One of the initial issues I had with Virtual Center is that it did not always show the correct firewall settings. The command esxcfg-firewall seemed to be the authority on open ports. By executing 'service mgmt-vmware restart' at the command prompt it syncs up VC with esxcfg-firewall. If you decide to script this and plan on having commands after this, you will want to add a 'sleep 20' command on the next line so that the VM management service has a chance to finish the sync.

TSM v5.4.1.0 Installation
1. Execute: rpm -ivh TIVsm-API.i386.rpm
2. Execute: rpm -ivh TIVsm-BA.i386.rpm
3. Create/edit config files.

Configuration
The way I like to do it is to copy my config files from a static source and then edit them on the fly with a few replace commands. This facilitates kickstart deployment. I have included my sample config files below.

Commands to execute for tsm server and node replacement
sed -i.old -e 's/tcpserveraddr tsm1/tcpserveraddr tsm3/g' /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsm.sys
sed -i -e 's/nodename yourvm-bu/nodename vm01-bu/g' /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsm.sys

Included files:
dsm.sys - Base config file for TSM on ESX
dsm.opt - Base config file. Not typically used on ESX but included just to be safe.
inclexcl - Include/exclude file. This dynamically changes with my TSM backup script.

Here is a TSM backup Script that I automate on each of my servers. I actually run this off of a mount.

tsmex and tsmvm.pl should be in the same directory.

tsm is a cron job file that goes in /etc/cron.d. After copying execute the following statements:
chmod 0644 /etc/cron.d/*
service crond restart