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VMware vCloud Air: Availability Solutions - Data Protection Formerly known as vCloud Hybrid Service
Data Protection – Backup for the Cloud • Agentless, policy-driven backup
of virtual workloads on VMware vCloud® Air™
• Provides image-level (VMDK) restore granularity
• Full self-service capabilities: – Granular virtual data center
control
– Scheduling and retention period selection
– Backup policy definitions
– Ad-hoc backups
– In-place or out-of-place restore
– Activity reporting
Data Protection Enabled Backup and Recovery Tenant Realm
VPC Customer Management Pod
vCloud Air Converged Cloud Infrastructure
Storage Network Compute
Top Level Management
Dedicated Customer Management Pod
Customer Org Virtual Data Center(s)
Customer Org Virtual Data Center(s)
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Data Protection Feature Overview
• Agentless, policy-driven backup and recovery of virtual workloads in the cloud
• Enables business continuity compliance on top of redundancy and resiliency features present
• Ensures virtual machine images (VMDKs) are backed up at regular intervals and available for on-demand restore
• Full self-service capabilities, with registration, backup, restore and activity logging accessible in the vCloud Air user interface
• At-a-glance admin dashboards
• Separate storage allocation to cloud instances
• All backups quiesced to ensure crash consistency
Daily/24-hour backup schedule
Synthetic-full and encrypted backup images
Unlimited self-service vApp-level protection
Customizable scheduling and retention policy
Unlimited self-service virtual machine-level restores
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Policy Definitions • Granular protection at virtual data center level • Define backup policy for whole virtual data center or individual vApp
• Define Data Retention Policy period 1 – 365 days • Define Backup Window Start time
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• Enabling data protection
• Scheduling backups
• Retention periods
• Enabling self-service vApps
• Ad hoc backups
• In- and out-of-place restores
• Reporting
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Data Protection Features
Self Service Options
• Back up individual virtual machines • Back up individual vApps
• Enable backups by vApp owners
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Self Service Information Available for Each vApp
• Virtual machines • Virtual data center
• Data protection status • Retention period
• Restore points available
• Number of backups • Storage consumption
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