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PowerProtect Data Manager 19.16 Virtual Machine User Guide

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Before you add a protection policy for virtual machine protection

Review the limitations, prerequisites, and best practices in this section and the following topics before you continue.

Additional procedures for system administrators

The PowerProtect Data Manager Administrator Guide provides more information about procedures that require the Administrator role. The PowerProtect Data Manager system administrator typically performs these procedures, some of which have server-wide effect.

Many of these procedures are not specific to this asset type. However, some procedures in the PowerProtect Data Manager Administrator Guide are prerequisites for, or also applicable to, asset protection. For example:

  • Adding and configuring protection storage, including storage units
  • Adding and configuring virtual networks
  • Managing protection policies, including adding or removing assets, and disabling a policy, and protection rules
  • Managing backups, such as editing retention periods and deleting backup copies
  • Managing any running jobs

Review these procedures when required for your environment or when called out by a task in this guide. If required, coordinate with your PowerProtect Data Manager system administrator or backup and restore administrators.

Maintaining protection policies

Refer to the PowerProtect Data Manager Administrator Guide for more information about editing, disabling, or deleting protection policies.

You can change any of the following information for an existing enabled or disabled protection policy:

  • Policy name and description
  • Adding or removing assets from the policy
    NOTE:The asset view displayed for asset selection (for example, tree view or list view) will be the same view that was in use when you added the policy, and cannot be changed.
  • Backup and replication schedule
  • Backup optimization mode
  • Settings for network interface, storage target, storage unit, and retention lock
  • Settings for Service Level Agreement (SLA), where supported

You cannot modify a protection policy type or purpose. For these actions, add a policy with the new type or purpose. Storage quotas cannot be changed by editing a policy.

NOTE:Once you save changes for an enabled or disabled policy, most changes take effect immediately. For a disabled policy's primary backup schedules, however, the changes do not take effect until you enable the policy again, since these schedules do not run in Disabled state.

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