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PowerProtect Data Manager 19.14 Virtual Machine User Guide

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Overview of the PowerProtect plug-in for the vSphere Client

When adding a vCenter server in the PowerProtect Data Manager user interface, if you enable the vSphere Plugin option, a subset of the user-interface functionality becomes available within the vSphere Client.

The PowerProtect Data Manager portlet appears when you select Hosts and Clusters or VMs and Templates in the left pane of the vSphere Client home page, and then select a virtual machine within the datacenter.
Figure 1. PowerProtect portlet in the vSphere Client
PowerProtect portlet in the vSphere Client
NOTE:If you were already logged into the vSphere Client when the vCenter discovery was started in PowerProtect Data Manager, you must log out and log back in to see the PowerProtect Data Manager user interface.
If the virtual assets in the vCenter server have not yet been assigned to a PowerProtect Data Manager protection policy, only the PowerProtect name displays in the portlet. Adding the virtual machine to a protection policy provides additional information, as shown in the following figure.
Figure 2. PowerProtect portlet with protected virtual machine
PowerProtect portlet with protected virtual machine

After you set up a virtual machine protection policy, you can perform the following PowerProtect Data Manager functionality within the vSphere Client:

  • View information about protection policies and information about available protection copies.
  • Monitor in-progress backup and restore operations for the virtual machine protection policy. You can also view information for successfully completed protection copies that are available for restore.
  • Perform a manual backup.
  • Perform an image-level restore (Restore to Original, Restore to New, or Instant Access).
  • Perform a file-level restore.

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