I just got back from Sterling Forest, NY. We did a small D/R test on our system. We started using VCB to backup or VM's and today I think we decided to try another method or a combination. I'm just the TSM-guy and didn't realize that to recover a VM is a 2-step process. You first restore the file(s) from TSM to the VCB server. Then you have to copy/convert them back over to the VMware storage. As an example...we have a fairly large SQLServer box and the image was 180GB. It took just over an hour to restore it from TSM, but then the conversion/copy process was going to take another 2+ hours. We also did a small 16GB VM and that only took 25-min to convert/copy. Maybe 3-4 hours for a recovery is acceptable, but we felt not.
We will be investigating other avenues to backup or VM's. Maybe use VCB for the smaller ones and revert back to the other method of using the API and backing them up from the VMware console. Bill Boyer " INDECISION is the key to FLEXIBILITY." - ?? -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kelly Lipp Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2008 12:56 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: VMware and TSM Backup - Survey And if Wanda confirms what I say, I know I'm right! BTW, adoption rates of folks using TSM for VMware are higher at this point based on response to our agent. That is good. If many folks use TSM to backup VMware we'll see more development from IBM to make this even better. Kelly Lipp CTO STORServer, Inc. 485-B Elkton Drive Colorado Springs, CO 80907 719-266-8777 www.storserver.com -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wanda Prather Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 8:49 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] VMware and TSM Backup - Survey One; licensing is by physical cores. Throw up as many VM clients as you want; you still just pay for the cpus (cores) on the physical box. On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 7:18 PM, cpreston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Kelly Lipp wrote: > > > > > > Most folks are using the TSM Client/Agent within the VM to do backups. > > Cool and you have to love the licensing on that: one client/agent > > license (with the appropriate cores figured, naturally) per ESX Server. > > VMs don't crap out often so DR is minimal, but it is relatively > > straightforward: rebuild the VM and then reconstitute it with data from > > TSM. > > > > > > > Kelly, > > What about TDP licensing in this model? Is IBM licensing those via > physical or virtual CPUs? (e.g. Assuming 5 Oracle servers running inside > VMs on a single-CPU ESX box, am I paying for one CPU or FIVE CPUs?) > > TIA > > +---------------------------------------------------------------------- > |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. > |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > +---------------------------------------------------------------------- >
