PowerProtect Data Manager 19.11 Virtual Machine User Guide

To access these options:

1. From the PowerProtect Data Manager UI, select Infrastructure > Assets.
2. From the Assets window, select the Virtual Machine tab.

   If a policy has been assigned, the virtual-machine assets that have been discovered in the vCenter server display, along with the associated protection policy.

   NOTE You can click the link in the Disk Excluded column next to a virtual-machine asset to view VMDKs that have been excluded from the protection policy. You cannot, however, edit disk inclusion or exclusion from this window. To change the disks that are excluded for a protected asset, select the policy from the Protection Policies window and click Edit.
3. Select a protected asset from the table, and then click View Copies. The Copy Locations pane identifies where the backups are stored.
4. In the left pane, click the storage icon to the right of the VM icon, for example, DD. The table in the right pane lists the backup copies.

Depending on whether the asset is retention locked, you can perform the following functions from this window:

• Edit the retention period of backup copies to extend or shorten the amount of time that backups are retained—Select one or more backup copies from the table and click Edit Retention.
  • To select a calendar date as the expiration date for backups, select Retention Date.
  • To define a fixed retention period in days, weeks, or months after the backup is performed, select Retention Value. For example, you could specify that backups expire after 6 months.
  NOTE When you edit the retention period for copies that are retention locked, you can only extend the retention period.
• Delete a backup copy—If you no longer require a copy and the retention lock is not enabled, select the copy from the table and click Delete.