{"id":9105,"date":"2019-12-18T13:45:29","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T03:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/?p=9105"},"modified":"2019-12-18T13:45:35","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T03:45:35","slug":"powerprotect-data-manager-19-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/2019\/12\/18\/powerprotect-data-manager-19-3\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerProtect Data Manager 19.3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you thought Dell EMC was done with product releases for 2019 with the recent Data Protection Software updates, you were in error.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/bigStock-Summer-Xmas.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9106\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/bigStock-Summer-Xmas.jpg 600w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/bigStock-Summer-Xmas-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption>PowerProtect 19.3 Rolls Out<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Just in time for the holiday season, PowerProtect Data Manager (PPDM) 19.3 has been released! I mean, it&#8217;s the perfect sort of holiday, right? Searing heat, prawns and cold meat, ice cold drinks and PPDM 19.3 unwrapped and installed. And to think people said there&#8217;d never be anything better than backyard cricket on xmas day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a jam-packed release \u2013\u00a0so much so that I&#8217;ll have to cover off examples in the new year. But in the interim, what&#8217;s new in PPDM? Looking at the release notes, quite a lot!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Support for AWS, Azure, GCP and ECS.<\/li><li>Support for Cloud DR to Azure.<\/li><li><strong>Kubernetes<\/strong> support:<ul><li>Discover, manage, protect and recover your Kubernetes persistent volumes, containers, namespace and storage claims.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>Indexing<\/strong> of Virtual Machine Backups:<ul><li>Covers Linux and Windows virtual machines, and this is <em>screamingly fast<\/em>. This has a very different take from other indexing processes for virtual machines, and I&#8217;ll dive into it in January 2020.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Other VMware enhancements include:<ul><li>Excluding virtual machine disks for backup and recovery<\/li><li>vSphere Web Client supports ad-hoc backups<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Graphical interface for file level recovery from block-based backups<\/li><li><strong>Full<\/strong> REST API<\/li><li>File-based filesystem backup and recovery<\/li><li><strong>Full GUI search<\/strong>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>As I mentioned, I&#8217;m going to focus on going through PPDM 19.3 examples in the new year, but I want to touch briefly on that full GUI search. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"601\" src=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/PPDM-19_3-01-1024x601.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9107\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/PPDM-19_3-01-1024x601.png 1024w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/PPDM-19_3-01-300x176.png 300w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/PPDM-19_3-01-768x451.png 768w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/PPDM-19_3-01-1536x902.png 1536w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/PPDM-19_3-01.png 1611w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>PPDM 19.3 with GUI Search<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s now a search icon at the top of the PPDM GUI. If you click on it, you can start interactively, instantly searching for any configured element, regardless of type, within PPDM \u2013\u00a0for example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"237\" src=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/PPDM-19_3-02-1024x237.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9108\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/PPDM-19_3-02-1024x237.png 1024w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/PPDM-19_3-02-300x69.png 300w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/PPDM-19_3-02-768x177.png 768w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/PPDM-19_3-02-1536x355.png 1536w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/PPDM-19_3-02.png 1610w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>PPDM 19.3 Element Search<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s face it: GUIs are great and all, but if you ever watch someone who is a power user of a complex GUI, you&#8217;ll note that they <em>avoid clicking<\/em>. Power users invariably know <em>lots<\/em> of keyboard shortcuts. Keyboard shortcuts are a good premise when you&#8217;re working within a traditional application, but not so much when you&#8217;re working within a web framework (where, let&#8217;s face it, the short-cut is likely to be intercepted by the browser). They also have a steep <em>learning curve<\/em>, because users have to remember complex sequences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Full GUI search makes <em>everyone<\/em> a power user right from day one, because you can leap from any configured element to any other configured element just by typing the name (full or partial). What&#8217;s more, PPDM starts narrowing down the search parameters as you&#8217;re <em>typing<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As always, you can find full documentation and the associated downloads for PPDM <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"from the support page (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dell.com\/support\/home\/us\/en\/04\/product-support\/product\/enterprise-copy-data-management\/overview\" target=\"_blank\">from the support page<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you thought Dell EMC was done with product releases for 2019 with the recent Data Protection Software updates, you&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1520],"tags":[1549,1526],"class_list":["post-9105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-powerprotect","tag-19-3","tag-powerprotect"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/bigStock-Summer-Xmas.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pKpIN-2mR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9110,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9105\/revisions\/9110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}