- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Preface
- Getting Started
- Managing Users
- Managing Storage
- Using the PowerProtect Search Engine
- Managing Assets
- Managing Protection Policies
- Protection policies
- Before you create a protection policy
- Supported enhanced VMware topologies for virtual-machine protection
- Add a protection policy for virtual-machine protection
- Add a Cloud Tier schedule to a protection policy
- Manual backups of protected assets
- Manual replication of protected assets
- Manual Cloud Tiering of protected assets
- Editing a protection policy
- View assets assigned to a protection policy
- Extended retention
- Edit the retention period for backup copies
- Delete backup copies
- Removing expired backup copies
- Removing assets from PowerProtect Data Manager
- Export protection
- Disable a protection policy
- Delete a protection policy
- Add a Service Level Agreement
- Export Asset Compliance
- Protection rules
- Restoring Data and Assets
- View backup copies available for restore
- Restoring a virtual machine or VMDK
- Restoring a virtual machine backup with the storage policy association
- Prerequisites to restore a virtual machine
- Restore to the original virtual machine
- Restore individual virtual disks
- Restore to a new virtual machine
- Instant access virtual machine restore
- File level restore to original virtual machine
- File level restore to alternate virtual machine
- Direct restore to ESXi
- Restore an application-aware virtual machine backup
- Restore the PowerProtect Data Manager server
- Restore Cloud Tier backups to protection storage
- Preparing for and Recovering From a Disaster
- Managing system backups for server disaster recovery
- Prepare the DD system recovery target (NFS)
- Configure PowerProtect Data Manager server DR backups
- Record settings for server DR
- Manage PowerProtect Data Manager server DR backups
- Restore PowerProtect Data Manager from server DR backups
- Troubleshooting NFS backup configuration issues
- Troubleshoot recovery of PowerProtect Data Manager
- Quick recovery
- Recover a failed PowerProtect Data Manager backup
- Managing Alerts, Jobs, and Tasks
- Modifying the System Settings
- System settings
- System Support
- Configuring SupportAssist for PowerProtect Data Manager
- Telemetry Collector
- CloudIQ reporting
- Set up the email server
- Add AutoSupport
- Enabling automatic update package checks and downloads
- Add a log bundle
- Audit logging and monitoring system activity
- Monitor system state and system health
- Access the open source software package information
- Security certificates
- Modifying the PowerProtect Data Manager virtual machine disk settings
- Memory optimization
- Configure the DD system
- Virtual networks (VLANs)
- Protecting Virtual Machines using the Transparent Snapshot Data Mover
- Overview of transparent snapshots for virtual machine protection
- VIB installation monitoring and management
- Transparent snapshot data mover system requirements
- Prerequisites to virtual machine protection with the Transparent Snapshot Data Mover
- Virtual machine transparent snapshot unsupported features and limitations
- Transparent Snapshot Performance and Scalability
- PowerProtect Functionality Within the vSphere Client
- PowerProtect functionality within the vSphere Client
- Overview of the PowerProtect plug-in for the vSphere Client
- Prerequisites for enabling the vSphere Client PowerProtect plug-in
- Monitor PowerProtect Data Manager virtual machine protection copies
- Manual PowerProtect policy backup in the vSphere Client
- Image-level restore of a PowerProtect backup in the vSphere Client
- File-level restore of a PowerProtect backup in the vSphere Client
- Overview of VASA and VMware Storage Policy Based Management
- VMware Cloud (VMC) on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- PowerProtect Data Manager image backup and recovery
- Supported PowerProtect Data Manager and DDVE deployment configurations
- Deployment and configuration best practices and requirements
- Configuring the VMC-on-AWS portal
- Interoperability with PowerProtect Data Manager features
- vCenter server inventory requirements
- Creating a dedicated cloud-based vCenter user account
- Add a VM Direct Engine
- Unsupported operations
- Azure VMware Solution (AVS) on Microsoft Azure
- PowerProtect Data Manager image backup and recovery
- Supported PowerProtect Data Manager and DDVE deployment configurations
- Deployment and configuration best practices and requirements
- Configuring the AVS-on-Azure portal
- vCenter server inventory requirements
- Creating a dedicated cloud-based vCenter user account
- Add a VM Direct Engine
- Unsupported operations
- Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) on Google Cloud Product (GCP)
- PowerProtect Data Manager image backup and recovery
- Supported PowerProtect Data Manager and DDVE deployment configurations
- Deployment and configuration best practices and requirements
- Configuring the GCVE-on-GCP portal
- vCenter server inventory requirements
