PowerProtect Data Manager 19.11 Amazon Web Services Deployment Guide

VMware Cloud interoperability

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

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

Required DNS configuration

If using a custom DNS server, you must configure a DNS server to be used for name resolution of hosts in both the VMC and VPC networks. This server can be located in either the VMC network 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 VMC network.

PowerProtect Data Manager requires inbound and outbound traffic between it and the following hosts in the VMC 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 traffic rules. To configure traffic rules on VMC-on-AWS hosts, see the PowerProtect Data Manager Administration and User Guide.