PowerProtect Data Manager 19.11 Virtual Machine User Guide

PowerProtect functionality within the vSphere Client

The vSphere Client integrates with PowerProtect Data Manager to provide the following functionality:

• PowerProtect portlet—When adding a vCenter server as an asset source in the PowerProtect Data Manager UI, if you enable the vSphere Plugin option, a pane for PowerProtect appears in the vSphere Client. This pane provides a subset of PowerProtect Data Manager functionality, including the availability to perform a manual backup, image-level restore and file-level restore of PowerProtect Data Manager virtual machine protection policies.
• Storage policy association with a PowerProtect Data Manager virtual machine protection policy—vSphere Storage APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA) leverages VMware Storage Policy Based Management (SPBM) to support data protection operations, allowing you to pair SPBM policies that are created in the vSphere Client with protection policies that are created in PowerProtect Data Manager. This association allows you to manage all virtual machine storage and protection requirements in a centralized location (the vSphere Client), instead of requiring multiple user interfaces.