Dell PowerVault DP600 - Manual (Page 89)

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Moving a Virtual Machine or Virtual Hard Disk
Moving a Virtual Machine
To move a virtual machine that is protected by DPM
1. Copy the virtual machine to the new host. For instructions, see " Copying, managing, and
renaming virtual machines " (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=95298).
2. Add the copied virtual machine to a protection group.
3. Remove the original virtual machine from the original host. For instructions, see
" Removing virtual machines " (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=95299).
4. Stop protection of the original virtual machine.
Moving a Virtual Hard Disk
You might want to move a virtual hard disk to store a large amount of data or improve disk
performance. A virtual hard disk for a virtual machine is stored as a .vhd file. To continue
protection of a virtual hard disk that is moved to a new volume, run the Modify Group Wizard for
the protection group to which it belongs, and then run a consistency check.
Protecting Application Data on Virtual Machines
When you add a virtual machine to a protection group, you are protecting the complete
configuration of the virtual machine, including operating system, applications, and application
data. However, you cannot specifically recover application data from the recovery points for the
virtual machine; you can only recover the entire virtual machine. When you recover the virtual
machine, applications are recovered with all data that was present at the time that the recovery
point was created.
It is not necessary to install a DPM protection agent on a virtual machine to protect it as a virtual
machine on the Virtual Server host.
To recover only application data for applications running in virtual machines, you must install a
protection agent on the virtual machine and select the application data explicitly as a protection
group member.
You can protect both the virtual machines as guests on the Virtual Server host and the application
data within the virtual machines as applications.
For more information about protecting application data, see the topics on protecting specific data
types, such as Exchange Server data or SQL Server data, in DPM Help
(http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=102087).