Hi community..
I'm in the process of testing TSM Client version 6.2.3. My primary focus is it's ability to backup VM Guest sessions..
The way I have structured this is very simple..
I've upgraded the TSM Client on the VCB Proxy Server..
Normally this server would VCB the guests to a local storage pool (700GB of local Disk), then kick off a TSM session to backup the VCB'ed guests to tape.
What I am aiming for is to use the new TSM to tape via vStorage API features of the TSM Client ver6.2.3.
I must admit a little reading, some poking about with the dsm.opt and I had the first test guest server backing up via the GUI..
It took a little more effort to get the CLI happening.
Roughly the command I'm calling is.
dsmc.exe backup vm Guest_Name -vmbackuptype=FULLVM -optfile=dsm.opt
All in all this works a treat.
It's definitly slower than using VCB but as this method pushes the backup directly to tape it actually takes less time.
How can I put that to make it a clear statement.
"The guests are in snapshot for a longer period of time, but the overall backup time is less as the guest is exported directly to tape rather than firstly hitting the local VCB Proxy's disk."
The problem I have is I can't restore..
I have a call open with IBM but don't appear to be getting any honest attention.. I fear this is because they simply don't know.
With the restore I'm running
dsmc restore vm myvm -vmname="myvm_restore_name" -datacenter="dirA/datacenters/myDatacenter" -host="myHostName" -datastore="myDatastore"
But it fails to find the Datacenter
The error is
ANS4166E Creating a Virtual Machine, but the datacenter 'dirA/datacenters/myDatacenter' was not found. (Of Course I'm using our actual VMWare details of FSA/Head_Office/Prod-HO-DR)
If I simplify my restore command to
dsmc restore vm myvm -vmname="myvm_restore_name" -host="myHostName" -datastore="myDatastore"
this also fails but with the error ANS4166E Creating a Virtual Machine, but the datacenter 'Head_Office' was not found.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.