- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Revision history
- PowerProtect DDMC Overview
- Planning the DDMC environment
- Getting Started
- Prerequisites
- Downloading DDMC
- Installing DDMC in a VMware environment
- Hyper-V
- DDMC on kernel-based virtual machine
- Deploying DDMC in Amazon Web Services (AWS) using Cloud Formation Template
- DDMC in Azure Marketplace
- Deploying DDMC in Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Deploying DDVE systems
- Powering on DDMC
- Logging in and out of DDMC
- Adding (registering) systems to DDMC
- Continuing DDMC configuration
- Understanding RBAC in DDMC
- Viewing DDMC page elements
- Navigating a DDMC page
- Organizing the dashboard
- Organizing managed systems
- Data Centers
- Displaying property information
- Managing replication lag threshold policies
- Working with filters
- Smart Scale
- Monitoring Systems
- How DDMC helps monitor DD systems
- Data retention policy for DDMC
- Space projection algorithm for DDMC
- Performing daily monitoring
- Monitoring capacity
- Checking system capacity and disk space usage
- Measuring physical capacity
- Managing measurement schedules for physical capacity
- Adding or editing physical capacity measurement schedules
- Deleting physical capacity measurement schedules
- Assigning and unassigning measurement schedules for physical capacity
- Measure now for physical capacity
- Viewing physical capacity measurement jobs
- Checking projected system capacity
- Interacting with the Projection Chart
- Checking the System Details lightbox
- Monitoring replication
- Monitoring status with reports
- Managing DD Systems
- Administering Secure Multitenancy
- How DDMC helps with SMT monitoring
- Creating and managing Tenants
- Creating and managing Tenant Units
- Creating a Tenant Unit with the wizard
- Viewing Tenant Unit information and status
- Tenant Unit Details lightbox
- Editing Tenant Unit information
- Deleting Tenant Units and unassigning provisioned storage
- Adding an unmanaged Tenant Unit to a Tenant
- Creating, editing, and generating SMT reports
- Performing Additional Configuration
- Managing network settings
- Configuring network settings
- Configuring network interfaces
- Configuring hosts
- Configuring DNS settings
- Configuring routes
- Working with SNMP
- Managing access to DDMC
- Managing general configuration settings
- Updating DDMC software
- Managing DDMC update packages
- Prerequisite to performing a DDMC software update
- DDMC software update in ESXi
- Performing a DDMC software update in KVM
- Performing a DDMC software update in Hyper-V
- Performing a DDMC software update in AWS
- Performing a DDMC software update in Azure
- Performing a DDMC software update in GCP
- Managing network settings
- Graphics Reference for DDMC
- Command Line Interface for DDMC
Dell PowerProtect DD Management Center (DDMC) 7.9 Installation and Administration Guide
Performing a DDMC software update in Hyper-V
After you have uploaded an update package, you can use it to update your DDMC software.
Prerequisites
A third disk with 100GB (using Hyper-V manager) must be added before updating to DDMC 7.6.
- Click the setting menu of the VM.
- Click Add button to add a new hard drive.
- Use the New Virtual Hard Disk Wizard.
- The new added disk should be 100GB.
- Add the disk.
About this task
NOTE Software update files use the
.rpm file extension. This topic assumes that you are updating only DDMC. If you make hardware changes, such as adding, swapping, or moving interface cards, you must update the
DDOS configuration to correspond with the hardware changes.
Steps
-
Review the appropriate release notes for instructions for this update, and verifying available space.
NOTE For most releases, updates are permitted from up to two prior major release versions.
- Click the Settings button (the gear icon) in the DDMC banner, then select .
- In the Update Packages Available area, select the update package from the list, and select Perform System Update.
- Monitor the update progress from the DDMC console page.
- The update process automatically reboots DDMC.
- It is recommended that you keep the System Update progress dialog open until the update completes or until the system powers off.
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