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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

Data Protection Dashboard

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Enabling Data Protection

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Editing the Policy for an Entire Virtual Data Center

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Self Service Options

•  Back up individual virtual machines •  Back up individual vApps

•  Enable backups by vApp owners

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Switching to Self Service

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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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Backup Policy

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Restore Options

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Editing Policies for Virtual Machines and vApps

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Changing the Default Policy

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Enabling Data Protection on a vApp

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Restore Points

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Disable ≠ Delete

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Storage Use and Trend

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Storage Use by vApps and Virtual Data Center

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Deleted vApps

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