TSM For VE 64 Lab Guide PDF

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments 6.
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Protecting and Recovering Virtual Machine Data
Student Exercises
February 2013
Cyrus Niltchian
(nilchian@us.ibm.com)
TivoliSoftware, IBM SWG
Bob Mitchell
(bobmitch@us.ibm.com)
TivoliSoftware, IBM SWG
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Table of contents
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Preparing and exploring your environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Exercise 1: Exploring your environment . . . . . . . . . 7
Installation and configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Exercise 2: Installing Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client . . . . 21
Exercise 3: Installing Recovery agent . . . . . . . . . 32
Exercise 4: Configuring Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments with the new wizard 39
Exercise 5: Configuring the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client . . . 52
Exercise 6: Configuring the Tivoli Storage Manager data mover . . . . 56
Exercise 7: Verifying the configuration . . . . . . . . 63
Backup and restore for VMware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Exercise 8: Performing a full VM level offline backup . . . . . . 68
Exercise 9: Performing a restore operation from a full VM level backup . . . 69
Exercise 10: Performing a full VM level online backup operation . . . . 72
Exercise 11: Performing Incremental Forever backup operations . . . . 75
Tracing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Exercise 12: Performing tracing operations . . . . . . . . 81
SAN configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Exercise 13: Reviewing SAN configurations . . . . . . . . 84
Change Block Tracking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Exercise 14: Performing incremental forever backup operations with CBT . . . 85
Restoring individual files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Exercise 15: Restoring individual files from a full VM level backup . . . . 89
Volume level restore operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Exercise 16: Restoring a volume . . . . . . . . . 95
Using the plug-in interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Exercise 17: Performing backup and restore operations with the Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environ-
ments plug-in . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
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Perform a backup operation. . . . . . . . . . . 97

Perform a restore operation. . . . . . . . . . . 102
Cluster selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Exercise 18: Exploring the new cluster selection function . . . . . . 107
Individual volume backup and restore operations. . . . . . 113

Exercise 19: Performing individual volume backup and restore operations . . . 113
Self-contained application protection explained . . . . . . . 115

Exercise 20: Reviewing self-contained application protection functions . . . . 115
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Introduction
Tivoli Storage Manager has been protecting data in virtual environments for a long time.
Over time, Tivoli Storage Manager has continued to introduce new features that pertain to
how virtual environments can be protected.
The most basic way to back up a virtual machine is to install Tivoli Storage Manager
directly into the guest environment. A large percentage of users are still following this
approach, Tivoli Storage Manager supports many hypervisors (KVM, Hyper-V, VMware,
LPARs, Solaris Containers, HP Partitions and more) and guest operating systems (OSs)
like Windows, Linux, zLinux, z/OS, and Solaris, among others. This setup has the
advantage of the backup operations being progressive-incremental. You can install Tivoli
Storage Manager for Mail, Databases, or ERP directly in the guest OS, providing
application awareness. The disadvantages are that this scenario requires an individual
client in each guest, and there is no integration with VMware. This lack make management
a challenge.
Later versions of Tivoli Storage Manager introduced the ability of having the TSM agent
run on a proxy server. Both VMware and Hyper-V supported this ability. This approach
provided a more robust backup solution when compared to traditional agent backup
operations. For VMware, this approach moved the backup to the proxy server. It did
require the data to be transferred to the proxy server before it could be backed up or
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restored. This extra hop for the data was seen as an inhibitor. This method supported both
file level and level backup.
VMware introduced the new vStorage API in May 2009, which is sometimes referred to as
vSphere or VADP (vStorage API for Data Protection), vStorage API’s biggest advantage
over VCB is that the proxy server can access the data directly on the ESX host storage,
avoiding the need for the data hop that VCB requires. Tivoli Storage Manager supports file
level backup operations using the vStorage APIs. This course covers the file level and
level backup operations using vStorage APIs.
Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments supports multiple recovery options from
backup and vStorage API change block tracking (CBT). This new component enhances
the Backup-Archive Client (Windows only). Support includes the following features:
• CBT with incremental forever backup operations with periodic full backups
• The following virtual machine restores from a backup with multiple OSs
supported:
• File level
• Volume level
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Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you can perform the following tasks:
• Use Tivoli Storage Manager to perform a full VM level offline backup and restore
operation.
• Use Tivoli Storage Manager to perform a full VM level online backup operation.
• Perform an full VM level offline backup using the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-
Archive GUI.
• Run tracing operations.
• Perform a file level backup and restore operation.
• Review SAN configurations.
• Install Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments.
• Configure Data Protection for Virtual Environments using the new wizard.
• Run incremental forever (progressive incremental) block-level backup operations

using CBT.
• Perform individual file restore operations from a full VM level backup.
• Perform an instant restore operation of a protected volume.
• Expose backups as iSCSI volumes.
• Install and configure the new Data Protection for VMware vCenter plug-in
component.
• Use the new Data Protection for VMware vCenter plug-in component.
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Training Environment
The training environment for this exercise guide is hosted within the IBM DEMOcentral
data center.
These machines constitute the training environment:
• vCenter:
This is a Microsoft Windows platform that supports VMware vCenter Server v4.1.
You will use a remote connection to this machine to perform the lab exercises,
including installation of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Client 6.3 for Windows and
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All of the exercies are performed using this machine. You will not need to connect
to any other machine.
• ESX41:
This machine is a VMware ESX 4.1 server that hosts three additional “nested”
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virtual machines. You will perform backup and restore operations on these three
nested virtual machines.
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This is a Microsoft Windows platform that supports IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
Extended Edition v6.3. Protected data from backup operations is copied to
storage pools on this machine.
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Preparing and exploring your

environment
Using the connection information and credentials you were given when you signed up for
this lab, connect and log on to the vCenter virtual machine and perform these exercises.
Exercise 1: Exploring your environment

