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Dell EMC PowerProtect DDVE in VMware Cloud 7.8 Installation and Administration Guide

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Deploying DDVE in VMware Cloud on AWS

Prerequisites

For deploying DDVE in VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC) on S3 object store:
  • Ensure that you have an AWS account that is linked to your VMware cloud account.
  • The SDDC in VMC is connected to an AWS account during creation. Ensure that the subnet that is selected in the AWS account is in the same region as the SDDC.
  • Ensure that you create the AWS S3 bucket for the DDVE in the same region as the SDDC and within the same AWS account.
  • Ensure that the S3 traffic from VMC is routed internally toward the AWS infrastructure. (During the SDDC in VMC setup, you should have already linked your AWS and VPC subnet account to the VMC account.)
  • Ensure that you create the S3 endpoint so that the object store traffic is routed within the AWS infrastructure.

The VMC documentation provides additional details.

Steps

  1. To upload the OVF file, from the vSphere Client navigation pane, under Compute Resource Pool, right-click the DD resource and select Deploy OVF Template.
  2. Follow the steps in the Deploy OVF Template wizard:
    1. Select the OVF template.
    2. Select the virtual machine name and folder where you want to deploy the DDVE instance.
    3. Select the compute resource pool. It may be one of the nodes in the cluster or a pre-configured resource pool. Ensure that the compatibility checks succeed.
    4. Review and verify the template details.
    5. Select the deployment configuration.
    6. Select the storage for the metadata disks.
    7. Select the parameters for the network.
    8. Review the configuration details and exit the wizard.
  3. Monitor the progress of the deployment under Recent tasks.
  4. While the DDVE instance is being deployed from the AWS console, create an AWS S3 bucket.
    NOTE
    • To avoid additional costs and potential performance issues, ensure the S3 bucket and DDVE in VMC are available in the same region.
    • Do not enable S3 versioning for the bucket that is associated with the DDVE, for the following reasons:
      • S3 versioning requires more storage and incurs increased storage costs. For example, even though the DDVE Garbage Collection process deletes the objects that are not needed, those objects still consume storage.
      • S3 versioning can result in performance issues.
  5. From the VMC console, power on the DDVE instance.
  6. On the Settings page, select Add New Device and add the metadata storage.

Next steps

After deployment, do not change the virtual hardware version of the DDVE.

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