PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance 5.16.0.0 Administrator's Guide for DM5500

Configuring Uplinks

Create, associate, and modify Uplinks in PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance for using them on different VLANs.

Uplinks are physical network interface links that give connectivity to a machine. It allows a machine to get into a network and functions as a part of the network and communicates with other machines in that network. Uplink carries the network traffic from a machine to the network that it is associated with and routes it back to the machine. Use Uplinks for physical separation of network traffic.

Uplink Group is a logical group of uplinks. It is used for load balancing and fail-over.

• Load Balancing: If an uplink group consists of a set of uplinks, load balancing algorithms ensure that the network packets which are going through this uplink group are evenly distributed across the uplinks in this uplink group.
• Fail over: If an uplink in an uplink group fails or breaks, network traffic is sent through other uplinks in that uplink group.

PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance has uplinks, which provides appliance connectivity to the users network. Manage these uplinks through uplink group mechanism. Apply different load balancing and fail-over algorithms to the uplink group. PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance, an uplink group can have 1 or 2 uplinks.