Interesting question that will have to be answered by TSM engineering 
officially.

Unofficially, I’ve successfully run VE against both 5.1 and 5.5 Linux vCenter 
appliances for quite some time.  We develop a product using VDDK against the 
Windows vCenter and the appliance vCenters with no noticeable difference.


Bill Smoldt
STORServer


From: Stefan Folkerts
Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"
Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2015 at 4:25 AM
To: "ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU<mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>"
Subject: [ADSM-L] Is the vCenter appliance supported for TSM for Virtual 
Environments?

Hi all,

Last one for today I promise.

Here :

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21652843#Supported%20VMware%20vSphere%20versions


It states:

The following VMware vCenter Server versions are supported:

   - vCenter Server 5.1
   - vCenter Server 5.5

I don't know if the VMware Virtual Appliance at those levels is also
supported by that list list or that this is just the "Windows based old
school" vCenter server software.

Does anybody know?

Regards,
   Stefan