IBM TSM for Virutal Environments
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments extends capabilities that currently exist in IBM Tivoli Storage Manager.
Highlights include:
Centrally managed data protection for VMware hypervisors
- Quick and efficient incremental block-level backups utilizing VMware's vStorage APIs for Data Protection and Changed Block Tracking features
- Automatic detection of newly created virtual machines to help ensure compliance with a backup policy
- Capability to offload the backup workload to one or more vStorage backup servers
- Use of a non-disruptive snapshot at the virtual machine image level to help minimize disruptions to virtual guests
- Multiple recovery options from a
single-pass image-level backup thatcan help with:
- Granular file level recoveries
- Near-instant volume recoveries
- Full virtual machine recoveries - Advanced capabilities such as compression and deduplication to help reduce network and storage capacity requirements