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vCenter Recent Tasks Pane
Inside the Group Manager GUI the associated PS Series Volumes will have a
new snapshot created and the description will read Created by Auto-Snapshot
Manager/VMware Edition.
Group Manager GUI
SCALABILITY WITH FOLDERS AND DATASTORES
As virtual environments grow it becomes increasingly important to be able to
protect these environments. However protecting these growing and changing
environments can also be a challenge. VSM allows for the ability to protect
folders of virtual machines and folders of datastores to allow the ability to scale
and add without constantly having to adjust your protection schemes. By
utilizing the folder structure in vCenter Server to organize the VMs based on
administrative roles or protection groups, administrators can select an entire
folder of VMs or datastores and create a Smart Copy. VSM will query to see
which VMs are in the folder, which PS Series volumes the VMs reside on, and
take a Smart Copy of the entire set. This allows for keeping web server farms
consistent or file servers coordinated in their protection.
This process also allows for VMs to migrate from one Datastore volume to
another, either by Storage vMotion or Migration, and still retain their protection
strategy as it is assigned at the folder level and includes multiple datastores.