
Good information Keith, we were really shooting to eliminate any in guest backups if possible with the exception of any hosts that have physical RDM's. Licensing wise are you guys capacity based or PVU based? We're utilizing PVU right now so that was another big reason we wanted to pull the agen

Re: TSM for VE 6.4 Questions/Recommendations

2013-01-23 Thread Arbogast, Warren K
Hi Ken, We have been using TSMVE 6.4 for a couple months, I wouldn't call the following a set of best practices, but they work well for the restore service we provide. File restore services are still provided with TSM Extended Edition. Nothing different there. Recovery of the first disk on virt

Re: TSM for VE 6.4 Questions/Recommendations

2013-01-22 Thread Prather, Wanda
st Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 8:36 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM for VE 6.4 Questions/Recommendations Hi Ken, Yes, TSM/VE 6.4 lets you do backups of many VM's in parallel by making the data m

Re: TSM for VE 6.4 Questions/Recommendations

2013-01-22 Thread Ehresman,David E.
ather, Wanda Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 8:36 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM for VE 6.4 Questions/Recommendations Hi Ken, Yes, TSM/VE 6.4 lets you do backups of many VM's in parallel by making the data mover multi-threaded. But each thread is still just doing one VMWare s

TSM for VE 6.4 Questions/Recommendations

2013-01-21 Thread Prather, Wanda
around, though, is making sure > we don't run backups at the same time that other software is running > that also uses snapshots. We havent' tried to isolate a schedule for a > single VM. > > YMMV > > > -----Original Message----- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manag

Re: TSM for VE 6.4 Questions/Recommendations

2013-01-21 Thread Kenneth Bury
same time that other software is running that also > uses snapshots. We havent' tried to isolate a schedule for a single VM. > > YMMV > > > -Original Message----- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of > Mike De Gasperis >

Re: TSM for VE 6.4 Questions/Recommendations

2013-01-21 Thread Prather, Wanda
M: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Mike De Gasperis Sent: Friday, January 18, 2013 2:16 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM for VE 6.4 Questions/Recommendations I posted this up on the adsm.org forum but I'm hoping I get more hits here. We're

TSM for VE 6.4 Questions/Recommendations

2013-01-18 Thread Mike De Gasperis
I posted this up on the adsm.org forum but I'm hoping I get more hits here. We're getting ready to implement the agent at one of our facilities and I'm curious to see how everyone else is accomplishing some things we did relatively easy the "old" way. How are you scheduling certain VM's at diff