IT16684: INCOMPLETE DOCUMENTATION FOR BACKUP OF VMS ON SHARED CSV STORAGE ACROSS MULTIPLE HYPER-V HOSTS

Download Information: Version 8.1.2 IBM Spectrum Protectâ„¢ for Virtual Environments

APAR status

• Closed as documentation error.

Error description

• The documentation for Data Protection for Hyper-V needs
  enhancements regarding these topics:
  
  1. Provide information about best practices for backup of VMs
     residing on shared CSV storage across multiple Hyper-V hosts.
     The documentation needs to indicate that it is best practice
     to run backups on one host at a time in such a configuration
     in order to avoid "snapshot in progress" errors.
  
  2. Make more prominent the information about the best practice
     of using a VSS hardware provider rather than a software
     provider. This information is currently located in the
     reference information for the VMMAXPARALLEL option; it should
     instead be placed in a more prominent location within the
     documentation.
  
  Tivoli Storage Manager Versions Affected:
  Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environment - Data Protection
  for HyperV 7.1.x
  
  Initial Impact:
  Low
  
  Additional Keywords:
  VSS, HyperV, VM
  

Local fix

Problem summary

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Problem conclusion

• The missing information will be published with the next releaseo
  

Temporary fix

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