We run TSM 5.4 on a Linux VM under VMware.  It's just for our test lab
so we don't have any stressful throughout stats to report, but it
works fine.
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Mr. Lindsay Morris
Principal
www.tsmworks.com
919-403-8260
lindsay AT tsmworks DOT com




On Mar 3, 2009, at Mar 3, 11:23 AM, Nancy R. Brizuela wrote:

Yes, been there, done that.  My boss is looking to consolidate all
our servers on one or two platforms, i.e. all Sun and VMware virtual
servers, for a less expensive disaster recovery plan.  We currently
run our TSM server on a pSeries LPAR.

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of Roger Deschner
Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 11:23 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Servers supported on virtual machines--anything new?

.
One reason you won't find much about this, is that TSM makes it very
easy to run more than one TSM server instance on a single OS image.
This
will be inherently more efficient than virtualization via VMware, Sun
LDOM, IBM z/VM, or IBM pSeries LPAR. Instructions are in the TSM
Installation Guide and Administrators Guide.

Roger Deschner      University of Illinois at Chicago     rogerd AT uic DOT edu
"We all live in a Virtual Machine, a Virtual Machine, a Virtual
Machine"
--Sung to the tune of the Beatles "Yellow Submarine", from the
 SHARE songbook.


On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Nancy R. Brizuela wrote:

Hi All,

I found this document describing the virtual machines supported for
TSM servers, below.  Is there anything newer on this?  I don't see
anything about TSM servers and supported virtual machines in the V6
announcement.

For instance, is running a TSM server on a Sun Solaris LDOM
supported?  Or running a TSM server as a VMware guest?
Anyone doing anything like this?

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&uid=swg21239546

Thanks!

Nancy Brizuela