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Recovery
An operation that creates or overwrites a virtual machine by using the data that was earlier saved in
a backup. When you select for recovery the same machine that was backed up, it is overwritten.
Otherwise, a new virtual machine is created.
Resource group
One or more ESX(i) clusters that contain virtual machines of vCloud Director organizations.
Retention rules
A part of backup plan that specifies how long backups are kept.
Storage quota (quota)
The amount of storage space allocated for an organization.
If the quota is exceeded, the system administrator and the organization users see alerts in the
backup service interface. Restrictions on using the backup service are not applied unless the system
administrator does this manually.
System administrator
A user who has the System Administrator role in vCloud Director.
A system administrator can back up and recover any virtual machine in any organization. A system
administrator can allow organization users to back up virtual machines in their organization.
System backup plan
A ready-to-use backup plan predefined by the system administrator in order to make it available
across many organizations. Organization users can apply system backup plans to their virtual
machines.
Changes to the schedule or retention rules of a system backup plan affect all organizations to which
the plan was made available.
User
A person who has a user account in vCloud Director.
Depending on the permissions that are assigned to the user account in vCloud Director, a user can be
a system administrator, an organization administrator, or a non-administrative user in an
organization.
vApp
A set of virtual machines that is created in vCloud Director and that can be managed in vCloud
Director as a single entity.
