Dell EMC Avamar for VMware 19.7 User Guide

vCenter deployments overview

This chapter describes how to protect the vCenter server Appliance (VCSA) and the Platform Services Controllers (PSCs). It is intended for virtual administrators who utilize the distributed model of the vCenter server and require protection of the complete vCenter server infrastructure.

You can protect vCenter 6.5 deployments with Avamar by using the proxy appliance. The instructions in this chapter assume that the vCenter server and the PSCs are deployed as virtual machines.

For the restores to complete successfully:

• Ensure that these virtual machines use a fully qualified domain name (FQDN) with correct DNS resolution, or
• Ensure that the host name of the machine is configured as an IP address. Note that if the host name is configured as an IP address, the IP address cannot be changed.

There are mainly two types of vCenter deployments:

• vCenter server Appliance/Windows Virtual Machine with an embedded PSC.
• vCenter server (also multiple) Appliance/Windows virtual machine with an external PSC. This type has two sub categories:
  • vCenter server environment with a single external PSC.
  • vCenter server environment with multiple PSC instances: This environment contains multiple vCenter server instances registered with different external PSC instances that replicate their data.