Item: Tivoli Storage Manager
Rating: 9
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

IT department uses TSM for daily backups and restores. It also handles DR replication from a Fastback appliance located elsewhere.

Pros and Cons

The concept of "forever incremental" is very appealing to my understanding of how backups should happen.
The backups are tuned for fast restores and they sure are fast.
The media management is very good.

It may have a significant learning curve for people unfamiliar CLI.
The database can become corrupt and will require repairs. I have not had a case when I lost any data or inventory though.

Return on Investment

Simple, care free backups, especially if you do not use tapes and do not have to manage those.
Very fast restores as the libraries have everything available online.
Ease of locating the necessary data to restore

Support Rating

We had a 3rd party support which was very good.

Large scale installations with traditional client agent backups. This does not suit pure virtual environments. Having said that, TSM does have another product specifically for the virtual environment. We have not used it.

Another positive point is that the clients can be configured to have separate individual storage which is important when considering GDPR compliance.

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Overall Satisfaction with Tivoli Storage Manager

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Key Insights

Do you think Tivoli Storage Manager delivers good value for the price?

Are you happy with Tivoli Storage Manager's feature set?

Did Tivoli Storage Manager live up to sales and marketing promises?

Did implementation of Tivoli Storage Manager go as expected?

Would you buy Tivoli Storage Manager again?

Other Software Used

Likelihood to Recommend

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