About NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center
NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center is developed as a micro-services-based application and uses the micro-services model of deployment. It provides a variety of snapshot-based features for NetBackup.
NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center discovers devices on various storage arrays and manages snapshot lifecycle management of these devices. You can connect these devices over Fibre Channel, iSCSI networks (SANs) or as NAS devices using NFS or SMB protocol. When you use NetBackup in an on-premises environment, you can protect the workload data residing on the supported on-premises storage arrays.
Starting from NetBackup 11.1, using the same NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center deployment, you can protect both on-premises NAS assets and cloud assets like VMs and databases. You can protect cloud assets using an on-premises deployment, or protect on-premises assets using a cloud-based deployment.
Following is the high-level architecture diagram for snapshot management in NetBackup using Snapshot Manager for Data Center:
