VMWARE PROTECTION WITH DELL EMC NETWORKER 9 Solution Overview ABSTRACT This white paper describes the integration of Dell EMC® NetWorker® with VMware vCenter®. It also includes details on the NetWorker architecture and benefits of using NetWorker for data protection of VMware environments. December, 2016

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TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ...........................................................................................................4 INTRODUCTION AND AUDIENCE ...........................................................................................4 THE SOLUTION OVERVIEW ....................................................................................................4 VBA OVERVIEW .......................................................................................................................5 General Architecture ........................................................................................................................ 5

ROLE BASED ADMINISTRATION............................................................................................6 VMware Administrator ...................................................................................................................... 6 NetWorker Administrator .................................................................................................................. 7 System Administrator/End User ....................................................................................................... 8

SUMMARY .................................................................................................................................8

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY More than 500,000 customers leverage VMware® as their virtualization platform. Virtual machines are easy to create, are portable, and can move from ESX host to ESX host automatically. Virtualization is enabling companies to deploy new applications within hours versus days, while empowering IT to better service their customers through a service-provider approach to data protection. This approach can accelerate both IT and business initiatives, while transforming IT’s data protection approach and technology. One aspect of the transformation includes virtualization teams using virtual machine-specific data protection tools while the business maintains centralized visibility and control of the business policies and retention. The move to virtualization is changing the way companies architect their data protection infrastructure. Traditional backup solutions cause resource contention on the virtual infrastructure, such as network, memory, disk, etc. and do not scale. These resource contentions lead to longer than acceptable backups and recoveries, the inability to meet business SLAs and disaster recovery objectives, as well as placing a burden on the backup administrator who may be required to manage additional backup client resources and schedules. In order to address many of the issues found with traditional backup techniques being applied to virtualized infrastructures, VMware released vSphere® 5.1, which provided VMware administrators a rich feature set for backup and recovery through VADP. Dell EMC® NetWorker® has been taking steps to integrate with VMware management tools, particularly the VMware vSphere Web UI. This integration makes the management of backup and recovery more effective and accessible to those that are responsible for managing the virtualization infrastructure itself. NetWorker vCenter integration was introduced in NetWorker 8.1 with the introductio