DELL Data Protection Central User Guide
- September 6, 2024
- Dell
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DELL Data Protection Central
This document describes the new features, resolved issues, and known issues in the Data Protection Central 19.10 release.
- Current Release Version: 19.10
- Release Type: Patch (P)
Revision history
The following table presents the revision history of this document:
Table 1. Document revision history
Product description
Data Protection Central is an active monitoring application with management capabilities. Data Protection Central provides a solution for data protection administrators who manage multiple independent data protection applications and storage devices. Data Protection Central enables administrators to monitor and manage the software products within the Data Protection Suite family from a single user interface, simplifying the entire data protection experience.
Data Protection Central includes the following features:
- Comprehensive dashboards
- Data Protection Central has a comprehensive and customizable dashboard for at-a-glance monitoring of systems and activities.
- Data Protection Central supports up to 20 dashboards per user.
- Supported application and capabilities
- When you add or integrate Data Protection Central to the supported applications, you can perform the tasks that are listed in the following table.
Table 2. Data Protection Central supported application
NOTE : Any references to the Data Domain systems and the Data Domain devices in the document indicate PowerProtect DD appliances.
New features
No new features were added in this release of Data Protection Central.
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Changed features
There are no changed features in this release. -
Resolved issues
The following table lists the issues that are resolved in this release of Data Protection Central.
Release 19.10
Table 3. Resolved issues in Data Protection Central
Known issues
Learn about the known issues found in Data Protection Central.
Release 19.10
Table 4. Changed features in Data Protection Central
Limitations in Data Protection Central
Learn about the limitations in Data Protection Central.
Table 5. Limitations in Data Protection Central
System limitations
Learn about Data Protection Central system limitations.
The following list includes Data Protection Central system limitations:
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A maximum total of 200 Avamar and NetWorker servers can be configured with Data Protection Central at one time.
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A maximum of 5 PowerProtect Data Manager systems can be monitored with Data Protection Central.
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A maximum Avamar group size of 10,000 clients can be monitored with Data Protection Central.
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A maximum NetWorker policy size of 20,000 clients can be monitored with Data Protection Central.
NOTE: Monitoring a policy with more than 20,000 clients may cause latency issues when Data Protection Central is reporting the backup status. -
A maximum total of 10,000 concurrent backup or replication activities can be monitored with Data Protection Central.
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A maximum total of 36,000 backup or replication activities per hour for all Avamar and NetWorker servers can be monitored with Data Protection Central.
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A maximum total of 80 Data Domain systems can be configured with Data Protection Central.
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Only one Data Protection Advisor system can be configured with Data Protection Central.
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Only one Search system can be configured with Data Protection Central.
Data Protection Central scale limits
Data Protection Central includes scale limits for the numbers of monitored
systems.
Table 6. Scale limits
Environment and system requirements
Learn about the environment and system requirements for the Data Protection
Central.
Table 7. Environment and system requirements
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| Requirements | Description |
|---|---|
| Browser window size | Data Protection Central requires a minimum browser |
window size of 1366×768.
Data Protection Central host| – The Data Protection Central host
requires a minimum of 4 CPUs, 8 GB of RAM, and 560 GB of disk space that is
separated into two disks. Allocate a minimum of 500 GB for data (/data01) and
60 GB for service.
– Data Protection Central 19.10 works only with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
(SLES) version 12 SP5. See Data Protection Central operating system updates,
available on Dell Support site at https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-in
/product-support/product/data-protection-central/.
– Do not use the underscore symbol in a hostname. This requirement is a
standard practice for hostname configurations. For example,
marsjupiter.planets is a valid hostname. When you deploy Data Protection
Central to a server with a hostname that contains the underscore symbol (),
the deployment succeeds but Data Protection Central is unusable due to
communication issues.
ESXi server| For Data Protection Central OVA deployment, use a supported
VMware vCenter with VMware ESXi (see e-Lab-Navigator). To deploy the Data
Protection Central OVA, you must use vCenter. Data Protection Central supports
direct deployment of Data Protection Central OVA to the ESXi server.
FIPS mode| If you plan to operate Data Protection Central in FIPS mode,
you must deploy Data Protection Central as an OVA.
Networking| – The environment must use static network settings.
– The FQDN, IP, Netmask, NTP, Gateway, DNS, and time zone must be configured.
The FQDN must have domain information, and resolve to the IP address. The FQDN
must not be configured to have a short name.
– Ensure that the DNS is correctly configured. The correct DNS setup ensures
that systems can resolve the Data Protection Central hostname and FQDN name.
– If you are using only IPv4 in your environment, do not disable the IPv6
configuration. Some Data Protection Central components use the IPv6 loopback
address. If you disable IPv6, those components do not start.
– Configurations that use network address translation (NAT) are not supported.
Power| – Use an uninterrupted power supply device to protect the ESXi
server for the VMware environment where Data Protection Central is deployed.
– Do not use the Power off the virtual machine feature in vCenter to power off
the Data Protection Central VM. Use the Shut Down Guest OS menu option to shut
down the machine. Alternatively, log in to Data Protection Central using SSH
or type: shutdown -h now.
Support matrix| To review the simple support matrix for Data Protection
Central, go to the e-Lab Navigator site (e-Lab-Navigator). The support matrix
includes information about the minimum versions of products that Data
Protection Central supports.
TLS protocol| OVA and JAR (software-only) deployments use TLS 1.2
protocol by default. Deployment disables the use of TLS 1.0 and 1.1 versions,
which use less secure cipher suites. For more information, see the Data
Protection Central Security Configuration Guide.
VMware compatibilities| Data Protection Central is compatible with
VMware vSphere Fault Tolerance (FT), VMware vSphere High Availability (HA),
and VMware vSphere vMotion.
Supported browsers
Data Protection Central supports only Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome.
Internet Explorer is not a supported browser.
NOTE : For the data protection applications and storage devices that Data Protection Central is monitoring, it is recommended that you select a browser that those applications support. Check the related documentation for the data protection applications to learn which browsers they support.
Install and update
The Data Protection Central Getting Started Guide includes information about
how to deploy Data Protection Central. The Data Protection Central
Administration Guide includes information about how to upgrade Data Protection
Central and apply a Data Protection Central OS update.
Where to get help
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Notes, cautions, and warnings
- NOTE : A NOTE indicates important information that helps you make better use of your product.
- CAUTION : A CAUTION indicates either potential damage to hardware or loss of data and tells you how to avoid the problem.
- WARNING : A WARNING indicates a potential for property damage, personal injury, or death.
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