We have installed the 8.1 client on most new VM Guests (Linux and Windows)
for basic backups with no issues I am aware of and we don't run VE.

On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 3:19 PM, Alford, Ben <balford AT utk DOT edu> wrote:

> The IBM site: www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEQVQ_8.1.0/
> client/r_new_for_version.html<http://www.ibm.com/support/
> knowledgecenter/SSEQVQ_8.1.0/client/r_new_for_version.html>  says:
> Discontinued functions
> The following functions are discontinued in this release:
> Virtual machine operations on the backup-archive client
> Virtual machine operations are available only if you are using the client
> as a data mover for the IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments
> products (Data Protection for VMware or Data Protection for Microsoft
> Hyper-V).
> You can no longer run virtual machine operations without installing IBM
> Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments.
> What does "Virtual machine operations" mean?    Do TSM's basic
> backup/archive functions stop if the 8.1 client is running as a VM guest
> and Spectrum Protect for VE is not installed???
> Ben Alford
> IT Manager, Office of Information Technology
> The University of Tennessee
>



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