in an effort to save money on stupid tsm licensing (IBM really really really should remodel the way the charge....) on our VM farms, we want to know if we can only license 1 Node, then have some script run that moves the VMs from unlicensed nodes to this one, back it up and move it off again when the backup is done.
to me, this seems like a nightmare, but when you are talking about a 4 node vm farm, with 16 cores in each node, licensing TSm extended, tsm for sql and tsm for exchange on 64 cores can be kinda not cheap....
so is anyone doing what i typed above? I know we are going to look at VRangerPro and other solutions(hopefully cheaper) for backing up VMware, but we dont want to loose file level restore ability either...
oh the insanity.....
thanks
James
to me, this seems like a nightmare, but when you are talking about a 4 node vm farm, with 16 cores in each node, licensing TSm extended, tsm for sql and tsm for exchange on 64 cores can be kinda not cheap....
so is anyone doing what i typed above? I know we are going to look at VRangerPro and other solutions(hopefully cheaper) for backing up VMware, but we dont want to loose file level restore ability either...
oh the insanity.....
thanks
James