#MICROLITE VIRTUALMACHINE BACKUP HOW TO#
#MICROLITE VIRTUALMACHINE BACKUP WINDOWS#

To establish communication between DPM and the VMware server, configure the VMware credentials and establish a secure connection between DPM and the VMware vCenter Server or VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) server.

#MICROLITE VIRTUALMACHINE BACKUP HOW TO#

The following information details how to configure VMware for DPM protection. TCP 443 and TCP 902 between MABS and ESXi host.Ensure the following network ports are open:.DPM cannot protect VMware VMs with existing snapshots.DPM cannot detect or protect VMware vApps.DPM cannot protect VMware VMs with pass-through disks and physical raw device mappings (pRDM).Once DPM completes the first backup, then you can back up user snapshots. You cannot back up user snapshots before the first DPM backup.DPM cannot protect VMware VMs to a secondary DPM server.If you use vCenter to manage ESXi servers in your environment, add vCenter (and not ESXi) to the DPM protection group.

#MICROLITE VIRTUALMACHINE BACKUP WINDOWS#

If you are protecting vCenter Server (running on Windows) using FQDN as VMware Server, you cannot protect the vCenter Server as Windows Server.

If you want to use FQDN, you should stop the protection as Windows Server, remove the protection agent, and then add as VMware Server using FQDN.

You can use static IP address of vCenter Server as a workaround.If you have been using DPM to protect vCenter server (running on Windows) as Windows Server, you cannot protect that as VMware server using FQDN of the server.DPM can recover files/folders from a Windows VM without recovering the entire VM, which helps recover necessary files faster.īefore you start backing up a VMware virtual machine, review the following list of limitations and prerequisites.DPM protects VMs migrated for load balancing: As VMs are migrated for load balancing, DPM automatically detects and continues VM protection.DPM protects VMs stored on a local disk, network file system (NFS), or cluster storage.As you organize your VMs in recursive folders, DPM automatically detects and protects the new VMs deployed in the recursive folders. DPM detects new VMs on a daily basis and protects them automatically. When protecting folders, DPM not only protects the VMs in that folder, but also protects VMs added later. DPM detects these folders and lets you protect VMs at the folder level and includes all subfolders. Folder level auto protection: vCenter lets you organize your VMs in VM folders.DPM also detects VMs managed by vCenter, allowing you to protect large deployments. As your deployment size grows, use vCenter to manage your VMware environment.

Detect and protect VMs managed by vCenter: DPM detects and protects VMs deployed on a VMware server (vCenter or ESXi server).

DPM's backup and recovery workflow helps you manage long-term retention and offsite backup.

Cloud Integrated Backup: DPM protects workloads to disk, tape and cloud.

Instead, just provide the IP address or fully qualified domain name (FQDN), and login credentials used to authenticate the VMware server with DPM.

Agentless backup: DPM does not require an agent to be installed on the vCenter or ESXi server, to back up the virtual machine.

Backup to tape is supported from DPM 2019.

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