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Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
Brand - Servers and Systems Software
Product family - Storage
Product - Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Family
For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
Brand - Tivoli
Product family - Storage
Product - Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Family
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Hi,
A vApp can contain anything from one to maybe 100's of vm's. It is very rarely that the entire vApp needs to be restored. Most of the times I only need to restore one vm (out of 10+ vm's in vApp). It is therefor a more timeconsuming process to restore 1 Tb, instead of 10 Gb.
If the vm can be restored to a new vApp, or to an existing vApp or as a last resort just restore it as a standalone vm. I can import it to the customer afterwards.
Rgds,
Håkon Tønder-Keul
Thank you for submitting this request. As we continue to assess this enhancement for candidacy in a release, it would be helpful if you could provide more information. We understand that you are suggesting a solution for efficiency. Do you have more information you can provide? What is an example of a specific use case? How often do you think you would need to perform this kind of single VM restore for a vApp? Our direction has been to suppor vApps but not at the single VM level. If you can help us understand the scenarios better, this will move us forward in our discussions.