IDPA: Allowed Point Product Upgrades

Summary: This article summarizes allowed Point Product upgrades under the PowerProtect Data Protection Appliance (IDPA) and PowerProtect Data Protection Series Appliance.

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The Integrated Data Protection Appliance (IDPA) is an all-in-one backup appliance. It reduces the complexity of managing multiple data silos, point solutions, and vendor relationships by simplifying deployment and management. This remains true in its upgrade workflow. However, situations may occur where a component upgrade or a point product upgrade becomes imperative. Specific versioning has been tested to allow compatibility within the appliance.

Therefore, in such scenario, the below table can be followed to understand the approved and supported types of upgrades for point products within the IDPA umbrella.

Also, review the article PowerProtect Data Protection Series Appliances and IDPA: General Security Hardening Best Practices for IDPA version 2.7.7 and 2.7.8 (Log in as registered Dell Support user may be required to view this article)

Before any out of band updates are applied, ensure that IDPA is on the latest version. 
IDPA 2.7.9 is now released. Upgrade to the latest release before applying any out of band upgrades. See PowerProtect Data Protection Software product page for latest Downloads and Drivers. 

Legend: Hotfixes (HFs)

Point Product Allowed Upgrade Level
Protection Storage Out of Band Upgrade is not supported for Protection Storage (Data Domain OS) for IDPA v.2.7.9.
Protection Software All HFs on the respective Avamar major release are allowed.
for IDPA version 2.7.9.

Avamar v19.12.0-186 MCS Cumulative HFs are allowed. The README can be reviewed to ensure version compatibility, or contact Dell Support for further details.

Avamar Platform Security Rollup is not version dependent and allowed on all versions.
Data Protection Central All DPC OS updates are allowed and indicate if the version is dependent.

From IDPA version 2.7.9, DPC version 19.12.1.2 is supported.

Caution: DPC 19.7 does not support FIPS mode, so if IDPA is in FIPS mode, do not apply this upgrade.
Search

Out of band upgrade is not available in DPSearch for IDPA 2.7.9.
Reporting and Analytics

Out of band upgrade to DPAdvisor 19.12.1, to resolve DSA-2025-276 has been approved for IDPA 2.7.9. 
To upgrade Search, see article IDPA: Steps to upgrade DPA 


For any further queries, contact Dell Support or your local Account team.

Affected Products

PowerProtect Data Protection Software, Integrated Data Protection Appliance Family

Products

Integrated Data Protection Appliance Family
Article Properties
Article Number: 000019685
Article Type: How To
Last Modified: 05 Sept 2025
Version:  41
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