"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 05/10/2006
02:02:01 PM:
> We're looking into hosting multiple small TSM servers in virtual
> machines running inside a VMware ESX server. We would like to
> do fully disk based backup using sequential disk storage pools.
>
> However, after some googling, I found the paper
>
>    Tivoli Storage Manager on VMware
>
> by Tom Hepner which states that this is _not_ supported at the moment.
>
> The paper is about 1 year old.
>
> Does somebody know if this has changed during the past year?

It remains unsupported, and is not recommended (bitter experience). There
is just too much traffic pushed across VMWare's virtual fiber connections
to get 10% of the throughput you get from physical connections.

--
Mark Stapleton (mark.stapleton AT usbank DOT com)
MR Backup and Recovery Management
262.790.3190

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