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