___ 1. From the vCenter virtual machine, use the desktop icon to launch Services.
___ 2. Click the Startup Type column header to sort the list.
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___ 3. Click the Refresh icon as necessary to verify that the required services have
started.
___ 4. When the services VMware VirtualCenter Management Webservices and

VMware VirtualCenter Server have started, close the Services window and
continue with the next step.
___ 5. On the vCenter virtual machine, use the desktop icon to launch the VMware
vSphere Client interface.
Logon using these credentials:
IP address/name: vcenter
User name: Administrator
Password: Smartway123
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Click Login.
Note: This lab environment uses three virtual machines (vCenter, ESX41 and
TSM02). Within that environment is another nested virtual environment that supports
three additional virtual machines.
The vSphere product can take two minutes after starting to recognize the available virtual
machines and data stores. To resolve any synchronization or configuration errors you
might need to reconnect as described in the following steps.
___ 6. In the vSphere Client interface, select View > Inventory > Hosts and Clusters.
Select the esx41.tsm.lab host in the navigation tree, and click the Summary tab.
___ 7. If all three virtual machines (Bill_Local, Ted_NFS, WinXP_NFS) are listed in
bold, you can skip to Step 8. If the virtual machines are gray and unavailable, or if
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there are configuration issues, resolve the issues by completed the sub-steps
below.
___ a. Right-click esx41.tsm.lab. Click Connect.
___ b. In the Reconnect host window, click Close.
___ c. In the Add Host Wizard window, supply these values:
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Username: root
Click Next.
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___ f. In the Virtual Machine Location, select TS631 and click Next.
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___ g. In the Ready to Complete panel, click Finish.
___ h. Observe the progress of the operation in the Recent Tasks panel and verify
that the status reflects Completed.
___ i. Verify that the virtual machines are listed in bold.
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___ 8. Explore the preconfigured virtual machines with the corresponding data stores in
the vSphere Client. Select the esx41.tsm.lab host and click the Summary tab.
9. You should identify three virtual machines and two data stores. One data store is
locally attached (local disk) to the ESX41 virtual machine. One data store is NFS-
mounted from the vCenter virtual machine.
You can manage all virtual machines and data stores from this vSphere Client. Tivoli
Storage Manager client manages backup and restore operations. Do not create additional
virtual machines, because space is limited. The TSM Server is preinstalled in another
virtual machine (TSM02).
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10. Right-click WinXP_NFS, and select Snapshot > Snapshot Manager.
11. Click Start the Lab and Go to.
12. Answer Yes to the confirm reverting.
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13. Click Close.
14. Right-click WinXP_NFS, and select Power > Power On.
15. Right-click WinXP_NFS and click Open Console.
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16. If you get prompted about the virtual machine, select I moved it.
17. Verify that the virtual machine is running as expected. Close the console.
18. Note that when a virtual machine is powered on, a small green arrow is displayed
with name.
19. Right-click WinXP_NFS and select Power > Power Off.
20. Click Yes to confirm the power-off operation.
21. Minimize the vSphere client interface.
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22. Explore the c:\NFS_Datastore directory on the vCenter. This NFS data store is
being used by two virtual machines. Remember, a data store is like a storage
pool. It can be used by one virtual machine or multiple virtual machines.
(These are the same virtual machines that showed up when you looked at the
data stores inside the vSphere client interface.)
23. Open Internet Explorer.
24. Enter http://192.168.100.201 in the address bar.
25. At the security warning, click Continue to the website (not recommended).
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26. You are now connected to the ESX Server. Click Browse datastores in this
host's inventory.
27. Log on to the ESX Server with user name root and password Smartway123.
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28. Review the available data stores that your ESX server sees.
29. Close Internet Explorer.
You started the virtual machines, logged on to vSphere Client interface and ESX server,
and looked at the various data stores.
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Installation and configuration
Exercise 2: Installing Tivoli Storage Manager

