TKutil, 1. VDR is a disk-to-disk inline deduplicated backup solution for and from VMware. 2. VCB will be discontinued and is not the way forward in the long run. 3. VDR still has many gaps around functionality but in its simplest form works. 4. VMware has made available Storage API's that will make it possible for 3rd parties, like IBM, to get direct access to VMDK files and back them up, this is very exciting and I cannot wait for this to transpire.
I heard faint rumors that IBM will be supporting the API's later this year in an upgrade but nothing further. VDR is a good solution in addition to TSM backups especially if your VM's is version 7 as only changed-blocks will be backed up, this speeds up the complete backups immensely but - like i said - VDR was never meant to be a backup replacement, only a cheap easy solution for SMB's etc. Regards Louw On 2010/08/27 16:10, tkutil wrote:
I'm looking for experiences using VCB or VDR backups with Tivoli. Currently, we are only doing file level backups at the OS level, but I'm looking into the possibility of leveraging Tivoli to backup the whole VM for DR purposes. Have you been successful in implementing either VCB or VDR backups? Are there any clients that need to be purchases? I have used VCB in the past with Networker and understand how that works as far as configuration, but have no experience with VDR. To me it looks like VDR is a disk-to-disk type backup, but I'm wondering if Tivoli has the ability to write to tape? Thanks +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by [email protected] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [email protected]. +----------------------------------------------------------------------
