Steven,

Sorry, I cannot help you with the vmcli commands.  However, you can easily use 
PowerShell or another scripting language to get vCenter to provide you a list 
of VMs and then sort, slice, dice, filter, and store them.  You could easily 
"roll your own" VM tagging structure for backups too--you don't need a later 
version of TSM for VE to do it if you plan to parse what vCenter gives you 
anyway.  Then, when you upgrade your TSM for VE at some future date you can 
migrate the tags you created to the ones the new version of TSM for VE uses.  
If running the script on the TSM for VE server, you could execute dsmc commands 
as your script spits them out.  If not, what options do you have for some sort 
of "job submission" to the TSM for VE server for it to execute the dsmc 
commands?

Ray

Ray Storer
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Harris, Steven
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 6:11 PM
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Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM for VE - VMCLI

Hi Guys

TSM Server 7.1.1 AIX,  TSM VE 7.1.1 linux X64

This shop has issues with us using the vSphere plugin as it requires too many 
permissions. We cannot move to later VE clients with expanded facilities 
because of a dependency on vCenter 5.5

So far, we have been managing by editing the dsm.sys files, but that is getting 
to be unsustainable.  The docs describe a VMCLI interface that may suit when 
scripted.  The idea would be to write Powershell/python scripts to query vmware 
for a list of vms, apply some filters that would allow includes and excludes 
from a database or maybe json files and generate a list of VMs to backup 
invoked by vmcli.

Is anyone using vmcli this way?  Any war stories to tell? Maybe its working 
well for you.

Please let me know

Thanks

Steve

Steven Harris
TSM Admin/Consultant

Canberra Australia



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