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 the new version will 
allow you to select multiple VMs for restore it will only use one datamover and 
each datamover will only restore 1 VM at time. Consequently, we initially had 
several drives that were idle until I created additional datamover nodes.

As far as file level restores from tape using TSM for VE, I have found also 
found it to be a painful process. To work around the pain I move the backup 
data for the filespace from tape to disk using:

MOVE NODEDATA <node name> FROMSTGPOOL=<tape pool name> TOSTGPOOL=<disk pool 
name> FILESPACE="\VMFULL-<VMware server name> MAXPROCESS=<I use 6>

With maxprocess set to 6 it usually only takes about 30 minutes to move the 
data. Obviously, this is going to be dependent on the size of the VM and if the 
VM is too large it may not be worth doing this.

That is my 2 cents,

James Mayhew
Storage Engineer
HealthPlan Services

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