We have enough challenges getting VM Guests to behave well as TSM clients, let alone servers. You really want to be bleeding-edge, don't you? Steve Schaub Systems Engineer, WNI BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee 423-752-6574 (desk) 423-785-7347 (cell)
-----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Stapleton Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 3:28 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Running TSM _server_ in an virtual machine "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> wrote on 05/10/2006 02:02:01 PM: > We're looking into hosting multiple small TSM servers in virtual > machines running inside a VMware ESX server. We would like to do fully > disk based backup using sequential disk storage pools. > > However, after some googling, I found the paper > > Tivoli Storage Manager on VMware > > by Tom Hepner which states that this is _not_ supported at the moment. > > The paper is about 1 year old. > > Does somebody know if this has changed during the past year? It remains unsupported, and is not recommended (bitter experience). There is just too much traffic pushed across VMWare's virtual fiber connections to get 10% of the throughput you get from physical connections. -- Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) MR Backup and Recovery Management 262.790.3190 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ Electronic Privacy Notice. This e-mail, and any attachments, contains information that is, or may be, covered by electronic communications privacy laws, and is also confidential and proprietary in nature. If you are not the intended recipient, please be advised that you are legally prohibited from retaining, using, copying, distributing, or otherwise disclosing this information in any manner. Instead, please reply to the sender that you have received this communication in error, and then immediately delete it. Thank you in advance for your cooperation. ======================================================================== ====== Please see the following link for the BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee E-mail disclaimer: http://www.bcbst.com/email_disclaimer.shtm