IBM® Tivoli® Storage FlashCopy® Manager for VMware is a data management solution that you can use to streamline storage management in a VMware vSphere environment. You can back up, restore, and implement disaster recovery solutions for virtual machines in a VMware environment. When you use Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager for VMware with Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments, you can store VMware image backups on Tivoli Storage Manager server storage.
With Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager for VMware, you can create non-disruptive off-host backups for VMware virtual machines in a vSphere environment. This off-host approach facilitates faster backup operations. You can protect and back up virtual machines at the datastore level. The datastore can be a VMFS datastore or a Network File System (NFS) datastore when you use IBM System Storage® N series or NetApp storage systems. You can restore a single virtual machine and virtual disk to its original location or to an alternative location. In addition, you can restore an entire datastore or datastores.
- Simplifies the backup, restore, and disaster recovery operations of virtual machines in a VMware environment.
- Provides the following user interfaces to manage back up and restore
operations:
- A graphical user interface (GUI) that accesses VM data on vCenter server. This plug-in is accessed as a vCenter Server extension in the Solutions and Applications panel of your vCenter Server System. The GUI can also be accessed by using a web browser-based interface. Click Learn More in any of the GUI windows to open the online help for task assistance.
- Using a command-line interface, you can manage backup and restore operations that access virtual machine data on the vCenter server.
- Manages the scheduling of backup operations. Alternatively, you can run backup operations immediately.
- Offload backups to Tivoli Storage Manager when Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager for VMware is used with Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments. This method enables block level incremental backups when VMware change block tracking feature is enabled.
