Key features of the PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance include:
- Software-defined data protection with integrated deduplication, replication, and reuse
- Data backup and recovery self-service operations from native applications that are combined with central IT governance
- Multicloud optimization with integrated Cloud Tiering
- Modern services-based architecture for ease of deployment, scaling, and updating
- Multi-factor authentication: Starting with Data Manager Appliance version 5.13.0.0, Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is supported for users to log into the UI dashboard. This provides additional layers of challenge beyond usernames and passwords to guard against the risk of stolen credentials. For more details on MFA, see PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance Security Configuration Guide for DM5500.
- Data Manager Appliance supports the protection of data hosted on Chinese, French, German, Italian, and Japanese operating systems.
- Identity providers: Data Manager Appliance supports an identity provider which is an abstract source of user and group data that Data Manager Appliance can map to corresponding roles. The abstraction simplifies user and role management. In addition to the supported external identity providers such as Microsoft Active Directory (AD) server over SSL (AD over SSL), Data Manager Appliance contains locally defined identity providers for application and operating system users. For more details on identity providers, see PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance Security Configuration Guide for DM5500.
- Data isolation and data immutability for DM5500 backups using cyber recovery as a solution.
- The option to enable compliance mode Retention Lock at the policy, storage unit, and system level. This ensures that the appliance’s data integrity is protected from malicious or unintentional changes.
- An option to replicate backup copies from DM5500 to standalone DD/DDVE on premise to create a secondary backup copy.
- Support for configurable ports used by application agents. During application agent installation, you can specify a port from the supported port ranges (7000-7009 and 7012-7020), to be used for communications with the Data Manager appliance. The default port is 7000; the agent service message bus uses ports 7010 and 7011. Data Manager appliance supports the configurable ports feature during application agent installation for all agents, except the Microsoft SQL Server application-aware (VM Direct) operations with the Microsoft application agent.
- Starting with Data Manager Appliance version 5.16 and later, Data Manager Appliance supports the use of a pre-script that runs before a centralized backup or a post-script that runs after a centralized backup of the following asset or database types:
- File System
- Microsoft Exchange
- Microsoft SQL
- Oracle
- SAP HANA
- Starting with Data Manager Appliance version 5.16 and later, Data Manager Appliance supports the quick recovery for Kubernetes, VMware, and File System workloads.
The Data Manager Appliance enables backup administrators of large-scale environments to schedule backups for the following asset types from a central location on the Data Manager Appliance server:
- VMware Virtual Machines
- File systems
- Kubernetes clusters
- Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft SQL Server databases
- Oracle databases
- SAP HANA databases
- Network-attached storage (NAS) shares