Hi Gary, 

TSM for VE will take block level backup so first time it will take entire 1 TB 
disk though your using 25% of the disk. Consecutive backups will take only 
changed blocks 



By Sarav
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> On 27 Aug, 2014, at 11:24 pm, "Lee, Gary" <GLEE AT BSU DOT EDU> wrote:
> 
> TSM for ve 6.4, tsm server 6.2.5 on RHEL 6.1
> Data movers on RHEL 6.1.
> 
> Ran our first backup of a production vmware host.
> We thin provision our vms.
> One is provisioned at around 1 tB.  However, according to our vmware admin, 
> it is using only around 238 gB of disk at this time.
> 
> When we ran the backup, It appeared to back up the entire 1 tB of something.
> The schedule for the backup is below.
> Is this a limitation of the product, or simply misconfiguration.
> TSM I can deal with, vmware, I know little about.
> Any pointers to good reference info would be appreciated.
> 
> I have looked in the TSM for ve users's guide, but don't' see anything.
> 
> Schedule follows
> 
>            Policy Domain Name: VMWARE-PROD
>                 Schedule Name: HOST-ESX06-NIGHTLY
>                   Description:
>                        Action: Backup
>                     Subaction: VM
>                       Options: -vmfulltype=vstor -vmbackuptype=fullvm 
> -asnodename=DC_BSU_RB 
> -domain.vmfull="VMHOST=vmhost06.bsu.edu;-VM=SQLEMAIL01," -MODE=IFIncremental
>                       Objects:
>                      Priority: 5
>               Start Date/Time: 08/25/2014 18:00:00
>                      Duration: 1 Hour(s)
>                Schedule Style: Enhanced
>                        Period:
>                   Day of Week: Sun,Mon,Tue,Wed,Thu,Fri,Sat
>                         Month: Any
>                  Day of Month: Any
>                 Week of Month: Any
>                    Expiration:
> Last Update by (administrator): BLBROWN2
>         Last Update Date/Time: 08/25/2014 14:20:20
>              Managing profile: