Vmiscsiserveraddress

The vmiscsiserveraddress option is valid for all instant operations (vmrestoretype=instantaccess and vmrestoretype=instantrestore) for VMware virtual machines.

The virtual machines must be hosted on VMware ESXi 5.1 servers, or later versions. To use this option, you must have a license agreement to use IBM Spectrum Protect™ for Virtual Environments: Data Protection for VMware.

Supported Clients

This option can be used with supported Windows clients.

Options file

Place this option in the client options file (dsm.opt), or on the command line.

Parameters

iSCSI serverhost name or IP address

Specify the host name or IP address of the iSCSI server that supplies the iSCSI target disks. This iSCSI server must connect the data mover machine with all of the ESX hosts that are used for instant restore operations. If vmiscsiserveraddress is not specified, the host name or IP address of the data mover machine is used.

For instant restore operations, the IP address of the network card in the data mover machine that is used for the iSCSI transfer should be in the same subnet as the iSCSI adapter on the ESX host.

For file restore mount operations, the Windows and Linux mount proxy systems must be in the same network range.