- Creating a dedicated cloud-based vCenter user account
- Add a VM Direct Engine
- Unsupported operations
- Performing Updates
- Configuring and Managing the PowerProtect Agent Service
- Backing Up and Recovering a vCenter Server
- Backing up and recovering a vCenter server
- vCenter deployments overview
- Protecting an embedded PSC
- Protecting external deployment models
- vCenter server appliance(s) with one external PSC where PSC fails
- vCenter server appliance is lost but the PSC remains
- vCenter server appliance with multiple PSCs where one PSC is lost, one remains
- vCenter server appliance remains but all PSCs fail
- vCenter server appliance remains but multiple PSCs fail
- vCenter server appliance fails
- vCenter server restore workflow
- Platform Services Controller restore workfow
- Additional considerations
- Command reference
- Backing Up VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) on VxRail
- Backing up VCF on VxRail
- VCF and VxRail overview
- VCF components and backup methods
- Check VMware certification
- Backup prerequisites
- The backup script
- Quick protection
- Selective protection: SDDC and NSX-T Managers
- Selective protection: vCenter servers
- Selective protection: vRSLCM, VxRail Manager, Workspace ONE Access, and vRealize Suite virtual machines
- SFTP password change: SDDC and NSX-T Managers
- SFTP password change: vCenter servers
- Backup-script troubleshooting
- Best Practices and Troubleshooting
- Base 10 standard used for size calculations in the PowerProtect Data Manager UI
- Best practices and additional considerations for the VM Direct Engine
- Change the limit of instant access sessions
- Configuring a backup to support vSAN datastores
- Configuration checklist for common issues
- Disable vCenter SSL certificate validation
- File-level restore and SQL restore limitations
- FLR Agent for virtual machine file level restore
- FLR-supported platform and OS versions for virtual machine restores
- PowerProtect Data Manager resource requirements in a VMware environment
- Software and hardware requirements
- Support for backup and restore of encrypted virtual machines
- Transport mode considerations
- Virtual disk types supported
- Virtual machine data change rate
- VM Direct Engine data ingestion rate
- VM Direct Engine limitations and unsupported features
- VM Direct Engine performance and scalability
- VM Direct Engine selection with virtual networks (VLANs)
- Best practices for vCenter Server backup and restore
- Changing the vCenter server FQDN
- Monitoring storage capacity thresholds
- Replacing security certificates
- Restarting PowerProtect Data Manager
- Scalability limits for vCenter Server, VM Direct Engine and DD systems
- Troubleshooting network setup issues
- Troubleshooting PowerProtect agent service installations
- Troubleshooting PowerProtect agent service operations
- Troubleshooting PowerProtect Data Manager software updates
- Troubleshooting storage units
- Troubleshooting virtual machine backup issues
- Backup completes with a non-quiesced snapshot warning
- Backup fails when names include special characters
- Deleting vCenter asset sources or moving ESXi to another vCenter
- Failed to lock Virtual Machine for backup: Another EMC vProxy operation 'Backup' is active on VM
- Lock placed on virtual machine during backup and recovery operations continues for 24 hours if VM Direct appliance fails
- Managing command execution for VM Proxy Agent operations on Linux
- PowerProtect plug-in and portlet for vSphere display errors after replacing security certificates
- SQL databases skipped during virtual machine transaction log backup
- SQL Server application-aware backup displays an error about disk.EnableUUID variable
- SQL Server application-consistent backups fail with error "Unable to find VSS metadata files in directory"
- Trailing spaces not supported in SQL database names
- VMware knowledge base articles and product documentation
- Troubleshooting virtual machine restore issues
- Troubleshooting vSphere Plugin deployments
PowerProtect Data Manager 19.9 Administration and User Guide
FLR-supported platform and OS versions for virtual machine restores
File-level restore is supported for the following platforms and operating system versions only.
Platforms/operating systems are qualified for file-level restore support using the default file system for these platforms:
NOTE The most up-to-date software compatibility information for
PowerProtect Data Manager is provided in the E-Lab Navigator, available at
https://elabnavigator.emc.com/eln/modernHomeDataProtection.
- RedHat Enterprise Linux versions 6.x, 7.x, and 8.x
- SuSE Linux Enterprise Server versions 11.x and 12.x
- Debian version 9.1
- Ubuntu version 17.10
- CentOS version 7.2 and later
- Oracle Enterprise Linux version 7.2 and later
- Windows 7, 8, 10, Server 2008, 2012, 2016 (all 64-bit platforms and R2, where applicable), 2019 for FAT, and NTFS.
Ensure that the latest supported version of VMware Tools or open-vm-tools is installed on the guest operating system.
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