On Tuesday 27 January 2009, Steven Harris wrote:
> Hi Stef.
>
> Everyone seems to forget that the TSM for SAN client does not have to be on
> the same box as the data being backed up.
>
> How about (ie this is an idea, not proven)  installing TSM for SAN on the
> physical hardware on which your VMWare client is hosted, and having the
> backup routed through it.  That will allow the use of TDP, the data first
> running over the internal virtual nic at machine speeds and then across the
> SAN to the tape drive.  Of course there may be Linux tape driver/kernel
> version issues with this, but it is worth investigation.
Mhh, this can work.
But I don't think VMware will support this setup.  I also don't know how fast
the internal network connections are.  I also hope that VMware is not sending
the network traffic out of the nic and keeps it internal.  And I hope VMware
didn't changed the SAN drivers too much.


Stef