Virtualizing an I/O monster like that is - well, obviously you're not planning on great performance. A POC? A sandbox? A demo? If you just need to have it controlling and using a library, how about setting up an iSCSI bridge? Then the interface to the device is entirely within the virtual machine, and all ESX sees is lots of network I/O. For an actual production implementation, that would suck, but you wouldn't virtualize a production implementation, not of your main TSM server. What COULD make sense, would be a VM with disk and a SERVER device class leading back to a proper I/O monster on the other end of a WAN link. Then it can act as a fast local backup server for the site, and migrate itself empty every day into the main storage, where the stgpool backups and so on take place. I set up such an implementation a couple years ago when the powers that be were convinced it was TSM server performance that makes TDP for AS400 worthlessly slow.
-----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Micka Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 6:33 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [ADSM-L] Virtual TSM Thanks for the info! That's typical of vendors.. any excuse to not support their own product. Although I can't say I have ever needed to use the support but would be handy if it came to it. The VM guest would be hosted on a VMware ESX Server 3i. So if I did virtualise it and had a tape library connected.. they won't support the TSM server at all? Have you ever got it working on a VMware ESX server? +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by [email protected] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [email protected]. +----------------------------------------------------------------------
