PowerProtect Data Manager 19.9 Administration and User Guide

Backup

You can perform a backup of an embedded PSC by using the following guidelines.

1. Create a protection policy, and then add the vCenter virtual machine to the protection policy.
2. Select the full virtual machine and not individual disks.
3. Run the scheduled or on-demand (ad-hoc) protection policy.

Recovery

Depending on the type of failure, you can perform the virtual machine recovery by using one of the following methods.

• Restore to original — This method is valid only when the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) is intact and running, but corrupted.
• Recover as a new virtual machine to a managed ESXi server (Virtual Machine Recovery). Use this method if you have completely lost your VCSA. Note that this vCenter must be registered with PowerProtect Data Manager.
• Direct restore to ESXi server. Direct restore to ESXi will be the main use case.