ADSM-L

Re: TSM for VMWare ESX Question - Where can I find the storage agent for TSM?

2006-04-18 15:51:00
Subject: Re: TSM for VMWare ESX Question - Where can I find the storage agent for TSM?
From: Jurjen Oskam <jurjen AT STUPENDOUS DOT ORG>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 21:43:00 +0200
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 02:10:45PM -0500, Troy Frank wrote:

> You "might" be able to run the linux tsm client directly on the esx
> server, to get guest os backups.  However even if that did work, it
> would be whole image backups (not file level), and you'd need to bring
> down the virtual machine before running it's backup.  I think the more
> typical solution is to just run the tsm backup client within the os of
> each virtual machine.

You can run the TSM client on ESX Server, it's just Red Hat 7.2. You can
use the add redo feature to back up running virtual machines.

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Jurjen Oskam

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