TSM for VE provisioned by an OVF template - a proposal Patrik Dahl Storage & Backup, ICA AB TSM for VE • TSM for VE 7.1.1 under Deployment - 2200+ VMs and 300-350TB to be protected - 11 In-Guest Windows (due to enterprice licensing) Data Movers (to begin with) - Can not use FCM for VMware due to Windows Data Mover • Virtual Data Movers - A large VMware deployment will use many Data Movers - We plan to have one DM manage about 25TB - One DM per VMware Cluster and Physical Data Center so we can use ”Hot Add” backup • FCM for VMware - We would like to have hardware assisted snapshot since release of a VMware Snapshot can cause heavy load - Only supported on Linux, atleast with Rocket Adaptor • A lot of losers - IBM and BP lost a possible 350TB FCM for VMware/Rocket Adaptor deal - We lost helpful/needed functionality Avsändare/Producent ÅÅMMDD Data Mover - Proposal • Why a TSM for VE or Data Mover OVF - Typical usecase for an Image - An appliance with limited but well defined functionality - Customer need to deploy multiple copies • What could a Data Mover OVF Include? - Stripped down CentOS (or SUSE) Linux - (TSM for VE) - Data Mover/TSM Client - Recovery Agent (until new Gui?) - FCM for VMware - Rocket Adaptor/(EMC Solutions Enabler) - Scripts for easy deployment • Competion and IBM - vRanger are providing a ”Data Mover” OVF - We get more and more Images for support software to help with deployment - Cyrus N. has packaged a TSM Appliance OVF for PoC/BPs - IBM uses CentOS for FCM videos/documentation Avsändare/Producent ÅÅMMDD Data Mover – Proposal cont. • Is this a good or bad Idea? • How have you to solved the problem? • How can we get there? Avsändare/Producent ÅÅMMDD