Backup-Archive Client
In the vCenter virtual machine, install the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive
Client v6.4 (Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client). You can install the Tivoli
Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client anywhere in a virtual environment, as long as it
has access to the ESX server.
You use the vSphere Client interface to access the VMware vCenter Server. The vCenter
provides a scalable and extensible platform that forms the foundation for virtualization
management. Because the vCenter Server centrally manages VMware vSphere
environments, IT administrators can dramatically improve control over the virtual
environment.
Note: The vSphere product was previously known as Virtual Infrastructure (ESX and
VirtualCenter).
___ 1. Navigate to C:\Lab_Software\TSMBA64 and launch setup.
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2. Select English as installation language.
3. Click Install for the installation of the prerequisites.
4. Click Next.
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5. Click Next to accept the destination folder.
6. Select Custom and click Next.
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7. Select to also install VMware vStorage API runtime files and the
Administrative Client Command Line Client. Click Next.
The VMware vStorage API runtime files are the vStorage APIs, which the Tivoli Storage
Manager Backup-Archive Client uses to communicate with vCenter.
8. Click Install. The installation can take up to five minutes.
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9. Click Finish when the installation is complete.
10. Configure the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client using the
configuration wizard. Make sure that you are in the vCenter virtual machine, and
click Start > All Programs > Tivoli Storage Manager > Backup-Archive GUI.
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11. The configuration wizard will start. Click Next.
12. Select Create a new options file. Click Next.
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13. Change the node name from vCenter to tsm02. Click Next.
You use this temporary preconfigured node name to verify your connection to the
TSM Server.
14. Accept the TCP/IP as the client-server communication method. Click Next.
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15. Change the TSM Server address to 192.168.100.203. Click Next.
16. Accept the Recommended Include/Exclude List. Click Next.
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17. Accept the Common File Exclusion. Click Next.
18. Accept the default setting for Domain for Backup. Click Next.
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19. On the Confirm and Apply your configuration window, click Apply. It will take a few
moments to complete the configuration.
20. At the Tivoli Storage Manager login prompt, specify object00 as the password.
Click Login.
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21. If the password has expired, reenter object00 three times. Click Change. The
configuration continues.
22. Click Finish to finalize your configuration.
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23. Close the Backup-Archive GUI.
You installed the Tivoli Storage Manager 6.4 Backup-Archive Client and the VMware APIs.
From this API, you can back up Virtual Machines and connect to ESX servers with Tivoli
Storage Manager.
Exercise 3: Installing Recovery agent

Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments consists of two parts: The Tivoli Storage
Manager Backup-Archive Client 6.4 or later, and a separate installation package for the
Recovery agent. This package uses IBM Fastback technology to restore individual files
from a full VM level backup and provides a license file for change block tracking (CBT)
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support. In addition, it contains the Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments plug-
in GUI for vCenter.
___ 1. Install Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments. 

Navigate to C:\Lab_software\TSMforVE64\X64 and launch setup.exe.
2. Choose English as the installation language. Click OK.
3. Click Next to continue the installation.
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4. Accept the license agreement and click Next.
5. On the Custom Setup window, review and select all components including the
Data Protection for VMware vCenter plug-in. Click Next.
6. Supply the following values:
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User Name: Administrator
Click Next.
7. Click Install to respond to begin the installation.
The installation will take about 15 minutes to complete.
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8. In the security alert window, click Install.
9. Click OK to close the plug-in alert window.
10. Click OK to close the port alert window.
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11. Click Finish to close the Installation Complete window.
12. Click OK to close the installation details window.
13. Click Yes to restart your virtual machine when prompted.
14. Wait approximately 5 minutes for the virtual machine to restart.
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15. Reconnect to the vCenter virtual machine and log in using the provided
credentials.
___ 16.Use the desktop icon to launch Services.
___ 17.Click the Startup Type column header to sort the list.
___ 18.Click the Refresh icon as necessary to verify that the required services have
started.
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___ 19.When the services VMware VirtualCenter Management Webservices and

VMware VirtualCenter Server have started, close the Services window.
You successfully installed the Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments software.
Exercise 4: Configuring Tivoli Storage Manager

for Virtual Environments with the new wizard
___ 1. Launch the VMware vSphere Client interface.
2. Log on using these credentials:
IP address/Name: vcenter
User name: Administrator
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Click Login.
The vSphere product can take two minutes after starting to recognize the available virtual
machines and data stores. To resolve any synchronization or configuration errors you
must reconnect as described in the following steps.
___ 3. Select the esx41.tsm.lab host in the navigation tree, the click the Summary tab.
___ 4. If all three virtual machines (Bill_Local, Ted_NFS, WinXP_NFS) are listed in
bold, you can skip to Step 5. If the virtual machines are gray and unavailable, or if
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there are configuration issues, resolve the issues by completed the sub-steps
below.
___ a. Right-click esx41.tsm.lab. Click Connect.
___ b. In the Reconnect host window, click Close.
___ c. In the Add Host Wizard window, supply these values:
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Username: root
Click Next.
___ d. Click Yes to dismiss the security alert.
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___ f. In the Virtual Machine Location, select TS631 and click Next.
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___ h. Observe the progress of the operation in the Recent Tasks panel and verify
that the status reflects Completed.
___ i. Verify that the virtual machines are listed in bold.
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5. Click Home. Scroll down if necessary and click Tivoli Data Protection for
VMware.
6. Since this is the initial start, the new configuration wizard can be launched.
Click Launch Configuration Wizard.
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7. In the Welcome window, click Next.
8. In the server credentials window, provide these values:
TSM Server Address: 192.168.100.203

TSM Admin ID: Admin
Select the Save this ID check box and click Next.
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9. In the node definitions window, click Next.
10. In the vCenter node window, enter and verify Smartway123 as the password.
Click Next.
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11. In the VMCLI node window, enter and verify Smartway123 as the password. Click
Next.
12. Verify that TS631 is selected as the Managed Datacenter. Click Next.
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13. In the data mover nodes window, for the TS631 node, click Not Set.
14. Enter and verify Smartway123 as password. Click OK.
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15. In the data mover nodes window, for the TS631_DM node, click Not Set.
16. Enter and verify Smartway123 as password. Click OK.
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17. Click Next.
18. Click Finish.
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19. Review the results and click Close.
Exercise 5: Configuring the Tivoli Storage

