Backing up VMware data

Use Data Protection for VMware to store backup versions of your VMware virtual machines on the IBM Spectrum Protect™ server.

Restriction: The following restrictions apply to VMware VMDKs that are involved in a backup operation:

For incremental forever backup mode, each individual VMDK involved in a backup operation cannot exceed 8 TB. If a VMDK exceeds 8 TB, the backup operation fails. To increase the size of the VMDK to be larger than the default 2 TB, specify the maximum size with the vmmaxvirtualdisks option. For more information, see Vmmaxvirtualdisks.
For periodic full backup mode, each individual VMDK involved in a backup operation cannot exceed 2 TB. If a VMDK exceeds 2 TB, the backup operation fails.

To prevent a failure during either backup mode, you can skip processing the VMDK by specifying vmskipmaxvirtualdisks yes in the data mover options file. For more information, see Vmskipmaxvirtualdisks.