- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Preface
- PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance 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
- Edit the retention period for backup copies
- Extended retention
- Protection rules
- Creating virtual machine tags in the vSphere Client
- Add a protection rule
- Manually run a protection rule
- Edit or delete a protection rule
- View assets applied to a protection rule
- Change the priority of an existing protection rule
- Enable protection rules to move virtual assets across policies
- Configure protection rule behavior
- Restoring Virtual Machine Data and Assets
- Prerequisites to restore a service
- Self-service restores
- View backup copies available for restore
- Restore a service or VMDK
- Restore a service backup with storage policy association
- Image-level restores
- Instant Access service restore
- File-level restores
- Restore an application-aware service backup
- Protecting Virtual Machines Using the Transparent Snapshot Data Mover
- Overview of transparent snapshots for virtual machine protection
- vSphere Installation Bundle 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 Appliance virtual machine protection copies
- Perform a manual PowerProtect-policy backup in the vSphere Client
- Perform an image-level restore of a PowerProtect backup in the vSphere Client
- Perform a file-level restore of a PowerProtect backup in the vSphere Client
- Overview of VASA and VMware Storage Policy Based Management
- 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 Appliance 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
- Uninstalling the VM Proxy agent
- Updating the Microsoft Application Agent and VM Proxy agent software
- Supported file-level restore platforms and OS versions
- File-level restore and SQL restore requirements 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
- Support for backup and restore of encrypted virtual machines
- 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 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
- Troubleshooting vSphere Plugin deployments
- VMware knowledge base articles and product documentation
- Glossary
- AAG: Always On availability group
- ACL: access control list
- AD: Active Directory
- AKS: Azure Kubernetes Service
- ARM: Azure Resource Manager
- API: application programming interface
- AVS: Azure VMware Solution
- AWS: Amazon Web Services
- AZ: availability zone
- BBB: block-based backup
- CA: certificate authority
- CBT: Changed Block Tracking
- CDC: change data capture
- CIFS: Common Internet File System
- CLI: command-line interface
- CLR: Common Language Runtime
- CN: common name
- CPU: central processing unit
- CR: custom resource
- CRD: custom resource definition
- CSI: container storage interface
- CSV: Cluster Shared Volume
- DAG: database availability group
- DA: database administrator
- DBID: database identifier
- DDOS: DD Operating System
- DDVE: DD Virtual Edition
- DFC: DD Boost over Fibre Channel
- DNS: Domain Name System
- DPC: Data Protection Central
- DRS: Distributed Resource Scheduler
- DR: disaster recovery
- DSA: Dell security advisory
- EBS: Elastic Block Store
- EC2: Elastic Compute Cloud
- eCDM: Enterprise Copy Data Management
- ECS: Elastic Cloud Storage
- EKS: Elastic Kubernetes Service
- ENI: Elastic Network Interface
- EFI: Extensible Firmware Interface
- EULA: end-user license agreement
- FC: Fibre Channel
- FCD: first class disk
- FCI: failover cluster instance
- FETB: front-end protected capacity by terabyte
- FLR: file-level restore
- FQDN: fully qualified domain name
- FTP: File Transfer Protocol
- GB: gigabyte
- Gb/s: gigabits per second
- GCP: Google Cloud Platform
- GCVE: Google Cloud Virtual Edition
- GID: group identifier
- GLR: granular-level restore
- GUI: graphical user interface
- GUID: globally unique identifier
- HA: High Availability
- HANA: high-performance analytic appliance
- HTML: Hypertext Markup Language
- HTTP: Hypertext Transfer Protocol
- HTTPS: Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure
- IAM: identity and access management
- IDE: Integrated Device Electronics
- IP: Internet Protocol
- IPv4: Internet Protocol version 4
- KB: kilobyte
- LAC: License Authorization Code
- LAN: local area network
- MB: megabyte
- ms: millisecond
- MTU: maximum transmission unit
- NAS: network-attached storage
- NBD: network block device
- NBDSSL: network block device over SSL
- NDMP: Network Data Management Protocol
- NFC: Network File Copy
- NFS: Network File System
- NIC: network interface card
- NTFS: New Technology File System
- NTP: Network Time Protocol
- OS: operating system
- OSS: open-source software
- OVA: Open Virtualization Appliance
- PCS: Protection Copy Set
- PDF: Portable Document Format
- PEM: Privacy-enhanced Electronic Mail
- PIN: personal identification number
- PIT: point in time
- PKCS: Public Key Cryptography Standards
- PSC: Platform Service Controller
- PVC (cloud computing): private virtual cloud
- PVC (Kubernetes): Persistent Volume Claim
- RAC: Real Application Cluster
- RAM: random-access memory
- RBAC: role-based access control
- ReFS: Resilient File System
- REST API: representational-state transfer API
- RHEL: RedHat Enterprise Linux
- RMAN: Recovery Manager
- RPO: recovery-point objective
- RSA: Rivest-Shamir-Adleman
- S3: Simple Storage Services
- SaaS: software as a service
- SAP: System Analysis Program Development
- SCSI: Small Computer System Interface
- SDDC: software-defined data center
- SELinux: Security-Enhanced Linux
- SFTP: Secure File Transfer Protocol
- SLA: service-level agreement
- SLES: SuSE Linux Enterprise Server
- SLO: service-level objective
- SPBM: Storage Policy Based Management
- SQL: Structured Query Language
- SRS: Secure Remote Services
- SSD: solid-state drive
- SSH: Secure Shell
- SSL: Secure Sockets Layer
- SSMS: SQL Server Management Studio
- SSVs: System Stable Values
- TB: terabyte
- TCP: Transmission Control Protocol
- TDE: Transparent Data Encryption
- TLS: Transport Layer Security
- TPM: Trusted Platform Module
- TSDM: Transparent Snapshot Data Mover
- T-SQL: Transact-SQL
- UAC: user account control
- UDP: User Datagram Protocol
- UI: user interface
- UID: user identifier
- UTC: Coordinated Universal Time
- VADP: VMware vStorage APIs for Storage Awareness
- VBS: virtualization-based security
- VCF: VMware Cloud Foundation
- vCLS: vSphere Cluster Service
- VCSA: vCenter Server Appliance
- vCSA: vCenter Server Appliance
- VDI: Virtual Device Interface
- vDisk: virtual disk
- vDS: virtual distributed switch
- vFRC: Virtual Flash Read Cache
- VGT: Virtual Guest Tagging
- VIB: vSphere Installation Bundle
- VLAN: virtual LAN
- VM: virtual machine
- VMC: VMware Cloud
- VMDK: virtual machine disk
- VNet: virtual network
- VPC: virtual private cloud
- vRSLCM: vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager
- VST: Virtual Switch Tagging
- vTPM: Virtual Trusted Platform Module
- VVD: VMware Validated Design
- vVol: virtual volume
- WAN: wide area network
Dell PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance 5.12.0.1 Virtual Machine User Guide
About asset sources, assets, and Protection Storage
In PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance, assets are the basic units that PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance protects. Asset sources are the mechanism that PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance uses to manage assets and communicate with the Protection Storage where backup copies of the assets are stored.
For virtual machines, the vCenter server is the asset source and the virtual machines are the assets. Before you can add an asset source, you must enable the source within the PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance UI.
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