PowerProtect Data Manager 19.15 Deployment Guide

Introducing the PowerProtect Data Manager software

PowerProtect Data Manager software is an enterprise solution that provides software-defined data protection, deduplication, operational agility, self-service, and IT governance.

PowerProtect Data Manager key features include the following:

Key features

Software-defined data protection with integrated deduplication, replication, and reuse

Data backup and recovery self-service operations from native applications that are combined with central IT governance

Multicloud optimization with integrated Cloud Tiering

SaaS-based monitoring and reporting

Modern services-based architecture for ease of deployment, scaling, and updating

PowerProtect Data Manager integrates multiple data-protection products within the Data Protection portfolio to enable data protection as a service, providing the following benefits:

Benefits

Enables data-protection teams to create data paths with provisioning, automation, and scheduling to embed protection engines into their data-protection infrastructure for high-performance backup and recovery

Enables backup administrators of large-scale environments to schedule backups for the following asset types from a central location on the PowerProtect Data Manager server:

• VMware virtual machines
• File systems
• Kubernetes clusters
• Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft SQL Server databases
• Oracle databases
• SAP HANA databases
• Network-attached storage (NAS) shares
• PowerStore block volumes

Provides an agent-based approach to automatically discover and protect databases on an application server

Enables self-service and centralized protection by:

• Monitoring service-level objectives (SLOs)
• Identifying violations of recovery-point objectives (RPOs)

Supports deploying an external VM Direct Engine that is optimized to move data with high-capacity backup streams

Comes with a basic embedded VM Direct Engine that has the following functions and capabilities:

• It is automatically used as a fallback proxy for performing backup and restore operations when an external VM Direct Engine fails, is disabled, or is unavailable
• It has a limited capacity for performing backup streams
• It can work with virtual-machine crash-consistent protection policies that use the Transparent Snapshot Data Mover (TSDM) protection mechanism
• It enables the Search Service used by PowerProtect Search

Supports PowerProtect Search, which enables backup administrators to quickly search for and restore VM and NAS file copies

Supports the vRealize Automation DP extension, which enables the automatic provisioning of virtual machines and on-demand backups and restores

Integrates with Cloud Disaster Recovery (Cloud DR), including workflows for Cloud DR deployment, protection, and recovery operations in the AWS and Azure clouds

Integrates with PowerProtect Cloud Snapshot Manager to view PowerProtect Cloud Snapshot Manager jobs, alerts, and reports from a consolidated PowerProtect Data Manager dashboard

Integrates with PowerProtect Cyber Recovery to protect the integrity of a PowerProtect Data Manager environment from cyber threats

Provides a RESTful API interface that allows PowerProtect Data Manager to be monitored, configured, and orchestrated:

• Existing automation frameworks can be integrated
• New scripts can be quickly written
• Easy-to-follow tutorials are provided