Manager Backup-Archive Client
The data mover is a Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Web Client, which you start
remotely from the Client Acceptor Daemon (CAD). You first configure the Tivoli Storage
Manager Backup-Archive Client itself and then the data mover. In this configuration, you
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can perform backup operations using the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client
and the Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments Plug-in GUI.
___ 1. Start the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive GUI.
2. Log on to the TSM server with User ID TSM02 and password object00.
3. Select Edit > Client Preferences.
4. In the General menu, change the node name to TS631_DM. This name
represents the data mover. You are using the same node name for the Tivoli
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Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client as for the data mover. You can also to
use different node names.
5. In the Authorization menu, under Password Access, select Password

Generate.
Important: The Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments plug-in GUI requires
this option, otherwise the data mover prompts for passwords in the background.
6. In the VM Backup menu, specify these values:
Host: vCenter
User: Administrator
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Use these credentials to connect to vCenter.
7. Click Apply.
8. Click OK to close the warning message.
9. Close the Preferences Editor.
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Close the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive GUI.
Exercise 6: Configuring the Tivoli Storage

Manager data mover
The data mover is a Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Web Client, which you start
remotely from the Client Acceptor Daemon (CAD). You configure the data mover now. In
this configuration, you can perform backup operations using the Tivoli Storage Manager
Backup-Archive Client and the Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments plug-in
GUI.
___ 1. Open the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive GUI again to configure the
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Acceptor Daemon (CAD).
2. Log on to the TSM server with User ID TS631_DM and password Smartway123.
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3. Select Utilities > Setup Wizard to install the Tivoli Storage Manager Web Client.
4. Select Help me configure the TSM Web Client. Click Next.
This wizard configures Client Acceptor Daemon (CAD) that the plug-in uses.
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5. Click Next to continue.
6. Select Install a new Web Client agent and click Next.
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7. Accept the default acceptor name and click Next.
8. Accept the default file name and click Next.
9. Accept the default port number and click Next.
10. For Authentication, supply these values:
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TSM Password: Smartway123
Click Next.
11. Change the Service Start option to Automatically when Windows boots. 
Click Next.
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12. Accept the default value for the agent name. Click Next.
13. Accept the default value No for client parameters. Click Next.
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14. Change the Start Option to Yes. Click Next.
15. Click Apply.
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16. Click Finish.
You configured the Tivoli Storage Manager Client Acceptor Daemon (CAD).
Exercise 7: Verifying the configuration

___ 1. Navigate to this folder:
C:\Program Files(x86)\CommonFiles\Tivoli\TDPVMware\VMwarePlugin\
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2. Review the list of log files.
3. Navigate to the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client folder:
C:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\baclient
4. Use Notepad to review the dsm.opt file.
5. Use Notepad to review the dsmerror.log file in the same folder.
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6. Open Services and verify that the IBM WebSphere Application Server V8.0 -
TSMVEplugin service is running.
Note: You can restart the service from here when the need arises.
7. Select Start > All Programs > Tivoli Storage Manager > Backup-Archive
Command Line to open command-line client interface.
8. Enter the following command to list all the virtual machines and ensure the
connection to vSphere:
show VM all
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9. Scroll the display as needed and verify that three virtual machines are listed:
• WinXP_NFS
• Bill_Local
• Ted_NFS
Tip: You can see this same information using the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-
Archive GUI.
Note: If you receive this error, you did not select vStorage when setting the options.
Note: If you receive an error indicating that the VMCPW password must be specified,
use the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive GUI to reset the password to
Smartway123 by clicking Client > Preferences >VM Backup > Password.
10. Open a command prompt window and navigate to this folder:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Tivoli\TDPVMware\VMware

Plugin\scripts
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vmcli -f inquire_detail
Review the results.
12. Enter the command again without specifying parameters:

vmcli
You use this command to invoke all functions of the plug-in GUI.
You verified the configuration.
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Exercise 8: Performing a full VM level offline backup not for distribution
Backup and restore for VMware
Exercise 8: Performing a full VM level offline

backup
In this exercise, you perform a full VM level offline backup of a single virtual machine with
a NFS data store.
The Ted_NFS virtual machine is not started at this point. (Remember, you can check the
status of the virtual machine in the vSphere Client interface).
___ 1. On the vCenter virtual machine, open the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive
command-line client interface, and enter this command to perform a full VM level
off-line backup:
backup vm Ted_NFS
2. Review the result.
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Note: Starting with Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments 6.4, you can
specify wildcards (*) and placeholders (?) for the backup VM command, for example,
backup vm Ted*.
3. Navigate to C:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\baclient and use Notepad to open the

dsmerror.log file. All errors related to the TSM Backup-Archive Client are
recorded here.
You see a warning for your last backup.The warning means that TSM Backup-
Archive Client backed up used and unused blocks of this virtual machine. Unused
blocks were backed up because VMware NFS data stores do not support the
exclusion of unused blocks; all other CBT functions work properly.
You used the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive command-line client to perform a
full VM level offline backup of a single virtual machine, Ted_NFS.
Exercise 9: Performing a restore operation from a

