The
VM Directprotection engine provides two functions within
PowerProtect Data Manager:
A virtual machine data protection solution—Deploy a
VM Direct Engine in the vSphere environment to perform virtual machine snapshot backups, which improves performance and reduces network bandwidth utilization by using the protection storage source-side deduplication.
A Tanzu Kubernetes guest cluster data protection solution—Deploy a
VM Direct Engine in the vSphere environment for protection of vSphere CSI-based persistent volumes, for which it is required to use a VM Proxy instead of the cProxy, for the management and transfer of backup data.
The
VM Directprotection engine is enabled after you add a vCenter server in the
Asset Sources window, and allows you to collect VMware entity information from the vCenter server and save VMware virtual machines and Tanzu Kubernetes guest cluster namespaces and PVCs as
PowerProtect Data Manager resources for the purposes of backup and recovery.
To view statistics for the
VM Direct Engine, manage and monitor
VM Direct appliances, and add an external
VM Direct appliance to facilitate data movement, select
Infrastructure > Protection Engines.
Add a VM Direct Engine provides more information.
NOTE In the
VM Direct Engines pane,
VMs Protected refers to the number of assets protected by
PowerProtect Data Manager. This count does not indicate that all the virtual machines have been protected successfully. To determine the success or failure of asset protection, use the
Jobs window.
When you add an external
VM Direct appliance, the
VM Direct Engines pane provides the following information:
The
VM Direct appliance IP address, name, gateway, DNS, network, and build version. This information is useful for troubleshooting network issues.
The vCenter and ESXi server hostnames.
The
VM Direct appliance status (green check mark if the
VM Direct appliance is ready, red x if the appliance is not fully operational). The status includes a short explanation to help you troubleshoot the
VM Direct Engine if the
VM Direct appliance is not in a fully operational state.
The transport mode that you selected when adding the
VM Direct appliance (Hot Add, Network Block Device, or the default setting Hot Add, Failback to Network Block Device).
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