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The true goal of any data protection activity is to ensure data is recoverable, however it is often difficult to determine the best recovery points or if the data that was backed up is valid. Vision helps not only validates snap, replication and backup success, but it can pinpoint the best recovery points and provide configuration information of the VM at the time of the snap/backup so if VMs need to be recovered to a different asset all critical information is readily available ensuring quick recoveries. Other Vision benefits:

• Auto-zones all VM and data-store configuration from vCenter
• Protected Asset report shows how VMs are protected
• Easily identify best recovery points
• Quickly uncover unprotected VMs

Vision VM Protected Assests - Click to enlarge

In order to ensure assets are adequately protected, users need to immediately see if snaps or backups were successful, otherwise data will not be recoverable. But seeing high level results is not enough, detailed information about the activity for each job is required in order to troubleshoot any problems and understand why the backup has failed. Vision provides this in-depth analysis, as well as long term trends that reveal if there are any intermittent issues that may be caused by problems with performance or other infrastructure concerns. More Vision benefits include:

• Jobs displayed by type (full, incremental, snap, replication)
• Drill down into detailed job activity
• View trends over time to identify chronic issues
• Central view across multiple backup applications and servers

Vision VM Backup Health - Click to enlarge

On average, storage capacity used for data protection is about one-third of all capacity used in the entire environment. In order to effectively manage capacity resources, especially in growing VM environments, users need visibility into the amount of capacity being used by snaps and backups. Vision provides in-depth analysis regarding capacity use, showing how much capacity is being used by snaps in each datastore, down to the file level. Vision also tracks the capacity used by media volume for backups and will show if datastores or media volumes are reaching their full capacity. Other key Vision benefits:

• Easily determine snapshot capacity in each data store
• Quickly identify location (disk or tape) of VM Backups
• Reclaim capacity by identifying expired snaps and backups
• Determine capacity trends when adding additional VMs

Vision Top Utilized Datastores - Click to enlarge

Data protection of VMs introduces potential performance issues not seen when backing up physical servers. Performance issues can occur at CPU, I/O and network levels and intensify as the number of VMs per host increase. While many management applications today show CPU and I/O performance, none do so with a lens on data protection activities, and therefore cannot tell the user if backups are impacting performance, or conversely if there will be enough resource available to perform backups. Vision is the only solution that provides performance information as it relates to backup activity.

• View the performance impact of backups from host and guest level
• Easily view CPU, memory performance during backup window
• View backup throughput on network
• Quickly view the impact of adding additional VMs to the backup process