Description

IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments: Data Protection for VMware V8.1.7 helps you to protect your VMware virtual machine (VM) data by offloading backup workloads from a VMware ESX or ESXi-based host to a centralized server. IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments completes full and incremental backups of VMs. These backups are available for full VM, file, and instant restore operations. Instant restore is available at the disk volume level and full VM level.

Multiple interface components are included to help you protect your VMs, including:

• The IBM Spectrum Protect vSphere Client plug-in. You can use this vSphere Client plug-in to configure backup policies to fit your backup management needs, such as excluding or including virtual machines (VMs) in scheduled backup services, changing the retention policy of backups, selecting the VM disks you want to protect, setting the data consistency for backups, and providing application protection for VM backups. 
  
  You can also use the plug-in to start on-demand backup and restore operations and to view the most recent backup information for all VMs that are in a vSphere object. This information includes identification of VMs that are at risk of being unprotected because the VM has never been backed up or a backup did not occur in the time interval that is set in the at-risk policy.

• The IBM Spectrum Protect file restore interface. You can search, locate, and restore files from this web-based interface without administrator assistance.

• IBM Spectrum Protect recovery agent. This service enables the mounting of any snapshot volume from the IBM Spectrum Protect server. You can view the snapshot locally, with read-only access, on the client system, or use an iSCSI protocol to access the snapshot from a remote computer. In addition, the recovery agent provides the instant restore function.

Fix history

To view APARs that were resolved in V8.1.7, see  technote 1993767 .

System requirements

For system requirement information, see  technote 1505139 .

Compatibility with earlier versions

For compatibility with earlier versions, see  technote 1993819 .

Installing IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments: Data Protection for VMware

For information about where to download Data Protection for VMware V8.1.7, see  technote 10744187.

For step-by-step installation instructions, see  Installing and upgrading Data Protection for VMware .

Updates, limitations, and known problems

Updates, limitations, and known problems are documented in the form of technotes in the product  Support Portal . As problems are discovered and resolved, IBM Software Support updates the knowledge base. By searching the knowledge base, you can quickly find workarounds or solutions to problems.

For Data Protection for VMware V8.1.7 known issues and limitations, see the following links:

• Known Issues and Limitations: V8.1 IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments: Data Protection for VMware
  This document details the known issues and limitations for Data Protection for VMware V8.1 functions and interfaces.

• Documentation updates for IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments: Data Protection for VMware V8.1.x
  This document details updates to the Data Protection for VMware V8.1 documentation.

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