- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Preface
- PowerProtect Data Manager for Network Attached Storage Overview
- Managing Assets and Protection
- About NAS protection
- Enable the NAS asset source
- Add a NAS appliance
- Add a NAS share
- Edit or delete a NAS asset source
- Deploy a protection engine for NAS asset protection
- Add a centralized protection policy for NAS assets
- Restore a NAS asset to the original location
- Restore a NAS asset to an alternate location
- NAS file level restore using File Search
- Protection engine parameters
- Determine protection engine usage for a protection job
- Change the protection engine Docker network range
- Troubleshooting
PowerProtect Data Manager 19.9 Network Attached Storage User Guide
Prerequisites
Before you configure PowerProtect Data Manager for NAS protection, observe the following points:
- Deploy PowerProtect Data Manager on the same network as the NAS.
- Ensure that there are sufficient vCenter resources available to deploy a NAS protection engine.
- Open the required ports between all components, including the NAS. The
PowerProtect Data Manager Security Configuration Guide provides more information and instructions.
Windows file servers require an outbound rule to allow traffic on ports 139 and 445. Modify the PowerProtect Data Manager Security Configuration Guide firewall to open the same ports.
- A trial license is provided with the PowerProtect Data Manager software. Data Protection Suite Applications, Backup, and Enterprise customers can contact Licensing Support for assistance with a permanent PowerProtect Data Manager license.
- If you specify a hostname or fully qualified domain name (FQDN) with an underscore (_), then communication happens by IP address, as provided during registration.
Initial configuration
Prepare the PowerProtect Data Manager server by performing the following initial configuration tasks:
- Add protection storage.
- (Optional) Configure a storage unit.
- Configure virtual networks, if applicable.
- Configure the PowerProtect Search Engine, if needed. The PowerProtect Search engine is required for File Level Restore (FLR).
- Enable the virtual machine asset source and register the vCenter server where you intend to deploy the protection engine.
The PowerProtect Data Manager Administration and User Guide provides more information about each task. If your environment already protects other assets, you may have already completed some of these tasks.
Resource requirements for a NAS protection engine
Note the following system requirements, which are the same as for a VM Direct Engine:
- CPU: 4 * 2 GHz (4 virtual sockets, 1 core for each socket)
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Disks: 2 disks (59 GB and 98 GB)
- Internet Protocol: IPv4 only
- SCSI controller: maximum of 4
- NIC: One vmxnet3 NIC with one port
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