IDPA 101 - PowerProtect DP Series Appliance

 

 “Integrated Data Protection Appliance (IDPA)” is now called “PowerProtect DP Series Appliance”

 

General Documentations:

• PowerProtect DP Series Appliance Info Hubs 

- The Dell EMC PowerProtect DP Series Appliance Info Hubs organize the documentation for all releases.

• Avamar Info Hubs 

- The Dell EMC Avamar Info Hubs organize the Avamar documentation for all releases.

• Dell EMC SolVe Online

- SolVe is a customer portal that services all DellTechnology products, it provides Install, Upgrade and Maintain documentation.

• Compatibility Guide .

- Compatibility guide gives list of software which are compatible with each other.

 

IDPA:

• IDPA: How to find basic system information, Serial number, and Service tag 

- This article will guide you to find out Integrated Data Protection Appliance (IDPA) basic information such as IDPA Model, Serial Number, Components Version, IP Address, FQDNs, LDAP, Service Tag Information, and other Information.

• IDPA: How to open a Support Request 

- This article is intended to show the preferred method for IDPA administrators to open a new Support Request with Dell Technology.

• How to log in to IDPA systems, using either UI and CLI

- This KB covers how to log in to the different IDPA systems using either user interface (UI) or command-line interface CLI).

• IDPA: Proper shutdown process for the Integrated Data Protection Appliance

- This article provides steps to properly shut down an IDPA appliance using Appliance Configuration Manager (ACM) Dashboard and integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) interface.

• How to update SSL Certificates on all Integrated Data Protection Appliance (IDPA) associated products

- IDPA: SSL Certificate change for all IDPA point-products.

• IDPA: ChangeAvamarPasswords failed to execute change-passwords command on Avamar Utility Node 

- IDPA changing passwords from the ACM Dashboard fails to change Avamar Utility Node OS passwords and reports errors.

• IDPA: How to Expand Storage on DP4400

- This article explains how to expand storage on the DP4400 Integrated Data Protection Appliance (IDPA).

• Integrated Data Protection Appliance: How to change DNS entries in a deployed IDPA

- This KB article provides the procedure for changing DNS servers in a deployed Integrated Data Protection Appliance (IDPA).

• IDPA DP4400 - Process to Reset Initial Public facing IP addresses for ACM and ESXi Host 

- IDPA DP4400 - Process to Reset Initial Public facing IP addresses for ACM and ESXi Host.

 

Backup:

• Avamar VM Image backup fails with error: vSphere Task failed: 'Unable to access file since it is locked'.

- The issue normally occurs when the proxy fails to un-mount the disks after a successful backup causing a locking issue.

• IDPA and PowerProtect DP Series: Internal VM Backups Resolution Path 

- This KB Article is a resolution path for IDPA Internal VM backups and covers several scenarios to remediate Internal VM backup failures.

• IDPA Cloud Tiering Guide and Resolution Path 

- This KB Walks you through the different steps involved with Cloud Tiering and walks us through configuration, management and troubleshooting steps with cloud tiering.

• Avamar: Data Domain Capacity Resolution Path 

- Avamar: Data Domain Capacity Resolution Path.

• IDPA: Resolution Path for Avamar Server  

- Integrated Data Protection (IDPA) Avamar introduction, and troubleshooting.

• DPC: Data Protection Central - Problem Resolution Path 

- Overview of Data Protection Central from a support view.

• PowerProtect DP Series appliance and IDPA: DP4400 Networking and Initial Connectivity Resolution Path 

- PowerProtect DP Series appliance and IDPA: DP4400 Networking and Initial Connectivity Resolution Path.

 

Please feel free to leave a comment if you have any new topics/ questions you would like to discuss. 

 

Menna Sobieh

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