About the deployment approach
You can deploy NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center in BYO, Flex, and Appliance environments. Follow the recommendations given in this chapter before you start your deployment.
NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center uses a micro-services model of installation. When you load and run the Docker/Podman image, NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center installs each service as an individual container in the same Docker/Podman network. All containers securely communicate with each other using RabbitMQ.
Two key services are RabbitMQ and PostgreSQL. RabbitMQ is NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center's message broker and PostgreSQL stores information on all the assets NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center discovers. The following figure shows NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center's micro-services model.
This deployment approach has the following advantages:
NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center has minimal installation requirements.
Deployment requires only a few commands.