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Copy data management requirements and considerations

Review the following requirements and considerations before proceeding to Copy data management procedures to create and run data copy access jobs.

Licensing requirements

Data copy access jobs are only enabled on Enterprise Plus licensed appliances. If you are interested in this feature, contact your sales representative or email sales@unitrends.com.

Note:  Upon trial license expiration, data copy access UI objects no longer display.

Supported asset types

Data copy access jobs support image-level backups, host-level backups of VMware and Hyper-V VMs, as well as any replicas located on the host. Replicas located on the backup appliance are not supported. For more information on replicas, see VM replicas and Windows replicas.

Virtual host configuration

You must configure an isolated test network on your hypervisor prior to running tests and standing up instant labs. Failure to contain tests and instant labs within this VM network may allow them to interfere with your production VMs.

When creating a test network on a VMware host, do not assign a physical adapter to the standard switch.
When creating a test network on a Hyper-V server, use the internal virtual switch type.

VMware requirements and considerations

Review the following requirements and considerations before including VMware VMs in your data copy access jobs.

Hyper-V requirements and considerations

Review the following requirements and considerations before including Hyper-V VMs in your data copy access jobs.

Image-level backup requirements and considerations

Review the following requirements and considerations before including image-level backups in your data copy access jobs:

Replica requirements and considerations

Review the following requirements and considerations before including replicas in your data copy access jobs.

For further information on Windows replicas, see Windows replicas

For further information on VM replicas, see VM replicas

Installing the data copy access Hyper-V agent