Re: TSM for VE 6.4 Questions/Recommendations

2013-01-25 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
Hi, good tips. Any way of excluding backup of those machines that are not running(guestState: notRunning) with any rule? Regards, Hans Chr. On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Arbogast, Warren K warbo...@indiana.eduwrote: Hi Ken, We have been using TSMVE 6.4 for a couple months, I

Re: TSM for VE 6.4 Questions/Recommendations

2013-01-24 Thread Arbogast, Warren K
Hi Mike, We have a capacity based license, and are happy not to be chasing PVUs. We use one management class for all the data movers. An interesting feature of TSMVE is that one can restore a guest from one data center node to the other. That's handy since one can't do a storage vmotion

TSM for VE 6.4 Questions/Recommendations

2013-01-24 Thread jmayhew
Mike, I installed TSM for VE 6.4 shortly after it was released and then had a DR test in early December. During the DR test we were restoring from a tape library with 12 LTO-4 drives. Since approximately 98% is virtualized using VMware most of the restores were coming from TSM for VE. Although

Re: TSM for VE 6.4 Questions/Recommendations

2013-01-23 Thread Arbogast, Warren K
Hi Ken, We have been using TSMVE 6.4 for a couple months, I wouldn't call the following a set of best practices, but they work well for the restore service we provide. File restore services are still provided with TSM Extended Edition. Nothing different there. Recovery of the first disk on

Re: TSM for VE 6.4 Questions/Recommendations

2013-01-23 Thread Mike De Gasperis
Good information Keith, we were really shooting to eliminate any in guest backups if possible with the exception of any hosts that have physical RDM's. Licensing wise are you guys capacity based or PVU based? We're utilizing PVU right now so that was another big reason we wanted to pull the

Re: TSM for VE 6.4 Questions/Recommendations

2013-01-22 Thread Ehresman,David E.
, Wanda Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 8:36 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM for VE 6.4 Questions/Recommendations Hi Ken, Yes, TSM/VE 6.4 lets you do backups of many VM's in parallel by making the data mover multi-threaded. But each thread is still just doing one VMWare snapshot

Re: TSM for VE 6.4 Questions/Recommendations

2013-01-22 Thread Prather, Wanda
Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 8:36 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM for VE 6.4 Questions/Recommendations Hi Ken, Yes, TSM/VE 6.4 lets you do backups of many VM's in parallel by making the data mover multi-threaded. But each thread is still just doing one VMWare

Re: TSM for VE 6.4 Questions/Recommendations

2013-01-21 Thread Prather, Wanda
Of Mike De Gasperis Sent: Friday, January 18, 2013 2:16 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM for VE 6.4 Questions/Recommendations I posted this up on the adsm.org forum but I'm hoping I get more hits here. We're getting ready to implement the agent at one of our facilities and I'm

Re: TSM for VE 6.4 Questions/Recommendations

2013-01-21 Thread Kenneth Bury
: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Mike De Gasperis Sent: Friday, January 18, 2013 2:16 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM for VE 6.4 Questions/Recommendations I posted this up on the adsm.org forum but I'm hoping I get more hits here. We're getting

TSM for VE 6.4 Questions/Recommendations

2013-01-21 Thread Prather, Wanda
. YMMV -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Mike De Gasperis Sent: Friday, January 18, 2013 2:16 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM for VE 6.4 Questions/Recommendations I posted this up on the adsm.org forum but I'm

TSM for VE 6.4 Questions/Recommendations

2013-01-18 Thread Mike De Gasperis
I posted this up on the adsm.org forum but I'm hoping I get more hits here. We're getting ready to implement the agent at one of our facilities and I'm curious to see how everyone else is accomplishing some things we did relatively easy the old way. How are you scheduling certain VM's at