full VM level backup
___ 1. In the vSphere Client interface, click Home and select Hosts and Clusters.
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2. In the navigation tree, right-click Ted_NFS and select Delete from Disk. Click
Yes to confirm.
3. Verify that Ted_NFS is no longer on the list of virtual machines under the TS631
data center structure.
4. Navigate to the NFS Datastore and verify that the files of this virtual machine
were also deleted.
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5. On the vCenter virtual machine, return to the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-
Archive Command Line Client interface and enter the following command to
restore the virtual machine:
restore vm Ted_NFS
6. In the vSphere Client interface, verify that Ted_NFS was restored and is
displayed under the TS631 data center structure.
You completed a full VM level restore of Ted_NFS.
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Exercise 10: Performing a full VM level online

backup operation
___ 1. Right-click Ted_NFS and select Power > Power On. Because this virtual
machine does not include an operating system, the start process takes only
seconds.
2. Right-click Ted_NFS and click Open Console.
4. Close the console.
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5. Note the green arrow that indicates the virtual machine has started.
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6. Return to the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Command Line Client

interface and enter this command:
backup vm Ted_NFS
7. To see which virtual machines were backed up, enter this command:
query vm *
8. To see the file spaces that were backed up, enter this command:
query filespace *
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9. Evaluate the most recent tasks listed in the Tasks & Events tab. Evaluate the
messages and review specifically the snapshot operations as they relate to your
backup and restore operations. You see where the temporary snapshot was
created and removed during the backup operation.
10. Right-click the Ted_NFS virtual machine and select Power > Power Off. Click
Yes to confirm.
You just completed an online full VM level backup of the Ted_NFS virtual machine.
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Exercise 11: Performing Incremental Forever

backup operations
You now use the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive GUI to perform an full VM level
offline backup of the Bill_Local virtual machine.
___ 1. Open the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive GUI interface and select
Actions > Backup VM.
2. Expand the navigation tree and select Bill_Local.
3. Open the backup type pull-down menu and review the available selections. Note
the new Incremental Forever function, which is available with Tivoli Storage
Manager for Virtual Environments version 6.4 and later.
Note: Change Block Tracking functionality is not available unless Tivoli Storage
Manager for Virtual Environments is licensed and installed.
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4. Start a backup of Bill_Local. Select Incremental Forever - Full and click

Backup.
Note: The Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client automatically discovered all
VMs in the environment.
5. Review the results. If all you see is a blank box, minimize and then maximize the
Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client interface.)
Pay special attention to the Bytes Transferred message. It indicates that you have
performed an initial full backup of a 128 MB virtual machine. However, only
13.89 KB were transferred to the TSM Server.
This transfer occurred because this virtual machine is practically empty and
contains primarily empty blocks. CBT identified the empty blocks and transferred
only blocks containing data.
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6. Run the same backup again,. This time select Incremental Forever -
Incremental.
7. Review the results and note the number of bytes transferred. This time only
changed blocks were transferred.
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8. Using the vSphere Client interface, start the virtual machine Bill_Local.
9. Right-click Bill_Local and click Open Console.
11. Close the console.
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12. Note the green arrow that indicates the virtual machine has started.
13. Using the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive GUI, start a third backup of
this virtual machine. Be sure to select Incremental Forever - Incremental.
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14. Review the results and note that only 13.83 KB were transferred, reflecting
changes to the virtual machine.
15. Click Utilities > View Policy information and review the policy settings. Note the
number of versions configured in this policy.
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This example illustrates the incremental forever function of Tivoli Storage

Manager. You performed three backup operations, but only two versions are
retained.
16. Click Actions > Restore VM to verify the backups available for restore
operations. You find only two versions for Bill_Local.
Close the window.
You used the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive GUI to perform incremental forever
backup operations of the Bill_Local virtual machine. You explored the CBT Empty Block
function and the CBT Changed Block function.
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Tracing
not for distribution Exercise 12: Performing tracing operations
Tracing
Exercise 12: Performing tracing operations

In this exercise, you perform a trace on an error that you create for the purpose.
___ 1. From the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive command-line interface, start a
backup by entering this command:
backup VM VM3
2. Because the backup failed, review the dsmerror.log file in C:/Program Files/
Tivoli/TSM/baclient.
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Exercise 12: Performing tracing operations not for distribution
Even though the information in the Tivoli Storage Manager log file is sufficient to
resolve the issue, try to create a trace for IBM Services to collect additional
information.
3. To create a trace file, quit the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client
command-line interface and open a Windows Command Prompt.
4. In the Windows command prompt window, navigate to C:\Program

Files\Tivoli\TSM\baclient and start another backup from there. Enter the
following command and note the two parameters for creating a trace file:
dsmc backup vm VM3 -traceflag=service -tracefile=trace.log
The same error occurs, but this time you find a trace.log file in the directory.
Examine the trace.log file.
The indication is that the specified name of the virtual machine was not found.
5. Run the backup again using the correct name for the virtual machine.
dsmc backup vm Bill_Local -mode=iffull
The backup is successful.
6. In addition, explore the following directory:

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Tivoli\TDPVMware\VMwarePlugin\logs
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It contains log information related to the Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual
Environments Plug-In GUI that you will use later.
You turned on Logging and Tracing and used it to evaluate the error that occurred during
a backup.
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SAN configurations
Exercise 13: Reviewing SAN configurations not for distribution
SAN configurations
Exercise 13: Reviewing SAN configurations

