Wasted Storage on VM's

2014-04-29 Thread Plair, Ricky
We have our VM's backing up to our TSM server with a retention, q co 30/NOLIMIT/NOLIMIT/0 and we have over 100 TB of space used by these rules. How are others maintaining storage for VMs? Thanks! Ricky M. Plair Storage Engineer HealthPlan Services Office: 813 289 1000 Ext 2273 Mobile: 757 2

Upgrading to v6 storage agent and TDPO

2014-04-29 Thread Rhodes, Richard L.
We just finished our TSM v5 to TSM v6 server upgrades. I'll have to say it generally went very well. Lots of work but no real problems. Now I have to upgrade a bunch of V5 Storage Agents and TDPO setups. I looked at the upgrade guide and Storage Agent guide, but didn't find much on how to up

Re: tsm tcp for vm versus veeam

2014-04-29 Thread Shawn DREW
Veeam was designed as a backup product(not archive). The way Veeam historically recommended longer-term tape backups (which still works and still criticized) is for you to use TSM (or any product that supports tape properly) to archive the data from the Veeam repository. The image files are dat

Re: slow restore performance on tsmve

2014-04-29 Thread Shawn DREW
If you are using the mode=ifincr parameter, it might be the same problem we had a while ago. We started using ifincr as soon as it was added, but found our restores were horribly slow if we did not perform a periodic full backup. We added in a weekly mode=iffull backup which addressed our pro

Re: Upgrading to v6 storage agent and TDPO

2014-04-29 Thread Grigori Solonovitch
We have done this a year ago (5.5 --> 6.3.3.100). For Windows TSM Clients: 1) stop all TSM services; 2) run TSM Installer from new agent; 3) start TSM services; Notes: 1. Stopping TSM services is critical - reboot is required is any of the services is not stopped!! 2) There are s

Re: Upgrading to v6 storage agent and TDPO

2014-04-29 Thread Erwann Simon
Hello Richard, I'm just answering to the storage agent question on AIX. Be aware that filesets are different in v5 and v6, and they install in different path (under /usr and /opt in v6) so both may be installed simultaneously. When upgrading, you have to move the configuration files from an in