Thanks Ray
The idea of a roll-your-own scripted backup of VMs was the original conception
of this environment, some years ago now, but it was hard to make it work and
there were time pressures, so we went with the simple option first. Only now
is that becoming unmanageable.
It's still a lot of work and of course we have an extensive test environment to
play with and a team of crack programmers to do it <snigger/>. It's strictly a
side project and we have to be careful to not break anything.
As to job submission.... a TSM command schedule should do it. We have ControlM
if we need it.
Cheers
Steve.
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From: Storer, Raymond [mailto:storerr AT nibco DOT com]
Sent: Thursday, 19 October 2017 4:19 AM
To: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
Cc: Harris, Steven <steven.harris AT btfinancialgroup DOT com>
Subject: RE: TSM for VE - VMCLI
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
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
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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