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How to: Dell EMC Data Domain Virtual

Finalizing this month’s series on data protection, I wanted to follow up last week’s
blog post on installing Avamar Virtual Edition with this one, which is installing Data
Domain Virtual Edition. The two are often married together in Data Protection
deployments. Simply put, Avamar is the front end backup engine that has all of
backup software, and DataDomain is the landing spot for the backup data.
DataDomain is Dell EMC’s appliance based deduplication device. It is the market
leader in purpose-built backup appliances. Various workloads can be ingested,
including data from Avamar, VEEAM, Networker, etc. Like the Avamar VE,
DataDomain VE allows you fully take advantage of virtualization in one easy to

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manage package. The virtual edition is geared towards small-to-medium size

Be sure to check out the system requirements before you proceed.

Dell EMC easily allows anyone to give DataDomain VE a try. To get started, rst
download the trial copy by heading over to Dell EMC’s website.

In the upper right hand corner, select download for the VMware 0.5TB Try and Buy.

Select download

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The download le should start downloading

Once the download is complete, extract the OVA le.

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The extracted contents should show the following contents.

Login to vSphere and deploy OVF from by right clicking the appropriate host/cluster
and selecting “Deploy OVF Template”.

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Select name and location, then click next.

Select the appropriate cluster or host resource and click next.

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Review the details and click next.

Agree to the licence agreement.

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Select your con guration. Since this is a test, I am deploying the smallest
con guration possible, which is 4TB. *Note you can utilize up to 0.5-4TB. You don’t
have to use all 4TB once deployed, you just can’t use more than 4TB. The Evaluation
License only allows usage for up to 0.45TB.

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Select the appropriate DataStore. *Note since this is a test, I selected thin
provisioning. Thin provisioning isn’t o cially supported.

Select the appropriate networks, then click next.

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The OVF package will now deploy on the speci ed host/cluster.

Once deployment has completed successfully, right click the DDVE and select
power-on. The system will begin to Initialize.

Initialization will continue for some time.

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Once initialization completes, you are welcomed with a DataDomain login screen via
the console window. Change the password at this time, then select “no” when
prompted to con gure system using the GUI wizard. *Important note, hit “enter” to
move to the next step or skip that item when working within the console.

To login, use the default “Sysadmin” login and password, which is “changeme”

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Once logged in successfully, you will be prompted to con gure networking. Type
“yes” to con gure networking. Type “no” to use DHCP. Next, type in your
Hostname, domain name, etc.

When prompted to enable Ethernet port, type “yes”. Select “no” to use DHCP on this
Ethernet port. Enter the IP address, netmask, and gateway.

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Hit enter to skip IPV6, then enter your DNS servers.

Review the pending network settings and “save” the con guration to complete.

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Type “no” when asked to con gure eLicense Con guration, then type “yes” when
asked to con gure system at this time. Type in all relevant system information, such
as email, location, mail server, etc.

Finally, once the time zone has been entered, you can save the settings. Type “save”.

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Once you have completed these steps, the con guration is nished. You can type in
the DNS/IP name of the DDVE into a web browser to connect. Next, you reach the
splash page that requests a license key.

Provide the trial license “eval.lic” by browsing to the download location that
contains the extracted OVA le, then hit “apply”.

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Once completed, you can login via the IP/DNS name of the DDVE utilizing a web
browser of your choice. The default login is “sysadmin” and the default password is
“changeme”

We have now successfully deployed the DDVE; however, the setup isn’t complete yet.
We must now add additionally hard disk in order to present storage to the system.
This will allow us to create and enable to le system. *Note the trial license only
allows for 0.5TB, so I’ve gone to my DDVE within vCenter and added two 250GB

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vmdk hard disk (each with a separate storage controller). Duplicate these steps
within your DDVE instance, then click OK to add the Hard Disks.

From the main splash screen, select “Data Management” then “File system”. In the
upper left hand corner, select “create”. You will have a window display two hard
disk beneath available storage. Select both disk, then click “Add to tier” to add the
disk to the “active tier”, then click next.

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You now see the active tier has two SAS devices. Click next. *Note, the eval license
only allows for a total of 0.45TB.

The DDVE will now con gure the two VMDKs for the active tier.

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Use the assessment if needed, or skip next to continue.

Create the File System by clicking next on Step 3. Ensure enable le system is
selected.

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The le system creation process begins.

This will take some time as the VMDKs get added to the DDVE and the DDVE
creates/enables the le system. Once completed, click close.

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Select dashboard to see the status of the system. You should have green for
Replication, CIFS, NFS, and DDBoost. You have successfully deployed your DDVE!

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2 thoughts on “How to: Dell EMC Data Domain Virtual

Andrea Mazzai
February 2, 2018 at 12:25 pm

Thank you for insght on DDVE installation! Do you know if DDVE is installable in the
free, unlicensed edition of ESXi?

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spo0587 
February 7, 2018 at 9:35 pm
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I believe so, since it would be treated like any other VM.

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