PowerProtect Data Manager 19.9 Google Cloud Platform Deployment Guide

Introducing PowerProtect Data Manager software

PowerProtect Data Manager software is an enterprise solution that provides software-defined data protection, deduplication, operational agility, self-service, and IT governance.

PowerProtect Data Manager enables the transformation from traditional centralized protection to an IT-as-a-service model based on a self-service design. This design ensures that you can enforce compliance and other business rules, even when backup responsibilities are decentralized to individual database administrators and application administrators.

PowerProtect Data Manager key features include:

• Software-defined data protection with integrated deduplication, replication, and reuse
• Data backup and recovery self-service operations from native applications that are combined with central IT governance
• Multicloud optimization with integrated Cloud Tiering
• SaaS-based monitoring and reporting
• Modern services-based architecture for ease of deployment, scaling, and updating

PowerProtect Data Manager integrates multiple data protection products within the Dell EMC Data Protection portfolio to enable data protection as a service, which:

• Enables the data protection team to create data paths with provisioning, automation, and scheduling to embed protection engines into the infrastructure for high-performance backup and recovery.
• Enables backup administrators of large-scale environments to schedule backups for the following asset types from a central location on the PowerProtect Data Manager server:
  • VMware virtual machines
  • File systems
  • Kubernetes clusters
  • Microsoft SQL databases
  • Oracle databases
  • SAP HANA databases
• Uses an agent-based approach to discover the protected and unprotected databases on an application server.
• Enables governed self-service and centralized protection by:
  • Monitoring and enforcing Service Level Objectives (SLOs).
  • Identifying violations of Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs).
  • Setting retention locks on backups that are created using the Microsoft application agent and Oracle RMAN agent.
• Provides a RESTful interface that allows the user to monitor, configure, and orchestrate PowerProtect Data Manager. Customers can use the APIs to integrate their own automation framework or quickly write new scripts with the help of easy-to-follow tutorials.