PowerProtect Data Manager 19.16 Virtual Machine User Guide

Prerequisites for discovering asset sources

Review the following requirements before discovering 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.
• Remove any managed snapshots from virtual machines that will be configured to use the Transparent Snapshots Data Mover (TSDM) protection mechanism.
• 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 7,000 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 RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines, also referred to as the vRPA copy.
  • The vSphere Cluster Service (vCLS) virtual machine.
    NOTE:Virtual machines created by the vCLS are managed by VMware, and do not require PowerProtect Data Manager protection. Even when selected as part of a container, they are automatically excluded from protection. The vmdm-discovery.log provides a list of vCLS virtual machines that are excluded from protection.

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