The following infographic provides an overview of the process of setting up VMware with Druva:
Decide if you want to protect VMs deployed in an on-premise vSphere-based data center, or VMware Cloud (VMC). For VMware Cloud see, Druva and VMC integration.
You can protect:
Also, review the system requirements to backup virtual machines.
Backup proxy is the key component that sits between your data center and Druva Cloud and is responsible for performing backup and restore of virtual machines.
For more information, see About backup proxy for VMware.
You can register your VMware setup with Druva by deploying the first backup proxy from your local system using the Druva Proxy Deployer utility.
For more information, see Deploy VMware proxy using the VMware Proxy Deployer.
Once your VMware setup is registered with Druva, the backup proxy discovers the virtual machines that are available in your VMware environment and lists them in the Management Console. You can then go ahead and configure the virtual machine for backup.
For more information, see Configure Virtual Machines for Backup.
You can scale-out by deploying additional backup proxies directly from the Management Console.
For more information, see Deploy additional backup proxies.
To achieve backup proxy load balancing, you can create backup proxy pools.
A backup proxy pool consists of multiple backup proxies. With load balancing, you can ensure that the backups or the RPO is not impacted. Even if one backup proxy goes down the other proxy(s) in the pool can take over. A backup proxy is a stateless entity.
Apart from load balancing, you can also ensure optimization of backups by defining a virtual machine's affinity to a backup proxy by choosing an appropriate backup proxy for backup.
For more information, see Create a backup proxy pool.