A customer is deploying PowerProtect Data Manager OVA and wants to use thick provisioning. What is the required minimum free space?
AnswerC
ExplanationWhen deploying the PowerProtect Data Manager appliance as an OVA in a VMware environment, the storage requirements vary based on the deployment size (Small, Medium, or Large).
Standard/Small Deployment: The minimum required space for a standard production deployment of the PPDM appliance is 319 GB.
Thick Provisioning Requirement: As discussed in previous topics, Dell highly recommends Thick Provision Eager Zeroed for production environments to ensure the internal database has guaranteed IOPS and to prevent 'out of space' errors that could lead to database corruption.
Storage Allocation: This 319 GB is used to house the operating system, the PPDM application binaries, the internal PostgreSQL database, and the Elasticsearch indexes used for search and analytics. For larger environments (e.g., more than 5,000 assets), the 'Large' deployment option requires 635 GB, but the baseline 'minimum' for a standard functional appliance is 319 GB.