We are backing up 359 VMs distributed across 10 VMWare host machines.  Our 
datamovers are VMs.  We have one datamover per VMWare host and each can do up 
to 6 parallel sessions.  From the dsm.opt we have the following options set:
resourceutil 8
vmmaxparallel 6
vmlimitperdatastore 0
vmlimitperhost 0

Our schedules, one per datamover, have the following options:
                       Options: -vmfulltype=vstor -vmbackuptype=fullvm
                                 -asnodename=<nodename that owns the 
backupdata>  -domain.vmfull="VMHOST=<VMWare hostname>;
                                -VM=<list of VMs we do not want to backup> " 
-MODE=IFIncremental

This works well in our environment.

David Ehresman
University of Louisville

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Meuleman, Ruud
Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2014 9:14 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] TDP for VE clientschedules

Hi all,

We have a VMware vSphere environment with 246 virtual machines. We have 4 
datamovers to do backups with TDP for VE.
In the client schedule we define the command:

        -vmfulltype=vstor -vmbackuptype=fullvm -asnodename=<nodename that owns 
the backupdata> -domain.vmfull="VM=<list with virtual machines, comma 
separated>" -MODE=IFIncremental

This command is limited to 512 characters. So, it isn't possible to schedule 
all virtual machines at one timestamp, because the hostnames of the virtual 
machines don't fit in 4 times 512 characters.

We could make more schedules for the 4 datamovers, but there would be a risk 
that client schedules are missed, if a client schedule starts while another one 
on the same datamover is still running.

Does anyone have an easy idea for scheduling 246 virtual machines with TDP for 
VE?

Kind Regards,
Ruud Meuleman

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