HP Data Protector A.06.11 Support for VMware vStorage

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Table 1 vStorage backup method overview
vStorage
method options
selected
How is backup
consistency achieved?
Supported guest
operating system
Supported backup types
Full
Diff
Incr
None (Standard
operation)
Data Protector requests
a virtual machine
snapshot, providing
crash consistency.
Windows/Linux
✓
✓
✓
Quiescence
VSS quiesces system
and application
writers before creating
a snapshot, providing
data/application
consistency in the VM
Windows only
✓
✓
✓
For details on the supported backup types, see Data Protector backup types.
A summary of the snapshot behavior for different backup type/snapshot handling mode
combinations is given in the table below.
This is followed by flowcharts showing the detailed operational steps for the backup type/snapshot
combinations.
Table 2 Backup type overview
Virtual machine
snapshot handling mode
Supported backup types
Number of snaphots
remaining after backup
Disabled
Full
0
Single
Full, Incremental, Differential
1
Mixed
Full, Incremental, Differential
up to 2