PowerProtect Data Manager 19.16 Virtual Machine User Guide

Starting in vSphere version 7.0 U1, VASA support is extended to Data Protection operations by leveraging VMware Storage Policy Based Management (SPBM). SPBM spans all storage offerings from VMware, allowing policies to provision and manage storage for any virtual machine application. The integration of PowerProtect Data Manager and SPBM allows you to:

• Pair SPBM policies with protection policies, allowing you to meet virtual machine storage and protection requirements within vSphere without requiring the PowerProtect Data Manager UI for data protection operations.
• Add new or existing virtual assets to an SPBM policy. You can also reassign these assets and remove them from the policy.
• View policy compliance status, including data protection policy information.
• Protect virtual machines at scale, allowing you to manage capacity resources and overcome challenges such as capacity planning and different service level requirements.

Enabling VASA and SPBM within the vSphere Client for integration with PowerProtect Data Manager requires you to perform the following:

• Register the VASA provider to allow for storage provisioning information flow between PowerProtect Data Manager and the vCenter server.
• Select the PowerProtect Data Manager storage awareness provider within the vCenter server storage policy component creation workflow, which exposes the list of available PowerProtect Data Manager virtual machine protection policies.
• Assign the PowerProtect Data Manager protection policy to an SPBM policy, which is automatically assigned to virtual machines when they are represented by an instance.
• Monitor the status of storage compliancy of the virtual assets protected by these PowerProtect Data Manager policies.

If you replace the default self-signed security certificates for PowerProtect Data Manager with certificates from an approved certificate authority, you must exchange the new security certificates with vCenter. The PowerProtect Data Manager Security Configuration Guide provides instructions.