Protecting Virtual Machines from a vCenter Server

When the protected site is vCenter Server, the following protection is available:

■ Protecting Virtual Machines to a Recovery Site vCenter Server

■ Protecting Virtual Machines to the Same Site

■ Protecting a Single Virtual Machine (Via the VMware Web Client or Client Console)

■ Protecting Virtual Machines to Recovery Hyper-V Hosts

■ Protecting Virtual Machines on a vCenter Server to AWS

Protection can be set up to cope with the following situations:

■ A disaster, enabling recovery to a point in time in the 14 days prior to the disaster.

■ The need to back up to files saved either daily or weekly for a period of up to one year. The same dialog is used to set up both disaster recovery and backup.

If one or both of the sites have vCloud Director installed, see Protecting Virtual Machines to and From vCloud Director.

Note: You cannot protect virtual machines with VirtualEthernetCardLegacyNetworkBackingInfo NICs or with IDE devices.

Any virtual machine that is supported by the hypervisor can be protected. When recovering to a different hypervisor, the protected virtual machines must also be supported by the recovery hypervisor.