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
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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