It's interesting to see how Chapter 12 of the vSphere Installation and Setup 
Guide has changed between Updates 1 and 2 of vSphere 6.0:

Update 1: 
https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-60/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-601-installation-setup-guide.pdf
Update 2: 
https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-60/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-602-installation-setup-guide.pdf

Update 2 now makes explicit the possibility of using a third party product 
which employs VADP (such as IBM Spectrum Protect?) as an alternative to vSphere 
Data Protection for backing up VMs containing a vCenter Server and/or Platform 
Services Controller. However the backup and recovery steps within are still 
very much focused on using vSphere Data Protection.

So if I did want to use Spectrum Protect for VMware, are there any specific 
guidelines relating to VMs containing vCenter Server / Platform Services 
Controller? For instance VMware only support full image backups of such VMs and 
require that all vCenter Server and Platform Services Controller instances are 
backed up at the same time. Do IBM have any best practices as to how these 
recommendations should be implemented with Spectrum Protect?

There are probably also specific considerations when recovering such a VM using 
Spectrum Protect for VMware - eg recovering the VM containing the vCenter 
Server when no vCenter Server is available. Please can anyone point me at any 
helpful IBM docs which cover this scenario?

Regards

Neil Schofield
IBM Spectrum Protect SME
Backup & Recovery | Storage & Middleware | Central Infrastructure Services | 
Infrastructure & Service Delivery | Group IT
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