It's interesting to see how Chapter 12 of the vSphere Installation and Setup Guide has changed between Updates 1 and 2 of vSphere 6.0:
Update 1: https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-60/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-601-installation-setup-guide.pdf Update 2: https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-60/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-602-installation-setup-guide.pdf Update 2 now makes explicit the possibility of using a third party product which employs VADP (such as IBM Spectrum Protect?) as an alternative to vSphere Data Protection for backing up VMs containing a vCenter Server and/or Platform Services Controller. However the backup and recovery steps within are still very much focused on using vSphere Data Protection. So if I did want to use Spectrum Protect for VMware, are there any specific guidelines relating to VMs containing vCenter Server / Platform Services Controller? For instance VMware only support full image backups of such VMs and require that all vCenter Server and Platform Services Controller instances are backed up at the same time. Do IBM have any best practices as to how these recommendations should be implemented with Spectrum Protect? There are probably also specific considerations when recovering such a VM using Spectrum Protect for VMware - eg recovering the VM containing the vCenter Server when no vCenter Server is available. Please can anyone point me at any helpful IBM docs which cover this scenario? Regards Neil Schofield IBM Spectrum Protect SME Backup & Recovery | Storage & Middleware | Central Infrastructure Services | Infrastructure & Service Delivery | Group IT LLOYDS BANKING GROUP ________________________________ Lloyds Banking Group plc. Registered Office: The Mound, Edinburgh EH1 1YZ. Registered in Scotland no. SC95000. Telephone: 0131 225 4555. Lloyds Bank plc. Registered Office: 25 Gresham Street, London EC2V 7HN. Registered in England and Wales no. 2065. Telephone 0207626 1500. Bank of Scotland plc. Registered Office: The Mound, Edinburgh EH1 1YZ. Registered in Scotland no. SC327000. Telephone: 03457 801 801. Cheltenham & Gloucester plc. Registered Office: Barnett Way, Gloucester GL4 3RL. Registered in England and Wales 2299428. Telephone: 0345 603 1637 Lloyds Bank plc, Bank of Scotland plc are authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and Prudential Regulation Authority. Cheltenham & Gloucester plc is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Halifax is a division of Bank of Scotland plc. Cheltenham & Gloucester Savings is a division of Lloyds Bank plc. HBOS plc. Registered Office: The Mound, Edinburgh EH1 1YZ. Registered in Scotland no. SC218813. This e-mail (including any attachments) is private and confidential and may contain privileged material. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete it (including any attachments) immediately. You must not copy, distribute, disclose or use any of the information in it or any attachments. Telephone calls may be monitored or recorded.