>The documentation isn't kidding around when it recommends that a periodic
full
strategy is best for tape copypools.

This and make sure you restore your VE metadata to disk first, this only
works if you place this metadata in a seperate copypool.



On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 5:35 PM, Matthew McGeary <
Matthew.McGeary AT potashcorp DOT com> wrote:

> TSM for VE will connect to any VCenter server you specify.  When we did
> our test, the VMWare team built a new VCenter instance and I built a new
> datamover, connected it to the fresh VCenter and started restoring VMs.
>
> A word of caution, however, if your data is on tape and you don't have any
> fulls to restore you should be prepared to wait a very long time.  We were
> doing IFincr backups and saw restore speeds in the KB/s.  The
> documentation isn't kidding around when it recommends that a periodic full
> strategy is best for tape copypools.
>
> Matthew McGeary
> Technical Specialist
> PotashCorp - Saskatoon
> 306.933.8921
>
>
>
> From:   "Schneider, Jim" <jschneider AT USSCO DOT COM>
> To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Date:   08/27/2014 11:51 AM
> Subject:        [ADSM-L] tsm for ve DR config question
> Sent by:        "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
>
>
>
> Hi, folks;
>
> I have an upcoming disaster recovery test and will be asked to restore VE
> data for the first time.  I can't run tests because the hardware/network
> is not in place.  Will the DR VE backup proxy server have to connect to a
> duplicate of the current production vCenter server, or just A vCenter
> server on the correct network?
>
> Are there any other quirks recovering VE during a DR?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Jim Schneider
> United Stationers
>
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