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2 Terminology reference
Backup (operation)
An operation that saves the current virtual machine configuration and the content of the virtual
machine's hard disks in a packaged form, for the purpose of recovery.
Backup (recovery point)
The result of a single backup operation.
A backup represents a point in time to which a user can recover the virtual machine. Physically, a
backup is stored as one or more files in the backup storage.
Backup plan
A set of rules that define how to protect virtual machines.
The rules include the backup schedule, retention rules and backup options such as protecting
backups with a password. For example: perform backup every day at midnight, delete backups that
are older than one month, and protect the backups with a password.
Backup plan owner
An organization user who created the backup plan. Besides the owner, any organization
administrator or system administrator can modify the backup plan.
The system backup plans have a special owner called System. The owner is also System for backup
plans created by the system administrator within the organization.
Backup storage
A folder allocated by a system administrator for storing an organization's backups.
Management cluster
An ESX(i) cluster that contains the vCloud Director infrastructure components.
Organization administrator
A user who has the Organization Administrator role in vCloud Director.
An organization administrator can back up and recover any virtual machine in the organization.
Protected machine
A virtual machine to which a backup plan is applied.
Recovery
An operation that creates or overwrites a virtual machine by using the data that was earlier saved in
a backup. When you select for recovery the same machine that was backed up, it is overwritten.
Otherwise, a new virtual machine is created.
Resource group
One or more ESX(i) clusters that contain virtual machines of the vCloud Director organizations.