DL4300 Appliance
About protecting multiple machines
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Description
Best practice is to avoid special characters listed
above.
Record the passphrase in a secure location. Dell
Support cannot recover a passphrase. Once you
create an encryption key and apply it to one or more
protected machines, you cannot recover data if you
lose the passphrase.
Confirm Passphrase
Re-enter the passphrase you just entered.
19. Click Finish to save and apply your settings.
The wizard closes.
20. If the Warning page appeared and you are still satisfied with your selections, click Finish again.
The Rapid Recovery Agent software is deployed to the specified machines, if necessary, and the machines are
added to protection on the Core.
Parent topic
Protecting multiple machines on a VMware vCenter/ESX(i) virtual host
Use this procedure to simultaneously protect one or more machines on a VMware vCenter/ESX(i) virtual host.
CAUTION:
If you use agentless protection, Dell recommends that you limit protection to no more than 200
VMs at once. For example, do not select more than 200 VMs when using the Protect Multiple Machines
Wizard. Protecting more than 200 VMs results in slow performance. There is no limit to how many VMs a
Core can agentlessly protect over time. For example, you could protect 200 VMs today and another 200
VMs tomorrow.
1. On the Rapid Recovery Core Console, click the Protect drop-down menu, and then click Protect Multiple
Machines.
The Protect Multiple Machines Wizard opens.
2. On the Welcome page, select one of the following options:
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Typical
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Advanced (show optional steps)
3. Click Next.
4. On the Connection page of the wizard, from the Source drop-down list, select vCenter / ESX(i).
5. Enter the host information and logon credentials as described in the following table.
Table 85. vCenter/ESX(i) connection settings
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Host
The name or IP address of the VMware vCenter
Server/ESX(i) virtual host.
Port
The port used to connect to the virtual host.
The default setting is 443.
User name
The user name used to connect to the virtual host;
for example, Administrator or, if the machine is in a
domain, [domain name]\Administrator.
