1. A method associated with a storage manager that manages an information management system, the method comprising: in response to one or more messages received from a file manager application executing on a client computing device associated with a user, wherein the one or more messages indicate that an information management operation has been initiated by the user relative to a virtual machine, wherein the information management operation comprises at least one of a backup of the virtual machine, an archiving of the virtual machine, and a restoring of the virtual machine, managing the information management operation, by the storage manager, wherein the managing comprises (i) instructing a media agent in the information management system to perform the storage management operation, and (ii) receiving metadata about the information management operation from the media agent; reporting, by the storage manager, one or more results of the storage management operation to the file manager application; and updating, by the storage manager, an associated management database, the updating comprising the metadata received by the storage manager.