Dell EMC PowerStore plug-in configuration parameters
The following parameters are required for configuring the Dell EMC PowerStore plug-in:
Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
Plug-in ID | Provide a name for the plug-in. |
FQDN / IP address | The array's management IP address, in either IPv4 or The Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN). |
User name | The Dell EMC PowerStore user account that has the permissions to invoke the PowerStore REST APIs to perform all snapshot operations on the array. |
Password | The password of the PowerStore NAS user account. |
Snapshot Manager for Data Center comes with the capability of discovering all the volume groups and their snapshots. Three types of volume groups are available in PowerStore: Primary, Clone, and Snapshot; but we fetch only the Primary volume groups. Volumes and volume groups are primary assets, and each primary asset contains the associated snapshots. The volumes that are selected in the NetBackup policy, those volumes become the members of a volume group on the PowerStore array. When a snapshot operation runs, the snapshot set of a volume group is created.
During export, NetBackup creates clone volumes for each volume present in the volume group, and maps all the cloned volumes to the host.