Don't know about the tsm server but I do have a hunt for the vm guest as clients.
We were having trouble with the clients missing and failing and we found that memory efficient helped alot -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Sent: Wed May 10 15:01:27 2006 Subject: Re: Running TSM _server_ in an virtual machine We have enough challenges getting VM Guests to behave well as TSM clients, let alone servers. You really want to be bleeding-edge, don't you? Steve Schaub Systems Engineer, WNI BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee 423-752-6574 (desk) 423-785-7347 (cell) -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Stapleton Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 3:28 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Running TSM _server_ in an virtual machine "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[email protected]> wrote on 05/10/2006 02:02:01 PM: > We're looking into hosting multiple small TSM servers in virtual > machines running inside a VMware ESX server. We would like to do fully > disk based backup using sequential disk storage pools. > > However, after some googling, I found the paper > > Tivoli Storage Manager on VMware > > by Tom Hepner which states that this is _not_ supported at the moment. > > The paper is about 1 year old. > > Does somebody know if this has changed during the past year? It remains unsupported, and is not recommended (bitter experience). There is just too much traffic pushed across VMWare's virtual fiber connections to get 10% of the throughput you get from physical connections. -- Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) MR Backup and Recovery Management 262.790.3190 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ Electronic Privacy Notice. This e-mail, and any attachments, contains information that is, or may be, covered by electronic communications privacy laws, and is also confidential and proprietary in nature. If you are not the intended recipient, please be advised that you are legally prohibited from retaining, using, copying, distributing, or otherwise disclosing this information in any manner. Instead, please reply to the sender that you have received this communication in error, and then immediately delete it. Thank you in advance for your cooperation. ======================================================================== ====== Please see the following link for the BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee E-mail disclaimer: http://www.bcbst.com/email_disclaimer.shtm ******************************************** This message is intended only for the use of the Addressee and may contain information that is PRIVILEGED and CONFIDENTIAL. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please erase all copies of the message and its attachments and notify us immediately. Thank you. ********************************************
