PowerProtect Data Manager 19.16 Virtual Machine User Guide

PowerProtect Data Manager overview

Use PowerProtect Data Manager to perform the following operations:

Automate the configuration of virtual machine backup policy and protection storage settings.
Create a catalog of virtual machine backups. Then, monitor that catalog data to determine if retention policies are being adhered to.
Manage the life cycle of virtual machine backups. Ensure that the backups are marked for garbage collection, based on the rules of the retention policy.

For virtual machines, PowerProtect Data Manager provides the following benefits:

Enables the data protection team to create data paths with provisioning, automation, and scheduling to embed protection engines into the infrastructure for high-performance backup and recovery.
Enables backup administrators of large-scale environments to schedule backups for VMware virtual machines from a central location on the PowerProtect Data Manager server.
Enables governed self-service and centralized protection by:
- Monitoring and enforcing service-level objectives (SLOs)
- Identifying violations of recovery-point objectives (RPO)
- Setting retention locks on backups for all asset types
Supports deploying an external VM Direct Engine to move data with the VM Direct Engine. The PowerProtect Data Manager software comes prebundled with an embedded VM Direct engine, which is automatically used as a fallback proxy for performing backup and restore operations when the added external proxies fail or are disabled. It is recommended that you always deploy external proxies, because the embedded proxy has limited capacity for performing parallel backups.
Supports the vRealize Automation DP extension, which enables provisioning of virtual machines with PowerProtect Data Manager protection, on-demand backup, and restore to the original or a new location. The vRealize Automation Data Protection Extension for PowerProtect Data Manager Installation and Administration Guide provides more information.