How to install Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environment (TSM VE) ?

How to install Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environment (TSM VE) ?  Before installing Tivoli Storage Manager for VE to protect your VMware infrastructure, you need to plan and decide how many Data Protection for VMware vSphere GUI's are required based upon your size of your environment. It is recommended to know the different types of TDP VM components and their uses before installing TSM for VE package. You can follow...

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How to Configure Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environment (TSM for VE) ?

How to Configure Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environment (TSM for VE) ? After the successful installation of TSM for VE package on the Vstorage backup server, you need to configure TDP for Vsphere GUI to configure VM backups. This process will automatically register required client nodes and creates required client schedule services. You can also do these steps manually. It is recommended to do it through GUI to make...

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How to backup VMware Virtual Machines (VMs) using TSM for VE ?

How to backup VMware Virtual Machines (VMs) using TSM for VE ? To protect your VMWare infrastructure, you can either take manual backups through BA Client GUI or command line or define a backup schedule through Data Protection for VMware Vsphere GUI.  The following are some the advantageous parameters which you can use to schedule your VM backups. You need to consider these parameters according to your VMware & TSM infrastructure. Multiple...

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How to backup or protect the applications which are installed in the Virtual Machines (VMs) ?

How to backup or protect the applications which are installed in the Virtual Machines (VMs) ?  Data Protection for VMware can protects Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL Server, and Active Directory Domain Controllers that run inside VM guests. In prior releases (before V7), Data Protection for VMware used VMware functions to quiesce applications that run on the VM guest.  During backup processing, the application server was not notified that the backup to the Tivoli Storage Manager server completed successfully. As...

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How to take TSM Database backup when the TSM Server is down

How to take TSM Database backup when the TSM Server is down  You can take TSM DB backup by using DB2 commands even after TSM server is down. There are many situations where you need to take TSM DB backup offline to start the TSM server. For example some of the reasons are if You havent took TSM DB backup for while and your TSM server got crashed. Your TSM server got crashed while taking TSM DB backup. If your DB backup command gets hanged you need to manually restart TSM server. In the above situations if  you try to...

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