Dell Data Protection Central 19.11 Release Notes

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Environment and system requirements

Learn about the environment and system requirements for the Data Protection Central.

Table 1. Environment and system requirementsEnvironment and system requirements
Requirements	Description
Browser window size	Data Protection Central requires a minimum browser window size of 1366x768.
Data Protection Central host	The Data Protection Central host requires a minimum of 4 CPUs, 8 GB of RAM, and 560 GB of disk space that is separated into two disks. Allocate a minimum of 500 GB for data (/data01) and 60 GB for service. Data Protection Central 19.11 works only with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) version 12 SP5. See Data Protection Central operating system updates, available on Dell Support site at Dell Protection Central, for upgrading from previous releases. Do not use the underscore symbol in a hostname. This requirement is a standard practice for hostname configurations. For example, mars_jupiter.planets is not a valid hostname. When you deploy Data Protection Central to a server with a hostname that contains the underscore symbol (_), the deployment succeeds but Data Protection Central is unusable due to communication issues.
ESXi server	For Data Protection Central OVA deployment, use a supported VMware vCenter with VMware ESXi (see e-Lab-Navigator). To deploy the Data Protection Central OVA, you must use vCenter. Data Protection Central supports direct deployment of Data Protection Central OVA to the ESXi server.
FIPS mode	If you plan to operate Data Protection Central in FIPS mode, you must deploy Data Protection Central as an OVA.
Networking	The environment must use static network settings. The FQDN, IP, Netmask, NTP, Gateway, DNS, and time zone must be configured. The FQDN must have a domain information, and resolve to the IP address. The FQDN must not be configured to have a short name. Ensure that the DNS is correctly configured. The correct DNS setup ensures that systems can resolve the Data Protection Central hostname and FQDN name. If you are using only IPv4 in your environment, do not disable the IPv6 configuration. Some Data Protection Central components use the IPv6 loopback address. If you disable IPv6, those components do not start. Configurations that use network address translation (NAT) are not supported.
Power	Use an uninterrupted power supply device to protect the ESXi server for the VMware environment where Data Protection Central is deployed. Do not use the Power off the virtual machine feature in vCenter to power off the Data Protection Central VM . Use the Shut Down Guest OS menu option to shut down the machine. Alternatively, log in to Data Protection Central using shell or SSH and type: `shutdown -h now`.
Support matrix	To review the simple support matrix for Data Protection Central, go to the e-Lab Navigator site (e-Lab-Navigator). The support matrix includes information about the minimum versions of products that Data Protection Central supports.
TLS protocol	OVA and JAR (software-only) deployments use TLS 1.2 protocol by default. Deployment disables the use of TLS 1.0 and 1.1 versions, which use less secure cipher suites. For more information, see the Data Protection Central Security Configuration Guide.
VMware compatibilities	Data Protection Central is compatible with VMware vSphere Fault Tolerance (FT), VMware vSphere High Availability (HA), and VMware vSphere vMotion.