A couple of gotchas that caught me out today might be useful info for somebody:


-          The following document suggests TSM for VE 7.1.4 will work with 
vSphere 5.1, 5.5 and 6.0:
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21970882#Supported%20VMware%20vSphere%20versions

As I discovered the hard way, this seems to be stretching things a little. The 
VDDK version that ships with the 7.1.4 client - v6.0.1 - has a rather nasty 
limitation which means you can't back up VMs on vShpere 5.1 or 5.5 using the 
SAN transport. IBM don't seem to have gone out of their way to draw your 
attention to this, but details are in the VDDK 6.0.1 release notes embedded in 
the following:
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21672351


-          In common I believe with TSM for VE 7.1.3, version 7.1.4 goes to 
almost absurd lengths to conceal the fact that it isn't going to install the 
Recovery Agent Device Driver. When presented with what is on the face of it a 
full set of features to be installed, you have to expand the Recovery Agent 
feature to realise that the Recovery Agent Device Driver sub-feature is now an 
option that must be manually selected for installation (even if upgrading from 
a version where the functionality was previously enabled.)

Regards
Neil Schofield
Tivoli Storage Manager SME
Backup & Recovery | Storage & Middleware | Central Infrastructure Services | 
Infrastructure & Service Delivery | Group IT
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