- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Preface
- PowerProtect Data Manager for Virtual Machines Overview
- Enabling Virtual Machine Protection
- Managing Virtual Machine Assets and Protection
- Protection policies
- Additional protection policy options
- Before you create a protection policy
- Supported enhanced VMware topologies for virtual-machine protection
- Add a protection policy for virtual-machine protection
- Managing virtual-machine backups
- Add a service-level agreement
- Add or remove assets in a protection policy
- Extended retention
- Edit the retention period for backup copies
- Protection rules
- Restoring Virtual Machine Data and Assets
- Prerequisites to restore a virtual machine
- Self-service restores
- View backup copies available for restore
- Restoring a virtual machine or VMDK
- Restoring a virtual machine backup with the storage policy association
- Image-level restores
- Instant Access virtual-machine restore
- File-level restores
- Restore an application-aware virtual machine backup
- 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 Platform (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
- 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 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 but 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
- Virtual Machine Best Practices and Troubleshooting
- Software and hardware requirements
- Scalability limits for vCenter server, VM Direct Engine, and DD systems
- PowerProtect Data Manager resource requirements in a VMware environment
- Best practices and additional considerations for the VM Direct Engine
- VM Direct Engine performance and scalability
- Transport mode considerations
- Change the limit of instant access sessions
- Configuring a backup to support vSAN datastores
- Configuration checklist for common issues
- Disable vCenter SSL certificate validation
- vProxy Agent for virtual-machine file-level restore
- FLR-supported platform and OS versions for virtual machine restores
- File-level restore and SQL restore troubleshooting and limitations
- 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 selection with virtual networks (VLANs)
- Deploying VM Direct appliance to datastore cluster unsupported
- Best practices for vCenter server backup and restore
- Changing the vCenter server FQDN
- Replacing security certificates
- Troubleshooting network setup issues
- 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 server
- 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 Server application-consistent backups fail with error "Unable to find VSS metadata files in directory"
- Troubleshooting virtual machine restore issues
- Troubleshoot virtual machine SQL application consistent policy issues
- Support for backup and restore of encrypted virtual machines
- Troubleshooting vSphere Plugin deployments
- VMware knowledge base articles and product documentation
PowerProtect Data Manager 19.11 Virtual Machine User Guide
Additional considerations
Review the following additional considerations when backing up and restoring the vCenter server and PSC.
- Backing up the vCenter server will not save the Distributed switch (vDS) configuration as it is stored on the hosts. As a best practice, back up the vDS configuration by using a script that can be used after restoring the virtual center.
- After restoring the PSC, verify that replication has been performed as designed by using the following commands to display the current replication status of a PSC and any of the replication partners of the PSC:
- For VCSA, go to /usr/lib/vmware-vmdir/bin and type ./vdcrepadmin -f showpartnerstatus -h localhost -u administrator -w Administrator_Password
- For Windows, open a command prompt and type cd "%VMWARE_CIS_HOME%"\vmdird\
- For the vCenter server or PSC, do not select advanced quiesce-based backup options. Selecting these options will result in application quiescing on virtual machines, which impacts the overall environment due to stunning.
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