We are using Veeam Backup and Replication and Veeam ONE as a management 
software for VMware itself and Veeam Backups for VMs. Perfect combination! I 
would like to recommend to use Windows 2012 R2 as Veeam Repository servers with 
native Windows deduplication for drives with backup data to reduce required 
storage size.
 By the way, most of the critical production VMs we are backing up using 
traditional TSM backups used on source standalone servers before 
virtualization. Yes, it is a little bit expensive solution, but combination 
Veeam + TSM backups (without TDP for VM) is extremely reliable and I do not 
think TDP for VM is less expensive. We are using only traditional TSM backups 
for MS Clusters with RDMs, where Veeam is not working.

Grigori Solonovitch, Senior Systems Architect, IT, Ahli United Bank Kuwait, 
www.ahliunited.com.kw

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Tim Brown
Sent: 28 04 2014 4:48 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] tsm tcp for vm versus veeam

We are looking to start using TSM TDP for VM for our VM backup strategy. Our VM 
support staff has looked into using Veeam as an alternative. Does any have 
opinions on which approach they would recommend.

Thanks,

Tim



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