Backup-archive client updates
New features and other changes are available in the IBM® Tivoli® Storage Manager Version 7.1.4 backup-archive client.
- Back up VMware virtual machine disks as large as 8 TB
- Use the new vmmaxvirtualdisks option to set the maximum size of the VMware virtual machine disks (VMDKs) that can be backed up.
- For more information, see Vmmaxvirtualdisks.
- Updated name for the vmskipmaxvmdks option
- The vmskipmaxvmdks option is renamed vmskipmaxvirtualdisks. Use this option to specify how a backup operation processes VMDKs that exceed the maximum disk size.
- For more information, see Vmskipmaxvirtualdisks.
- Protect VMware virtual volume datastores
- You can now back up and restore virtual machines that are hosted on VMware virtual volume (vVol) datastores.
- For more information, see the datastore parameter in Restore VM.
- Protect IBM Spectrum Scale for Linux on z Systems
- IBM Spectrum Scale™ is based on IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS™) technology.
- For a complete list of the z Systems that you can protect, see Technote 1066436, IBM Linux zSeries Client Requirements.
- Protect data on Linux on Power Systems™ (Little Endian)
- The backup-archive client is now available on Linux
distributions that are running on IBM
Power Systems
POWER8® (Little Endian Linux) platforms.
To install the client on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.1 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 12 operating systems, see Installing the Tivoli Storage Manager client on Linux on Power Systems (Little Endian).