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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Storage Protect Family
Categories Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 27, 2015

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TSM for VE vmcli

I want to run a TSM for VE vmcli backup using an external scheduler (ControlM) so I can chain backups, dedupe's, reclaims, node replications, etc together.
The backup command pretty much forces me to use the -I and specify a file with vmname: in it. I do not want to have to hardcode the VM's as they may change/add/remove. If I use this command and specify the -d for DataCentre then have vmname:* in the file, TSM for VE will do a backup but not work inside of the VM's for the DataCentre specified by -d. It branches out to all nodes in vSphere and does a snapshot on VM's it should nt be backing up.

vmcli -f backup -t TSM_IFINCR -d Karlsruhe -o Karlsruhe_dm -s karbstsm2 -I D:\TSMjobs\vmcli_VMlist_1.txt

I would like vmcli to be more intelligent so that:
1. It knows what VM's are in a Datacentre and operates with in it
2. The -f file accepts wildcards and an * operates only within the Datacentre specified
3. You can exclude VM's even if they get caught by a wlidcard in the -f file

These are things that the GUI can do, so the command line should also allow.

Idea priority Low
  • Guest
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    |     Jun 12, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Storage
    Product - Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Family

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Tivoli
    Product family - Storage
    Product - Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Family

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