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Chapter 2: vmPRO Setup and Configuration

vmPRO Folders

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7. Reboot all new nodes, either from the VMware vSphere console or from each appliance's console

command line interface (CLI). See vmPRO Console Commands – system.

vmPRO Folders

By default, your vmPRO appliance organizes virtual machines (VMs) in folders named for their respective

vSphere ESX hosts. These folders are separate from the existing folders within the vSphere Client. The

separate folders in your vmPRO appliance's GUI allow you to refine and optimize the backup loads across

your appliance or group of appliances.

l If you add a vCenter server, your VMs appear in a single initial folder with the name of that vCenter

server.

l If you add one or more ESX servers, your VMs appear in folders corresponding to the ESX hosts on

which they reside.

You can also configure your own folders on the vmPRO appliance to do the following:

Manage multiple backup policies to facilitate higher throughput

Divide your VMs among several folders to assign multiple backup policies to a single VM. Although VMs can

only belong to one folder, folders can have multiple policies, enabling multiple policies to apply to a single

VM.

You can also use folders to stagger full backups across different weeks to avoid having full backups running

close together.

Manage the distribution of backups across multiple vmPRO appliances

within a group

Assign folders – and the VMs residing within them – to be managed by the different appliances within a

group, distributing the backup load. Folders that you create on the master appliance display for all

appliances within the group.

Manage multiple differential Changed Block Tracking (CBT) backup

rotation schedules

Changed Block Tracking (CBT) enables differential backups, or backing up of only new or changed

information to significantly reduce the amount of data read from the VM and written to the Network Attached

Storage (NAS) target.

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