PowerProtect Data Manager 19.16 Azure Deployment Guide

Azure VMware Solution interoperability

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

For the purpose of the following sections, the network used in a AVS-on-Azure environment will be called the AVS network, and the network used in a PowerProtect Data Manager-on-Azure 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 AVS and VPC networks. This server can be located in either the AVS 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 Administrator 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 AVS network.

PowerProtect Data Manager requires inbound and outbound traffic between it and the following hosts in the AVS 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 AVS-on-Azure hosts, see the PowerProtect Data Manager Administrator Guide.