PowerProtect DP Series Appliance Administration

PowerProtect DP Series Appliance Administration

About the Course

This professional training course provides the specialized skills required to manage and maintain the PowerProtect DP Series family of integrated data protection appliances. Designed for modern data centers, the course explores the architecture of converged infrastructure that combines protection software, protection storage, and centralized management into a single, high-performance solution. Students will learn to leverage the integrated hardware and software stack to eliminate data silos and streamline complex backup workflows.

The curriculum focuses on practical administration using the Appliance Configuration Manager (ACM) and System Manager to orchestrate end-to-end data protection tasks. Participants will master the configuration of backup policies, the management of deduplicated storage, and the execution of diverse restore scenarios—including instant access and individual file recovery. The course also dives into advanced analytics and reporting, empowering administrators to monitor capacity trends and system health proactively.

By the end of this program, IT professionals will be proficient in configuring replication for disaster recovery, managing search indices for rapid data discovery, and troubleshooting appliance-level components. This training ensures that administrators can provide reliable, scalable, and cloud-ready data protection for physical, virtual, and next-generation application workloads across the enterprise.

Audience Profile

This course is intended for:

• System Administrators responsible for managing converged data protection appliances.

• Storage and Backup Engineers tasked with implementing integrated protection storage and software.

• IT Architects designing resilient, cloud-ready backup infrastructures.

• Support Personnel providing technical maintenance and troubleshooting for DP series appliances.

Learning Objectives

Domain 1: Appliance Architecture and Interfaces

• Analyze the DP Series appliance family and its converged hardware/software architecture.

• Utilize the Appliance Configuration Manager (ACM) for system initialization and component monitoring.

• Navigate the System Manager for centralized orchestration of backup and recovery services.

Domain 2: Backup Policy and Resource Management

• Create and manage automated backup policies for virtual (VMware) and physical environments.

• Configure NDMP accelerators to optimize backups for Network Attached Storage (NAS) systems.

• Execute scheduled and on-demand protection tasks with verified data integrity.

Domain 3: Protection Storage and Data Efficiency

• Manage the integrated Protection Storage (Data Domain) and deduplication engines.

• Implement DD Boost to accelerate backup ingestion and reduce network overhead.

• Configure Cloud Tiering for cost-effective, long-term retention of historical data.

Domain 4: Advanced Services and Troubleshooting

• Configure global search and restore tasks to minimize recovery time objectives (RTO).

• Implement reporting and analytics (Data Protection Advisor) for audit compliance and performance tuning.

• Orchestrate replication scenarios and Cloud Disaster Recovery for business continuity.

• Diagnose appliance health alerts and perform log collection for hardware and software remediation.

Certification Exam

This course serves as the primary training for the D-PDPS-A-01 (PowerProtect DP Series Appliances Achievement) assessment. Achieving this credential validates your technical proficiency in administering and managing the next generation of integrated data protection appliances in enterprise production environments.

Prerequisites

• Foundational knowledge of general backup and recovery scenarios (Full, Incremental, Differential).

• Understanding of standard storage networking and data center application challenges.

• Familiarity with virtualization concepts, specifically VMware vSphere environments.