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I am looking to test out using TSM with VADP and I am looking for a decent overview of how it all fits together. So far, I have not seen either an IBM or VMWARE planing or installation guide that covers this.

Also, will the vDR appliance be needed with 6.2.2 or will TSM use the APIs directly.

Bob,

We've installed the TSM 6.2.2 client on a virtual machine that we designated as a backup proxy within vSphere 4.1. We can confirm that 6.2.2 does use the TSM API's directly for full image backups (new to 6.2.2) as well as support for agentless file-level backups (which shipped in 6.2). Here is a presentation from PULSE ANZ that provides an overview, somewhat. ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/au/downloads/pulse_ANZ/sm/Session9.pdf

Let me know how your testing goes!

Hi,

Below are two good sources covering TSM VADP for vSphere 5.

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager support for VMware VADP This one explain which version of each software you will need to backup VMware vSphere environment. Great place to start.

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments This link take you to all of the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for virtual environments official documentations.

I hope this help,
TSMGuru
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