
PowerProtect Data Manager 19.10 Cyber Recovery User Guide
Assets overview
Assets in the Cyber Recovery vault are represented as storage, application, and vCenter server objects.
Storage objects
Storage objects represent storage systems, such as DD systems. Define a storage object for each DD system that is running in the Cyber Recovery vault. The Cyber Recovery software uses the DD system to perform replications, store point-in-time (PIT) copies, and apply retention locking.
Application objects
Application objects represent applications, such as PowerProtect Data Manager or the CyberSense feature.
Usually, you include the PowerProtect Data Manager application in the Cyber Recovery vault when the DD system is integrated with those applications in your production systems. The Cyber Recovery vault does not require these applications to protect the data because MTree replications copy all the data to the Cyber Recovery vault. However, running the applications in the Cyber Recovery vault enables you to recover and restore your data so that it can be used to rehydrate production backup applications, if necessary.
The Cyber Recovery software integrates with the CyberSense feature application, which analyzes backup data for the presence of malware or other anomalies. After you install CyberSense feature on a separate host in the Cyber Recovery vault, define an application object for it. Then, Cyber Recovery policies can call the CyberSense feature to analyze PIT copies of supported datasets.
vCenter server objects
If you plan to use PowerProtect Data Manager to perform a recovery in the Cyber Recovery vault, add a vCenter server asset. Otherwise, a PowerProtect Data Manager recovery fails.