Del,

thanks for the clarification.

But, in a VM environment, you can do lanfree to tape with the 'backup vm' 
command if you have a physical proxy server. Given the size of the db, you 
probably won't mind also backing up the OS and applications.

On 27 jul. 2011, at 20:28, Del Hoobler wrote:

> Please see this article:
> 
>        https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21239546
> 
> In the table, VMWARE section, under the TSM Server, it shows
> 
>    * IBM can make no guarantees with respect to the
>      performance and scalability in a virtualized environment
> 
>    * No support for attached tape drivers or tape libraries,
>      either virtual or physically attached
> 
>    * No support for LAN-Free data movement to tape or disk
> 
> 
> Del
> 
> 
> "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu> wrote on 07/27/2011
> 02:20:39 PM:
> 
>>> From: Remco Post <r.post AT PLCS DOT NL>
>>> To: ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu
>>> Date: 07/27/2011 02:22 PM
>>> Subject: Re: NPIV for LAN-free backup of SQL server in VMware
>>> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu>
>>> 
>>> On 27 jul. 2011, at 20:13, Stefan Folkerts wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Lan-free requires the installation of a storage agent, this software
> is not
>>>> supported on the VMware platform so it's not possible to make
> lan-free
>>>> backups from a client on the VMware platform.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> there is a lan-free agent for windows, which is of course the OS
>>> running SQL server. I'm convinced that you can install the agent on
>>> that OS without any problems. As said, it's the tape via NPIV in a
>>> VM environment that is a support issue, mainly because it's not
>>> tested by IBM, not because it's guaranteed not to work.
>>> 
>>>> What kind of data is it and where is it coming from?
>>> 
>>> MS SQL server ;-)
>>> 
>>>> Maybe we can figure out some other solution..
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Mehdi Salehi <ezzobad AT gmail DOT com>
> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi
>>>>> The question is how to use TDP for SQL in a VMware environment.
>>> As the data
>>>>> is multi-terabyte, LAN-free is necessary.
>>>>> Is NPIV a supported method to present SAN resources to VMware
> clients? A
>>>>> friend says that tape access is not possible and I wonder if SANergy
> is
>>>>> supported or not.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thank you,
>>>>> Mehdi
>>>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Met vriendelijke groeten/Kind Regards,
>>> 
>>> Remco Post
>>> r.post AT plcs DOT nl
>>> +31 6 248 21 622

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Met vriendelijke groeten/Kind Regards,

Remco Post
r.post AT plcs DOT nl
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