- 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
Backing up DDMC configuration
Make a backup of the DDMC configuration in case you restore it later.
Prerequisites
It is recommended that the DDMC and the PowerProtect DD system that stores the DDMC backup configuration are in the same site. For example, both of them are on premises or both are in the cloud.
A passphrase must be set up for a DDMC backup to be configured. The passphrase is used for encrypting the DDMC backup file. When the DDMC backup configuration is restored on another DDMC, the same passphrase must be set on the new DDMC so the file can be decrypted.
About this task
Make a backup file of the DDMC and save it in a safe location in case you must restore the backup to a new DDMC.
DDMC backups include certificates, temporary files, configurations, and database information.
DDMC backups are created:
- Whenever configuration changes are made
- Every 15 minutes
If there is a previous DDMC backup file available, the latest backup file overwrites it.
Steps
- Select .
-
In the
Disaster Recovery dialog, select a
DD System and an
NFS Export Path to store the DDMC files. Click
Apply.
NOTE If you select an existing NFS export path that does not have permissions set for the DDMC, the DDMC configuration backup fails. This failure triggers an alert on the page.
- If there are no NFS export paths to select from or you want a different NFS export path, click View Prerequisites to review the steps to create one. To copy and paste the steps to another window where you can see them, click Copy to Clipboard. The steps are also described below.
- Select .
- In the DDSM, select .
- In the Exports tab, click Create.
- In the Create NFS Exports dialog, enter the Export Name and Directory Path.
- Under Clients, click + to create an NFS client.
- In the Add Clients dialog, in the Clients text box, enter the IP address of the DDMC that you want to back up.
-
Ensure that the check box for
Map root user to anonymous UID/GID (root_squash) is cleared and click
OK.
Create NFS Exports Status dialog indicates that the NFS export configuration is completed. Click Close.
- If the passphrase is not already configured, the Set Passphrase dialog appears. Enter the passphrase and click Save and Continue.
- In the Disaster Recovery dialog, select the DD system and the NFS export that you created in the previous steps. Then click Apply.
Results
Next steps
If required, from the Disaster Recovery dialog, you can delete the backup configuration and create another backup configuration.
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