PowerProtect Data Manager 19.10 Administration and User Guide

Prerequisites for discovering asset sources

Perform these tasks before you discover an asset source.

• Ensure that the PowerProtect Data Manager is deployed and configured in the environment. The PowerProtect Data Manager deployment guides provide information.
• Log in as a user with the Administrator role. Only the Administrator role can manage asset sources.
• For a new system, enable one or more asset sources for the types of assets that you want to protect. Enable an asset source provides more information.
• Configure all asset sources with an NTP server.
• Before you register a Microsoft SQL Server application, ensure that the DD system has been discovered successfully.
• For discovery of application agents and File System asset sources:
  • Ensure that all clocks on the application and File System hosts and PowerProtect Data Manager are time-synchronized to the local NTP server to ensure discovery of the backups.
  • Ensure that the application and File System hosts and the PowerProtect Data Manager network can see and resolve each other.
  • Ensure that port 7000 is open on the application and File System hosts.
• Discovery of a vCenter Server asset source excludes the following:
  • Virtual machines with a status of Inaccessible, Invalid, or Orphaned.
  • The virtual machine template
  • The shadow or standby virtual machine created by Dell EMC RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines, also referred to as the vRPA copy.

Prior to performing the vCenter discovery, verify the status of any virtual machines that you want to discover.