PowerProtect Data Manager 19.9 Google Cloud Platform Deployment Guide

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Terminology

Familiarize yourself with the terminology for the PowerProtect Data Manager user interface and documentation.

The following table provides more information about names and terms that you should know to use PowerProtect Data Manager:

Table 1. Term listTerm list
Term	Description
Application Agent	Application Agents are installed on application or database host servers to manage protection using PowerProtect Data Manager. These Agents are commonly known as DD Boost Enterprise Agents (DDBEA) for databases and applications.
Application Aware	Virtual machine protection policy that includes additional application-aware data protection for Microsoft SQL Servers. An application-aware virtual machine protection policy provides the ability to quiesce the application during virtual machine image backup to perform a full backup of SQL databases. You can also schedule SQL server log backups for the virtual machines in the policy.
Asset	Assets are objects in PowerProtect Data Manager for which you want to manage protection, including VMs, databases, and file systems.
Asset Source	Assets that PowerProtect Data Manager protects reside within Asset Sources, which include vCenter Servers, application or database hosts, and file servers.
Cloud Tier Storage	Cloud Tier storage can be added to a protection storage system to expand the deduplication storage capacity onto less expensive object storage in public or private object storage clouds, including Dell EMC secure Elastic Cloud Storage appliances.
Copy	A PowerProtect Data Manager copy is a point-in-time backup copy of an Asset.
Copy Map	The PowerProtect Data Manager Copy Map is a visual representation of backup copy locations on your Protection Storage and is available for all protected Assets that have copies.
Discovery	Discovery is an internal process that scans Asset Sources to find new assets to protect and scans infrastructure components to monitor their health and status.
Instant Access	PowerProtect Data Manager VM backup copies can be accessed, mounted, and booted directly from the Protection Storage targets as running VMs. Copies can also be moved to a production VMware datastore using vMotion. PowerProtect Data Manager VM application-aware backup copies can be mounted directly from the Protection Storage targets as running SQL databases, which includes the ability to roll forward log backups. These SQL database disks can also be moved to a production VMware datastore using vMotion.
PowerProtect Data Manager Agent	An agent that is included in PowerProtect Data Manager, and installed on each application agent host server so that you can monitor and manage the application agent through PowerProtect Data Manager.
Protection Policy	Protection Policies configure and manage the entire life cycle of backup data, which includes backup type, assets, backup start/stop time, backup device, and backup retention.
Service Level Agreement (SLA)	An optional policy that you can layer on top of a Protection Policy. An SLA performs additional checks on protection activities to ensure that protection goals meet the standards that your organization requires. SLAs are made up of one or more Service Level Objectives.
Service Level Objectives (SLOs)	Definable rules that set the criteria for Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs), encryption, and locations of backups according to your company requirements.