PowerProtect Data Manager 19.16 Virtual Machine User Guide

Supported enhanced topologies

Supported topologies of clustered ESXi server storage, networking, and enterprise management include the following:

• vSAN operations
• NSX-T port groups
• Enhanced Link Mode vCenter servers

For more information, see the E-Lab Navigator.

vSAN operations

Standard clusters, stretched clusters, two-node clusters, and HCI Mesh datastores support the following operations:

• Backing up and restoring virtual machines
• Search Engines
• VM Direct Engines
• HA failover of Search Engines and VM Direct Engines
• Post-failover protection

NSX-T port groups

PowerProtect Data Manager supports the use of NSX-T with up to 2,000 port groups. These can be default VDS port groups or N-VDS port groups, and they support the following components:

• PowerProtect Data Manager servers
• VM Direct Engines
• Search nodes
• Workload virtual machines

Enhanced Link Mode vCenter servers

Enhanced Linked Mode connects multiple vCenter Server systems together by using one or more Platform Services Controllers (PSCs). PowerProtect Data Manager supports the protection of workload virtual machines running inside Enhanced Linked Mode vCenter servers. This protection also applies during and after any vMotion operation of the virtual machines.

To support virtual machine protection workflows for vCenter servers that are in Enhanced Linked Mode, PowerProtect Data Manager requires you to add all of the linked vCenter servers as asset sources, and also to install the PowerProtect vSphere Plugin on all of these vCenter servers.