You can take more control by setting up specific schedules to backup some
VMs first.  You might use VM folders to control that as well.

Do you let VMs backup in parallel with "VMMAXParallel" ?  It defaults to
1...

You can also have multiple jobs running simultaneously.  It's not clear to
me, are you using the "IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments: Data
Protection for VMware"?  If so, in addition you could be running multiple
jobs on multiple datamovers simultaneously.

Enabling #>1 on VMMAXParallel and multiple datamovers helped us to
drastically reduce our backup windows.

Best regards,

Mike

On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 6:08 AM, Marc Lanteigne <marclanteigne AT ca.ibm DOT com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
>  You could configure a new DataMover to handle that VM.
>
>  In the preview, is the order alphabetical?  If so, can you rename the VM?
>
>  Marc...
>
>  Sent from my iPhone using IBM Verse
>
>  On Feb 8, 2018, 11:17:20 PM, steven.harris AT BTFINANCIALGROUP DOT COM wrote:
>
>  From: steven.harris AT BTFINANCIALGROUP DOT COM
>  To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>  Cc:
>  Date: Feb 8, 2018, 11:17:20 PM
>  Subject: [ADSM-L] Influencing order of VM backup.
>
>
>    Hi All
>   Thanks for the input on my recent query about 7 Year VM backups.  I'll
> let you know when I decide something.
>   Moving on..
>   TSM Server  7.1.1.300 AIX,  Datamovers and Storage Agents on Redhat,
> writing to Protectier VTL, TSM for VE 7.1.1/2 hybrid.
>   We can't use the VMware plugin because of separation of duties concerns,
> so we edit the DOMAIN.VMFULL lines in the dsm.sys stanzas. VMs have a range
> of different sizes that all back up on the same schedule and we'd prefer
> not to split this up.  The execution order of the VM backups is determined
> by TSM for VE, somehow, and can be seen when a backup vm -preview is run.
>   There are some large VMs that take quite a while to back up, but
> unfortunately run late in the execution order, so we overrun our backup
> window.
>   Changing the order of the VMs in the DOMAIN.VMFULL statement does not
> influence execution order.  Is there any way to make the big ones run first?
>   Thanks
>   Steve
>   Steven Harris
>   TSM Admin/Consultant
>   Canberra Australia
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