Re: [ADSM-L] TDP for Exchange on VM with LAN-FREE

Bad news Steven, if you are using VMWare virtualization

According to wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware_ESX ESX V3service console runs linux based on Red Hat EL3. TSM 5.5 clients aresupported on RHEL4 and 5. 5.4 supports RHEL3 using the 5.3 specialclient extension. VMWare ESXi doesn't run a linux kernel at all.

So the idea won't work on VMware. It might with other virtualizationproducts.


Regards

Steve.
Steven Harris,
TSM Admin, STILL looking for work,
Sydney Australia


Steven Langdale wrote:

Steve
I like that idea :)
Is it a supported config do you know?

Steven

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Re: [ADSM-L] TDP for Exchange on VM with LAN-FREE
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Hi Nicholas

You could install TSM for SAN on the VM Host box, and set up a dedicated
virtual ethernet adapter internally to pass the data from the VM Client
to the host.  This way you only need one extra HBA for all the VMs on
the same host.

Regards

Steve

Steven Harris,
TSM Admin, Between Jobs, Sydney Australia

Nicholas Rodolfich wrote:
Hello All,

Thanks for your help!!
I have a client that uses the Exchange TDP and are using LAN-FREE. The
data
is several TB. They currently to a full on the weekends and incrementals
daily. Their TSM server is on AIX. They would like to move their
physical
Exchange servers to couple of VMs. The issue is that none of our VCPs
seem
to think that an HBA can be assigned to a individual guest for exclusive
use thereby facilitating the use of LAN-FREE.
Has anyone out there seen a similar configuration, or know that this
works
or have any other ideas on how to accomplish the backup without
LAN-FREE?
Regards,

Nicholas=
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