Determine the type of data protection used for your Intelligent Infrastructure (II) virtual machines

• Overview
• Determine the backup type for all your VMs
• Determine the backup type for a single VM
• Get help

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Overview

The following explains how to determine the backup type for your Intelligent Infrastructure virtual machines (VMs).

Determine the backup type for all your VMs

1. Go to the self-service portal and log in with your Indiana University username and passphrase.
2. Follow the instructions for requesting a VM Information report in Determine remaining resources in an II resource pool.
3. Once the email arrives with the VM Information report, the "DPSTag" column lists the type of backups each VM uses.

Determine the backup type for a single VM

1. Go to the self-service portal and log in with your Indiana University username and passphrase.
2. Follow the instructions in Interact with a VM on the Infrastructure (II) self-service portal, and when selecting the action, choose Change VM Backup Type.
3. On the form that loads, the "Current DPS Type" line tells you what the current backup type is. If you do not wish to make any changes, select the cancel button.

Get help

To find out more about VM tagging and what it means for the backups of your VMs, see Data Protection Services (DPS) backups and VM disk tagging.