Fellow TSM admins,

I am curious if anyone else out here has been given the task to provide backups 
of the VMware infrastructure via TSM.  I know it might be too early to be 
asking this question due to the newness of the TSM VMware TDP, but any insights 
that can be given will be helpful and gratefully appreciated.

Our current virtual environment has somewhere in the neighborhood of 1700 (+) 
VMs.  Currently the Virtualization team has been utilizing another product 
(which shall remain nameless) to perform weekly full snapshots.  This product 
has worked reasonably well up until this point in time but now they are finding 
that they have outgrown the products ability to provide these snapshots.

The problem sounds easy enough to fix right; however the problem we are having 
is that the Virtualization team has traditionally only been providing backups 
for the first 35 GB of the primary disk, so essentially they were only 
providing snapshot restorations for the OS and nothing else.  I realize that we 
could go in and have the system admins install and configure TSM on ever-single 
VM that needs these snapshots and then utilize include-exclude parameters to 
only backup what needs to be backed up but we were more interested in the idea 
of using proxy servers to run the virtual snapshots.

Taking all of this into consideration our question is this, is there a way to 
configure the settings on the proxy server so that it will only backup the 
primary disk on each virtual server?

Thanks,
Chad Harris