Release Notes

58 Dell Virtual Storage Manager: Installation Considerations and Local Data Protection | 2079-BP-V-VSM
The upper half of the screenshot shown above displays the history of Jobs performed, with the current job
(Create Snapshot of Application stack) highlighted. In the Jobs Details section of the screen, the individual
tasks that make up the job and their status can be observed.
7.3.2 Automating protection with VSM snapshot schedules
Similar to scheduling snapshots of virtual machines (detailed in section 6.3), VSM extends flexible schedules to the
snapshot protection of virtual volume based virtual machines and virtual machine folders of virtual machines, but not
to entire datastores of virtual-volume-backed virtual machines, as can be done for VMFS datastores.
VSM snapshot schedules serve the same purpose as VMware snapshot schedules, enabling snapshots to be used to
provide additional options to existing backup strategies, resulting in shorter RTO and RPO periods. The advantage that
VSM schedules have over VMware schedulers are:
• Additional scheduling options; for example: hourly protection may be desired, but only during the business
day, and not outside these hours or on weekends.
• Schedule templates can be created, enabling pre-defined scheduling options to be applied to other virtual
machines.
• iSCSI within the guest mounted volumes can be included