PowerProtect Data Manager 19.10 Google Cloud Platform Deployment Guide

Google Cloud VMware Engine interoperability

PowerProtect Data Manager on GCP works with Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) on GCP, and can be used to protect virtual-machine assets in a GCVE-on-GCP environment. Unless noted in Unsupported features, PowerProtect Data Manager on GCP supports all of the features that are supported by GCVE on GCP. For information about what is not supported by GCVE on GCP, see the PowerProtect Data Manager Virtual Machine User Guide.

For the purpose of the following sections, the network used in a GCVE-on-GCP environment will be called the GCVE network, and the network used in a PowerProtect Data Manager-on-GCP environment will be called the VPC network.

Required DNS configuration

You must configure a Domain Name System (DNS) server to be used for name resolution of hosts in both the GCVE and VPC networks. This server can be located in either the GCVE or the VPC network.

Forward and reverse lookups are required for the following hosts:

• the PowerProtect Data Manager instance
• all DDVE instances
• the VM Direct protection engines
• vCenter and ESXi

Set this DNS server as the primary DNS server for the PowerProtect Data Manager instance during deployment. For more information, see the PowerProtect Data Manager Administration and User Guide.

Required network traffic rules

You must configure certain network traffic rules in order for hosts in the VPC network to communicate with hosts in the GCVE network.

PowerProtect Data Manager requires inbound and outbound traffic between it and the following hosts in the GCVE network:

• the VM Direct protection engines
• the primary DNS server
• vCenter and ESXi

To configure PowerProtect Data Manager or DDVE traffic rules on an instance after it has been deployed, see Configure network firewall rules. To configure traffic rules on GCVE-on-GCP hosts, see the PowerProtect Data Manager Administration and User Guide.