Tivoli® Storage Manager for Virtual Environments protects virtual machines by offloading backup workloads to a centralized server and enabling near-instant recovery
IBM Tivoli® Storage Manager for Virtual Environments enables organizations to protect the massive amounts of information generated on virtual machines—without disruption to other operations on the server—and to restore data without the need for a traditional backup window.
- Simplify management of the backup and restore process for virtual machines
- Utilize VMware’s vStorage APIs for Data Protection, including block-level incremental backups based on VMware’s Changed Block Tracking
- Offload the backup workload from virtual machines to vStorage backup servers
- Provides flexible recovery options—file, volume and image—from a single-pass backup
- Simplify day-to-day administration with a centralized IBM Tivoli® Storage Manager console
- Capture incremental backups at the block level and periodic full backups at the image level
- Speed recovery of data to reduce downtime following a failure
- Integrate with and extend the role of Tivoli Storage Manager in providing data protection services
- Operating systems supported: Windows
