Louw,

If VCB has no future with ESXi, maybe VMware Data Recovery for image backups 
with global de-duplication for all guests + FLR on guests to restore files is 
the best solution now?

For me is not clear, what is the relationship between TSM and VDR backup 
appliance?

I hope it is possible to backup de-duplicated VDR images by normal TSM Client?

Kindest regards,



Grigori G. Solonovitch



Senior Technical Architect



Information Technology  Ahli United Bank Kuwait http://www.ahliunited.com.kw



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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
louw pretorius
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Grigori,.



As I understand it VMware is moving away from the VCB framework method

of backups and is starting to develop their own backup appliance called

VMware Data Recovery - currently at v1.2 - which is a simplistic

disk-to-disk only in-line deduped solution for VMware free with VMware

Advanced licenses and up.



 From VMware version ~4 backing up from the Console is network limited

so this is becoming a future-less option.



VMware does provide Storage API's but I assume TSM is still assimilating

them for future features.



So after all is said and done VCB is your best option - clunky as it is

- and backing up from the console is not recommended.



Regards

Louw



On 21-Jun-10 11:19, Grigori Solonovitch wrote:

> I will deeply appreciate any answers on the next quiestions:

>

> What are the current problems with backup/restore in case of using ESXi 
> instead of ESX?

> Which version of TSM Client supports ESXi completely?

> What kind of additional software is required to backup/restore ESXi virtual 
> machines?

>

>

> Grigori G. Solonovitch

>

> Senior Technical Architect

>

> Information Technology  Ahli United Bank Kuwait http://www.ahliunited.com.kw

>

> Phone: (+965) 2231-2274  Mobile: (+965) 99798073  E-Mail: Grigori.Solonovitch 
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