Supported Snapshot Manager for Data Center operations on Pure Storage SAN array models
Snapshot Manager for Data Center performs the following snapshot management operations on the Pure Storage SAN arrays:
Table: Snapshot Manager for Data Center operations on the IBM Storwize array
Snapshot Manager for Data Center operations | Description |
|---|---|
Discover assets | Snapshot Manager for Data Center discovers all the volumes, protection groups, protection group snapshots, and volume snapshots. |
Create snapshot | To create a snapshot, Snapshot Manager for Data Center initiates a REST API method with the required snapshot details. A snapshot is created with the following naming convention: NB<unique_21digit_number> NetBackup takes a snapshot of the entire protection group of the volumes, as selected in the NetBackup policy. |
Delete snapshot | To delete a volume or protection group snapshot, Snapshot Manager for Data Center initiates a REST API call with the required snapshot details. |
Restore snapshot | To restore a volume snapshot or protection group snapshot, Snapshot Manager for Data Center initiates a REST API method with the required snapshot details. Note: Restore of a protection group snapshot restores all the volumes that were part of the protection group at the time of taking the snapshots. You cannot restore a single volume when the snapshot is taken on the protection group. |
Export snapshot | Snapshot Manager for Data Center can perform FC/iSCSI based exports. When a snapshot export operation initiates, a new clone volume is created from the snapshot, and attached to the host. For protection group snapshots too, the clone volumes are created and attached to the host. The SAN zoning must be done between the host and array to be attached to the snapshot. |
Deport snapshot | Snapshot Manager for Data Center deletes the export mapping created between the host and the cloned volume(s) created from the volume snapshot or the protection group snapshot. |