Vm Backups Overview; Define Vcenter And Vmware Clients - Dell EMC IDPA DP4400 Getting Started Manual

Performing a VM backup

VM backups overview

Define vCenter and VMware clients

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As soon as your environment is up and running, you can follow the steps in this section
to backup a VMware client.
If you are using Avamar for the first time, the section includes preparatory tasks, such
as defining vCenter and VMware clients and deploying an Avamar proxy.
The entire process is organized into the following procedures:
Define vCenter and VMware clients.
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Deploy the Avamar proxy.
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Install the Avamar proxy hotfix.
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Create and run the backup policy
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Further information about Avamar backups is available in the Avamar documentation,
including the Avamar Administration Guide and the Avamar Backup Clients User Guide .
This procedure shows you how to create the vCenter and VM clients, and add a
dataset to the VM client.
To create the vCenter and VM clients and add a dataset to the VM client, perform the
following actions.
Procedure
1. Open a browser and enter https://<ACM IP address>:8543 to access
the ACM UI.
2. Click IDPA System Manager Web UI and log in to the System Manager.
The IDPA System Manager dashboard page is displayed.
3. Click System Management on the left pane to display the System
Managerpage.
4. Click the vertical ellipsis for the Avamar-Backup Server and select Avamar
Restore.
The Asset Management page on the Avamar UI is displayed.
5. To add the vCenter client, perform the following actions.
a. Click the vertical ellipsis beside ADD CLIENT and select Add VMware
vCenter.
Note
Ensure that you are on the root domain.
The New vCenter Client window is displayed.
b. Select or enter the details that are required in the fields to create a vCenter
client using the following table. Click Next to continue to the next page.