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IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments. “Virtualized servers have been a boon to the systems side of the house, but a bane for storage managers.” Hot Technologies for 2011, STORAGE Magazine, Dec 2010 (link). Virtual servers help … Cut costs Hardware, maintenance
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IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments “Virtualized servers have been a boon to the systems side of the house, but a bane for storage managers.” Hot Technologies for 2011, STORAGE Magazine, Dec 2010(link) • Virtual servers help … • Cut costs • Hardware, maintenance • Power, cooling, floor space • Improve IT service levels • Add new apps fast • New delivery models • Move workloads as needed • But … • VMs do not reduce data or storage • Old ways of doing backup don’t work • Drain on host resources • How do you handle ILM? • Backup agent sprawl • Impossible to manage, predict licenses • New VMs might not be protected