Restoring a full VM that was backed up with self-contained application enabled, is the same as restoring a full VM that did not have self-contained application protection enabled. When the VM is powered on after a restore, the applications resume automatically, unless they are configured to be started manually.
Additional files are present on the Windows guest VM after the restore completes. These files are in the %TEMP%\TSM directory (where %TEMP% is the system environment variable for the account that runs the VMware vStorage API runtime files). These files can remain on the guest, or you can delete them. The Tivoli® Storage Manager backup-archive client used the files to perform the application protection functions. Since the snapshot was taken when the files were on the guest, the restored guest VM also contains them.
To recover Microsoft Exchange Server mailbox items from a VM backup, you must use both Data Protection for VMware and the IBM® Tivoli Storage Manager for Microsoft Exchange Server product and documentation. As a result, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Microsoft Exchange Server must be purchased separately with a valid license. For more information, see the following product website: http://www.ibm.com/software/products/tivostormanaformail/
To recover Microsoft SQL databases from a VM backup, you must use both Data Protection for VMware and the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Databases: Data Protection for Microsoft SQL Server V7.1 (or later) product and documentation. As a result, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Databases: Data Protection for Microsoft SQL Server V7.1 (or later) must be purchased separately with a valid license. For more information, see the following product website: http://www.ibm.com/software/products/tivostormanafordata/
Restore of individual Microsoft SQL Server databases is available from basic disks with MBR-style partitions within the guest. If Microsoft SQL Server database data or log files are stored on a Windows Dynamic disk, or on a disk with GPT-style partitions, the database is not available at restore time.