Dell PowerProtect DD Management Center (DDMC) 7.9 Installation and Administration Guide

Deploying a DDVE

After all the preparation steps, you are ready to deploy a DDVE. When deploying a DDVE, DDMC runs a workflow with several steps. The workflow steps are as follows:

1. Creating and booting an AWS virtual machine using the DDVE AMI .
2. Provisioning EBS volumes to hold the file system data and attaching those volumes to the DDVE.
3. Configuring the DDVE to use a license server.
4. Setting the DDVE hostname, IP address, and sysadmin password.
5. Creating a Data Domain or PowerProtect file system on the EBS volumes.
6. Applying an optional configuration template.
7. Adding the DDVE to the DDMC inventory.

You initiate the process by running a POST request to /rest/v2.0/dd-systems. The request body includes a new structure that directs DDMC to deploy a DDVE. The request structure looks like this:

POST /rest/v2.0/dd-systems
{
    "hostname": "my-ddve-hostname",
    "password": "abc123",
    "deploy_info": {
        "environment": "aws",
        "common_deploy_info": {
            "vm_name": "my-ddve-name",
            "access_profile_name": "aws_access_profile",
            "resource_profile_name": "resource_profile",
            "config_template": "configuration_template_name"
        },
        "aws_specifc_deploy_info": {
            "init_config": 2,
            "max_config": "8TB"

        }
    }
}

See the online REST documentation for an explanation of the fields. The AWS and legal values and descriptions are as follows.

This operation takes several minutes to complete. Ensure that the REST client has a sufficiently long timeout.

While the deployment is running, you can monitor its progress. Make a GET request on the /rest/v1.0/tasks URI to see a list of all (or active) tasks. From the task list, you can retrieve a task ID. Use that ID to make a GET request to /rest/v1.0/tasks/{ID} to get the detailed status of the running task.