Controlling which disks are processed

Set include and exclude statements to control the disks to be processed.

Use Data Protection for VMware in conjunction with the Tivoli® Storage Manager backup-archive client to determine which disks in the VM environment are backed up and restored. VM environments typically contain a combination of system, normal, independent, and raw device mapping (RDM) disks. The ability to extend control granularity to specific disks provides benefits in these situations:

Recover the disk where the operating system is located in order to replace a corrupted system drive.
Protect disks in VM environments that use Tivoli Storage Manager Data Protection applications as guests that contain large database and log files.
VM configuration information is lost. The VM configuration information is recovered while the disks remain in place.

In previous versions of Data Protection for VMware, a new VM was required whenever a VM restore was performed. If the VM already existed, the restore failed. With this feature, you can restore selected virtual disks but leave the rest of an existing VM intact.