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PowerProtect Data Manager: Protecting VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Clusters
Executive summary Introduction and components Prerequisites for enabling vSphere with Tanzu Architecture Configuring VMware vSphere with Tanzu Configuring PowerProtect Data Manager to protect Tanzu Kubernetes workloads
Introduction
Asset discovery
Enable Velero vSphere Operator
VM direct engine
Backup configuration
Replication configuration
Restore configuration
Technical support and resources

Asset discovery

Asset discovery

  • The Tanzu Kubernetes clusters are hosted by vCenter server; therefore, the vCenter server gets registered with PowerProtect Data Manager. PowerProtect Data Manager discovers the namespaces as assets.

    1. Log in to the PowerProtect Data Manager UI with administrator credentials.
    2. On the left pane of the PowerProtect Data Manager UI, click Infrastructure.
    3. Click Asset Sources.

    1. Select vCenter.
    2. Click Add.
    • Name: Specify the name.
    • FQDN/IP: Specify the IP address or FQDN.
    • Port: 443
    • Host Credentials: Select credentials from the drop down if already added, if not, click Add Credentials and provide:

            FQDN of vCenter server

            Username

            Password

    • vSphere Plugin: Check box to install vSphere plug-in.
    • Scheduled Discovery: This is optional; toggle if you need to specify automated discovery at given time schedule.
    • Certificate: Click Verify to authenticate.

    1. Click Save.

    vCenter server is successfully registered with PowerProtect Data Manager and is available under Infrastructure > Asset Sources.

    The associated supervisor clusters and control plane VMs with the vCenter are available as assets and are available under Infrastructure > Assets > Virtual Machine.

    1. To add Tanzu Kubernetes clusters, select Infrastructure.
    2. Click Asset Sources and select Kubernetes.
    3. Click Add.
    • Tanzu Cluster: Click the toggle button to enable Tanzu Cluster.
    • Select vCenter: Select the vCenter that contains the Tanzu Kubernetes cluster.
    • Name: Specify the name.
    • FQDN/IP: Provide the IP address or FQDN of the cluster.
    • Port: 6443 (can be changed as per the configuration).
    • Host Credentials: Select the specified host credentials or add credentials.
    • Scheduled Discovery: This is optional; toggle if you need to specify automated discovery at given time schedule.
    • Certificate: Click Verify to authenticate the credentials.
    1. Click Save.

    The Tanzu Kubernetes cluster is added successfully, and the namespaces are available under Assets > Kubernetes.

    Note: The vCenter hosting Tanzu Cluster is registered with PowerProtect Data Manager and the namespaces are available to be protected. At the time of integration between PowerProtect Data Manager and Tanzu Kubernetes cluster, velero-ppdm and powerprotect, the two namespaces are created on Tanzu Kubernetes cluster.

    The powerprotect namespace contains powerprotect-controller pod, and velero-ppdm namespace contains velero pod and backup-driver pod. The backup-driver pod is responsible for taking and deleting snapshots for paravirtualized CSI volumes of Tanzu Kubernetes clusters.