Dell EMC PowerProtect DDVE on Amazon Web Services 7.9 Installation and Administration Guide

Deploying DDVE manually from the AWS console

This is an alternate approach for deployment.

1. Login to AWS console and navigate to the EC2 instances link.
2. Under the EC2 instances tab, select Private Images. Select the AMI image from the region in which you wish to deploy DDVE, and then click Launch.
   
3. Select the instance type from the three supported instance types. Click Configure Instance Details. For more details, refer to Storage best practices.
   
4. Select the VPC and subnet in which to deploy DDVE, and select the IAM role that you created in the previous section. Selecting the role during deployment automatically attaches it to this DDVE instance. If you did not previously create the VPC, subnet, or the IAM role, you can create them in this step. When you are done, click Add Storage.
   
5. Add the NVRAM disk and metadata disks as shown below. Then click Add Tags.
   1. Add a 10 GiB NVRAM disk (highlighted in red) according to the following configuration table.
   2. Add the metadata disks (highlighted in green) according to the following configuration table.
   
   NOTE Add the NVRAM disk before adding the metadata disks. Adding them in a different order causes an unsupported hardware configuration error. Also, ensure that the EBS volume type is GP3, IOPS is 3000, and throughput is 125 MB/s for all disks.

   Table 1. Recommended configuration

   Instance Type	Number of metadata disks	Size of each metadata disk	Object store capacity
   M5.xlarge	2	1 TiB	16 TB
   M5.2xlarge	4	1 TiB	32 TB
   M5.4xlarge	10	1 TiB	96 TB
   M5.8xlarge	13	2 TiB	256 TB

   NOTE By default, the recommended metadata storage is 10% of the total capacity. This recommendation is based on a 10x deduplication ratio and a 2x compression ratio. For workloads with higher deduplication ratios, you can add more metadata disks.
6. Add the tags as shown in the following figure, and then click Configure Security Groups.
   Adding tags enables you to easily search for volumes and instances.
7. Select from an existing security group. If you haven't created one previously, you can create it now. Click Review and Launch.
   
8. Review the configuration details, and then click Launch.
9. Select a key pair value or create a new key pair value for this instance, and then click Launch Instance.
   
   
10. Click View instances to navigate to the EC2 instance tab. Search for the tag you created in step 6.
    
    
    NOTE Avoid disabling or modifying the primary interface settings. The primary interface in cloud deployments has the default gateway setting and is the only interface with which the DDVE can connect to the metadata server. The metadata server is critical for DDVE operation.