rvillano
ADSM.ORG Member
To All,
I have a question regarding the licensing of tsm clients who are VM guests. Over the past year there has been great interest by customers in using VMware and TSM for protection of the vm guests data. there has been some significant improvements since TSM release 5.5 and onward regarding features and simplicity in the implimention of backup of these VM guests.
My question is this:
Using a vm guest or stand alone for the proxy of file level /full vm backups, It is not required to install a TSM ba client on the guests inorder to do backups of the quest vm's. the clients have to be defined and the proxy needs to be granted access. I realize that without a client ba install on the guest the recovery of files for the guest via the proxy is a bit complicated but can be done via a shared drive or other method ( thumb drive, sneaker net,etc) So how are these VM guests to be licensed? there is no client installed, no pvu's to calculate, just storage retained by the tsm server and referenced by the tsm database.
It would seem to me that the only licensing requirements are for the proxy itself? # of cores, PVU calc etc? I would really appreciated any thoughts or comments you might have regrading this.
Best Regards,
Bob
I have a question regarding the licensing of tsm clients who are VM guests. Over the past year there has been great interest by customers in using VMware and TSM for protection of the vm guests data. there has been some significant improvements since TSM release 5.5 and onward regarding features and simplicity in the implimention of backup of these VM guests.
My question is this:
Using a vm guest or stand alone for the proxy of file level /full vm backups, It is not required to install a TSM ba client on the guests inorder to do backups of the quest vm's. the clients have to be defined and the proxy needs to be granted access. I realize that without a client ba install on the guest the recovery of files for the guest via the proxy is a bit complicated but can be done via a shared drive or other method ( thumb drive, sneaker net,etc) So how are these VM guests to be licensed? there is no client installed, no pvu's to calculate, just storage retained by the tsm server and referenced by the tsm database.
It would seem to me that the only licensing requirements are for the proxy itself? # of cores, PVU calc etc? I would really appreciated any thoughts or comments you might have regrading this.
Best Regards,
Bob
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