Friends,

VMware version 5.1 with SRM 5.1 (build 941848)
TSM Server 6.3.1.8
TSM for VMware 6.4.0.1

We have a twin-center VMware environment with SRM, where we have SRM
Placeholders in the other location.
On both locations TSM for VMware is used to backup ALL VM’s, except the
ones we exclude on the TSM Serverside by Client Option Sets.

The datamovers report errors when they want to start a backup of a SRM
Placeholder:

04/18/2013 22:00:48 ANS9365E VMware vStorage API error for virtual machine
'ABCD'.
   TSM function name : __ns2__CreateSnapshot_USCORETask
   TSM file          : vmvisdk.cpp (1710)
   API return code   : 12
   API error message : SOAP 1.1 fault: "":ServerFaultCode[no subcode]
"The method is disabled by 'com.vmware.vcDr'"
Detail:

04/18/2013 22:00:48 ANS5250E An unexpected error was encountered.
   TSM function name : vmVddkFullVMPrePareToOpenVMDKs
   TSM function      : targetMoRefP is null
   TSM return code   : 115
   TSM file          : ..\..\common\vm\vmbackvddk.cpp (10472)

Is there a smart trick to exclude all SRM Placeholders from the backup? Or
another way to avoid errors?

Thanks in advance,
Maurice van ‘t Loo