Eric,

1. cant help with licensing, IBM is horrible in this area
2. ask your windows guys who implemented Microsoft's DPM what their
strategy is for DR - chances are you'll get a blank look since they
haven't thought about how to make offsite copies.
3. check out Storserver Agent for VCB, we use their product with great
success in the vm world.  Using a proxy not only offloads from the vm
host, it also means you don't need to load/update the tsm client on the
vm's.

Steve Schaub
Systems Engineer, Windows
BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Loon, EJ van - SPLXM
Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 9:04 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Backing up running VM's

Hi TSM-ers!
Our windows department is looking at different backup products for
backing up their server.
They have two major problems with TSM. One I cannot solve: the TSM
client license is processor based, so quite expensive for the majority
of small servers. I think we all agree that the TSM client license
should be capacity based, but IBM aint listening here...
The other problem is that they state TSM cannot backup running VM's.
They now use a product called DPM to make snapshot copies of running
VM's.
I'm not really familiar with Window server management, especially when
it comes to virtualization, but I know one thing: TSM is one of the
leading, cutting edge backup products, so I doubt TSM is not supporting
this feature.
Does anybody know whether it is possible to make snapshot backups with
TSM of running VM's?
Thank you very much in advance for any reply!!!
Kind regards,
Eric van Loon
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines


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