HP Data Protector A.06.11 Support for VMware vStorage

Figure 18: Configure virtual machines (Advanced)

3. In the Virtual machine configuration dialog box Advanced tab, specify the following settings:

Table 8 Advanced virtual machine settings

Select any advanced backup features you want to use for the virtual machine(s).

Optimize Disks

Select this to shrink the virtual machine disk(s) before the backup process.

This uses the VMware shrink functionality and performs a defragmentation of

the VMDK file before the shrink operation to maximize backup space

efficiency. It does not perform any defragmentation of the guest OS.

Note that use of this option can significantly increase backup times.

Snapshot

handling

Use quiescence

snapshot

Available only on Windows virtual machines.

Select this option to quiesce the applications running in the virtual machine by

performing a VSS snapshot before running a backup.

Level of error

Available only if Use quiescence snapshot is selected.

Select from the drop-down box the error level to be reported if the quiescence