Administrator Guide

Data Protection Management Console (DPMC) deployment and registration with Prism Central
9 XC Series Data Protection Management Console Administrator’s Guide
3 Data Protection Management Console (DPMC) deployment
and registration with Prism Central
This section outlines the prerequisites, requirements and step-by-step instructions to deploy DPMC in a
Nutanix cluster with an integrated Avamar VE.
3.1 Prerequisites
For a successful deployment of DPMC, make sure the following prerequisites are met:
• A static IP address with DNS reverse resolution
• Sufficient resources to house the DPMC VM (see the System requirements
section below)
• No active DPMC VM running in the cluster (current release only supports one DPMC instance per
implementation)
• Valid OVA file of DPMC VM for ESXi (or DPMC VM zip archive for Hyper-V)
• vSphere Web Client with VMware Client Integration Plug-in installed for ESXi
• Hyper-V requires hosts with administrator access
3.2 Software requirements
You must have the following software:
• vSphere Component for ESXi
• Microsoft Hypervisor:2012 R2 for Hyper-V deployment
• DDOS Version: DD OS 5.7.x, DD OS 6.0.x, DD OS 6.1.x
• Cluster NOS 5.1 or above
• Avamar Virtual Edition (AVE) 7.5.0.183 with Hotfix 289693
3.3 Deploying DPMC VMware Virtual Machine
The following sections describe steps performed on the vCenter server in the vSphere Web Client.
3.3.1 Infrastructural requirements
Before deploying the DPMC virtual machine, you must complete the following tasks:
Associate Nutanix cluster with Prism Central
Deploy and Configure an AVE virtual machine
Associate AVE VM with Data Domain instance
3.3.1.1 Associate Nutanix cluster(s) with Prism Central
You must set up a Nutanix Storage cluster on either a VMware or a Hyper-V environment. You must also
install and configure Prism Central (PC) and register all clusters with PC. Because DPMC communicates with
PC directly, only clusters that are associated with PC are managed by DPMC. Refer to the
Prism Central
Guide on the Nutanix portal for more details on installing and registering to Prism Central.
3.3.1.2 Deploy and Configure an AVE virtual machine
You must configure an AVE virtual machine with at least 0.5 TB for use with DPMC.