Thanks Ray The idea of a roll-your-own scripted backup of VMs was the original conception of this environment, some years ago now, but it was hard to make it work and there were time pressures, so we went with the simple option first. Only now is that becoming unmanageable.
It's still a lot of work and of course we have an extensive test environment to play with and a team of crack programmers to do it <snigger/>. It's strictly a side project and we have to be careful to not break anything. As to job submission.... a TSM command schedule should do it. We have ControlM if we need it. Cheers Steve. -----Original Message----- From: Storer, Raymond [mailto:stor...@nibco.com] Sent: Thursday, 19 October 2017 4:19 AM To: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> Cc: Harris, Steven <steven.har...@btfinancialgroup.com> Subject: RE: TSM for VE - VMCLI Steven, Sorry, I cannot help you with the vmcli commands. However, you can easily use PowerShell or another scripting language to get vCenter to provide you a list of VMs and then sort, slice, dice, filter, and store them. You could easily "roll your own" VM tagging structure for backups too--you don't need a later version of TSM for VE to do it if you plan to parse what vCenter gives you anyway. Then, when you upgrade your TSM for VE at some future date you can migrate the tags you created to the ones the new version of TSM for VE uses. If running the script on the TSM for VE server, you could execute dsmc commands as your script spits them out. If not, what options do you have for some sort of "job submission" to the TSM for VE server for it to execute the dsmc commands? Ray Ray Storer NIBCO INC. | Intel Systems Specialist P: 574.295.3457 | F: 574.295.1298 | M: 574.742.0192 stor...@nibco.com | www.nibco.com -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Harris, Steven Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 6:11 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM for VE - VMCLI Hi Guys TSM Server 7.1.1 AIX, TSM VE 7.1.1 linux X64 This shop has issues with us using the vSphere plugin as it requires too many permissions. We cannot move to later VE clients with expanded facilities because of a dependency on vCenter 5.5 So far, we have been managing by editing the dsm.sys files, but that is getting to be unsustainable. The docs describe a VMCLI interface that may suit when scripted. The idea would be to write Powershell/python scripts to query vmware for a list of vms, apply some filters that would allow includes and excludes from a database or maybe json files and generate a list of VMs to backup invoked by vmcli. Is anyone using vmcli this way? Any war stories to tell? Maybe its working well for you. Please let me know Thanks Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin/Consultant Canberra Australia This message and any attachment is confidential and may be privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure. You should immediately delete the message if you are not the intended recipient. 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