Hi Wanda, I too have had little response to Fastback questions here.
I implemented a Fastback server (our first) at a client site that had guest machines. We installed the Fastback client on each guest and are treating the clients as if they were physical machines. It is my understanding, from FileX folks, that there is no VMware integration per say at this point like VCB. I have successfully tested the BMR portion of Fastback in our lab and it works pretty good. There are some gotchas in the instructions as it relates to specific drivers on the physical host but did not run into any of them. I was skeptical that it would work at all in reality since the environment in the training class I took was pre-tested/staged. However, I worked through the instructions on a test client with no problems. The system did not have any "special" drivers such as RAID adapters like a production server might. I would encourage you to do some testing with the environment in question; I know that is no always possible. I couldn't come up with a VMware host to do it with! Please post if you learn anything. The product still has a lot of buzz but not many takers in the Southeast so far! Nicholas "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[email protected]> wrote on 07/30/2009 12:41:07 PM: > [image removed] > > [ADSM-L] TSM Fastback for Windows VM's.... > > Wanda Prather > > to: > > ADSM-L > > 07/30/2009 12:47 PM > > Sent by: > > "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[email protected]> > > Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" > > Anybody implemented Fastback for Windows VMWare guests? > > Am I correct that it would eliminate the need to use VCB? If Fastback can > do full system restores (aka BMR on a physical machine) I wouldn't need to > create fullvm snapshots of the guests, right? > > Anybody tried a Fastback full system restore on a VMware guest? > > Is there a different forum for Fastback that would be better than ADSM-L, or > do we attribute the lack of Fastback chatter on this forum to slow adoption > of the product? > > Thanks > Wanda
