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

Introduction

The DDMC provides REST APIs to automate managing the life cycle of DDVE systems running in Amazon Web Services (AWS).

The DDVE life-cycle management APIs enable you to integrate cloud-based DDVEs into your cloud operations systems. The APIs enable you to:

• Securely manage AWS credentials.
• Deploy DDVE instances.
• Provision EBS storage for the file system
• Ensure DDVEs are consistently deployed.
• Deprovision and destroy DDVEs when they are no longer needed.

Installation and prerequisites

The DDVE deployment APIs are delivered as part of the DDMC. DDMC runs as a virtual machine, separate from the DDVEs and DD Systems it is managing. DDMC can run on-site hypervisors (ESXi, vCloud, Hyper-V, or KVM) or as a VM in AWS or Azure. See the DDMC installation guide for details.

To manage cloud DDVEs, the DDMC requires an unblocked network access to invoke AWS and DDVE APIs (port 3009 on the DDVE, accessed through HTTPS).

DDVEs need a license to ingest and restore data. Rather than install individual license files, the DDMC configures DDVEs that use a license server. You must install a license server and configure DDMC to learn about the server. Also, you must install a server license file on the license server with sufficient capacity for your intended deployment.