PowerProtect Data Manager 19.17 Microsoft SQL Server User Guide

Migrate assets to Transparent Snapshots

Before assets are migrated to use TSDM, the vSphere Installation Bundle (VIB) is required. This installation occurs automatically, unless the use of TSDM is disabled on the vCenter server asset source. Go to Infrastructure > Protection Engines, select the Transparent Snapshot Data Movers pane, and verify that the VIB is enabled on the vCenter server. You can also expand the vCenter hierarchy view to confirm that the VIB installation has occurred on the vSphere hosts.

To migrate VADP virtual machine assets to use TSDM in the PowerProtect Data Manager UI:

1. Go to Infrastructure > Assets and select the Virtual Machine tab.
2. Filter the view to display the Protection Mechanism column.
3. Select one or more virtual machine assets with the VADP protection mechanism.
4. Select More Actions > Protection Mechanism > Migrate to Transparent Snapshots.

Migrating assets to use the TSDM protection mechanism forces a new, full backup of these assets. This backup may take several minutes.

Circumstances where VADP is used instead of TSDM

In some circumstances, PowerProtect Data Manager might determine that TSDM cannot be used to protect some assets. In these cases, VADP is automatically used as the protection mechanism instead of TSDM, even if TSDM is enabled.

For example, PowerProtect Data Manager defaults to using the VADP protection mechanism when one or more of the following conditions are true:

• The ESXi host and vCenter server versions are earlier than 7.0 U3c.
• The protection policy is a crash-consistent policy that is configured with Exclude swap files from backup and Enable guest file system quiescing enabled.
• Fault Tolerance is enabled for the virtual machine.
• The virtual machine has virtual or physical Raw Device Mappings (RDM).
• The virtual machine has more than 40 virtual machine disks (VMDKs).