___ 1. In the vSphere Client interface, select the esx41.tsm.lab host and open the
Configuration tab. Click Storage Adapters.
2. Click Rescan All, and click OK.
All virtual machines and all data stores are displayed. If the lab environment
included Fiber or iSCSI SAN devices, those data stores and virtual machines
would be displayed also. You see the rescan task listed in the Recent Task area.
You reviewed SAN configurations.
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not for distribution Exercise 14: Performing incremental forever backup operations with CBT
Change Block Tracking
Exercise 14: Performing incremental forever

backup operations with CBT
___ 1. Start the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive GUI interface. Verify that it is
version 6.4.
2. Select Actions > Backup VM.
3. Expand the navigation tree and select WinXP_NFS. 

Select Incremental Forever - Incremental as the backup type and click Backup.
Because this backup operation is the first performed on the virtual machine, Tivoli
Storage Manager backs up all used blocks and excludes empty blocks. This
virtual machine is a Windows XP installation and is 1.6 GB in size.
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Incremental Forever backup operations use the VMware Change Block Tracking
(CBT) function to identify the blocks that changed since the previous backup
operation. This function backs up used blocks only. Empty blocks are excluded to
save space. This option became available after you installed the Tivoli Storage
Manager for Virtual Environments product.
4. Monitor the progress of the backup operation. This process might take as long as
10 minutes to complete.
5. Click OK to close the Backup Completed window. Review the Detailed Status
Report. You see that approximately 1.7 GB on two volumes (C:\ and E:\ drives)
were backed up. Close the report window.
6. Perform another backup operation of the WinXP_NFS virtual machine. Select

Incremental Forever - Incremental again to enable CBT. Click Backup.
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Review the results of this CBT block level incremental backup. This virtual
machine is not running, so no blocks have changed since the previous backup.
Therefore you see only a small amount of data being transferred.
7. Close the report windows.
8. Perform a third backup operation of the WinXP_NFS virtual machine. Select

Incremental Forever - Incremental again to enable CBT. Click Backup.
9. Review the results, noting again that only changed blocks were transferred. Close
the report windows.
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Note: Remember that Tivoli Storage Manager is configured to keep only two versions,
and this is the third backup operation that you have performed.
10. Review the dsmerror.log file for CBT messages. If CBT did not function as
expected, the error message would be recorded in this file.
11. In the vSphere Client interface, navigate to Home > Inventory > Datastores.
12. Right-click NFS_Datastore and click Browse Datastore.
13. Click WinXP_NFS in the navigation tree. Verify that the *ctk.vmdk file is listed.
This file indicates that Tivoli Storage Manager has automatically enabled CBT for
this virtual machine.
Note: In this lab environment, the vCenter virtual machine is configured as an NFS
Server that supports this data store. Therefore, you can also Windows Explorer to
browse the c:\share folder and examine the data stores.
You successfully used Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments to perform a block
level backup with Change Block Tracking enabled.
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Restoring individual files
Exercise 15: Restoring individual files from a full

VM level backup
In earlier exercises, you performed a full VM level backup operation. Now you restore
individual files from this backup.
___ 1. Click Start > All Programs > Tivoli Storage Manager > Data Protection for
VMware > Data Protection for VMware Recovery Agent.
2. Expand the Tivoli Storage Manager Server menu and select New Tivoli
Storage Manager Server.
3. Enter the connection data for your Tivoli Storage Manager Server:
Server address: tsm02

Server port: 1500
Node Access method: Direct 
Authentication Node: TS631_DM
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Click OK.
4. In the Select snapshot panel, expand the Virtual Machine menu and select
WinXP_NFS.
This is your most recent backup, which is now inside a Tivoli Storage Manager
Storage Pool.
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5. Expand the Snapshot menu and select your most recent backup date.
6. Expand the Disk menu and select Hard Disk 1. This data comes from the C:\
drive on the protected virtual machine.
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7. Open Windows Explorer. Resize and arrange the windows as necessary so that
you can observe both Windows Explorer and Data Protection for VMware.
Click Mount.
8. In the Select mount destination window, make the following selections:
Select Create virtual volume from selected partition

Select Partition 0 
Select Assign the following drive letter
Select V:\ as the drive letter
Click OK.
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9. In the Mounted Volumes panel, observe that the selected point-in-time snapshot
is now mounted as a virtual volume assigned to your local V:\ drive.
Note: You can select any unused drive letter as the mount point for the point-in-time
snapshot. The V:\ drive letter was selected in this exercise to emphasize that you are
mounting a virtual volume.
10. In the Windows Explorer, observe that the V:\ drive is now displayed in the list of
drives.
11. Using Windows Explorer, review the contents of the virtual volume mounted on
the E:\ drive. From here you can select individual files or folders and restore them
to the original location or to a new location using Copy & Paste.
You can also open individual files such as Microsoft Word documents or Microsoft
PowerPoint files directly from this virtual volume without restoring them first.
12. Click Dismount All to unmount the virtual volume.
13. Click Yes to close the warning message about open files if it is displayed.
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listed.
You mounted a point-in-time full VM level backup that you created with Tivoli Storage
Manager for Virtual Environments as a virtual volume on the local machine.
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not for distribution Exercise 16: Restoring a volume
Volume level restore operations
Exercise 16: Restoring a volume

