VMware vCloud Air offers agentless, policy-driven backup and recovery solutions for virtual workloads, ensuring business continuity and regulatory compliance. Users have self-service capabilities to manage backups, restore points, and monitor activities through an intuitive interface. Key features include customizable scheduling, retention policies, and full data protection at both the virtual data center and individual vApp levels.

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VMware vCloud Air:
Availability Solutions - Data Protection
Formerly known as vCloud Hybrid Service

2. 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
StorageNetworkCompute
Top Level Management
Dedicated Customer
Management Pod
Customer Org Virtual
Data Center(s)
Customer Org Virtual
Data Center(s)
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3. 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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4. 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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5. • 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

6. Data Protection Dashboard
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7. Enabling Data Protection
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8. Editing the Policy for an Entire Virtual Data Center
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9. Self Service Options
• Back up individual virtual machines
• Back up individual vApps
• Enable backups by vApp owners
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10. Switching to Self Service
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11. 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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12. Backup Policy
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13. Restore Options
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14. Editing Policies for Virtual Machines and vApps
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15. Changing the Default Policy
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16. Enabling Data Protection on a vApp
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17. Restore Points
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18. Disable ≠ Delete
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19. Storage Use and Trend
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20. Storage Use by vApps and Virtual Data Center
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21. Deleted vApps
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