Since TSM4VE requires vCenter to be up to restore VM's. What if vcenter is down? Without having to purchase more licensing from VMWare (we all know how that goes) to build a secondary vCenter. How are you all protecting vCenter? With our entire datacenter running on VMWare, in a restore scenario vCenter would have to be online first along with its database instance before you can start restoring VM's. What are your backup methods for making sure you are able to restore vCenter with TSM? In our case vCenter is a VM, so backing it up with VE would not be helpful.