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PowerProtect Data Manager: Virtual Machine Backup and Recovery
Executive summary Introduction
Data Manager integration with virtual machines
Data Manager features for virtual machine backup and recovery
Virtual machine backup options
vStorage API for Data Protection (VADP) snapshot
Transparent Snapshots Data Mover (TSDM)
Transport modes
vCenter authentication
VM Direct protection engine
VM Direct Engine (TSDM)
Deployment requirements Data Manager protection policy options for virtual machine protection PowerProtect Search Engine Virtual machine consistent backup workflows Data Manager use cases for virtual machine recovery Disaster recovery Technical support and resources

Data Manager features for virtual machine backup and recovery

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Data Manager features for virtual machine backup and recovery

  • Data Manager includes the following features for virtual machine backup and recovery:

    • Supports governance for VMware virtual machines using VM Direct Engine with advanced restore capabilities, such as instant access and instant restore. VM Direct Engine enables you to:
    • Monitor and manage adherence to retention policies for backups
    • Create ad hoc backups of VMware virtual machines
    • Restore VMware virtual machine copies, including to original, to alternate, instant access, instant restore, file level restore, and restore to ESXi host
    • Supports vSphere Client plug-in for PowerProtect, which provides a subset of Data Manager functionality within the vSphere Client, including restore to the original virtual machine, restore to a new virtual machine, and instant access virtual machine restore
    • Supports virtual machine disk-level (VMDK) restore to the original location
    • Supports VMware high-availability deployment configuration
    • Supports VM file indexing and restore from search results
    • Supports VM disk exclusion for backup and restore
    • Supports on-demand backups of virtual machines in the vSphere Client plug-in
    • Provides data protection for VMware Cloud virtual machines
    • Includes Data Manager Search software. Rapidly search on specific file attributes across indexed virtual machine backups
    • Perform file-level restores from Data Manager virtual machine backup copies by using the PowerProtect portlet in the vSphere Client
    • Support for multiple backup optimization modes Capacity to optimize for storage consumption, and Performance to optimize for speed
    • An option to enable warning and failure thresholds for backup and restore operations when the available space on the datastore is low
    • Option to improve backup performance by excluding memory and swap files (C:\swapfile.sys, C:\pagefile.sys, and C:\hiberfil.sys) from Microsoft Windows virtual machine backups
    • The option to restore the tags and categories associated with virtual machines when restoring a virtual machine protection policy backup
    • For virtual machine protection jobs with a daily, weekly, or monthly schedule, a failed job or task can be restarted in Data Manager by configuring auto retry in the entrypoint.sh file
    • VMware Storage Policy Based Management (SPBM) policies can be paired with Data Manager protection policies, allowing to manage all virtual machine storage and protection policies from the vSphere Client
    • The quiescing of virtual machines can be enabled or disabled with APIs.
    • Option to delete a search node without data loss using APIs
    • The deletion of a search node from multinode search clusters from Data Manager UI
    • Enable users to select multiple files across multiple copies and virtual machines with VM search while performing File-level restore
    • DD Boost compressed restore—reduction in restore times for bandwidth limited environments
    • Transparent Snapshots Data Mover (TSDM) protection mechanism for performing crash-consistent and SQL application-aware virtual machine protection
    • Option to change the virtual machine network settings during restore.
    • Override User Account Control (UAC) option is added for Windows and Linux file-level restores (FLR)
    • Option to restore the virtual machine configuration during a Restore to Original VM.
    • VM FLR enhancement: Support for FLR of Linux virtual machines that contain unformatted disks
    • Option to override the automatic protection engine selection and manually select the VM Direct protection engine to use for the virtual machine image level restore
    • FLR now supports LVM 2.0 for Linux distributions, and filters unformatted disks for Windows.
    • The total number of concurrent TSDM virtual machine backups and restores that can be performed per ESXi host has increased from a maximum of 10 to a maximum of 18.
    • Includes option to restore the BIOS UUID of a virtual machine that exists in the backup copy.
    • Supports encryption on wire/in-flight for VADP and TSDM data movers. Once enabled, any further Dell DD Boost connections that happen use the encryption setting.
    • Qualification of virtual machine image-based protection (VADP, TSDM) in Oracle Cloud VMware Solution
    • Option to configure a nondefault port for the communication. The supported port range for Data Manager is from 7000 to 7020, excluding 7010 and 7011.