TSM for Virtual Environment (TSM for VE), provides significant benefit over traditional backup, with progressive incremental backup along with VMware's Change Block Tracking (CBT), TSM can reduce backup window significantly and reduce storage requirements.

I would like to say special thanks to key authors for this redpaper Julien Sauvanet and Mikael Lindstrom.

Recently IBM published RedPaper for Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments Deployment Guide, which can be downloaded from

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/abstracts/redp4991.html?Open

www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/abstracts/redp4991.html?Open

This paper will help you install, tailor, configure and utilize Tivoli® Storage Manager for Virtual Environments Data Protection for VMware.

Table of contents

Chapter 1. Architect corner
Chapter 2. Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments - Data Protection for VMware Product Introduction
Chapter 3. Data Protection for VMware planning the installation
Chapter 4. Installation and configuration
Chapter 5. Virtual Machine Backup
Chapter 6. Backup scheduling
Chapter 7. Virtual machine recovery scenarios (Full or Item)
Chapter 8. Reporting using vCenter plug-in or SQL queries
Chapter 9. Problem Determination and FAQs
Appendix A. VMware for the storage administrators