PowerProtect Data Manager

This article provides curated links to Dell PowerProtect Data Manager product documentation, videos, and information including deployment, configuration, administration, and disaster recovery.

Dell PowerProtect Data Manager remediation is available for the Apache Log4j Remote Code Execution Vulnerability that may be exploited by malicious users to compromise the affected system. Dell recommends implementing this remediation as soon as possible in light of the critical severity of the vulnerability.

================================================================================ ARTICLE SUMMARY ================================================================================ This article provides comprehensive instructions for using the GSAN Mover tool to migrate Avamar file system backup metadata to Dell PowerProtect Data Manager (PPDM). The tool facilitates seamless migration while preserving historical backup metadata and maintaining data integrity. Audience: System Administrators, Backup Administrators, Dell Support Engineers Complexity: Intermediate Estimated Time: 2-4 hours (depending on number of clients)

PowerProtect Data Manager Server DR replication configuration job failed with 'Unable to establish connection to Data Domain'. The fix is to enable replication for the Server DR.

Deploying Reporting Node or Search Engine failed in PowerProtect Data Manager.

The vCenter vpxd service encounters a panic and crashes during vCenter tasks to enable or disable Lightweight Delta (LWD) protection. Task required to enable or disable PowerProtect Data Manager TSDM protection.

During a disaster recovery workflow to restore a Virtual Machine into Cloud an error will occur, if there are network constraints applied to the related Azure storage account used with CDR. The CDRS-RestoreService-ResourceGroup that is generated during a DR must have access added to the storage account to access required files for the process to succeed.

Granular Active Directory (AD) restore in PowerProtect Data Manager fails with ARF0063 when the left‑pane AD tree is expanded, causing the job to complete with exceptions. The failure is due to a UI issue in parent‑OU restoration, which may vary by environment.

The vSphere Lifecycle Management (vLCM) is being used to manage the ESXi hosts in the environment. The Transparent Snapshot Data Mover (TSDM) vSphere Installation Bundle (VIB) is removed from the ESXi hosts when they are remediated with ESXi host patches. The signed VIB must be added to the vLCM image to show it is compliant and ensure it remains installed during remediation.

The virtual machine (VM) restore is configured, but it remains in a queued state with no progress due to an expired Data Domain certificate.

Backups of virtual machines (VM) fail with error ABV0033 because the datastore hosting the VM has fallen below the configured free‑space failure threshold.

Virtual Machine (VM) backups fail because the VM Direct Engine cannot access vCenter after the server certificate changes, causing a certificate‑mismatch Application Programming Interface (API) error.

There is new functionality in the Replication Manager service In PowerProtect Data Manager version 19.10. The Replication Manager checks all enabled protection policies to see what stages are defined.

Ten steps to create a Certificate Signing Request for a Certificate Authority signed certificate for PowerProtect Data Manager UI.

This KB goes through the SAP Hana alternate restore procedure and options with PPDM

The PowerProtect Data Manager appliance is being implemented to protect the vSphere environment. The vCenter Asset source discovery fails with ADS0001 during the tag discovery.

The PowerProtect Data Manager appliance shows Alert SYS0003 indicating low capacity detected at the '/' mount point.

PowerProtect user interface (UI) accounts are allowed five attempts, and then they are locked for five minutes. Users are automatically unlocked after five minutes and can authenticate with the correct password.

File-Level Restore (FLR) operations from File-Based Backups (FBB) in PowerProtect Data Manager (PPDM) can experience slow performance when restoring data from volumes containing many files. This behavior is a known issue and has been addressed in later PPDM versions.

SQL Server application-consistent data protection for virtual machines. VM SQL Application aware backups are failing.

PPDM: Oracle RMAN Backup Failure: ORA-19506: failed to create sequential file, name="…/XXXXXXXX-XXXXXXXX-ff".

This article explains why Linux File-Based Backups (FBB) fail on 19.21/19.22 when high file system activity triggers a snapshot‑related exception, causing ABF0001 errors.

PowerProtect Data Manager Kubernetes backup failed with VMware Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK) Error "You do not have access rights to this file."

Restore and FLR do not work for the Deleted NAS-Server form the Appliance.

This article describes a workaround for Oracle discovery failures.

Kubernetes backup fails with error 'Unable to create snapshots. Creating VolumeSnapshot exceeds the safeguard limit.'

In a Network Attached Storage (NAS) recovery, a Common Internet File System (CIFS) share set as an asset is missing from targets.

PowerProtect Data Manager Kubernetes backup failed with 'controller pod is not running' error.

This article describes how Dell has hardened down the PowerProtect Data Manager (PPDM) to prevent a compromise.

PowerProtect Data Manager: Discovery of Kubernetes cluster failed with 'Connection refused' error.