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PowerProtect Data Manager 19.16 Virtual Machine User Guide

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Roadmap for virtual machine asset protection

The following roadmap provides the steps that are required to configure PowerProtect Data Manager to protect virtual machine assets.

Steps

  1. Install PowerProtect DD Management Center.

    PowerProtect Data Manager uses PowerProtect DD Management Center to connect to the DD systems. The DD Management Center Installation and Administration Guide provides instructions.

    NOTE:PowerProtect DD Management Center is required with a DDOS version earlier than 6.1.2. With DDOS version 6.1.2 or later, you can add and use a DD system directly without PowerProtect DD Management Center.
  2. Deploy PowerProtect Data Manager from the download file.
    The PowerProtect Data Manager Deployment Guide provides instructions.
  3. Add a storage system.
    The PowerProtect Data Manager Administrator Guide provides instructions.
  4. Enable an asset source for Virtual Machines in the PowerProtect Data Manager UI.
  5. Add a VMware vCenter server as an asset source as an asset source in the PowerProtect Data Manager UI to discover virtual machine assets for management within PowerProtect Data Manager.
  6. Add a VM Direct Engine in the PowerProtect Data Manager UI.
    This step is optional. 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 deploy external proxies, because the embedded proxy has limited capacity for performing parallel backups.
    NOTE:An external VM Direct engine is not required for virtual machine assets that are protected with the Transparent Snapshots Data Mover (TSDM) protection mechanism. For these policies, the embedded VM Direct engine is sufficient.
  7. Create a protection policy to protect the virtual machine assets.
  8. Monitor protection compliance in the PowerProtect Data Manager dashboard.

Results

When a new protection policy is created, PowerProtect Data Manager performs the first full backup and subsequent backups according to the specified schedule. If you have not yet added a VM Direct Engine, PowerProtect Data Manager performs the backup using the embedded VM Direct Engine that is included with PowerProtect Data Manager.

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