Ruud,

You could specify per ESX host, or better, as we do, per VMFOLDER. This
breaks the TSM4VE web GUI, as it cannot cope with the VMFOLDER option.
You then put your VMs to be backed up in folders i.e. PRODUCTION1,
PRODUCTION2, PRODUCTION3, PRODUCTION4 etc.

Next you setup a schedule with -domain.vmfull="VMFOLDER=Production1" for
the first data mover and so on..

Read following technote for more info:

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21634961






2014-08-05 15:14 GMT+02:00 Meuleman, Ruud <ruud.meuleman AT tatasteel DOT com>:

> 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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