Installing Data Protection for VMware on Windows systems in silent mode

Install all Data Protection for VMware components and the data mover feature by using the Suite Installer in silent mode.

Before you begin

Before you install Data Protection for VMware and the data mover feature, ensure that your system meets the requirements in the following sections:

Use the following Data Protection for VMware parameters with the silent installation features:

Table 1. Data Protection for VMware silent installation parameters
Parameter	Description	Default value
ISFeatureInstall	Specify one or both of the following options: TSM4VE Install all Data Protection for VMware features except the recovery agent device driver. Client Install all data mover features.	`TSM4VE,Client`
ComponentsToInstallVe	Specify the Data Protection for VMware features to install. Use the features that are described in Table 2	None
ComponentsToInstallBa	Specify the data move features to install. Use the features that are described in Table 3	None
GUI_MODE	To protect data in a vSphere environment, specify GUI_MODE=vcenter. This parameter installs the Data Protection for VMware vSphere GUI. This GUI integrates the product with the VMware vSphere client to back up, restore, and manage VMs in a VMware vCenter environment. Includes the Data Protection for VMware command-line interface. You can install only one Data Protection for VMware vSphere GUI on a machine. As a result, multiple Data Protection for VMware vSphere GUIs are not allowed on the same machine. `vcenter` is the default value when GUI_MODE is specified.	`vcenter`
SUITE_MODE	This parameter must be set to 1 for the data mover portion of the install in order to stop the NetAppsLibs feature from being installed.	None
VCENTER_HOSTNAME	The vCenter Server fully qualified domain name or IP address. This feature is required when GUI_MODE=vcenter is specified.	None
VCENTER_USERNAME	The vCenter user ID. This user ID must be a VMware administrator that has permission to register and unregister extensions. This feature is required when GUI_MODE=vcenter is specified.	None
VCENTER_PASSWORD	The vCenter password. This feature is required when GUI_MODE=vcenter is specified.	None
DIRECT_START	(vSphere only) To access the Data Protection for VMware vSphere GUI in a web browser, specify DIRECT_START=1. The Data Protection for VMware vSphere GUI is accessed through a URL bookmark to the GUI web server. If you do not want to access the Data Protection for VMware vSphere GUI in a web browser, specify DIRECT_START=0.	`1` Important: After installation completes, the DIRECT_START value cannot be changed except by reinstalling the product.
REGISTER_EXTENSION	(vSphere only) To access the Data Protection for VMware vSphere GUI as an extension in the vSphere Web Client, specify REGISTER_EXTENSION=1.	0
DB_PORT	The TCP/IP port number for the Derby database.	`1527`
WC_DEFAULTHOST	The HTTP protocol for the GUI web server.	`9080`
WEBSERVER_SECUREPORT	The HTTPS protocol for the GUI web server.	`9081`

Table 2. Data Protection for VMware silent installation features
Feature	Description	Installed by default?
shell	Recovery agent command-line interface Command-line interface that is used for mount operations (RecoveryAgentShell.exe).	Yes
LAP	Data Protection for VMware license	Yes
TSMLicence	Data Protection for VMware enablement file Enables IBM Spectrum Protect™ to run the following backup types: Incremental-forever incremental backup Incremental-forever full backup If you offload backup workloads, this file must be installed on the vStorage Backup Server.	Yes
documents	Readme file	Yes
gui	Data Protection for VMware vSphere GUI	No

Use the following data mover parameters with the silent installation features:

Table 3. Data mover silent installation parameters
Parameter	Description	Default value
BackupArchiveGUI	IBM Spectrum Protect data mover GUI	None
BackupArchiveWeb	IBM Spectrum Protect data mover web client	None
Api64Runtime	IBM Spectrum Protect API runtimes	None
AdministrativeCmd	IBM Spectrum Protect Administrative command line	None

About this task

Restriction: All features are installed to their default location. To locate the default installation directories for the components, see the subtopics in Installable components.

Procedure

To install Data Protection for VMware, complete the following steps from the directory where you extracted the package:

Open a command prompt and go to the location of the spinstall.exe file for the component that you want to install.

Specify which features to install.
The following example installs the IBM Spectrum Protect recovery agent, device driver, and recovery agent command-line interface:

spinstall.exe ISFeatureInstall=TSM4VE ComponentsToInstallVe=mount,mountdriver,shell
REBOOT=ReallySuppress SUITE_MODE=1 /silent

The following example installs a subset of Data Protection for VMware and data mover features:

spinstall.exe ISFeatureInstall=Client,TSM4VE /silent 
ComponentsToInstallBa=BackupArchiveGUI,BackupArchiveWeb,Api64Runtime 
ComponentsToInstallVe=LAP,TSMLicence,documents,gui  SUITE_MODE=1 REBOOT=ReallySuppress 
GUI_MODE=vcenter VCENTER_HOSTNAME=host_name 
VCENTER_USERNAME=user_name VCENTER_PASSWORD=password 
DIRECT_START=1

The following example installs all Data Protection for VMware and data mover features:

spinstall.exe /silent SUITE_MODE=1 REBOOT=ReallySuppress 
GUI_MODE=vcenter VCENTER_HOSTNAME=host_name VCENTER_USERNAME=user_name 
VCENTER_PASSWORD=password DIRECT_START=1

Optional: When the device driver is installed, you must restart the system.

Warning: The following message displays the first time that you mount a volume:

The Virtual Volume Driver is not yet registered. Recovery Agent can register
the driver now. During registration, a Microsoft Windows Logo warning 
may be displayed. 
Accept this warning to allow the registration to complete.
Do you want to register the Virtual Volume Driver now?

You must register the Virtual Volume Driver to proceed with the recovery agent operations.