In the previous exercise, you learned how to restore individual files and folders. Now you
use the Instant Restore feature to restore an entire volume.
___ 1. In the Data Protection for VMware Recovery Agent interface, make the
following selections in the Select snapshot panel:
Virtual Machine: Win_XP_NFS
Snapshot: [select the most recent snapshot]
Disk: Hard Disk 2 (100 MB)
Click Restore.
2. Select Partition 0 as the source for the restore operation. Select the E:\ drive as
the destination volume for the restore operation. Click OK.
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Exercise 16: Restoring a volume not for distribution
3. Click Yes to close the target drive warning message.
4. Click Ignore if a warning message about open handles is displayed.
5. View the status of the restore operation in the Instant Restore window.
6. Using Windows Explorer, review the contents of the E:\ drive.
Note: You can access any of these files as you normally would without waiting for the
restore operation to complete. With the Instant Restore feature, you have immediate
access to files while the restore process continues in the background.
7. Close the Data Protection for VMware Recovery Agent interface and close
Windows Explorer.
You successfully used the Instant Restore feature of Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual
Environments to restore a volume.
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Using the plug-in interface
Exercise 17: Performing backup and restore

operations with the Tivoli Storage Manager for
Virtual Environments plug-in
Perform a backup operation.
___ 1. In the vSphere Client interface, click the Home icon. Scroll down if necessary and
double-click the Tivoli Data Protection for VMware icon.
2. Click the Summary tab.
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3. Click Define a backup task.
4. On the Welcome screen, click Next.
5. Enter schedule_1 as the schedule name and daily backup as the description.
Click Next.
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6. Expand TS631 and select Bill_Local. Click Next.
7. Select TS631-DM as the data mover. The data mover is the Tivoli Storage
Manager Backup-Archive Client started from the CAD, which performs the
backup. One data mover can back up one or more virtual machines. You can use
many data movers to back up many virtual machines in parallel.
Click Next.
Note: If you do not see a list of destinations, there is configuration issue either in the
proxy node setup, in one of the option files or vmcliprofile file (which is case
sensitive).
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8. Note the new Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments 6.4 option for
Incremental Forever. Select Run the backup now and Incremental backup.
Click Next.
9. Click Finish on the summary page.
10. Click Yes to confirm.
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11. Your backup succeeds, but you receive a warning message.
Although you specified an Incremental backup, every initial backup operation

must be a full backup. The warning message indicates this requirement.
12. Select the Backup tab. Right-click schedule_1 and select Run now to start the
backup operation again.
13. The second backup should indicate success.
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14. The second backup should indicate success.
Note: If the backup failed or cannot contact to the TSM server, try to restart the Tivoli
Storage Manager Client Acceptor service in the Windows services and rerun your
schedule. If this action does not correct the error, you might have to uninstall and then
reinstall the CAD. Also, make sure that all services started.
Perform a restore operation.
15. Click the Restore tab. Expand the navigation tree and click Bill_Local.
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Note: You see now only the backup which you performed from the plug-in. Depending
which node name you use, you see all backups that you did through the Tivoli Storage
Manager Backup-Archive Client and the command line. All virtual machine metadata
is stored with the data on the TSM Server.
17. On the Welcome page, click Next.
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19. For the destination parameters, select Restore to an alternate location and
enter bills_restore as the new name for the virtual machine. Accept the
remaining default values and click Next.
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21. Click OK to confirm the operation.
22. On the Reports tab and review the status of the operation and verify that it was a
success.
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machine bills_restore is in the list.
You successfully used the Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments plug-in to
schedule a backup, performed a backup, and performed a restore.
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Cluster selection
Exercise 18: Exploring the new cluster selection

function
___ 1. Right-click the TS631 data center and click New Cluster to create a VMware
cluster.
2. Name your new cluster Cluster_One and click Next.
3. In the VMware EVC window, accept the default selections and click Next.
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4. In the VM Swapfile Location window, accept the default selections and click
Next.
5. In the Ready to Complete window, click Finish.
6. Verify that the new cluster shows in the navigation tree.
7. Drag the esx41.tsm.lab structure beneath Cluster_One. This action makes the
exs41.tsm.lab host a member of the new cluster.
8. In the vSphere Client interface, click the Home icon. Scroll down if necessary and
double-click the Tivoli Data Protection for VMware icon.
9. Click the Backup tab and click Schedule a Backup.
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11. Name the new backup schedule Cluster_backup and provide a description. Click
Next.
12. Expand the TS631 structure to reveal Cluster_One.
With Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments, you can select a cluster
and assign a data mover to it.
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In this configuration, Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments backs up the
included virtual machines regardless of which ESX host they are running on within
the cluster. Select Bill_Local and Ted_NFS to be protected. Click Next.
13. Select TS631_DM as the data mover node. Click Next.
14. On the Schedule panel, accept the default selections Run the backup now and
Incremental. Click Next.
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15. Click Finish. The operation takes a few minutes to complete.
16. Click Yes to confirm that you want to monitor the task.
17. Your backup completes, but with a warning.
(If your backup fails, restart the Tivoli Storage Manager CAD service and run the
backup again.)
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18. Double-click the warning message and scroll down to review the message details.
19. Close the vSphere Client interface.
You explored the new cluster selection function, which is also available in the Tivoli
Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client.
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not for distribution Exercise 19: Performing individual volume backup and restore operations
Individual volume backup and restore

