In my reading on the IBM Knowledge Center it says that the vmmc option is only 
used of the vmbackuptype is fullvm.  We aren't doing full backups of the VM's 
but incremental forever.


Eric McWilliams 

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David Ehresman
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We backup about 350 VMs with a retention period of 30 days.  We have a 400G 
VMCTL storage pool which is 50% utilized.

David

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Thanks for the information, Wanda.

It must be that they are migrating to tape.  We migrate to tape rather often.

Do you know how large the control information is?  I need to estimate how large 
to make the disk pool.

Thanks again.

Eric McWilliams 
IT Systems Administrator II
www.medsynergies.com

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Each backup session backs up some control information, and that information is 
restored for use during the next backup.  (You can see the restores happening 
if you watch the server during the backup, or if you look in the accounting 
info.)

I'm just guessing, but I suspect  that the "data unavailable on server" is 
because it can't restore that control info.
Perhaps some volumes in your disk pool are offline, or the control information 
has migrated off to tape?

If the latter, you need to put these keywords in the dsm.opt on your datamover:

VMMC    your-mgmt-class-for-data-goes-here
VMCTLMC         your-mgmt-class-for-control-info-goes-here

The control info mgmt. class should point to a small disk pool that can't 
migrate to tape.  

Wanda Prather
TSM Consultant
ICF International Enterprise and Cybersecurity Systems Division


  


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McWilliams, Eric
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 11:16 AM
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Subject: [ADSM-L] ANS4174E error

I'm trying to back up some VM's using DP for VM 7.1.1.0 and am getting an error 
on some of the VM's and the backup is failing.  I've asked Uncle Google and 
can't find much.  I would contact IBM support but I get very little help from 
them as well.

02/25/2015 09:35:07 ANS9351E Data was not available on server and was skipped.
02/25/2015 09:35:07 ANS4174E Full VM backup of VMware Virtual Machine 
'Hamilton' failed with RC=14 mode=Incremental Forever - Incremental, target 
node name='VCENTER_COTX', data mover node name='VCENTER_COTX_DM'
02/25/2015 09:35:08
02/25/2015 09:35:08 ANS1228E Sending of object 'Hamilton' failed.
02/25/2015 09:35:08 ANS1314E File data currently unavailable on server

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Eric

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