PowerProtect Data Manager 19.16 Virtual Machine User Guide

The following terminology list provides more information about names and terms that you should know to use PowerProtect Data Manager:

Application Agent

PowerProtect Data Manager Application Agent is included and installed on each application or database host server to monitor and manage protection using PowerProtect Data Manager.

Application-aware

A virtual machine protection policy that includes additional application-aware data protection for Microsoft SQL Servers. An application-aware virtual machine protection policy provides the ability to quiesce the application during virtual machine image backup to perform a full backup of Microsoft SQL Server databases. You can also schedule Microsoft SQL Server log backups for the virtual machines in the policy.

Asset

Assets are objects in PowerProtect Data Manager for which you want to manage protection, including virtual machines, databases, and file systems.

Asset source

Assets that PowerProtect Data Manager protects reside within asset sources, which include vCenter servers, application or database hosts, and file servers.

Cloud Tier storage

Cloud Tier storage can be added to a protection storage system to expand the deduplication storage capacity onto less expensive object storage in public or private object storage clouds, including secure Elastic Cloud Storage appliances.

Copy

A PowerProtect Data Manager copy is a point-in-time backup copy of an asset.

Copy map

The PowerProtect Data Manager Copy Map is a visual representation of backup copy locations on your protection storage and is available for all protected assets that have copies.

Discovery

An internal process that scans asset sources to find new assets to protect, and scans infrastructure components to monitor their health and status.

Instant Access

PowerProtect Data Manager virtual machine backup copies can be accessed, mounted, and booted directly from the protection storage targets as running virtual machines. This operation is called Instant Access. Copies can also be moved to a production VMware datastore using vMotion. PowerProtect Data Manager Virtual machine application-aware backup copies can be mounted directly from protection storage as running Microsoft SQL Server databases, which includes the ability to roll forward log backups. These Microsoft SQL Server database disks can also be moved to a production VMware datastore using vMotion.

Protection policy

Used to configure and manage the entire life cycle of backup data, which includes backup types, assets, backup start and stop times, backup devices, and backup retention.

Service-level agreement (SLA)

An optional policy that you can layer on top of a protection policy. An SLA performs additional checks on protection activities to ensure that protection goals meet the standards of an organization. SLAs are made up of one or more service-level objectives.

Service-level objective (SLO)

A definable rule that sets the criteria for recovery-point objectives (RPOs), encryption, and the location of backups according to company requirements.