operations
Exercise 19: Performing individual volume

backup and restore operations
Performing individual volume backup and restore operations without using the Recovery
agent is a new function that was introduced in version 6.4. It is available only in the Tivoli
Storage Manager Backup-Archive command-line client. You use it to back up and restore
individual volumes. It works outside the virtual machine, that is, from the proxy server. You
can also protect the operating system volume of a virtual machine using this technology.
___ 1. Open the TSM Backup-Archive Client command-line interface and enter the
following command:
backup vm "WinXP_NFS:vmdk=Hard disk 2" -mode=iffull
This command backs up the D:\ drive of the WinXP_NFS virtual machine. You
specify the D:\ drive, using its virtual device name as shown in vSphere client
interface.
2. Review the result of the operation.
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3. Enter the following command:
restore vm "WinXP_NFS:vmdk=Hard disk 2"

This command restores the individual volume D:\ back to the WinXP_NFS virtual
machine.
4. Review the results of the operation.
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not for distribution Exercise 20: Reviewing self-contained application protection functions
Self-contained application protection

explained
Exercise 20: Reviewing self-contained

application protection functions
With the resources in this lab, you cannot perform this function. Therefore, only the
architecture is presented. Self-contained application is supported for Windows file
systems, Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Exchange. When enabled, the data mover
(Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client) injects a VSS driver into the specified
virtual machine at run time. To perform this action, the VMware tools must be installed
inside the virtual machine. This driver invokes VSS application, quiescing inside the virtual
machine, and truncates the SQL Server or Exchange logs, so that the VMware snapshot
contains a consistent state. When restoring virtual machines, this method only provides
restore granularity back to the time of the snapshot. You cannot perform log roll forward to
recover states between the snapshots. To invoke self-contained application protection,
you perform only two configuration settings.
___ 1. Add the following statement to the dsm.opt file for each protected virtual
machine:
INCLUDE.VMTSMVSS <vmname>, where <vmname> stands for the name of the
virtual machine where the driver is to be located.
2. Set the ID and password for the user of the individual virtual machine:
dsmc set password -type=vmguest <vmguestname>, where <vmguestname>

stands for the guest name of the virtual machine where the driver is located.
When starting a backup from the Tivoli Storage Manager command line (backup vm
vmname), the backup process indicates the injections by the information in the following two
new fields: application protection type and application(s) protected.
You successfully finished the course.
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Exercise 20: Reviewing self-contained application protection functions not for distribution
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IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments 6.

Preparing and exploring your environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Installation and configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Backup and restore for VMware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Change Block Tracking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Restoring individual files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Volume level restore operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Using the plug-in interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Perform a backup operation. . . . . . . . . . . 97

Cluster selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Individual volume backup and restore operations. . . . . . 113

Self-contained application protection explained . . . . . . . 115

• Run tracing operations.

• Perform a file level backup and restore operation.

• Review SAN configurations.

• Install Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments.

• Run incremental forever (progressive incremental) block-level backup operations

• Perform individual file restore operations from a full VM level backup.

• Perform an instant restore operation of a protected volume.

• Expose backups as iSCSI volumes.

These machines constitute the training environment:

Preparing and exploring your

Exercise 1: Exploring your environment

___ 4. When the services VMware VirtualCenter Management Webservices and

Logon using these credentials:

___ a. Right-click esx41.tsm.lab. Click Connect.

___ b. In the Reconnect host window, click Close.

___ c. In the Add Host Wizard window, supply these values:

___ d. Click Yes to dismiss the security alert.

___ e. In the Host Summary, click Next.

___ g. In the Ready to Complete panel, click Finish.

___ i. Verify that the virtual machines are listed in bold.

10. Right-click WinXP_NFS, and select Snapshot > Snapshot Manager.

11. Click Start the Lab and Go to.

12. Answer Yes to the confirm reverting.

13. Click Close.

14. Right-click WinXP_NFS, and select Power > Power On.

15. Right-click WinXP_NFS and click Open Console.

19. Right-click WinXP_NFS and select Power > Power Off.

20. Click Yes to confirm the power-off operation.

21. Minimize the vSphere client interface.

23. Open Internet Explorer.

24. Enter http://192.168.100.201 in the address bar.

29. Close Internet Explorer.

Installation and configuration

Exercise 2: Installing Tivoli Storage Manager

___ 1. Navigate to C:\Lab_Software\TSMBA64 and launch setup.

2. Select English as installation language.

3. Click Install for the installation of the prerequisites.

5. Click Next to accept the destination folder.

6. Select Custom and click Next.

8. Click Install. The installation can take up to five minutes.

9. Click Finish when the installation is complete.

11. The configuration wizard will start. Click Next.

12. Select Create a new options file. Click Next.

15. Change the TSM Server address to 192.168.100.203. Click Next.

16. Accept the Recommended Include/Exclude List. Click Next.

17. Accept the Common File Exclusion. Click Next.

22. Click Finish to finalize your configuration.

23. Close the Backup-Archive GUI.

Exercise 3: Installing Recovery agent

___ 1. Install Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments. 

2. Choose English as the installation language. Click OK.